Woman's head covering....

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 Nur_Ilahi wrote:

They point out the Quran says cover your bosom and they point out their bosom is not on top of their head. - Is this remarks theirs or yours? 

You cannot blame us for believing that Western women are loose. That is what is normally portrayed on TV. Same with those who are anti-Muslims just for watching these Zionists owned media. 

Actually I do not believe that. Good always outweigh evil. There are more good Western people around than those loose ones.

Theirs actually...  its really beside the point.

The ayah you quoted is a very good one.  But, it addresses believing women, which I have come to interpret in the Quran meaning Muslimahs.  This ayah tells me that a Muslimah should cast about her garments that mark her as a Muslim so that she is not harassed.  Her virtue is known, so to speak.

Christian women are only told to cover their head when praying or prophesying.  

 1 Corinthians 11:2-16 wrote:

2 Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
3 But I
would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head
of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head.
5 But every
woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth
her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven.
6 For if
the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame
for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
7 For a
man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image
and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
8 For the man is not of the woman: but the woman of the man.
9 Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.
10 For this cause ought the woman to have power on her head because of the angels.
11 Nevertheless neither is the man without the woman, neither the woman without the man, in the Lord.
12 For as the woman is of the man, even so is the man also by the woman; but all things of God.
13 Judge in yourselves: is it comely that a woman pray unto God uncovered?
14 Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto him?
15 But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
16 But if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, neither the churches of God.

This is why Orthodox women cover their heads while in Church.  This is why I own around a dozen headscarves.

However, it does not tell us to over our heads at any other time.

I am glad that you feel there are good western women.  The media is evil.  I barely watch any TV that isn't on the National Geographic Channel, History Channel, News or Discovery.  I just get tired of the violence and the sex.

What the Middle East doesn't see is the pushes to end the sexualization of the youth.   They don't see the abstinence programs and the push to teach children to wait for marriage.  

In the end, I believe in personal responsibility and choices.  If a man rapes a woman who is drunk and wearing a miniskirt.  He is ultimately at fault for his actions.  If a man cheats on his wife with his younger secretary, the blame falls on to each equally.  She can say no or quit her job.  He can behave himself or hire a male secretary if he's that weak willed.  The secretary cannot be blamed for the man's actions, only her own.