[MD] What is the intellectual argument about Islamic veilwearing?

[Case]

[Platt]
When Christian law subjugates women, let me know.

[Case]

"...A wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her
husband even as the church willingly submits to the headship of Christ. She,
being in the image of God as is her husband and thus equal to him, has the
God-given responsibility to respect her husband and to serve as his helper
in managing the household and nurturing the next generation."
-1998 Baptist Faith and Message

"...While both men and women are gifted for service in the church, the
office of pastor is limited to men as qualified by Scripture."
-1998 Baptist Faith and Message

"In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with
shamefacedness and sobriety; not with braided hair, or gold, or pearls, or
costly array; 10But (which becometh women professing godliness) with good
works. 11Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. 12But I suffer
not a woman to teach, nor to usurp authority over the man, but to be in
silence.
-1 Timothy 2

[Platt}
When the Vatican approves clitorectomies, let me know.

[Case]
I am unable to find out what the Vatican's position on this matter is but
this is not a practice endorsed by Islam either. In the region of the world
where it is practiced it appears to be practiced by peoples of all faiths.

"Female circumcision is currently practiced in at least 28 countries
stretching across the center of Africa north of the equator; it is not found
in southern Africa or in the Arabic-speaking nations of North Africa, with
the exception of Egypt.6 Female circumcision occurs among Muslims,
Christians, animists and one Jewish sect, although no religion requires it."

International Family Planning Perspectives
Volume 23, Number 3, September 1997

The Vatican does however endorse the practice of mutilation of male
genitalia, as do people of several religious faiths.