Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agoIn some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear?message-squaremessage-square25fedilinkarrow-up121arrow-down16
arrow-up115arrow-down1message-squareIn some heavy Muslim countries women seems always to wear a black hijab and get in trouble for not wearing one. Why don't they wear colorful ones or with slogans? Is black all to wear?Don_Dickle@lemmy.world to No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world · 2 months agomessage-square25fedilink
minus-squareDon_Dickle@lemmy.worldOPlinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down2·2 months agoBut people in india wear colorful hijabs.
minus-squaremarxismtomorrow@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 months agoEvery culture interprets modesty differently. Many muslim cultures don’t have hijabs but have other hair coverings similar to the ones Christians and Jewish women are required to wear.
minus-squareᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down5·2 months agoIndia is not a ‘heavy muslim country’.
minus-squareSkullgrid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up7arrow-down4·2 months ago Islam is India’s second-largest religion, with 14.2% of the country’s population, or approximately 172.2 million people https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_India https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country#Table sort it by Muslim population. India is third.
minus-squareᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·edit-22 months agoIndia isn’t a culturally muslim country and nor us India a country where Islam is heavily culturally imposed upon the citizens.
minus-squaresocsa@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·2 months agoSo it has nothing to do with modesty?
minus-squareSemjeza@fedinsfw.applinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 months agoSocially constructed idea varies by society. Who’d’ve guessed? You’ll find very colourfully yet modestly dressed Muslim women in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Senegal, and more.
minus-squareᓚᘏᗢ@piefed.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down4·2 months agoGo look this up on wikipedia and find out for your self.
But people in india wear colorful hijabs.
Every culture interprets modesty differently. Many muslim cultures don’t have hijabs but have other hair coverings similar to the ones Christians and Jewish women are required to wear.
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India is not a ‘heavy muslim country’.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_India
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_by_country#Table
sort it by Muslim population. India is third.
India isn’t a culturally muslim country and nor us India a country where Islam is heavily culturally imposed upon the citizens.
So it has nothing to do with modesty?
Socially constructed idea varies by society.
Who’d’ve guessed?
You’ll find very colourfully yet modestly dressed Muslim women in Indonesia, India, Kenya, Senegal, and more.
Go look this up on wikipedia and find out for your self.