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The Woman: a parable

A man was walking through the marketplace one afternoon when, just as the muezzin began the call to prayer, his eye fell on a woman's back. She was strangely attractive, though dressed in fulsome black, a veil over head and face, and she now turned to him as if somehow conscious of his over-lingering regard, and gave him a slight but meaningful nod before she rounded the corner into the lane of silk sellers. As if struck by a bolt from heaven, the man was at once drawn, his heart a prisoner of that look, forever. In vain he struggled with his heart, offering it one sound reason after another to go his way, wasn't it time to pray? but it was finished: there was nothing but to follow.

Why do people wear Niqaabs???

It's not necessary and was not mentioned of in most trustworthy Hadiths, and the truth is that people in Niqaabs creep me out, but why do they wear them?

It is scary when in England, there are those that don't wear a jilbaab and those that cover their entire face. I don't prefer the Niqaabis because I find that the Niqaab is a riducule of our religion and those wearing it should be ashamed. No offence but it's my personal opinion. What do you think? Thanks. Biggrin (The way to gain swaab from Allah is to do what Allah thinks is right instead of making a trend of sticking excess pieces of clothing to the female face).

Newsnight: Why are Muslim women choosing to wear a niqab?

Why are more British Muslim women opting for the face veil?

Increasing numbers of British Muslim women are choosing to wear the face veil. Two of those women explain to Newsnight why they adopted the niqab when their mothers did not.

Read their accounts and watch the video

Islam is not the problem. Muslims are.

Their unwanted backward mentality of not wanting to change and wanting to be stuck in the 7th Century.

No civilised society would want to still whip women because they are rape victims (evident in S.A) no other set of people kill their own because they bring shame on the family (Honor Killings), no other set of people kill each other (like Muslims do) in the Name of MY religion (evident in War - Torn countries) notice how many suicide bombing happen every day? And who the main victims are? No other set of people think that the word "Allah" belongs to them simply because it is Arabic (Malaysia).

It is very easy to blame someone else. Yet Muslims have a problem of not wanting to blame their own (yet some would happily kill their own - irony)