Idyllic

It’s in the Qur’an, see chapter 24, verse 31: In these next two verses the women are the wives of Mohammad so one can see where women of Islam would desire to follow in the paths of the most righteous women of their faith, the wives of the prophet. That would be a powerful incentive to be and/or remain veiled, so one could emulate the wives, outside of social views and/or Shar'iah alone. I now understand why it is said that the more virtuous women wore the veils while those of less virtue did not, the prostitutes, etc. This one will be difficult to traverse for women and still maintain their own sense of faith based oneness with their God, I find that kinda sad, imho. I also find it sad that I have to, in some sense, give up a bit of oneness with my God if I wish to deny that I am made form the rib of a man, for if I accept this as true doctrine, I can never be mans "equal", only what was once his property. But I do it because I have to for my own sense of equality within the human-race and I justify this as it was a necessity for man to place ownership on women at the time the Old Testament was written, but I don't live in that time, I live in this one. Sometimes religious doctrine hurts twofold.

Chapter 33, verse 55 and 59 respectively:I don’t have a problem with women who do not wish to expose their bodies, I have a problem with women and men who feel that only non-virtuous women will allow themselves to be seen in something like a bathing suit, and that by wearing a bathing suit females are already viewed as less virtuous, it is this thinking that sets into motions the belittling of women outside of doctrine and the excuse of harm upon them i.e. “she was asking for whatever attention she got, look at how she was dressed.” This mentality places on women the burden of self protection from a society who would use them merely because she wears less, who would view a woman as already devoid of virtue based merely on external appearance. If a woman walks down the street in a bikini how does this define her morals? In what way does what a woman wear prove her as chaste or unchaste. In FL, many women walk around in the scantiest of attire, but I cannot determine their level of sexual awareness based on the amount of skin they expose and for someone to assume that a scantily dressed female is less virtuous is, imho, wrong. I remember high school with many religious girls who were virgins who wore two piece bathing suits, what right do I have to judge them at all regarding their choice of attire? Modesty should be a personal choice but one that does not find definition or necessity of adherence for proof of anything in religious doctrines or rape will linger in religious societies as less than the crime against humanity that it is. In truly secular societies, no means no, period, even if a woman is stripping naked while swinging on a pole, who are we to judge their morality, go ahead, throw that stone (glass houses shatter easily). Sometimes I simply believe that religious doctrine (ALL confining religious/ideological doctrine), sucks the ability for humanity to progress within the “science of evolution” as humankinds’ most valuable cohesive element in this modern day of our existence.

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you can tell them all you want but it won't matter until they think it does

p.s. I contradict my contradictions, with or without intention, sometimes.