Those Head Coverings: Blog

A Jewish Blog entry

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:13:51 -0600

I hardly ever find the Jewish perspective on headcoverings - perhaps I'm not looking under the right words. Anyway, check out this blog - with photos - concerning women fully covering at the Wailing Wall. - Burkha Fashion - Yes or No?

Snoodies

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:08:44 -0600

Snoodie is My Favourite Winter Solution -- If Only I'd Found Out About it in November!!!

Blog entry with links and photos - how fashionable! :) Here's the website she's referring to:http://www.snoodie.net/

"Turkish Lawmakers Vote on Head Scarves"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:48:18 -0600

Associated Press; Feb 9, 2008

ANKARA, Turkey (AP) - Parliament voted Saturday to amend the constitution to lift a decades-old ban on Islamic head scarves at Turkey's universities, despite fierce opposition from the secular establishment.

Tens of thousands of Turks demonstrated in the capital, Ankara, against the amendments and called for the government's resignation. "Turkey is secular and will remain secular," they chanted, many waving flags.

Head scarves have long been prohibited at universities in predominantly Muslim but fiercely secular Turkey, a country seeking to join the European Union.

But Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has called the ban a trial for young Muslim women who are forced to remove their head scarves at campus entrances, noting that some resort to wearing wigs to class to cover their heads.

In a final vote Saturday, lawmakers voted 411-103 to approve two constitutional amendments that will add paragraphs saying everyone has the right to equal treatment from state institutions and "no one can be deprived of (his or her) right to higher education."

Read the entire article and view photos at the above link

See also latimes.com
brisbanetimes.com.au
and especially this editorial: Academic: Interact with the Women Underneath the Headscarf!

"Schmoozing with Terrorists"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:44:16 -0600

Review of the book "Schmoozing with Terrorists" by Aaron Klein, in "The American Thinker". The review states that: "in Schmoozing with Terrorists, Aaron Klein -- Jerusalem bureau chief for World Net Daily -- shares the wide-ranging conversations he has had with many of the top Arab Palestinian terrorist leaders in Israel about exactly that topic.

Klein's conversations covered the gamut from why Hamas, Islamic Jihad, and Fatah's al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades endorse the use of homicide bombing in light of the Koranic ban on suicide; to the way in which the terrorist leaders nakedly reject documented archeological and historical connections between Jews and Israel; to the ongoing persecution of Christians by Muslims in Bethlehem, Gaza and other cities."

Here's where he mentions the headcovering in his interviews:

The failure of western women to conform to Islamic standards of dress will reap harsh responses including, if necessary, torture. Sheik Hamad, a Hamas cleric, said those women who refuse to cover themselves in conformity with Islamic values would be punished either by imprisonment, whipping or stoning. And we aren't just talking about Madonna's bustiers: under the standard described by Klein's interviewees, even Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- who does in fact wear a robe -- would be a target for stoning. She's omitted the head covering.

You can read the entire article at the link provided above

"Hijab How It Protects and Benefits women in Islam"

Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:38:53 -0600

Article from Unique Pakistan

Very thorough article and study from the Quran. Here is the introduction:

I want to INFORM you through the words of a sister, why and how hijab (Islamic code of dress) protects a woman and what are its advantages. This is not coming from me but from a WESTERN woman who was born and raised in the western culture, spent most of her life on the wild side, found a deep vacuum in her life, discovered Islam, accepted it wholeheartedly, and turned her life around completely - for the better. This sister is an Irish American, has a Ph.D., teaches in a prestigious US university, wears hijab wherever she goes - in the class rooms while teaching, in the conferences and meetings she attends. She is very proud of Islam and her hijab and in the following explains the advantages and wisdom of wearing hijab. So please read with an open mind. Those who are open to reason get the guidance and better their lives, but those who have "eyes but can't see, and ears but can't hear" will wander in the wilderness of life forever. No amount of logical reasoning will help them. However, our job as Muslims, i.e., those who surrendered to Allah, is ONLY to convey the message to the darkest corners of the world. Our job as Muslims is not to impose anything on disbelievers because as Allah says in Quran, "For you is your religion, and for them is theirs".

Please click on the article reference above to read the entire study

Interesting thoughts from Levitical law

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 17:38:40 -0600

From a found blog: "And there was a ritual for people to do if they were unclean. They have to wear torn clothes, have unkempt or uncovered hair, cover the lower part of his face, and go around yelling, "Unclean! Unclean!" This person is to be left alone, and live outside the camp. Makes sense, I guess, you want to isolate that type of stuff. If people were required to wear head coverings, and there was someone not wearing a head covering...you could tell at a distance that something was wrong. [emphasis mine - lm] Covering the mouth makes sense. You wouldn't spread infection that way. The infected person had to heal on their own. The infected person had to watch out for the people who weren't, to protect them."

The Royal Ascot Rules Still Apply

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 15:59:22 -0600

Queen orders Ascot fillies to cover up

Julia May; January 17, 2008; The Age

A guidance issued to the 80,000 members of the racecourse's Royal Enclosure specifies that strapless dresses, spaghetti straps and halter-necks are out. And mismatching trouser suits are a no-no. Women must wear a hat - or at the very least a "substantial fascinator" (ornate clip or head-covering). And men not wearing a top hat, morning suit and waistcoat can forget it.

Complaints by traditionalists about rising levels of flesh at the exclusive racecourse have been heard, it seems, by Ascot's governing board, chaired by the Queen's representative, the Duke of Devonshire. Those who transgress the dress code will be turned away on the Duke's orders.

You can read the entire article at the above link

Headcovering and Modest Clothing in Sports?

Mon, 21 Jan 2008 10:48:23 -0600

High School Track Star Disqualified from Meet

Because of Muslim Clothing [VIDEO]

Posted by Adam Howard, AlterNet at 2:03 PM on January 17, 2008.

It's outrageous," says Juashaunna's mother Sarah. "She hasn't done anything to anyone. She just wanted to go out there and compete."

see also the original news article from channel 9 news: Hate Mail Follows Controversy Over Muslim Track Star

and this discussion from "PoliGazette" on the same topic: Sports and Religion

Rural Egypt, Face Scarves and Children

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:14:12 -0600

Egyptian Weekly Reveals Elementary School Girls in Rural Areas Wear Veils Covering Their Faces

January 4, 2008
The Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) reports on finding young girls who wear face coverings in rural Egypt. Click the title link to read this report.

Chastity and Hijab in the teachings of Islam and Christianity

Thu, 10 Jan 2008 14:07:55 -0600

Chastity and Hijab in the Teachings of Prophets Muhammad and Jesus

By: Dr. Ahmad Shafaat,(1999)

This article was recently reposted in a forum at TurnToIslam.com, and I thought might warrant posting here as well. In it, the comparative scriptures and reasonings and examples of the three "Abrahimic Faiths" are presented and discussed.