The headscarf
Reply #1 - March 25, 2014, 08:07 AM
Wearing the scarf, covering your body, hiding your face behind a niqab; all this causes serious health problems for women. The most obvious one is the vitamin D deficiency that is caused by not allowing our skin to absorb the vitamin D from the sun (which is our main source). Then we have different kinds of eczema that is caused by lack of sun. We have the fact that obesity and other related health problems are caused because the Muslim covering inhibits its wearers to have an active lifestyle, not to mention that the lifestyle in general for a "pious" Muslim lady is extremely unnatural and unhealthy.
When I started wearing the hijab, I noticed that my hairline "moved up", it's because the scarf was constantly scarping and chafing at the hair and hairline, I had a lot of hair loss because of this. My hair has gotten much thinner (I had thin hair to begin with, so it just made it much worse). Just not wearing my hijab and niqab for three months, and being able to regularly go to the gym for almost a month, my health and looks have improved massively. I'm not talking about getting thinner or fitter, I'm talking about things like my skin slowly getting its shine back, and the general impression you see when looking at me isn't a pale sick looking person anymore. Seven years of sun deprivation takes its toll on a person. I've read other posts here by ex-Muslim women who have said the same thing, there is a significant change in your health and well-being after taking off the scarf. To me, this is just one more thing to add to the arguments against Islam as a "superior" and "natural" way of life. The Muslim way of life, if practiced, is extremely unnatural and causes a lot of problems for its adherents.
But this is something still very taboo to talk about, especially the vitamin D discussion. Here in Sweden for example, where we have very little sun to begin with during long period of the year, it becomes even more incumbent for dark skinned people to take vitamin D supplements. Autism, which has partly been linked to vitamin D deficiency according to recsent studies, has been named "the Swedish sickness" (statistically, even if we assume that autism is better and in to greater extent diagnosed in Sweden, Somalis are over-represented as a group) by the Swedish Somali community. I think that the fact that women are covering, while being dark skinned and in need for greater dosages of Vitamin D from the get-go, is at least one factor contributing to this.
"The healthiest people I know are those who are the first to label themselves fucked up." - three
Topic: The headscarf