Dear friend:
Thank you and THANKS to Sweden for passing this law, no my friend, the muslim world was not enraged by this decision, in fact, I am very pleased and proud of Sweden, I am proud Muslim too.
Sweden has been always a beacon of tolerance towards minorities and specially muslims, sadly, some ignorant pathetic muslims decided to go very far by trying to behave as if they are in their own countries, which is pathetic really.
The BURKA is not MUST in Islam, there is nothing in the Quran or the Hadith ( the sayings of the prophet ) that talks about BURKA.
those extremists use this verse from the Quran to justify the burka, let us read it:
The Noble Quran 24:31:
'' And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and be modest, and to display of their adornment only that which is apparent, AND TO DRAW THEIR VEILS OVER THEIR BOSOMS, and not to reveal their adornment save to their own husbands or fathers or husbands' fathers, or their sons or their husbands' sons, or their brothers or their brothers' sons or sisters' sons, or their women....''
Two things are noteworthy about Quran 24:30 and 31.
(1) In Quran 24:30, MEN are directed to "lower their gaze"! If face veils for women were MANDATORY why would this direction even be necessary?
(2) Quran 24:31 only tells women to cover "their BOSOMS." Nothing whatever is said about the HEAD - let alone the FACE!
Similar comments can be made concerning Quran 33:59 - often cited as an alternative authority for mandatory veiling:
'' O Prophet! say to your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers that they LET DOWN UPON THEM THEIR OVER-GARMENTS; this will be more proper, that they may be known, and thus they will not be given trouble; and Allah is Forgiving, Merciful''
This passage says nothing about covering the FACE ........
The truth is the niqab is NOT an Islamic institution, This was the opinion of Quran translator Marmduke Pickthall:
"THE VEILING OF THE FACE BY WOMEN WAS NOT ORIGINALLY AN ISLAMIC CUSTOM. It was prevalent in many cities of the East before the coming of Islam, but not in the cities of Arabia. The purdah system, as it now exists in India, was quite undreamt of by the Muslims in the early centuries, who had adopted the face-veil and some other fashions for their women when they entered the cities of Syria, Mesopotamia, Persia and Egypt. It was once a concession to the prevailing custom and was a protection to their women from misunderstanding by peoples accustomed to associate unveiled faces with loose character. Later on it was adopted even in the cities of Arabia as a mark of [tamaddun] a word generally translated as 'civilization', but which in Arabic still retains a stronger flavour of its root meaning 'townsmanship' that is carried by the English word. IT HAS NEVER BEEN A UNIVERSAL CUSTOM FOR MUSLIM WOMEN, the great majority of whom have never used it, since the majority of the Muslim women in the world are peasants who work with their husbands and brothers in the fields. For them the face-veil would be an absurd encumbrance. . . .
Finally, if muslim women are not required to cover their faces in HAJ (Pilgrimge to Mecca ) how come they are required to do so elsewhere ???
Conclusion, the burka is UGLY invention by some extremists which has nothing to do with islam, the standard dress for muslim women as ordered by the Quran and the sayings of the prophet is to cover her HAIR and to be modest, like this European sister who converted to Islam :
