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Originally Posted by Rjinn
From what I can gather here is that women should be conservative (also states that both women and men should be so in the Qu'ran), not what they should wear. It doesn't say anywhere that women have to wear hijabs. Veil in Arabic means "what separates man from the world and God." That interpretation seems a little off. Women in the Quran wore veils, doesn't say every woman should.
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Fair enough. The point I was illustrating was that the Qua'ran
does speak specifically to how women should dress, so when paired with the other bits about women being inferior/less intelligent it's not a stretch to see why it has become tradition to expect or demand a certain dress code of them.