Here’s How the Muslim World Believes Women Should Dress

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NRO/The Corner:

Daniel Pipes

January 11, 2014

 

A survey conducted in seven Muslim-majority countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Lebanon, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Pakistan) finds that a median of 10 percent of the respondents prefer women to wear either a niqab or burqa when in public. The specific country figures range enormously, from 74 percent approval of these two garments in Saudi Arabia and 35 percent in Pakistan to 3 percent in Lebanon and Tunisia and just 2 percent in Turkey.

 

 

 

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Respondents were shown six pictures of women in different styles of head dress and asked “Which one of these women is dressed most appropriately for public places?” The data is from a study conducted by the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research and published on December 15, 2013. Jacob Poushter of the Pew Global Attitudes Project visually recast the figures in the form shown here. The sample sizes per country range between 2,000 and 3,500, and the surveys were conducted between January 2011 and June 2013.

 

 

I concur, except that Saudi Arabia cannot be considered modern, only rich. To put it simply, what counts when it comes to women’s attire in public is values, not wealth. Phrased differently, Westernization is an inextrictable part of modernization, whether that means democracy, Beethoven, or unveiled women.