Muslim women, do you feel oppressed in any way by wearing a hijab?
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I am a muslim man and I have seen most of the time it is the woman that insist on wearing hijab despite their husbands wish. Well, a muslim women can answer this question better.
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I am a muslim woman and No we don't need to wear black:-)\n\n\nOur head dress is often refered to as a hijab, but a better term would be a khimmer. Hijab means the whole dress and demenour of modesty whilst khimer means the head covering. Both words come from arabic. And the robe is  called an abeya. \n\nThe purpose of the head scarf is to cover all our hair (and ears and neck). The colour is unimportant. We don't need to wear black , infact some schoolars say wearing black is discouraged. We often might wear black because it is chic and easy to wear.  Also in some cultures it is the tradition.\n\nI hope that helps. I have linked a site for you as well.\n\nFeel free to ask muslim women questions like that. We don't bite !! And we like to talk to people about our religion and cultures :-D
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What a wonderful Q....\n\nREally,,,,,,,\n\nI;m muslim.....& i'm a very sporty person also.\n\nI play Taikowndo in club ....a special place for women\n\nI also run , jumb , Swim & do every thing \n\nI go to GYM 3 times per week & so does my friends\n\nViel is not restrective as u imagine\nhttp://www.thehijabshop.com/capsters/index.php\n\nBy the way .... I'm a pediatrician too\n:)\n\n\nViel or hijab is to cover ur body & hair ...face & hands can be exposed ...\n\nno prob in covering all . ,, it;s noe forbidden BUT it's not a MUST\n\nthe MUST is covering allthe woman's body & hair except face & hands\n\nFurther infos\nhere..\nhttp://www.islam101.com/women/hijabfaq.html\n\nhttp://www.jannah.org/sisters/hijbene.html\n\n& this link for seeing hijab :)\nhttp://www.thehijabshop.com/\n\n\nThanks dear for asking other than beliving any thing\n:)
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Hello...I'm a Muslim woman living in England..and I will try to give you an answer..\n\n\nIt depends on your definition of Chador and Burqa...\n\nLet me explain what a hijab is first.. It meaning covering..and to protect our modesty.\nIn Islam for women this means that we most wear lose clothes that do not show our curves, and covers all our body except our hands and faces,\nThis is interpreted in many ways in many different countries..and chador and burqa are just one of them.....\n\nA chador is large cloak...that covers the whole body except for the face (and hands). It is originally from Iran..and is named after the Farsi word for tent(because that is really what it is) And is only culturally common in Iran. There is a modified version with arms..that is worn in some countries such as Iraq as well.\nChadors are mostly black...though they are highly coloured ones worn by some traditional groups such as the Bandari. \nPray chadors..worn when making pray are patterned mostly in dark colours..I have one in navy blue with white flowers. \nThere is a fashion now in Iran to have the chador in a pattern..There are still black but with an embroidered type of material. And some young girls wear opaque chador :-)))\n\nThe burqa covers all the body including the face. A common image would be the blue burqas typically worn in Afghanistan..\nThough amore common type of clothing ..that covers the same areas..  would be a niqab..where a separate piece of material covers the face. This is traditional in the gulf states and Saudi Arabia. Also I know in some areas in Pakistan they do that as well.\n\n\n\nOK..back to your question...\n\nI would think that there are very very very few women in the west who wear chador. I have not seen one!! This clothe is traditional only to Iran..and is difficult to wear and manage. You really need to grow up wearing one to be able to control it well.\nMost Iranian women who live in the west do not wear any type of hijab..(or a very small one), and women from other cultures would not wear it because it is very hard to wear. It is also very strange on the streets of London..or New York rather than Tehran.\nI had a friend from Iran who visited Belgium as a tourist who wore a chador for her first day..but then took it off because it was so unusual!!\n\n\nAs for the niqab (it is more common style than burqa) there are a few women that wear it. (and the number is increasing) I would say about 1-3% of Muslim women in the west do, depending where you live. Most of the women who actually wear it are converts to Islam rather than born Muslim. OF the 4 friends I know who wear it 3 are converts.\nIn cities in the UK.. You can see women wearing Niqab in parts of Birmingham, and in areas such as Whitechapel in London. \nYou will also see women from the gulf states wearing Niqab..in central London department stores such as Selfrigdes and Harrods.\nIn Britain most of the women who wear niqab are White British converts (With a few Black British as well..but they tend not to cover their face) and a few Muslims of Pakistani or Bangladeshi origin as well wearing niqab. There are women from the gulf states who wear it but..there are mostly in London (and tourists) Britain does not have a large population from gulf countries,\nIn the USA..again most who wear niqab are converts. There are more Gulf State Arabs in the USA..and some women in places like Dearborn Michigan also wear niqab. But note that most women from most Arab countries such as Egypt do not wear niqab...\n\n\nAs for other types of hijab..I think it is quite common. There are many women who wear western type clothes with a headscarf, or a jilbab(outer coat) and head scarf.\nI would take a guess in the UK at about 40% of Muslim women wear hijab depending on the area.\nAnd it is now getting more popular with young women wanting to practice their religion more. I think it is much more common in the younger generation now. I know many young women /girls who wear the h
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I've even seen feminists walk side by side with women in Burka to gain more rights ???\n\nThis world is in chaos... Those who fight for freedom and liberties sleep with those who wish to take them away from others by their Theocratic ideologies.
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Many answering your question have said that they feel sorry for us muslim women. So, first, I want to address those people and their hateful remarks ("oh, i feel so SORRY for those women!")\n\nStop worrying - you've been lied to or misinformed. Our rights granted to us in Islam are far superior to your rights as women. \n\nWe are respected and protected. You are exploited and used. \n\nWhile your religion tells you to cover your head out of submission to your husband, ours tells us to do it only out of submission to God/Allah and as a means of protection and modesty. \n\nWhile your religion tells you plainly that you must "stay silent in the church", our religion tell us no such thing. Many great women have narrated many traditions, relaying very important aspects of the religion on to generations to come. \n\nWhile your men are stripping you with their eyes, even in your house of worship, we are granted privacy and kept away from the annoying glances of men that we already aren't the least bit interested in. (if I already have a husband, why do I need attention from yours? and I'm not left to the wolves to get a husband in the first place)\n\nWhile your men tell you to undress to get "respect" (LOL), our men preserve our honor and treat us like a precious pearl. \n\nWhile your men pressure you for sex, ours marry us. \n\nWhile your men finally marry you after trying you out first... and often have dirty affairs in which they lie and deceive...... our men may take a second wife and treat both wives with dignity, divide their time equally, give them each their own house, and create stable environments for everyone involved... Or, our men realize that it's such a big responsibility to have a second wife, that they choose not to approach other women at all.\n\nThe only time our men mess up is when they TRY TO IMITATE YOU.\n\nI'm sorry, but you need to realize how ignorant, smug, and insulting these "oh poor them" comments are.\n\n--------- Now, back to the original question:\n\nPeople often confuse the PEOPLE with the RELIGION (way of life). \n\nThe religion is pure and beautiful. There are good and bad Muslims, obedient and disobedient, to varying degrees. \n\nSo, always be tolerant of the RELIGION. But tolerance with any MUSLIM is taken on an individual basis.
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uff\n\nyou asked me to answer this question so I'll try.\n\nin Belgrade you can be whatever you want and fill safe being it, it's a big city with lots of foreigners and people are used to see others in hijabs, and I suppose they are ok with that.\nmaybe you could only see some curiosity if you are walking alone, cause I've never seen a muslim woman alone, she is always escorted by a friend or someone else.\n\nthere are a lot of muslims here but they usually don't wear hijabs so maybe outside of Belgrade there's a bigger chance to hear some rude comments, but nothing more aggressive i hope.\n\nI was there when they burnt down the mosque and it was terrible. and actually no one approved that, but people were angry, frustrated,,,, and it was an act of weak people.\n\nover here people do See religion as a ethnic identity because that caused the war, even I as born here and living here all my life sometimes have to argue with people that I,m still serb but not ortodox.. some narrow mind just can't get that.\n\nmaybe it' s because during the last 15 years people could not travel any were and see and learn something that differ  from their own backyard.\nI lived in a muslim country for 5 years and got to know them and respect their religion, but some of my people didn't have that chance so forgive them for not knowing.\nbasically serbs are friendly, but to curious and not very polite but when you give them a chance they will do anything they can to make you feel more pleasant.\n\nhope this helps, sorry for my english but I'm still learning......
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No, you don't have to unless there are males in the house and you would like to pay some respect to their belief.  But if you're going to a house where there are only females, it's not necessary.  Did you know that when Muslim women go to a all female gathering, they can take the head covering off.  In fact most of them adorn themselves (make-up, jewelery, fancy clothes, etc) when they go to such places.  \n\nHowever, if you choose to wear one out of respect and tolerance to her religion, by all means go ahead.  It's not disrespectful at all being the fact that you are not Muslim.  It is actually a very friendly and respectful gesture.  \n\nI know my old principal of my elementary school was very fascinated by Islam and very respectful.  So on the Islamic Holidays, she would wear a head covering to school.  I found that awsome.
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yup !!! i think it  that way sister......veil is enough i think burka is not mandatory, the purpose should be fulfilled that a lady should'nt be exposed enough to strangers.Islam is very  easy to practise thats wht i believe.
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i think most of us feel like if we do wear it ppl will attack us.but i know many muslim women who have over come this fear and wear.and ppl always think its the husband that makes them wear it.but its the woman's decision to wear it no one else.but the niqab isnt obligatory.the ruling in islam is if u dont wear face veil then there is no sin on u.and if u do wear it then u will get blessings.
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Please don't confuse tribal customs with Islam. Muslim men are commanded to cover themselves. The Muslim women who wear the burka do so because of tribal and social customs, it is not a command of Islam. Women are commanded to cover their beauty, draw their veils over their bosoms. Most Muslim women dress just like everyone else, we just wear looser clothing that does not reveal our body and we cover our hair. There is no command that we wear a specific type of outer garment such as a burka or a abaya, that is a custom of the country's where they are worn. Men are commanded to cover certain parts of their bodies and both men and women are told to lower their gaze and not to look for members of the opposite sex in a sexual way.
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hi black_killz.,\nvery intrusting answer,u feeling very comfortable with burka?? but just see this question in terms of all the women's who suffering and paying for this.\n\nI come to know by ur point that the guys those r following Islam/or anyone society who in favor of burka,u say .. coz they want women's protection?? it means these guys r most found of stare to women's then other guys from all over world. means this is the problem of yr socity,they only can see a women only simble of lust,so they need to cover their eyes and surely need to improve their ideas, but when society is man oriented ,then they suggest scarifies fr womens and cover their womens,why don make yr women's strong, give her rights , her freedom, , develop her individuality , but they made only capable to women fulfill their lust ,their demands to take care of their kitchen and kids.\n\nactually burka is a just a part of this mentality, why u keep illiterate yr womens,why u  make difference in education between yr daughter and son, why Islam support 4 wife's to a men, why only the first right of divorce given to a men, now last month they provide same right to a women fr dovorce.its well known fact  that they ignored women individuality. womens r Treated like a property, a women she like to wear a burka or not, who the hell a men or goverment will decide it. don u feel that is only right of a women ,why its predecided wt women should wear or not.\n\nI can say all the things, coz my society ,culture provided to speak and claim for everyone's right, but those women cant speak against , if any Taslima Nasrin dare to come out, their society  proclaimed a "fatwa" and demanded her arrest and execution.\nhttp://www.secularislam.org/skeptics/taslima.htm
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if "women rights" in your opinion is when a woman gets money for showing her body as a tool for advertisment and being so cheap ... then no, we muslims have no women rights\n\n\n\n\n\n\nUNLESS you mean women right to go work in a safe working condition and having the right to vote then yes we have women rights since 1400 yrs ago up to this minute.\n\n\n\nabout the retards husbands that treats their wives badly we can find those retards in any religon and not only Islam.\n\n\n\n\n\nProphet Muhammad (may peace and blessings of God be upon him) said: "Treat women well and be kind to them; they are your partners and committed helpers\n\n\n\n\nProphet Muhammad(PBUH) said: "Only an honorable man treat women with honor and integrity. And only a mean, deceitful and dishonest man humiliates and insults women." Referring to physical abuse, he added: "Never hit your wives, they are your partners and sincere helpers." He exemplified this by never, ever, hitting a women or child. The Prophet guaranteed protection of the life, honor, and property of women.
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personally i was never confronted to that as a muslim woman so i dunno.
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It depends.\n\nThose of us who actually know people who are muslims, indeed see that a spectrum exists and that they are normal people.\n\nI believe that these are the majority but I don't know.\n\nPersonally, I do have a problem with some conservative islamic values. Wearing the veil or burka (hajib is fine in my view as long as its voluntary), killing people for apostacy (making a faith choice to leave islam), not allowing a woman a say in court (7 woman to counter one man), laws based on peoples religious standing and sex (for example blood money in Saudi Arabia), \nstoning rape victims for adultery, beating up women for not covering their head, etc ...\n\nMost of the muslims I personally know don't seem to do these things at all tho. Some of them are conservative by western standards but not by way of imposing on others as much as themselves.
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i am a proud arab-american muslim...(born in ohio, mom n dad from syria n i vist syria every summer) fyi not all arabz live in middle eazt dou... i do agree w/ da 2 b4 me.. i feel like i am discriminated and made fun of alot... n my teach fails me 4 no reason.. (gives me 0z wen i wuz 1 of da only 1z who did dier hw rite)n dont get respect... but datz life; n life goes on... n people(cuz of da media n bush) also think dat all muslimz n arabz (not all arabz r muzlimz) r terroristz wen da truth iz dat .000000000000000000000001% of all muslims r terroristz... u dont find people on da newz say an orthadox jew.. or a catholic commited suicide bombing; do u? no another thing iz dat doz terrorizt dont hav a religon... dey change da religonz rulez.. (to sut  dem n deir selfish wayz)\nd'rutha c da glass half full dan empty... =P \nWish da world peace yall (n repect 4 every1)\npeace out:)
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1.That not every single Muslim woman who wears the hijab is subservient to men. Sure there are Muslim men who twist the words of God to fit their evil thinking, but that's in all religions. So why should I be the poster child for how bad/backward/silly/claustrophobic others think Islam and the hijab are?\n\n2. Muslims are not commanded to hate and kill the so-called infidels! I'm so sick and tired of hearing that bs. I mean if that's the truth then I would have to hate my mother and her family! \nCome on people! Read the Qu'ran with open eyes and hearts. Chapter 109: The Disbelievers\n1.Say: O! Disbelievers!\n2. I worship not that which you worship,\n3. Nor will you worship that which I worship.\n4. And I shall not worship that which you are worshipping.\n5. Nor will you worship that which I worship.\n6. To you be your religion, and to me my religion.\n\n3. Reading a translation of the Qu'ran is not the same as reading the Qu'ran in Arabic. Arabic is a hard language to translate and the Qu'ran is even harder. I mean even Arabs have a hard time with it. There are words in it that no one knows the meanings to except God. \nSo how can anyone who's read the abriged and translated version claim to have any understanding what's so ever? Qu'ranic scholars study for years to really understand it and even a lay-person such as myself will tell you that every single time i read it I pick up a new meaning. That's the eternal message and beauty of it- a new meaning each time; a new solution to a problem you didn't know you faced.\n\n4. A tafsir or an explanation of the Qu'ran would come in great for anyone who's reading the Qu'ran and just wants to go deeper. A tafsir explains each of the 6000+ verses in detail. It explains the hows, whens, whys, and wheres of each verse. \nAdditionally it not only includes Muslim explanations of the verses, but Jewish as well. (Especially concerning Moses (PBUH)).\n\n5. When I discuss Islam's message with people, they always tell me how my God doesn't have mercy or grace or any other characteristic attributable to a 'good god'. Instead He's all about violence and punishment and retribution. \nI wish those people read the 99 names of God. According to Muslim tradition God has given himself 99 names that are indictive of his characteristics and attributes. Trust me when I say, Muslims cry when hearing His names. I wish people could know them; then they'd know.