I was thinking about the issues surrounding the hijab yesterday

[Ms. Toad]

6. You seem to be intentionally twisting what the Muslim women I have spoken to

say.

It isn't that God is the only one who gets to see her unveiled (your interpretation) - it is that the choice is a personal matter between her and her God as to whether to cover, to what extent, when, and in front of whom - not the actual view of her face. Her husband doesn't get the privileges of God - or a say - in what choice she makes. If her choice is to uncover at home, more boadly, in front of women only, or wherever it doesn't give whoever sees her face teh privileges of God. Catholicism is a different religion than Islam - so there is no reason to expect that a similar practice will be identicial when practiced even by another person within the same religion, let alone by people in a different religion.

By imposing your view of what covering means on her assertion that the entire spectrum of covering or not is a choice between her and her God, you are standing between her and her God. You are telling her that because her choice doesn't fit within your narrow narrative in the way you think it should, that it wasn't really her choice.