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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Mooslim.ca:A Guide to Reforming Islam: Let’s Start with the Funny Way They Dress

ALi's interesting post on www.mooselim.ca :

"To practicing Muslims rules are everywhere. In Islamic fashion, these laws exist in the form of certain conditions and guidelines that clothing must fulfil. For example, “men are supposed to avoid silk clothing”. Or “women are supposed to cover their hair”. There is no such parallel in non-Muslim fashion — a person can wear (or not wear) pretty much anything.

These rules irk non-Muslim Canadians. Yes, we Muslims get the message: The way practicing Muslims dress (especially Muslim women) in Canada scares you and you want us to stop dressing-funny.

And now that you’ve got the idea in your head to change the way we dress, after having spent that time flipping through “Islam-for-Dummies” in Chapters that one Sunday, you have decided that the best way to change the way we dress is by starting with the laws. Let’s get rid of most of them, right?..............."

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