Why do Muslim women cover their hair?

One of the sights that disgusts me is that of a woman with a headscarf. Not very long time ago one rarely saw Muslim females go around with their hair covered. Now they all do it and as time has gone by they even cover their entire face, as well as putting scarves on children. It seems Muslims, instead of being more enlightened, are going backwards, religion having completely taken hold of them . Now I am not concerned here about what their holy book, the Quran, says or does not say. The Quran is definitely not the work of any God; it is the work of Muhammad himself, embellished later on by his followers. There is ample evidence for that if one does a little study of historical documents as well as of the Quran itself. I am simply concerned about the logic of not showing one's hair.

What has hair got to do with how good a person is. Who does the hair of a female offend? God? Certainly not, for if it did the almighty (if he existed), would have made sure that all females were born bald. You cannot give a person hair and then say to them: Don't show them to everybody! That would make God very stupid, wouldn't it and God by definition cannot be stupid.

Certainly hair makes a person attractive to the opposite sex and so the argument goes that that person is more likely to be sexually attacked. If that is so why isn't there an epidemic of sexual assaults against non-Muslim women?

And why are Muslim men not required to wear the scarves? Okay, they are unlikely to be thrown down and raped by a woman. But women do look at attractive men and they have ways to get a man to sleep with them if they wanted to. In fact it doesn't take much to seduce a man, if she really wanted to. So if the purpose was to protect a woman against a man with a headscarf, then a man too should be protected with it against the advances of a woman. All this is just another example of Islam considering women to be inferior to men. The following Quranic text (4.34) actually confirms this. What is more, Islam advocates violence against women:

"Men have authority over women because God has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because God has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them. Then if they obey you, take no further action against them. Surely God is high, supreme."


(For a proper understanding of their religion, Muslims should read "Muhammad, a biography of the prophet of Islam" by Maxime Rodinson.)

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