dutch bans burka

Bro Rami says "The Burqah is personnel law not something enforcable by any government islamic or otherwise..." and at an earlier post he talks about social influences where he says ""....It takes away the social pressure placed on women as being sexual objects........."

If we look at this kind of reasoning, we indeed are looking at the social legitimacy of "Burqah" within the boundaries of Islam. In doing so, though we do take care of minimum requirements of hijab, as ordained in Quran and sunnah, but totally neglect the other extreme of it that the "shettle cock Burqah" presents. It is this kind of extreme form of hijab, that is problematic for identification purposes in modern societies, though it may still have usefullness in some societies.

Secondly, my bro rami insists on freezing Islam to that of interpretations under 4 madhahibs when he says "There is no room for interpretation outside of what Islams schools of law have decreed,.....", where as he probably himself my realize that these 4 madhahibs came into existance on the basis of their rational critical examination of evidences from Quran and Sunnah. That too, not in an instant of time but over the period of several generations long after the year of Hijra. Hence it would be naive to limit Islam within the box of 4 interpretations. This is not to say that any scholar of such a stature in modern era exists (based on my limited knowledge), who has the appropriate qualification to bring better interpretataions as a whole, though badly needed. Nevertheless, it doesn't preclude individuals to research and reason out such personal issues with their own sincere and humble understandings from the same evidences of Quran and sunnah. After all, as bro Rami as categorized it as matter of personal law, Allah is the judge who knows all inner dimensions of an individual. Indeed Allah knows the best.