A bridal veil is the same as a burkha/hijab now? Do women in the West wear bridal veils that cover all features except their eyes too? Can you end me the picture I asked for insteadof just any picture?
Is this woman forced to wear it the entire day? Is she killed by her brothers/father if she removes it (”honor” killings)? Does she suffer from the +20 degree temperatures (compared to the surrounding temperature; variable) that build up within a full-body black burkha?
The moral equivalence between a woman who chooses to wear a scarf (for appearance and voluntarily) and a woman who is forced, at the pain of death, to wear a hijab is disgusting. The former indicates that women are free to wear what they choose; the latter indicates oppression and a denial of basic freedoms.
If you want to continue making these specious moral equivalence arguments, be my guest.
Honor killings occur in Sicily and none of those guys are Moslems. Besides, that was a cultural value around long before Islam anyway.
My wife always plans for the bride to "change clothes" quickly after the ceremony so that she's not worn out for the rest of the day. If you hadn't noticed almost all bridal gowns are neck to floor, hot, stuffy, body de-enhancing, etc. (except where the bride tries to pretend she has "enormous American breasts".)
BTW, we attended a betrothment for a friend's daughter (they're Shia). She had several girls she went to highschool with her. They all wore these really elaborate and quite fancy Afghan wedding dresses. Bright colors, etc. AND ALL WITH VEILS.
They have several shops in the area that rent them (and with 25,000 Afghans we definitely have some weddings going on).
The biggest difference between the Afghan gowns for the bride and her party was that there were no "bare shoulders", "bare backs" or "bare arms". Almost like an Orthodox Jewish wedding ~ except this was just a betrothment, and that takes the place of the "show up in costume part".
No, none of these girls grew up on a steady diet of burqas, but they definitely went "large" with the gowns which are as heavy and stuffy as anything found in Christian services.