Why Do Muslim Women Wear a Veil?

The veil is necessary to protect men from the burden of personal responsibility. (I submit that the veil should be as insulting to men as it is oppressive of women.)

Well put, Ricky. They also dont want women to have any power over a man, at all. And women wield sexual authority in modern society, Muslims dont want to feel like thier women have any power, at all. It’s pretty sad, really, that once these men were the enlightened ones, looking down upon Christians in the west as barbaric, and not they are the epitome of ignorant facists in most places.

It’s yet another “logical” extension of the concept of a “higher power”. Obviously their god created women partly in order to tempt men towards the “dark side” as defined by their narrow, skewed interpretation of morality. Therefore women, simply by virtue of existing, should share in the punishment for the actions of men towards them. Christianity has of course a similar attitude towards women as demonstrated by the recent comments made by a multitude of conservative Republicans on the subject of rape. The alternative explanation for veil-wearing (voluntary or otherwise) given by more moderate Islamic elements (namely “modesty”) is just a watered-down version of the same concept. It’s sick from top to bottom though, and anyone who believes it to be a good or even an acceptable “tradition” on any level is either a misogynist or suffering from severe cognitive dissonance.

The Muslim women wear the veil as a way of showing total obedience to God not to please anyone else and it certainly not to take away the responsibilities of men to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner. I never saw women who are more oppressed than the western women who are seen as sexual objects, waving flags at racing events wearing next to nothing. I am a Muslim woman, who is a university graduate and I, like many Muslim women choose to wear the veil as a spiritual uplift. I think it is about time you learn to allow the Muslim women to speak for themselves because we are more than capable of doing so.

The Muslim women wear the veil as a way of showing total obedience to God not to please anyone else

If that were true, then there wouldn’t be such radical differences in traditions about what being “veiled” means. Different cultures and sects do it differently. This proves that it’s cultural, not an absolute command of any gods.

Ergo, it’s done to please humans.

and it certainly not to take away the responsibilities of men to conduct themselves in an appropriate manner.

If that were true, then a lack of covering would not be used to blame women for men behaving badly. I think you know that this happens, so you also know that what you wrote above is false.

I never saw women who are more oppressed than the western women who are seen as sexual objects, waving flags at racing events wearing next to nothing.

As opposed to Muslim women who are regarded as such dangerous sexual objects that they cannot appear in public without being covered. In some places, they are such dangerous sexual objects that they cannot even move in public without being escorted by male relatives.

If you truly regard that as being less “oppressed,” then you suffering from a severe case of Stockholm Syndrome. I recommend immediate psychiatric help.

I think it is about time you learn to allow the Muslim women to speak for themselves because we are more than capable of doing so.

Only when Muslim men let you speak and/or don’t give you your words.

Insisting that you can speak for yourself and that you’re free would be more credible if you didn’t insist on remaining anonymous while doing it, as if hidden behind a burkha.