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Originally Posted by HPLovecraft
Are you sure you didn't want to title this thread "This is why Islam is funny?" Seems like it.
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Most Muslim women don't wear the niqab/burka, just ordinary hijab. Heck, now, aside from ultra-conservative places like Saudi Arabia, many Muslim women don't even wear the hijab in places like Morocco, Tunisia, Jordan, Lebanon, etc. It is really more a product of particular regional/cultural practices than Islam, which demands no such thing (I'm not an apologist, btw, I don't particularly like much of anything about Islam's religious texts, but I do try to correct cultural misconceptions since I know more about this stuff than most people around me in Southern Alberta). Fun fact: women are actually disallowed from wearing face coverings into the mosques in Mecca and Medina or during any hajj rites, which is why it's so hilarious that they're allowed to vote with those silly face coverings in Canada.