Headscarf.....Christian, muslim, culture and other things....

Ok.  So women who wear a headscarf are not sinning.  Women who do not wear a headscarf can still connect with God.  The words from the bible can still speak to them.

Some people get confused about what a head-dress actually means and why some people prefer to wear a headscarf to other things.

The headscarf in Christian groups is based upon HONOUR towards the Lord.  Women CHOOSE to HONOUR the Lord.  For example, a woman is going to meet "the president.."  Would she wear rotten clothing that is rattered tattered and torn....with various anti-american messages to "please" the president?  No.  She would wear something nice.  Similarly Christian women who wear a headscarf simply want to honour the Lord.  1 Corinthians 11.

For me personally, a headscarf shows a certain sort of "respect" and "understanding" for women in cultures where the headscarf is "required" or even abusively "forced" on women.  A sort of empathy can lead people in a better direction in life.  Christian women are equal to men, but they are weaker than men......in a general sense.  Sadly in unsupported Muslim cultures, women are not equal to men and are forced to address men a certain way.

Muslim women are basically either choosing to be Muslim (if they are in western society) or they are born into the culture.  As a result, the headscarf is seen as a symbol, but many have interpreted as a way to abuse women in those societies.  Is it wrong to mock a woman in a headscarf?  Yes.  It will always be that way.  It is the same as mocking a woman who wears something on her head because she has cancer and her hair fell out.

Christian women and Muslim women who wear a headscarf may say the same thing.  I would like to show my hair only to my husband.  Though Christian women may allow little strands of hair or other appealing decorative items from their heads while wearing a headscarf.  Muslim women are asked to quit tempting men.  Christian women know that men themselves need to choose to stop lusting after women, as it is not a woman's job to help men overcome sin, Jesus did that.

There is something in western society that says that Christian women should always go without headscarf.  This isn't the case in original Christian churches.  Headscarves are still common today.  Perhaps its lightly cultural.

There are various Jewish women who also wear a head covering.  That also has culture connections.  Women who escape abusive cultures may want to forget wearing a headscarf.

Anyhow, people can be in our family.  Sometimes we don't know their full family heritage and upbringing.  It would all depend upon how close we were in age and how much we understand about them personally.

To be honest, I believe that MANY western women get confused about the Muslim religion and believe that their life will be "better" by choseing that faith.  No, it won't work.  A person may participate culturally for a while by wearing their head-dress, and going without pork and even fasting, but in the end, women's rights are NOT the same as Christian beliefs.  Furthermore, why not, as a western woman who is curious, simply go to live in a Christian community in the middle east where woman wear a headscarf.  The sense of what ACTUALLY happens will become more apparent.  Essentially, LOVE covers a multitude of sin.

All in all, born again conditions, SHOULD make a woman desire to wear a headscarf to honour the Lord, but it doesn't seem to happen frequently in western society.  A headscarf doesn't "save" you......but it is symbolic.

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