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Non-Muslim people should encourage Muslim women to wear Hijab

Reader comment on item: "We Hope You Will Wear Your Hijab to School"
in response to reader comment: Hijabs: The Islamic Narcissistic Supply

Submitted by Prashant (United States), Feb 8, 2022 at 10:46

Dear Dr Pipes, this is just a recent thought but I have been finding it more and more entertaining: non-muslims should encourage Muslims to wear Hijab, niqab, burkini, and burkhas. Here are a few advantages:

1. These dresses are supremely uncomfortable in hot climates. So if religious fundamentalists wear them it will be nice.

2. These dresses make identifying individuals more difficult. So, it will be nice if a fundamentalist ends up missing a flight or gets sent to jail after a traffic stop because their identity cannot be verified.

3. These dresses reduce the peripheral vision. So less competition for open minded athletes from fundamentalists in sports.

4. The last I checked most women want to maintain good health and good BMIs. Uniforms that cover a person from hair to toe, reduce the pressure to maintain good health and good BMI. Let fundamentalists figure out for themselves which path they want to choose. We all know that even for men extra lose clothes are disastrous.

5. Less exposure to the opposite sex for the woman due to burkha and hijab will make it more difficult for them to attract life partners. So, they will be relegated to arranged marriages with less suitable partners. More children, more poverty, less education. Let the fundamentalists make their choice.

6. Let Muslims parents handle the difficult task of explaining to their 3, 4, 5 year-old daughters why they have to be different when boys -like their own brothers and fathers- cannot control themselves. Knowing that her father and brothers are out of whack will be a nice feeling for female children of fundamentalists.

7. Swimming in a burkini in the ocean or a pool! Wow, if you like the idea, all the power to you.

8. There has been some evidence that clothes that hide identity increase crimes in a society. A man hiding himself in a burkha or a woman hiding her identity from others when needed is an entitely good idea for regressive countries like Islamic theocracies. It must be encouraged.

Everytime anyone opposes hair-to-toe covering of Muslim women, it becomes a rallying cry for political Islam. Let us not fuel that fire. Let us wait for the time when Muslim women revolt against this practice and enjoy the results.

Burkhas (etc) are bad products to solve the problems that they claim to solve. Let Islam discover it for itself.

But non-muslims ought to be careful until them. We need to oppose the stupid ideas like 'world hijab days' so we can keep the free people free.

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Title Commenter Date Thread
1Hijabs: The Islamic Narcissistic Supply [619 words]PrashantFeb 5, 2022 18:20278722
Non-Muslim people should encourage Muslim women to wear Hijab [426 words]PrashantFeb 8, 2022 10:46278722
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1Social Impositions in Subjective Societal Settings [115 words]M ToveyFeb 16, 2022 12:33278722
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to navigator [115 words]noorJan 25, 2008 23:52116133
1The other option - reply to Noor [151 words]NavigatorJan 27, 2008 19:41116133
Noor - Could you please quote a passage in Koran for me? [34 words]Sofa SogoodJan 27, 2008 22:26116133
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No passage in Koran ordering face or head covering [26 words]robertFeb 15, 2008 03:36116133
An almost hilarious video on Hijab [51 words]PrashantFeb 5, 2022 18:38116133

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