ramshinaushad - I'm just interested to hear how some people will justify this. They are very quick to condemn women for showing hair, will they be as quick to put their neck on the chopping block and condemn sheika Mozza and other highly prominent, powerful and influential women?? Maybe not.
Surely the whole point is this - it's what's in your heart and soul that matters. whether you cover or not is not the essence of what makes you a good human being (let's take religion out of this). Christian, Jew, Muslim, whatever - it's how you behave and treat your fellow man that makes you a good person, not how you dress.
I'm a western woman who wears western clothes, which (judging by the tone of this thread) some people here would find offensive and take objection to. However, I dontate money to several different charities every month, I sponsor a family in Nepal, Honduras and Ecuador BECAUSE I WANT TO. Not because I have to, but because it makes me feel good to know that I'm helping other people have a better life. The clothes I wear have got nothing to do with how I behave. We are all 'victims of upbringing'. As the Jesuit priests say 'Give me a boy till he's seven years old, and I'll show you the man'. It's all a question of upbringing. Had I been born here in Doha, to a Qatari family, then of course I would feel differently. Had I been born in India to a Hindu family, then differently again. And so on and so on.
Treat others with respect and don't be so quick to judge and condemn on looks alone.
Eco, I'm not an islamic scholar (obviously!) but I question your assumption that if we show our hair we are perverted and should go to our caves. I guess Sheikha Mozza will be hiding in her cave right now, scared by your righteous indignation.........NOT!!!!!
ramshinaushad - I'm just interested to hear how some people will justify this. They are very quick to condemn women for showing hair, will they be as quick to put their neck on the chopping block and condemn sheika Mozza and other highly prominent, powerful and influential women?? Maybe not.
Surely the whole point is this - it's what's in your heart and soul that matters. whether you cover or not is not the essence of what makes you a good human being (let's take religion out of this). Christian, Jew, Muslim, whatever - it's how you behave and treat your fellow man that makes you a good person, not how you dress.
I'm a western woman who wears western clothes, which (judging by the tone of this thread) some people here would find offensive and take objection to. However, I dontate money to several different charities every month, I sponsor a family in Nepal, Honduras and Ecuador BECAUSE I WANT TO. Not because I have to, but because it makes me feel good to know that I'm helping other people have a better life. The clothes I wear have got nothing to do with how I behave. We are all 'victims of upbringing'. As the Jesuit priests say 'Give me a boy till he's seven years old, and I'll show you the man'. It's all a question of upbringing. Had I been born here in Doha, to a Qatari family, then of course I would feel differently. Had I been born in India to a Hindu family, then differently again. And so on and so on.
Treat others with respect and don't be so quick to judge and condemn on looks alone.
Eco, I'm not an islamic scholar (obviously!) but I question your assumption that if we show our hair we are perverted and should go to our caves. I guess Sheikha Mozza will be hiding in her cave right now, scared by your righteous indignation.........NOT!!!!!