Female Attire Quotes



The National Organization for Decent Literature was a pressure group made up mostly of Roman Catholic Priests. It was founded 1938, and ran until the late 1960s when changes in society had obsoleted their “values” and rigid concepts of “decency”.


This is the famous sura that has been interpreted to require women to be covered, wear the chador or burka completely covering them or just a headscarf as other Muslims interpret it. Note that a literal reading does not require complete covering. Fundamentalists in Islam do not only rely on the precise literal statement through they would never dispute it. But many would believe that it is metaphorical for not revealing anything that might be stimulating to men. The sura goes on to list those male relatives who are exempted. These are the same as those where marriage is forbidden.