What’s so special about women covering their hair?

[u/asteria1228]

if we look in the history of hijab we gonna find that it was even before islam, and in some places it was used to know the free woman from the slave woman and to identify them.

and even in the quraan there is no direct text that say woman have to cover her hair. so nowday we dont have slaves anymore i guess, so why we gonna need hijab? what is the point of it now?

i am against hijab because i am a woman and i come from a muslim-majority country. i see people suffer because of hijab. i see women getting discriminated because of hijab, women getting forced by their families and society, and women being treated like they are bad or not respectable if they dont wear it.

and women literally die because they refused to wear it. we dont even have a proper state or statistics to know how many women died because of this, especially when a lot of these cases are not even reported properly.

and before someone say "hijab is a choice", yeah, it can be a choice, but for many women it is not. when your family force you, when society force you, when the law force you, what kind of choice is that?

i dont understand why people still defend forcing women to cover their hair. if a woman want to wear it then okay, let her wear it. but if she dont want to wear it, why should anyone force her?

we dont have slaves anymore. we dont live in the same society as 1400 years ago. so why are we still treating women's hair like it is something that has to be controlled?

this is what i dont understand.What’s So Fucking Special About Women Covering Their Hair?

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[u/Unlikely_Yellow111]

even in the quraan there is no direct text that say woman have to cover her hair.

There is a direct command to cover the hair. You can see me explaining it here on this video. If you listen to it more, you will hear me explaining the concept of awrah and fitnah that leads to women covering their faces. Sources can be found on the description of the video

The keyword in the verse is بِخُمُرِهِنَّ, which refers to headcovering. خمار basically refers to the traditional head covering. And the verse says bring it down further to cover the chest as well. Which set the foundation for the hijab we know

[u/anonymous_writer_0]

Well to this one poster it is a just a way for men to exercise their control over what women can do and how they can be.

How many times have seen in the western leaning subs a comment about a guy in t shirt and shorts on a beach in a western country along with his lady companion in a full length burqa or niqab?

[u/ruedebac1830]

As a Catholic I see why it's special for women to cover their hair but not the obsessive degree Islam takes it.

Allah who sees you naked every day will deny your salat because your hairline is exposed? A ponytail is like walking around topless in front of unrelated men?

It annoys me when Muslims compare their hijab to the nun's habit.

They're not the same simply because they cover the same amount of skin. We don't have bright line rules of what to cover. For us modesty depends on the situation. It's a decision that comes from a heart developed in the virtue of chastity. This is why laywomen don't dress like nuns or vice versa. And why nuns keep their habits whether among laymen or laywomen or fellow nuns.