ty extreme. And it gets better:
Should a Muslim who seeks martyrdom be compelled not to maintain her [head] covering in order to carry out the important thing that she has undertaken [i.e. martyrdom], she will commit no crime. One of the principles of Islam is that in time of need, some prohibitions become permitted…
It depends what you mean by need, of course. It’s almost four years since the 15 schoolgirls died in a fire in Saudi Arabia, when the Muttawa, the religious police, refused to let them out of the burning building because their heads were uncovered. Clearly that wasn’t a time of need. Now if only they’d been heading off to commit mass murder somewhere….
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