still looking,
I will first answer the question that seems so important to you, you said,
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on my last post to you i asked you questions about some muslim women and how they have to dress (only eyes showing) and what you think of that. I have yet to hear your answer.
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If a woman desires to be part of a people that wants her to cover herself with only her eyes showing, then I find no problem with her doing so.
Do you know that some woman who were not previously muslim, and were not forced to be muslim, chose to be muslim and chose while living in north america to cover herself with only her eyes showing, even though a lot of muslim women in north america only cover their head, and also a lot of muslim women in north america don't even cover their head.
And on the other side. If a women does not desire to be part of a people who wants her to cover herself with only her eyes showing, then I find no problem with her doing so.
Now, before you misinterpret I. I will explain that not all RasTafarI people feel that a women should dress a particular way, and other RasTafarI fall in between the two sides of the spectrum, some more or less strict about dress. And if you observe RasTafarI people, you will also see various points in the spectrum on how a man is to dress. Have you ever seen so many of the Bobo RasTafarI Man who dress with head covered in a turban and robe, and you will never see these people in any other clothing.
And some man in various ways of Life, including even some who are RasTafarI, will even cover their face.
Just because some people downpress others to force them to do this or that, doesn't mean it is always so. Some Man and Woman choose to dress a particular way.
In regards to the quote you mentioned about Ras KebreAB saying:
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if a every righteous man is trying his hardest to keep from crumbling to his weakness and commit sin like adultry,trying his best to resist temptation, trying to keep to one woman as I Father taught......then shouldnt every righteous woman,in realising the power she holds over man, try her best to help keep manīs mind clear and clean, to help him resist temptation,
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I missed that quote when I read before, so I see he did say it. And I also looked at what was said before in the other post to see what the context of the reasoning was. So if you notice, the original post made by the Forward-Live-Up was refering to the ways of babylon that influence people and he was telling people to stay away from following the ways of babylon. Forward-Live-Up mentioned women's dress among the other things he mentioned that were in reference to Man and Woman. So Ras KebreAB was adding to the reasoning. But if you look at the ways of RasTafarI people, the strictest of Idren and Sistren dress a particular way, and the reason they dress a particular way is not to prevent eachother from lusting after eachother, it is because it is the way of the order.
Haile Selassie I and Empress always dressed a particular way, people would never see them in clothing that wasn't appropriate for who they are. RasTafarI people dress according to their order, every Man and Woman according to the order they trod. There are many levels of strictness depending on the person, but I and I are not downpressing ourselves, I and I are walking according to our trod.
Ras KebreAB is RasTafarI, so I know that he agrees with the same reasoning I made about why RasTafarI Man and Woman dress the way they do. But I Iverstand that you might not know the reason because you know little about RasTafarI. But Ras KebreAB reasoned about the core and root of why I and I dress the way we do to clarify because when he spoke about it in the quote above, he was speaking in context with the reasoning, but instead of acknowledging the real reason, you kept on directing the focus to men not controlling themselves and avoided everything else. So what you did was still a conning tactic to direct the conversation away from the things you didn't want to address and only towards the things that would work to your favour. And there are many conning tactics that you use. I have some more to say about them in I next post.
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Haile Selassie I
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