Sexual harassment exists across all cultures, and there are some places where kids will try to light your hair on fire, or people will randomly touch it. So under the above argument, ANY woman could in theory choose to wear a hijab to avoid such issues, yet they don't. This is only something that exists on a large scale in Islam.
I know some of you will mention Hindu women. Indian culture was influenced a lot by the Islamic occupation.
And I know there are some ultra radical sects of Judaism and Christianity that do it, but in general, you don't see Christian, Jewish or Buddhist women just walking around in the street with their hair covered.
So if you wanna make the argument that it's a personal choice, it's only a personal choice for MUSLIM women. It almost seems as if the Islamic religion sexualizes hair. Because I've never heard of any other group of women saying they cover their hair to be modest and avoid sexual harassment.Egyptian Muslims Egyptian Christians
If many Muslim women believe covering their hair is a personal choice, then why doesn't this practice exist in other cultures?
You've never heard of nuns? I cas understand not knowing about the Amish (their womet usually do keep thedr hair covered, but it's not like you meet many of them on the internet), but Catholics?
Look- it's true that there are many matters of personal chocie which have options that are primarily taken among a specific culture, and this may well be one of them. But that net everyone DOES choose to do something doesn't mean that tot everyone CAN. Have you ever heard of a culture that banned covering one's hair?
Because Veiling, and head covering is an ancient Mesopotamian tradition, and only cultures that derive from ancient Mesopotamia are going to practice veiling and head covering.
The Amish and Mennonites do it as well, also for religious reasons, as do some branches of Catholic.
The reason women in general do not do it is because hair is not sexualized in most cultures, and also "lighting hair on fire" and random people "touching" our hair is also not generally a problem.
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