WARNING: The below content does not contain any ethical considerations and the author is only typing from the tip of her tiny pea brain so please leave if you are easily offended. You have been warned.



While I was waiting for Dad outside Mount Elizabeth Hospital taking in putrid smoke from cigarettes after tightening my braces which is apparently more and more agonizing every visit due to my overcrowded lower teeth and problematic jaw & gums (If you can say this sentence in one breath, you are longwinded!), I saw this Saudi woman completely covered in black cloth from the top of her head to the bottom of her foot. The only part of her body that I can see are her eyes. I have seen countless women who are dressed in this way while working in Changi Airport but I really wonder who could actually be so ridiculous as to come up with such a rule: Islamic women should lower their gaze and guard their modesty; they should not display their zeenah (charms, or beauty and ornaments) and that they should draw their veils over their bosoms and not display their zeenah except to their husbands, their fathers and that they should not strike their feet so as to draw attention to their hidden zeenah.

I was quite shocked to find out that this rule originated from Qu`ran and he actually meant dressing modestly but the Muslims change it in such a way that dressing modestly = not showing any of your skin in order not to attract lustful gazes from men. And so, the women can only show their eyes to men when they are in the public. But imagine if you're completely covered with cloth in Singapore, wouldn't it be attracting more attention? Maybe this is one of their religious principles and I'm glad I don't belong to any religious groups cos' I might turn their rules and practices upside down. Oops.