Comments on: ‘Religious dress’

By: AHA

AHA — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 13:48:10 +0000

Yes, if they accept him.
Well said.

By: Naseer

Naseer — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 07:13:13 +0000

Actually he is such a devout Muslim, that he can only live in Saudi Arabia. That is if they accept him.

By: Iqbal khan

Iqbal khan — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 03:45:05 +0000

Or not wear anything under the same pretext.My suggestion pls don’t pollute that country.

By: ZH hashmi

ZH hashmi — Wed, 26 Dec 2012 02:45:33 +0000

I agree with Mr Bukhari . Islam doesn’t any culture but it teaches us to respect all culture. By the way our Prophet never wore a Shlawar Kameez . It is not merely the dress it is how one think and behave which may manifest Islam. On the other hand the champions of democracy and freedom of everything including gay marriages , how dare the dislike if someone want to pursue his/her cultural obligations

By: Pradip

Pradip — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 22:52:38 +0000

Think of an opposite scenario…a western woman in Pakistan in a public place wearing whatever she thinks is her religious or democratic right to wear. What do you think will happen? Can she address her grievance in a court of law?

By: AHMAD

AHMAD — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 18:33:05 +0000

You have a freedom to wear whatever you like if you are in your own time. If you are on “clock” working for someone, you do whatever the boss or the rule says. Pakistanis have the tendency to bring bogus argument of “Islamic” dress all the time. What is a Islamic dress. Kurta pajama or shalwar kameez are indian hindu and sikhs dresses repectively. Prophet Yaqub (bph) was a stone worker and used to wear pants with pockets on both side to carry his tools and modern type shirt. Long clothes such as shalwar and long kameez is hazardous in manufacturing envionment. Beard is not allowed in chemical plants in the USA a nd Canada, to avoid skin infection. Will this be a religious argument also.

By: Aj

Aj — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:54:49 +0000

you can wear bikinis or just nothing in US but any dress which represents modesty is banned. Where are the FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION seekers and human right activists. That something called ISLAMOPHOBIA.

By: Khan

Khan — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 17:31:13 +0000

Rightly said.

By: mansoor

mansoor — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 15:29:59 +0000

If people who wants to wear half dress wear it as they have choice or right, likewise people who want to wear full dress, weather shalwar qameez or trouser or other also have similar right or choice, and no where in quran or religion it was mentioned that we only have to wear trouser or rulers dress code.

By: G.A.

G.A. — Tue, 25 Dec 2012 13:50:28 +0000

I agree with the writer. I see a lot of people dressed like Lawrence of Arabia in the West especially Pakistanis. Islamic dress is modesty and looking presentable at all times. I have personally seen a shabbily dressed taxi driver walking dressed in unclean and in unpressed shalwar kameez and walking through a bunch of bank executives downtown.