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Published: 2006-11-29 16:01:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 9535; Favourites: 194; Downloads: 138
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My Third submission... The original idea when I thought of this stamp was for a drawing (or vector) instead of an actual photo
Thanks for for letting us use her vector [link]
And for for suggesting this vector
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Im afraid what you say doesn't really count. Your not a woman so you don't wear one.
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If a man says I support womens rights, I guess that doesn't count because he's not a woman.
I would fight against racism towards ethinic minorities in this country, but I guess that doesn't count because I'm white.
I support a secular society, but I guess that doesn't count because I'm religious.
I support the rights of men to wear whatever they want... but I guess it doesn't count because I'm a woman.
Idiot.
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thats silly, its a part of our religion and therefore we support it.
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Of course you. Would I guess if your religion told you to force it onto others you would. Oh wait a minute it does. Not like many woman have much of a choice but to wear it.
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and most are happy with it, dont mock or attack just cause u dont understand something.
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Oh... what would happen if the woman decided not too? I guess they don't have a choice.
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in lots of countries its not mandatory anymore
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Don't bother with him. He's a troll.
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your welcome. you can also see I've dealt him before.
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He cannot prove himself so he is a troll.
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To me I think women looks so much MORE beautiful with a veil than without it 
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Thank you for your comment and for being a proud Muslim
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It's funny how people find the hijab offensive and oppressive, and yet totally applaude the unrealistic scantily clad representation of women in this weird world of ours. I'm not a muslim, but I do support women who choose to wear the hijab, because at the end of the day it's all about choice.
Lovely stamp <3
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thank you for your comment and your support
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When I was younger, I really hated the idea of the veil. I saw it as sexism, and thought that women should not wear it. When I was younger I was also anti-religion and refused to accept other beliefs.
Now that I'm a grown man, I have spent a lot of time reading a very many religious texts. In college I questioned my family's religion and did a lot of research, whether mainstream or very alternative. After that, I chose atheism - though I always question myself every turn of the way, and I do NOT believe that my lack of religion should ever be pushed on those who believe, nor does my lack of religion negate the value of other faiths.
I read a lot of texts from middle-eastern faiths, and I now understand much more about it. I do not support the veil when a woman is forced, just as I do not support anything when anyone is forced. However, I believe incredibly strongly that people should have the CHOICE. Women deserve the choice, and there is NOTHING wrong with whichever option they pick, to me. Even outside of religion, I think that the veil is very beautiful.
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thank you, and thank you also for your interest and love to learn
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Do you know, I never used to support the hijab? I saw it as other sometimes depict is, as a symbol of oppression. In some ways, I think Islam has no middle path, covering up women is not going to take away the problem of young men being attracted to them, I mean, anything can look attractive if your mind is used to it. But as my Muslim friend pointed out, it depends on your reasons for wearing the hijab, if you don't know why you're wearing it then you may as well not at all.
The hijab has come to be a symbol of Islam, rather than pointing out the part of a person it hides, it points out the part of a person it shows, and seeing as Islam is so much a way of life, it can be important to a person to show that. But I mean, if you're wearing it because your Imam tells you too, because 'it's the way you were brought up' or you just think that it'll repel men, then you're donning it for the wrong reasons. So I'm not saying don't wear the hijab, I'm saying think carefully about your reasons for doing so.
There's so much negativity surrounding Islam today, and whilst some Muslims get all defensive about being questioned - "Oh, Islam is so under attack today, we're shouldn't have to answer to anyone" - in reality, yes, Muslims should know their faith, and they should be attacked: Every religion in the world should. Maybe if people knew their religion, we could take steps towards eliminating blind faith and ignorance.
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I was never with that hijab should be forced, this may upset alot of people but its just what I think. But I have to say it gives a certain beauty to every Muslim girl
Thank you for your comment and passing by
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Of course Hijab is 
I totally support Hijabs~! It is a muslim's identity after all. ^^
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God bless you too <3
You're welcome~
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I support the veil and the right to wear one if they wish too.
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I support it too for sure !
thank you so much ..and Allah bless u !
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I support the veil too. I'm not Muslim, but I do know people who are and I believe people have a right to choose what they wish to do.
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thats good to hear, thank u dear
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I was reading through the comments down below; and I would like to respond to some of what you said about that speaker who said that the Bible spoke of the importance of the veil and the '40's and '50's American women who wore hats and scarves.
I would like to start off by saying that I have no problem with any woman who decides to wear the veil of her own volition. What I have a problem with is women who are forced into it by laws and family pressure.
I also do agree with you that women running around half-naked is demeaning and reduces women to objects; but that does not mean that the veil is any less demeaning, especially if she is required to wear it when she does not want to.
First of all, I am not Catholic; my grandmother is; but I am not. There is a huge difference between Catholicism and what the Bible actually says. The dress of the nun is found nowhere in the Bible, unless you take the directive to be modest to that extreme.
But the major difference between nuns and Muslim women is that nuns are women who chose that role. That is what they CHOSE. I am happy to see that many Muslim countries are making this veil a choice; but there is still family, religion, and several other Muslim governments that are pressuring this.
I recall a news story that I heard about a fire that occurred in a girls' school in a Muslim country that required the veil by law. Many girls were burned to death because they weren't covered from head to foot; and because of that, they were shut into that burning building. This is the kind of thing that makes people cringe. It is NOT the fact that these women decide to be modest that Americans have a problem with it. It is the fact that Americans view this, by enlarge, as a symbol of oppression on women because of the tales of how this is forced or coerced on women.
I dress modestly; and no one bats an eye at me. Some people ask me why I don't wear bikinis and why I wear shorts and a rash guard; but I tell them that I want to be modest; and they accept that. This is because this is what I want to do. Americans are very understanding when it's the woman's choice.
Second of all, like someone down below said, the Bible speaks only once (to my knowledge) of headcoverings, not the veil, which many historians say did not really cover women, but it simply was a cloth draped on the head, not hiding a whole lot. This, as the Bible verse explicitly states, had nothing to do with modesty, but was rather to distinguish women from men to when they were preaching and leading the church in prayer (1 Corinthians 11:1-16).
Why headcoverings were required only then and not millinia before that time in Mosaic Law during the times when it would be applicable to such women as Deborah and Huldah, the first of who lead the Jewish nation as a judge and the latter who was a prophetess who gave the Word of the Lord to the King of Israel, I cannot say. I have my suspicions; but my theories are too unproven at this point in time to voice.
Of course, in the period of time between the days of the early Christian church and the Dark Ages, women were banned from preaching in church. So, of course, such a thing would go out of use.
Finally, American women in the past did not wear hats for the purposes of modesty.
Way back before the 20th century, women wore them for the same reason why they carried parasols: to stay out of the sun.
These days, Americans like women with tans; but back then women with soft, lily white skin was valued. To keep their skin white, women had to do everything that they could to stay out of the sun. Thus, the hats that you see, such as the pill-box hat, that more often than not barely covered anything modesty-wise.
Of course, this set off a market for beautiful hats so that women, especially rich women, could stay out of the sun and look stylish while doing it.
This continued on even into the 40's and 50's when tans were just starting to take off.
Thus, women wore hats, not for modesty, as I'm sure you would not accept a hat in place of a hijab, but rather for style.
I don't know why that speaker didn't know this. Quite frankly, it was the 40's and 50's when "girlie mags" started depicting women who were barely clad even by today's standards or not clad at all.
So, in conclusion, Americans have a problem with the hijab, and not nuns, because the hijab symbolizes oppression whether you think that it does or not.
This is what Americans think.
Thank you for your time.
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The veil is a choice for the women.
The veil is to throw away the idea that a woman's appearance has any influence on how she is. It was to protect the woman. it forces you to look at her as a person. She is a mystery to you until you get to know her for her.
Like that time someone said if everyone on American idol wore masks, there would be a fair judgement of the singing.
But in the end, the choice is up to the woman. It's supposed to be up to them anyway. It's shallow and superficial to think it demeans them.
Look at the actual Islam. Not the followers, because they do not represent the religion.
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