the the the wearing of the the the uh
the the head scarf for the women this
seems to have become so major a major uh
um h h h
aggravation why should women who want to
wear a veil why should this have been
such a source of aggravation today why
is that I don't understand it I mean if
a naked woman walked in this room here
meaning wearing a bikini or a g-ring
she would have the right to just walk
just like anybody else if a woman came
down here and she was wearing a g-
string and walked right across here and
went back upstairs and came down matter
of fact there was two or three of them
we would be like
whoa what's going on here but we
couldn't say
anything because it is accepted in the
society for a woman to wear this in
public and there are some beach in this
country and some places in this country
where you got some people call
themselves
naturalists you know what they are I
don't have to tell you that is they
believe that they should just walk
around all the time
naked not that we can't make a judgment
call because according to legislation
the naturalists have a right there's a
man that was running across the whole UK
for three months can you imagine that
three months with nothing but a hat and
a pair of boots on
I mean he's running can you imagine a
man running through a
village nothing but a hat and a pair of
boots on because he's a naturalist and
these are his constitutional
rights and for three months nobody could
say anything about
it well I say that in a society where
people are allowed to express themselves
that
way why should there be a problem about
Muslim women
whether in the schools or otherwise
choosing the preference to cover their
heads or to cover their bodies with
loose garments why should it be such an
uproar why is there a need to to to for
the media to assault and say Muslims
want to take over our society and Muslim
want to impose their their values upon
us and so forth but I want to remind
them that until 15 or 20 years
ago the nuns in the church in the
Catholic Church they had to wear it is
it right or
wrong and just recently the Catholic
church has
relaxed the the the the um the uniform
codes of the nuns where they can show a
little
cleavage they can now wear a little bit
you know put the cross right there in
the
middle they don't have to wear a
headpiece anymore and they can show a
little bit of thigh
well that's their right we can't say
anything about that but when I went to
church when I went to church to the
Catholic church when I was 17 years old
all the nuns were looking like the
sisters are looking
today so Society has changed but why
should our values have to change those
Muslim ladies who want to wear the full
scarf and want to wear loose clothing
they're doing so because God said so not
because their husband said so not
because they're Arabs or Indonesians or
Malaysians or Africans no they're doing
it because God says so so if our
religion which is the same religion of
Moses and Abraham and David and Solomon
and Jesus and John the Baptist if we
have the same religion as all those
prophets and we are all monotheistic
people basically Christians and Jews and
Muslims taking our sources from the same
taking our scripture from the same
sources and we can see in the history of
our religions that women dress this way
consistently then why is it an
aberration because our women want to
wear that today what do they want our
women to do do they want our women to
take off their head scarves and all put
on g
strings would that be said oh now y'all
all the same now it's
okay no we say it's not okay and we say
as Muslims we have the right to preserve
what we consider to be decent and
dignified
clothing and apparel and appearance and
we think we think that we are fortifying
we think that we are making a good moral
contribution we think that we are doing
something that will support the morals
the principles of and the status of
women in this Society we say that's what
we think we're doing and do we have the
constitutional right to make what we
consider to be a moral contribution to
the fiber of this Society based upon our
religion
of course we do and we don't have to
apologize and if somebody wants to know
if we are unable to explain we do not
have to
explain but what we should do is the
people of the
media the people of the media or the
people of government who feel that they
don't understand what's going on we
should send them to people who are
qualified to expound upon this issue in
a dignified educated way so the people
would not think somehow or another that
all these women who wearing these
scarves got a AK-47 underneath their
scarves or they got a bomb they coming
inside somewhere with a
bomb you know
stereotypes but the issue is we Muslims
the Muslim ladies in particular you do
not have to explain to anybody why you
are dress the way you
addressing just like others who are
undressed do not have to explain anybody
why they are undressed