Headscarves and Veiling

Assalam Alykum. I was hoping a kind person in here can assist me with this. Recently about a week ago I found an awesome hijabi website that sells scarves and headbands alike. You can buy them 3 in 1 or by themselve at a reasonable price. For the life of me, I CANNOT figure out what the name of the website was. It was something with fashion in it. It wasn't the Tara website. I'm at a lost. I just remember the website having TONS of scarves with a whole bunch of headbands. I think the back ground of the website was pink or purple. Can someone help me please! Thanks

Hi Miss Brenda,

Do you live in Texas?

Hi Layla! Welcome! Peace to you too!

Kuroneko, you are missing the point.

The problem isn't old people living longer. That's good. No one wants to go back to the days when people died young.
Anyway, it would be politically impossible to ask senior citizens to not live as long as they do. We are not going to cut off their medical care or social security just to get them to die younger as they use to do. Neither the seniors themselves or the general population would find that acceptable.

Kuroneko:
The point is this.
There is something refered to as the "replacement level" birth rates. What that means is that every two adults need to replace themselves with two children in order to have a stable population that doesn't decline and die off. If a society doesn't have replacement level birthrates, the society will decline in population and begin to die off as a people.
Now some places, like India, really are overpopulated, but most parts of the earth, contrary to the liberal-radical myth, are not. Everywhere on earth birth rates are dropping like a stone. In some areas that were facing potential overpopulation, that is a good thing. But in some countries the birthrates have become incredibly low, well below the replacement level.
This is not the case in the U.S., we have birthrates slightly above the replacement level and unusually high immigration compared to our usual amount and compared to other countries, so we are growing very fast in population. Many people believe too fast. But the United States is the exception in the northern half of the world. In many northern first world countries it is the opposite, they are facing potentially severe underpopulation. Not all of them, but many of them.
- Examples of this are Japan, South Korea, Italy, Russia and Spain. The birthrates in those countries are now down to 1.3 children per two adults. If these trends were to continue in those countries for let's say another 50-75 years, those ethnic groups of people would, literally, start to die off.
And it is nearly politically impossible to bring in large numbers of immigrants into those countries, they can barely tolerate the small percentage of immigrants they have today.
Look at what happened in France. Immigrants, mostly Muslims from the Mediterranean Arab countries, are 12% of the French population. This has caused an enormous cultural clash and backlash. The neo-Nazi National Front Party (who wants to ship out all Muslim immigrants), is recieving close to 20% of the vote.
As a result of this, in the mid-1990s, the mainstream political parties in the French government effectively ended most immigration into France. A number of other west European countries, including Austria and liberal Holland, have followed suit, (due to pressure from, and the rise of, anti-immigration political parties). In the lowest birthrate countries like Japan, Italy,etc. there are even fewer immigrants and more resistance to immigration.
It would be politically impossible to bring in large numbers of new immigrants into most countries of West Europe or East Asia without huge social disruption and civil war, especially in the age of terrorism (as we saw recently in Madrid, Spain).

The only solution to this mess is for these countries to do what the Scandinavian countries did in the 1980s. The various Scandinavian governments saw that their countries birthrates were too low and started programs to encourage more young couples to have more children, and even paid these young couples bonuses for their children, and for their day care, and assisted these young families economically, plus providing universal health care.
As a result of this, the Scandinavian countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, and Iceland, now have the highest birthrates in West Europe,(along with Ireland and Portugal), and are no longer declining in population, and don't need to bring in large numbers of immigrants to bolster their population therefore avoiding social and political chaos(although they do allow small numbers of immigrants).

Liberals won't admit this, but it is normal for men and women to live together and have enough children to sustain a population. That isn't being a reactionary, or even necessarily right wing politically, certainly the Scandinavians countries are not far right wing, they are quite liberal and tolerant. But they recognize the need to balance out modernity with tradition.
Healthy, vital, societies do that.

A certain amount of tradition, of children, and of hetrosexual family life,, is necessary and healthy for a society. For not only population reasons, but for the social fabric of a society and the physical and psychological well-being of a society.

Good paula.
Thank you for your input.

Hi Brent!

My thinking is very similar to yours. There were a lot of things that society said women couldn't do 100 years ago, and it was wrong. I think we can give women the rights of a human being without denying the differences between men and women. Women have a different way of looking at life than men and vice versa, and both are very valuable. I'm not one of those who says that there are no differences between men and women (other than the obvious) because that's just not true. I love being a woman and I love men who love being men!

That is the biggest myth of all, that women get paid less than men for the same job.

Thank you pixielady. That rumor keeps getting spread, and it is just so untrue. In fact, in several fields, women's salaries (comparing equal education and experience, which is the most important thing) actually are higher than men's! Women in the US do not realize how lucky we are. We have MORE than equal rights, and sometimes I feel sorry for the men, especially in child custody cases. A lot of times, a woman will be given custody based only on the fact that she is a woman. Veiled Lady, I don't dress like you, but I just want to say that I deeply admire you and your values. Unfortunately, a lot of people don't understand your lifestyle and are quick to condemn it as thinking you are inferior, but I think you get a lot more respect than someone who dresses like a prostitute!

Agreed.
Women from India are beautiful. Their style of attire is beautiful too.
I'm very glad that some of you seem to understand the value of tradition. A society that disregards tradition is a society that will fall into decadence and decline.
Veiling may not be for every woman but it has enhanced my life greatly and assisted me in rediscovering so many valuable virtues. It has enhanced my modesty and spirituality (in my case Buddhist) It also has enhanced my femininity and given me great pleasure. A real woman loves to feel feminine and a real woman loves to serve her man. Wearing a long dress and veiling has helped me focus on what is really important to me as a woman, a human, and a spirtual person. Niqab is now my form of dress.

Ya I know what you're talking about. I watch a lot of Indian movies with beautiful girls like Manisha Kiorala and Aish dressed in saris and gorgeous colored veils. I want to wear one! It's so feminine and coy looking...especially if you are young and have a beautiful face peeking from underneath.

I used to think that too Kunoneko but the older I get the more I see the differences and the wisdom of women of the past. I do agree that you can't generically lump either sex into categories since there will be exceptions and variations in every group. But, in general I think men are programmed to be providers and protectors and women are programmed more toward nurturing and nesting. That doesn't mean that we each can't encroach on each other's turf but there are differences beyond how we look. And I am happy for them......