Veiled Sexuality

No indeed, on that Day they shall be veiled from their Lord.

No indeed, on that Day they shall be veiled from their Lord.

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish

Even if our Good News is veiled, it is veiled in those who perish

Morocco s Veiled Feminists

Veiled in darkness,

Veiled in darkness,

No indeed but upon that day they shall be veiled from their Lord,

No indeed but upon that day they shall be veiled from their Lord,

Verily, from (the Light of) their Lord, that Day, will they be veiled.

Verily, from (the Light of) their Lord, that Day, will they be veiled.

and veiled with darkness.

and veiled with darkness.

Nay! Surely, they (evil doers) will be veiled from seeing their Lord that Day.

Nay! Surely, they (evil doers) will be veiled from seeing their Lord that Day.

Whose eyes were veiled against My warning, and they could not hear.

Whose eyes were veiled against My warning, and they could not hear.

So the puzzle is, why are bribes, polite requests, solicitations and threats so often veiled?

God has sealed their hearts and ears, and veiled their eyes. For them is great deprivation.

God has sealed their hearts and ears, and veiled their eyes. For them is great deprivation.

God has sealed their hearts and hearing and their vision is veiled a great punishment awaits them.

whose eyes had been veiled against Our Quran and who were not able to hear (its recitation).

God has sealed their hearts and hearing and their vision is veiled a great punishment awaits them.

whose eyes had been veiled against Our Quran and who were not able to hear (its recitation).

They say, 'Our hearts are veiled from what thou callest us to, and in our ears is a heaviness, and between us and thee there is a veil so act we are acting!'

They say, 'Our hearts are veiled from what thou callest us to, and in our ears is a heaviness, and between us and thee there is a veil so act we are acting!'

In Yemen, most women are veiled and they are sitting behind doors and not very much part of the public life.

NA As you know, the image of a lot of Yemeni women is a lot of black and covered, veiled women.

They say 'Our hearts are veiled from that to which you call us, and in our ears there is heaviness. And between us and you is a veil. So work (as you will) and we are working'

They say 'Our hearts are veiled from that to which you call us, and in our ears there is heaviness. And between us and you is a veil. So work (as you will) and we are working'

Let me give you an example in Turkey where I come from, which is a very hyper secular republic, until very recently we used to have what I call secularism police, which would guard the universities against veiled students.

And he says, I was just thinking that maybe we could take care of it here in Fargo, which everyone, including the audience, interprets as a veiled bribe.

And in a more subtle way, I think, this works for all of the veiled speech acts involving plausible deniability the bribes, threats, propositions, solicitations and so on.

So, while Russia s modernization and democratization are in Europe s interest, its return to an imperial foreign policy and barely veiled authoritarianism at home is not. Most Russians look westward.

Liberal Moroccan feminists understand this use of the veil by many Moroccan women, and they have encouraged a dialogue with veiled activists from the Islamist camp. The signs of cooperation have been clear increasing use of Arabic, rather than French, discussions that incorporate real knowledge of Islamic scripture, and recognition that Islam remains distinct from traditional practices.

On the other hand, with indirect language, if you issue a veiled bribe, then the dishonest officer could interpret it as a bribe, in which case you get the payoff of going free.

And likewise, if someone says, Nice store you've got there. It would be a real shame if something happened to it we understand that as a veiled threat, rather than a musing of hypothetical possibilities.

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover

Tell me, you whom my soul loves, where you graze your flock, where you rest them at noon For why should I be as one who is veiled beside the flocks of your companions? Lover

And so along with changing who worked there, you must have come up against another positioning that we always run into, in particular with women, and it has to do with outside image, dress, the veiled woman.

His operation in Syria is partly designed to divert attention from his dismemberment of Ukraine. And his thinly veiled threats against the Baltic states, Poland, Finland, and now Turkey whose airspace and relations with NATO have been probed by Russian aircraft reveal a strategy of aggression that has as its chief goal the weakening of Europe.

Those who do evil deeds, the recompense of an evil deed is its like, and humiliation shall spread over them and there will be none to protect them from Allah. Darkness will cover their faces as though they were veiled with the dark blackness of night. These are the people of the Fire and in it they shall abide.

Those who do evil deeds, the recompense of an evil deed is its like, and humiliation shall spread over them and there will be none to protect them from Allah. Darkness will cover their faces as though they were veiled with the dark blackness of night. These are the people of the Fire and in it they shall abide.

But are we in the West radically misinterpreting Muslim sexual mores, particularly the meaning to many Muslim women of being veiled or wearing the chador ? And are we blind to our own markers of the oppression and control of women?