Horror of Covering One's Charms
by
Usama2
05/20/2008, 10:49 AM
In a recent televised sociological glimpse of law enforcement for public group activities in Las Vegas, a police sargent hypothesized for the viewing audience the justification for criminal policing of women who expose their breasts. Paraphrasing, he said that while there is no victim of said exposure, there are definitive human reactions to exposure of naked female breasts in public gatherings. He said that men begin to gather, then amongst them fights break out, or worse yet, men begin to accost said exposing woman or women in that vicnity. So in order to preempt and prevent further disorder or criminal behavior, women are required to cover their breasts, ie. charms.
No one of intellect can say that Islam does NOT DEMAND individual self restraint and self control and inner pacificity and moral conduct in public and in private. It is intrinsic to the system of Islam. Yet Islam recognizes a balance between the individual and the society, the public and the private. Simply claiming the right of the individual and 'to hell' with society is not conducive to the reality- the reality being in what the police sargent observed in human conduct.
The matter of headcovering addresses this as the individual and the individual in the society.
As for citizenship, 1st or 2nd, it is a bogus polemic rhetoric. The definition of citizenship is completely subjective.