The truths you can't tell in today's Britain

I remember someone saying it was a practical thing to protect from bad weather but I can't remember where I heard this lol so could just be ********

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Originally Posted by FlyingJesus

Not sure if or where it shows up in the Qu'ran because I'm not nearly as well versed in that as I am in the Bible, but:


But I would have you know, that the head of every man is Christ; and the head of the woman is the man; and the head of Christ is God. Every man praying or prophesying, having his head covered, dishonoureth his head. But every woman that prayeth or prophesieth with her head uncovered dishonoureth her head: for that is even all one as if she were shaven. For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.
1 Corinthians 11:3-6

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I should call you Dorothy Branning :P So that backs up the existence of the habit for nuns. Are there many Christian denominations that require members to cover up their hair whilst in Church? It could be a now dead practice like many aspects of Christianity (in this country at least).

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Originally Posted by The Don

I believe that it's more due to the culture rather than the Qu'ran explicitly telling them to wear it, however, I have not read the Qu'ran so I can't verify it 100% but loads of different sources seem to agree that it's not in there.

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I'm of that belief, too. However, I'm sure I read a report somewhere (or some terrible news media website) that in countries with a Muslim majority they do not actively wear the burka et al because they are with people of the same faith and are not at risk from those who do not follow Islam. But that may just be an assumption or a bold belief with little substance :P

It's usually explained away (in Christianity) as either a cultural norm being presented in the letters to Corinthians which John whacked in for no reason, a posthumous addition that someone else wrote into the texts as a means of exerting control again as a cultural norm, or as is most commonly accepted as a reference to women having long hair and men having short hair - another cultural norm, just one we haven't grown out of totally and therefore isn't seen as a problem despite it still having little to no practical value :P

Definitely nothing about burqas and hijabs anywhere in the Quran.
Turkey has a ban on headscarves even though the country's population is almost all Muslims