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[MADem]

196. Oddly enough, these "blankets over the head" and "beekeeper suits" are not prescribed in the Qu'ran.

This is a bit tangential to the general discussion, but it's salient.

There's some general guidance about modesty, not displaying the hair or the figure or dressing ostentatiously or provocatively, but there's nothing specific in there that says "Wear this sweaty hot outfit" or "Put on this stupid flowered Beekeeper get-up with the peek a boo lace for the eyes."

Further, in every religion, there's shit "in the book" that no one pays attention to, anymore.

No one is burning bulls on the altar as a sacrifice at Sunday services to make a pleasing odor to the Lord, anymore, either, unless the "altar" is your Coleman grill, and the Lord is the first person to sink his or her teeth into that nice rack-o-ribs.

The issue isn't really the silly guidance in the books, it's that some dumbasses are looking at that stuff, that kind of made sense a thousand years ago, and trying to suggest that it makes sense today, in our society, in This Modern World. And some of them insist that This Is The Way and any digressions need to be met with death. They're as stupid as the "strict constructionists" on the Supreme Court.

The Saudis are the worst, I'd say, but they're not alone.

And there are plenty of Muslims who don't live like that, and who think it's just stupid shit to demand that kind of nonsense as an indicator of faith--but, so long as there are nuts who issue fatwahs like they're handing out Lifesavers to the grandkids, they keep their heads down. Who wants to buy trouble?

Times change...tastes change...(to quote an old cigarette commercial on TV, years ago).