Iranian female chess grandmaster switches to US after being banned for not wearing hijab

Good for her. Beautiful girl, too.

Heard about this earlier this week...double threat girl...

Persian women are beautiful.

Man, she's gorgeous.
Needs a sponsor.

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Needs a sponsor.

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Maybe Nike will sponsor her...

Remember when the nuts weren’t running the country? I member

She better not ever return to Iran or she will be stoned to death

I hate how Democrats defend the hijab as some form of female empowerment.

I kind of always like Eastern European women. Might have to change now.

Most women only cover their hair. It used to be that way here too. I personally like the look when it's done in good taste, but doing it all the time or having it be a legal matter is fricking retarded.

Women used to do it here too, but it's ever been a national law to my knowledge. There was certainly a strong social pressure to do so, even to the point of physical punishment/banishment if they didn't in some communities.

I've heard the early american head coverings were rooted in a bible verse saying women shouldn't pray without their heads covered or some such nonsense. I don't know about that.

Here is the supposed verse: 1 Corinthians 11:5 "But every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head--it is the same as having her head shaved."

Here is a website that talks about it:

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When I first saw some Mennonite women with their head coverings, I couldn't imagine why they were wearing those things on their heads. I figured it was simply some type of quaint costume. But then I read the writings of the early Christians. And then I understood why Mennonite and Amish women wear prayer veils or head coverings. I realized that it was in obedience to 1 Corinthians 11:5, which says, Every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head, for that is one and the same as if her head were shaved. The early Christian women veiled their heads not only in church, but also anytime they were in public. From my later study of church history, I discovered that Christian women continued to maintain this practice through the all centuries up to the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. During the nineteenth century, many Christians in the United States and western Europe began arguing that long hair constituted the only covering women needed. Others said that women only needed to wear a covering when in church. The middle class and wealthy women switched from veils and caps to ornate bonnets they wore a covering at all. Bonnets became more a matter of fashion than of modesty or obedience to 1 Corinthians 11. By the turn of the twentieth century, the ornate bonnets of the nineteenth century had given way to ladies' hats. Until the mid-century, women in Europe and America typically wore a hat or scarf in public, but they were simply following tradition and fashion without realizing that there was originally a spiritual reason behind the practice. Similarly, until about 1960, western women wore hats when in church. But the meaning behind the hat was lost.

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Head coverings for females has been a thing in the west since forever ago, and it wasn't until relatively recently (some time in the 20th century) that it flipped from being the norm to being uncommon. I'm sure that while it had religious roots, it was more of a social more than it was some signal of devotion to christian religions. That is the case in many places in the middle east as well, as head coverings are common in many places where the locals aren't particularly hardcore about Islam.

It makes sense that Islam emphasizes it, as they borrowed heavily from Judaism in the crafting of their own religion under Muhammad.


Wiki on christian head coverings:

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