Ershad Ahamed, you wrote:
No, muslim women don't spend too much time beautifying themselves or following your fashion trends.
Ah. I didn't say that they spent too much time 'beautifying themselves'. I said that spent an awful lot of time *obsessing* over their own bodies. *Obsession* can take many forms. Spending too much time worrying about beautifying your body, and putting in on display like a peacock is ONE form of *obsession*. However, the opposite behavior, spending too much time hiding your body and worrying about any part of it ever being seen, however unlikely the circumstance, is equally obsessive over one's own body.
Now don't start telling me that you don't beautify etc. etc. You maybe perfect but Islam is for All.
Well, first of all, as I've mentioned before, I'm an INTP type personality. About the MOST attention an INTP is capable of paying to their clothing, is that in the event (which doesn't happen very often) they happen to be interested in clothing and appearance at all, their clothing will be clean, neat, and might actually match. In the event that an INTP is not interested in their appearance (most of the time), they will be a rumpled mess.
That said, I don't regard 'beautifying' (though I've seldom interest in it myself) as being evil, or disqualifying one from being 'perfect'. I do think that some people spend far too much time beautifying themselves, and this is *obsessive* behavior, and there are probably far more important things for them to worry about and be doing, than making sure every single eyelash is in order. However, the opposite is true, spending long periods of time making sure your body is completely covered, and worrying constantly about whether some bit of your skin is seen by the wrong person, is equally *obsessive* and there are far more important things to do and worry about.
They are doing what their creator asked them to do. They would rather feel it a pleasure to follow his instructions.
I can understand that people would do what they believe their God asked them to do. Where I fail in my understanding, is why God would even worry about what people wear. I think of God as someone having a very large mind, and worrying about large things. To me, worrying about what someone is wearing, or any part of their body being seen is small and petty, about as significant as worrying about the exact number of peices of cereal someone eats for breakfast or the dust under someone's bed. But perhaps this is a failure on my part, since as an INTP I don't really think much about my appearance, it's a matter of unimportance to me most of the time, and I don't understand why strange people, who I didn't even know, or God, would worry about it either. There are far more important things to worry about.
There are countries where you can't carry the gun. The law doesn't allow that. Islam is our weapon in that case. Your solutions are hypothetical, constrained by several factors and cannot be implemented perfectly and rather will create other problems.
Okay, here's the deal. A GUN (or other powerful weapon) is pretty much the ONLY realistic way a woman alone can physically stop a man from raping her. The fact is, most men are physically far stronger than most women. Wearing hijab will not stop a man from raping her, he will simply rip it off. Nor will the fact that a woman is a Muslim, or any other religion, stop a man from raping her. Possibly, if the man were a what you might consider to be a *perfect* Muslim he would not rape her, but 100% perfection in 100% of all men in the world is not a realistic scenario.
The above being the case, anyone REALLY interested in preventing men from raping women, will advocate giving women guns, and teaching them to use them. Anyone making excuses as to why this should not be done, is not interested in actually preventing rape, regardless of whatever else they might say.
