Posted on 04/25/2008 6:06:26 PM PDT by Nachum
OUTSPOKEN Muslim cleric Taj Din al-Hilali says the Bible "mandates" the wearing of the veil by Christian women. Writing in a new book, Sheik Hilali, who lost his job as mufti of Australia after comparing scantily clad women to uncovered meat, argues that the Bible and the Koran make similar demands of a woman's modesty. Sheik Hilali, who remains the head of Australia's largest mosque, in the southwestern Sydney suburb of Lakemba, says the purpose of the book is to show the commonalities of Islam with the Jewish and Christian faiths when it comes to women's modesty and clothing. In the soon-to-be published The Legitimacy of the Veil for Women of the Scripture - Evidence of the Veil in the Bible, the cleric points to references in the Old and New Testaments to women wearing a veil. "Through this I hope to raise awareness and understanding and eliminate apprehensions and misunderstandings about the veil," he writes. The Anglican Bishop of South Sydney, Robert Forsyth, yesterday challenged Sheik Hilali's comments about the veil being "mandated" in the Bible, saying they were misleading. "The New Testament does call upon people to dress modestly," he said. "But there is no understanding that women are commanded to wear the veil. But it is mandated that you should dress appropriately for your social context." Sheik Hilali also says the Virgin Mary is often depicted with a veil covering her head. "The veil upholds the modesty and protects the dignity of women, whether Muslim or non-Muslim," he writes. "Wearing the veil creates the most realistic similarity with the Virgin Mary, the mother of Christ."
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HuThere is biblical encouragement for women to cover their heads in church, but I think people will probably react with vitriol to hear it from a muslim imam
The Bible says a woman’s hair is her covering. The cleric obviously doesn’t know the Bible.
Hmm...nice, but it’s just too hot in CA right now...sorry.
how about driving a car?
that’s really a main issue in islam,
men not being able to control themselves when they see attractive women.
so, they control the women.
Muslims should be wearing handcuffs ...
Why is he poking his nose into Christian business?
so very true on both points.
...leg irons, electronic tethers and have GPS implanted in their heads.
I don’t know guys my wife looks GOOOOOOOODDDDD! in her hat with the veil, of course its accompanied by the black silk dress and the opera gloves.
Maybe I can get her to wear it more often!!
But on the serious tip this guy needs to go ahead and get his 72 Helen Thomas look alike virgins
Her hubby is no slouch, either.
/johnny
and cement shoes...
What Bible is that genius reading? Not mine. He should stick the the Q’ran.
Well my religion, which I just made up, says Taj Din al-Hilali should be killed and hung from a lamppost.
I’d like to see Mr al-Halali try and put a veil on any three of the women under my roof. Mr. al-Hilali would be quickly put in touch with his 70 virgins.
Paul calls for women to cover their heads in church in Corinthians, but that’s about it.
I think Muslim men should wear the veil as a matter of public courtesy. Most of them are butt ugly.
“and the Koran make similar demands of a woman’s modesty”
those “demands” have more to do with the respect the woman should be shown, particularly by men, no matter how she is dressed than the mere manner of dress
the manner of dress is a cultural, not a moral, artifact
lust is in the eye of the observer not the observed
I’m just glad they show up no matter how they’re dressed (within reason, ‘course).
Amen, sister. Unless that’s ALL we have to wear....
An uncovered goat’s a$$ is immodest to a raghead . . . IMHO
15But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.
Rage Boy disagrees with ya
Sigh..if that is what the 72 virgins look like, I will pass.
They want Christian women to wear the veil so people won’t see them laughing at muslim men.
No, that’s what a 72yr old virgin looks like...
That mohammedan freak is due for a walkabout or two. Might help him get religion, but even if it doesn’t, the thirstier he gets, the less he’ll be talking.
Muslims should try the ham. And the whiskey.
“I should have used Preparation H.”
Yep.
/snort
Don’t hold your breath ugly man.
Muslims should wear bikinis. Muslim women can wear something tasteful.
Rage Boy makes my point. LOL
How about he just wears a chastity blindfold, and one of his wives could hold the key
Every Mosque needs to have a chick in a thong outside selling hotdogs from a cart on the sidewalk like in Florida.
“OUTSPOKEN Muslim cleric Taj Din al-Hilali...”
...needs to have the living muslim crap beat out of him.
Per rules
Here is Catherine Bell showing her modesty by covering her head
Here's the ugly perv himself:
“OUTSPOKEN Muslim cleric Taj Din al-Hilali...”
...needs to have the living muslim crap beat out of him.
That was never a requirement, though.
Paul said “if any be contentious, we have no such custom”.
I’m contentious.
But a man has the same covering, so something is not quite right about this. I mean; God gives both men and women hair that grows on their heads, and grows. Tradition says Paul was bald, though. Maybe he forgot what he had in his youth.
I think that Paul was just trying to settle contentions among the Corinthians, who were a mix of Greek and Hebrew Christians, with different “cultures”. But he didn’t settle it. The wars go on.
The jackass doesn’t even know the Koran. Nowhere in the Koran does it mandate the veil or hijab or chador or burka or any specific covering at all, only saying that women should dress modestly.
The entire culture of covering up women is a social custom from the middle east (including the Byzantine areas) in the sixth century A.D. It is not prescribed in the Koran.
Yes, because a Muslim certainly knows more about the Bible than Christians.
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