Image via WikipediaThis is real interesting. The choice in question is whether or not to wear a hijab. Living in America, I haven't seen many Muslim women wearing full burquas, but hijabs are very common. I agree with the women in the video that what one - man or woman - wears should not have a bearing on judging anyone's faithfulness or spiritual state. It doesn't make anyone more or less holy. Not saying that we don't need humility or modesty but it just doesn't sit well with me imposing a dresscode on people just because of their gender. I applauded the women in the video but it made me wonder: IF the Islamic texts and traditions say that women need to wear hijabs can you still be a Muslim. If Muhammad had said that women must do something, and he was truly saying what God says, then how can they set it aside. I don't have to set it aside the Bible because it contradicts those ideas.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered? 14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him, 15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering. 16 If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God. - 1 Corinthians 11:13-16
And Jesus taught that it's not what is on your outside but what comes out of us from the inside.
25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
27 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. - Matthew 23:25-28
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