@jensensbooty I can see how this is offensive in the same way there’s popular slutty Halloween costumes of nuns. It disrespects the values of the people who wear those clothes, but at the end of the day it’s a costume and we can’t limit what people wear. However, dressing like this says a lot about a person.
I don't get the downvote on my comment, some Muslim men, historically, kept harems of scantily clad women, whose faces were veiled. That is a part of the religion. It's actually still practiced in some situations, though rather frowned upon. I'm not saying it's ok, I'm saying this isn't inherently some assault on someone's religious beliefs, and if anything, could be an example of them.
I think that jokur_and_batmon summed it up pretty well, and personally I think disrespecting religions in public spaces is just as bad- worse perhaps than people trying to shove their religion down your throat. And I would say that I didn’t DV the Harem comment- but context is key, A clear and imperfect example is that most folks have sex with their spouse- but you doing it and someone else doing it aren’t really the same.
I suppose a more precise example would be something like showing pictures of the victims of a tragedy like a plane crash or the Holocaust. Many survivors or relatives may do so, news or museums- but if you use images from a tragedy as gore shots in your low budget horror gore flick- you’ve changed the context of the situation. Wether one believes a “Harem” is right, wrong, or part of a culture to not be judged- the context surrounding that is a tad different than what we see here.
Wait so @jensensbooty
You only care if it’s offensive to Islamic people? If it’s meant to be something else you don’t care?
Other things this could be disrespecting can get fucked as long as it isn’t specifically disrespectful to Islam?
Wtf?
I’m making the argument that people need to leave sacred things alone, which often relates to religion. The title OBVIOUSLY relates this to Islam. If the original outfit is something sacred to another culture then yeah I would still be uncomfortable. However, taking something explicitly used for modesty like the burka and making it slutty is extremely offensive because they’re doing the exact opposite of the purpose
For example, a slutty Halloween costume of the Native American headdress is disrespectful. It’s violating something sacred to that people group. However, you’re offending by wearing the headdress, not because it’s slutty. The fundamental religious principle of modesty isn’t being violated by dressing up as that. If this is a harem costume it stems from our modern notions of harems that came from European visitors who weren’t allowed into said harems, because they were girls and male relatives only, and created all these notions of what harems should be. European art depicting the orient fueled these modern conceptions of harems being sexy slave women with little clothes, which this costume is perpetuating IF it is supposed to be a woman from a harem. I don’t know enough about harem principles to determine whether or not it is offensive. I do know enough about Islam to say “not cool, kinda offensive” even if I’m not Muslim, because the same principles of modesty are in my religion
By posting on a funny site, the implicit message is that we’re supposed to laugh at it and i’m saying it’s not funny to laugh at the violation of sacred principles
You only care if it’s offensive to Islamic people? If it’s meant to be something else you don’t care?
Other things this could be disrespecting can get fucked as long as it isn’t specifically disrespectful to Islam?
Wtf?
1. Cheap
2. Under designed
And 3. Those heels don’t go with that