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[quote]>>Our ideals have changed, life style, attitude, behaviour and everything........................
This shows but sad consequences of our civilization clashing with a civilization, which was nourished and nurtured on a non-religious basis.

On a major scale things back home maybe changing. Cultural permeation. However, if you look toward the West, I can tell you of Muslims here. Many women wear the head covering despite harrasment after September 11.

Infact a lady in Europe (possibly Sweden??) had written to Renaissance that her life seems to be in danger due to wearing the head covering. The point is that she considered writing to scholars even in dire circumstances, where perhaps a man in her position would have shaved his beard off immediately, speaks volume of her strength in faith.

AS such, the resistance put up by our sisters in France is yet another testimony to the faith still professed by many. (This despite that half baked fatwa issued by the Al-Azhar Imam on following the law of the country rather than Islam. Talk of double standards.)

And all this for not even an obligatory act but a recommended one by our knowledge. (That they would consider it obligatory is another issue)

Even at home, it is not as if women have started wearing skirts and the like. Pakistani women have their own fashions which revolve around the traditional dress. Thus, there is still our own individuality that we as a people and nation maintain.

>>Why then men do not do away with this practice? And why the temptation to do away with head covering is greater on the part of women?

I guess the answer to that might lie in level of exposure and comfort. Men have increasingly started to wear bermudas and shorts, now haven't they? They were eager to strip away what they wanted.

However, having said that a woman without a head cover seems normal today, and those with niqabs look really weird.

With all due respect part of the moral decadence in the Northern areas of Pakistan is explained by the utter segregation of men and women. Need I mention the analogy with the filth that ensues in prisons.

Finally, I see more harm in karo-kari, in regular wife battery, in domestic rape et al. which eat the fabric of Muslim societies thousands time greater than not wearing the head covering.

The Western society with all its moral debauchery, has firm institutions that a scantily clad girl can press charges against verbal harrasement by a guy, even if she had provoked him in the first place. If she asks him to stop,  and he refuses then the guy would be considered guilty.

Now compare this with back home. Where many girls decently dressed are occasionally teased and harrassed.

Only recently, the Saudi newscaster was brutally beaten by her husband, and for what? Answering a telephone. And she is willing to forgive him. How many women in Pakistan continue forgiving battery? I have seen first hand accounts.

Moreover, arabnews.com will tell you that divorce rate in the Saudi Kingdom is as high as 40%. All this is in a society where women wear the head cover?

Edited by: junaidj on Thursday, April 22, 2004 11:47 AM[/quote]

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