I feel that embracing one's orientation and choosing personal modesty in dress aren't exclusive.
She's an engineer, so I was picturing her usually wearing modified coveralls and slightly less flowy than usual scarves covering her hair and neck.
edited 18th Jul '16 9:11:01 PM by TParadox
Fresh-eyed movie blog@T Para: Yeah, I don't see why a Muslim lesbian wouldn't be able to wear a hijab. Just because she's comfortable with her orientation doesn't automatically translate to being liberal about the Islamic dress code. I mean, I'm sure plenty of Muslim LGBT people don't wear hijab (points at self) but I'm sure there are also Muslim LGBT women who do.
The one issue I could see is that, while Muslim men can marry Christian, Jewish, or Muslim women, women can only marry Muslim men. At least, that's what I was always taught. Though, your character could either be liberal about this aspect or assume that she can follow the rule for men since she's marrying a woman, not a man. But I dunno. (shrug)
When we're done, there won't be anything left."Indefensible in the modern world" reeks of islamophobia in this context; the bible has the same rule - Jewish/Christian men can marry out but women cant bcuz men are supposed to be the leaders of their households and that wuld require those women to convert to other religions; an important question is where the story takes place bcuz that will determine how free she is to deviate from strict orthodoxy/orthopraxy
Level 3 Social Justice Necromancer. Chaotic Good.Yes but I don't know if the woman has to convert or being pressured to convert is so much better.
Anyways check if it's the case with two wives T Para or if there aren't any strict rules and they can make their own.
edited 21st Jul '16 12:08:30 PM by phantom1
There's probably some modern commentaries applying Koranic principles to same-sex partnerships.
Fresh-eyed movie blogThe most common explanation I've seen that's no doubt biased says that hijab dress is meant to cover whatever's considered attractive to protect men from "burning with lust". There's similar dress code justifications in Mosaic Law and in the Pauline epistles.
Fresh-eyed movie blog(Yeah, I said I'd stay out of this thread waaay back, but this is something I can actually comment on.)
Anthony Bourdain did a special episode of No Reservations where he visited the country of a fan, and that fan was a Saudi woman. The woman wore a hijab, and she- an obviously liberal woman as you might guess -interpreted her hijab's purpose as 'protecting female beauty'. She implied that her hijab hides her hair from men not because her status as a woman makes her accountable for men's behavior, but because they are unworthy of seeing her beauty. She's supposed to save her beauty for her husband. (But that's also, in a way, a slightly more poetic way of telling women that a part of their personal agency is always going to be controlled by men.)
A lesbian Muslim woman could go with this interpretation, and stretch it by wearing her hijab at all times, around everyone except her lover and close family.
edited 22nd Jul '16 4:44:54 AM by CrystalGlacia
"Jack, you have debauched my sloth."Yeah, the healthier view is more along the line of "this is only for my spouse", but I was thinking of it from a perspective of being owned by the spouse than personal agency. That helps.
Fresh-eyed movie blogI'd say no, because the policy does not swing both ways, wearing a hajib is objectifying women. It is done for a sexual reason. In this case, the opposite sexual reason as a person wearing a skimpy dress. Rather than trying to get a guy horny, it is trying to not get a guy horny.
Because that is the reason for the clothing, the wearing of the clothing implies that the female is a sex object.
The reasoning I always heard was that the hijab is meant to serve as a reminder that beauty (that hair is usually a large component of) ultimately holds no weight when being judged in the afterlife. Basically, the idea was to prevent vanity. Granted, this interpretation still has its problems, like assuming that women would naturally be more predisposed to vanity... then again, it's not like masculine beauty depends as much on hair as feminine beauty, so it may not actually be implying that, and that's why men may not have to wear hijab. But, yeah, my Sunday school was very adamant that the hijab was not meant as a way to prevent men from being lustful horndogs, it was for our sake.
When we're done, there won't be anything left.But how does any of that opinion help our fellow creator? The question is about how one might go about creating a lesbian hijabi character not what we personally think about this and that; btw, wearing the hijab is supposed to be entirely voluntary anyway (outside of a few crappy places)
Level 3 Social Justice Necromancer. Chaotic Good.

That's true but generally both would have to have some views that aren't in line with how their religion is generally practiced since the Catholic Church is not very same gender married friendly either. But otherwise their views could be anywhere on the spectrum of Traditionalism versus more Liberal views.