Neckties deemed "Un-Islamic"
I really hate wearing neckties - I hate it even more if other people are wearing neckties with "comedy cartoon characters" on them.
You know who you are and you should be adult enough to know it ISN'T funny.
Seriously - if I have to attend one more meeting where someone is wearing a "Daffy Duck" or "Taz" necktie - I think I might just go bananas.
But disliking neckties does not excuse the kind of extreme beliefs about neckties we find here.
Q1370: What is the view on wearing a necktie?
A: Generally speaking, it is not permissible to wear a tie, or other kinds of clothes that are considered as the attire of non-Muslims, in such a way that their wearing will promote vile Western culture. The ruling is not confined to people of the Islamic Republic.
So there you have it - the wearing of a necktie is a promotion of "vile Western culture".
I would like to agree - but strangely I cant find a single reference in the Koran that suggests that neckties might be forbidden.
Maybe it is because the modern necktie was not invented at the time the Koran was written.
Perhaps the Prophet Mohammed had NO IDEA about neckties in the future - and so he didn't bother to include neckties on the list of allowed and forbidden things.
Strangely enough I can't recall any quotes from the Bible about neckties either ... so I can't figure out why neckties figure so highly on the Islamic agenda.
When a third world culture faces genuine problems such as female illiteracy, problems with medical care, high child mortality rates, while also having problems supplying adequate water and sewage to ordinary people - then you'd think that it might be more important to fix the problems rather than worry about whether people were wearing a necktie or not.
Maybe I am being unduly "Islamaphobic" - but when someone accuses a common piece of clothing of being a "vile promotion of western culture" - and when I can't find anything in the Koran to support their assertions - I start to wonder:
Why would they say that?
What is the real agenda here?
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