Only one problem with, women who convert to Islam in western countries and choose to wear a hijab usually choose to wear and don’t consider it oppressive.
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He gets it, but since it’s not Islamic, he chooses to discount. My wife and her family wear the hijab by choice and often go out in public without. Now that being said the government passing laws requiring or prohibiting is oppression. It should be the woman’s choice.
That’s great for your wife and her family. Millions of other women are not #FreeFromHijab. That’s the issue.
And, as Duarte said, theres a huge difference between:
-choosing to wear religiously prescribed modesty clothing
-celebrating religiously prescribed modesty clothing
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I pointed out another group that requires religious head coverings outside the church, that same group also has a latticework to separate men and women during services.
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So what? How is that useful? Breast cancer is bad So is prostate cancer Whoopty doo. You found another example. That does nothing to counter the original point.
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And as I pointed out many faiths require religious based clothing outside of the church, the Quakers and Anabaptists are just two.
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I’m against the government being involved in saying you have to wear as in KSA or banning the wear as in France.
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He said that those choose to wear it aren’t doing so from free will but from oppressive socialization. If that were the universal case, converts to Islam wouldn’t be choosing to wear. Since my wife and her family were raised in the faith, they wouldn’t choose not to based on
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Also. I’m saying the ones that wear it and came from Muslim families, even in western cultures ARE pressured to used most of the times, and socialized most of the times to use it. Now, some people are lucky that they escape that cycle, or their parents allow them. Others are not
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Duarte’s thinking.
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