[lbo-talk] re: Orientalist torture

[Chris Doss]

Thus, there has been considerable variation across the Muslim world 
-- with the most famous example probably being the Tuareg of the 
Sahara where it's the men who go around with only their eyes showing. 
In SE Asian Islam, women traditionally have worn only a loose head 
covering and that for formal occasions such as weddings, etc., and a 
full prayer dress for prayer times. That loose head covering shows 
plenty of hair, something deemed a no-no by latter-day Islamists, and 
historical photographs show that women in preparation for bath or 
around the home would wear a sarong tied to cover the breasts, 
showing plenty of shoulder, and a bit of leg.

kj khoo
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The population of Moscow is probably about 15% Muslim, and the only women I have seen in veils are Africans, though there is the very, very occasional head scarf. Most Muslim women in Russia wear jeans and t-shirts. They wear headscarves and long dresses going down to the ankles in little backwoods villages in the Caucasus, but that's about it.

 
Wahabbi idiots did try to implement veiling women in Chechnya from 1996-1999, but I don't know how successful it was.

		
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