The Veil

Reading these articles on the "the veil" or essentially how many Muslim women dress, was really eye-opening. Before I always thought of it as a requirement, and one that takes away the rights of these women. Reading deeper into the subject really showed me how wrong I was, and how many other uninformed people there are. I think that it is fine for the women to wear the veil, as long as it is their choice. I personally don't interpret the Koran's teaching to the extent of what these women wear, but that doesn't make it wrong in any way. However, countries should not be able to force women to dress in any certain way; not wearing a nikab doesn't necessarily mean that you are being immodest, and breaking the laws of your Religion. It seems ironic in a way that western people, especially men, think that they are attempting to free Muslim women from their traditional way of dressing. Instead they are making it seem as though it is their responsibility to decide this, since they a men, who are stronger than these seemingly oppressed women, and far more educated and civilized than anyone from the Middle East. They say all of these things, even though they are the uneducated ones, who are trying to make these decisions for the women. I think that the most disturbing thing I learned through all of this would not be anything involving the nikab directly, but the way it is perceived so wrongly, in the Western World.