Muslim women who dress modestly...

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If you're at the beach and you want to paddle in the sea, are you able to roll up your trousers? Genuinely wondering as I saw a muslim family on the beach today having great fun. The kids were paddling in the sea. The women weren't but this question sprung in my head.

If you're not wearing it, as a device of control or expectation in relation to your religion, then its not extreme religious clothing is it?

What a pointless comparison.

Hear hear!

It's unsafe and unhygienic.

Eh? Nobody is stopping you 'discussing" anything.

I am
muslim girl but no ln practicing. I wear a burkini when swimming at the swimming pool because I don’t feel comfortable exposing certain parts of my body. I get a lot of look’s because I look like a seal 🦭! I don’t mind it, it’s different and it’s a free country!!!! I don’t judge those who want to go topless on beach! Whatever rocks your boat! A lot of women you see o the beach wearing burkini, they prefer to cover as well because they don’t like to be tanned. They prefer to protect skin from sun & keep skin tone as light as possible. This is a stupid stigma around dark skin !

As a Muslim F who leans more towards the secular side, its exactly how you see it. The men do whatever they like and the women are the kinkeepers. Yay us!!!

That's what I've just said. Clothes don't reflect a person's modesty, but it doesn't mean the clothes themselves aren't modest or immodest. If I wear a bear costume it doesn't mean I'm actually a bear.

This makes me think of a photo I saw a couple of years ago.
It was a split screen of Iran - before and after the Ayatollah, Like 1979 & 2022, or close to it.
The 1979 photo showed young women wearing miniskirts & heels or boots and they had long, beautiful hair - they were laughing and smiling and I believe they were holding books. The 2022 photo showed them covered from head to toe. I also read that they were beaten and even killed if any part of their hair showed. Horrifying.
It was a shock to see the difference.

Yes but I guess the pool is afraid of being told they are discriminating against Muslims if they say they can't do it.

Clothes are just clothes, they're not modest or immodest.

You are very busily policing everyone, making it your business that they don’t annoy your rules…

How do you know which it is?

Why would it be any of your business?

What gives you the right to control it instead?

Not everyone follows all parts or any part of their faith.

I'm not Muslim. When I swim in the sea I wear a long-sleeved rash vest, and swim leggings with an attached below-the-knee skirt. It's comfortable, I don't get sunburned or worry about what my body looks like.

If someone else wants to wear a bikini or typical one-piece swimsuit, good for them, it doesn't bother me. But I'm glad that in recent years there have been more women, religious and not, challenging the idea that to swim or have fun on the beach you have to bare most of your body. When I was much younger these modest alternatives weren't readily available, so I just stayed away.

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Oh god me too, quite dull compared to other people however. Today my ponderings were about motorways. I wont bore you with it!!

They could easily run a female only or male only session, but specify that proper swimwear has to be worn like in every other session. It's not hard to get hold of swimwear which covers pretty much the whole body nowadays. Our local pool states that it must be proper swimwear worn in the pool/health suite.

I hate the word "modest" to describe clothes/dress. It's so judgemental.

I wonder how people think that boots and miniskirt were normal clothes in Iran. You know they were a fashion imported by America, and women were actually forbidden from covering up? And many chose to stay home rather than go out uncovered?
Did you think miniskirts were irans traditional clothing?

I disagree. Wear arseless chaps down your street, then see if you feel the same.

Yes. I don't agree that women should have to cover their bodies on the beach or at the gym.

I'm really not, but whatever makes you feel better. ✌️

You’re being a bit odd. I have psoriasis and people, particularly kids so about it all the time.

Questions are how we learn! If OP asked what size burkini she wears I think maybe it would be. Bit rude, but just asking questions to educate herself isn’t offensive.

I do agree with this. Lots of very swaddled Muslim girls wear heaps of make up and drawn on eyebrows, stick on nails, the lot. Doesn't look modest, looks confused.

i saw a muslin girl all covered up the other day faint on the tube, or collapse, the older woman, less covered, held her up as much as she could, sitting on the floor in a very crowded tube station. It was super hot and they weren’t carrying water. The girl must have been practically expiring in there, cloth tied right round her throat and pinned to her scalp.