If you were a Muslim woman, would you wear a hijab?

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Just imagine you live where you do now and are from a really integrated and assimilated Muslim family and a woman.

I wouldn't obviously. But of course I would've converted to Christianity anyway...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

What kind of a question is that? If you were a Jewish man, would you eat ham? How should I know? I'm not a Jewish man or a Muslim woman. 

Well in my case I can answer yes, since one of my core principles is not caring about my "culture" or holding any reverence for my heritage and background.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Also I'll point out that I've seen pictures and videos from shows of my music in Turkey, and no women are wearing hijabs there. So it's safe to assume people with my musical taste don't ever wear it.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

I bet most gay posters would say they'd still be gay regardless of what type of family they were born into.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

OK a few points:

-As stated, I have some deeply held principles about how I don't care about my culture or heritage and just want to do things my way. That's something that would likely be consistent no matter how I was raised (also why I know I wouldn't follow Jewish rules if I was born Jewish, barely any Jews in the region here do, so why would I of all people be the exception?)
-I actually converted to my current religious affiliation, I wasn't born into it. So me converting to it from something else isn't a stretch.
-I grew up in a conservative part of North Dakota and still ended up "all liberal all the time". So I'm not a product of my environment in that sense.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

That's true yes, but also why I added the caveat of being from a very assimilated family.

Honestly I think the main reason I have such difficulty taking talk of how there's way you can know seriously is because my anecdotal personal experience has shown some things people act like are widespread rules here are nonsense. Things like that no one EVER leaves Catholicism because the cultural ties are too strong or even that it's less common than for other Christian denominations or that all ethnic Jews care a lot about the culture and practices even the secular ones. Because not only are those things not even remotely true amongst my social circles and my entire life, they are so far off I was pretty shocked to hear that anyone actually thinks that way...

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If I were a Muslim woman, I'd be too busy being absolutely beautiful to join this useless forum and answer your inane questions.

That's actually a pretty good answer. Although it also implies that you wouldn't wear one.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

If I were a Muslim woman, I'd be too busy being absolutely beautiful to join this useless forum and answer your inane questions.

That's actually a pretty good answer. Although it also implies that you wouldn't wear one.

Excuse me!? *slap*

Arab and especially Persian women usually have beautiful hair though. Obscuring that with a hijab is pretty wrong and repressive. Not that most Arab and Persian-American women do of course.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Seeing as how there's documentation of writing of the beauty of Persian women going back millenia from all cultures that interacted with Persia I'd say it's rather universally held.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

You know, I do recall years ago that Scott (on his original account) said that he's from a mixed marriage and even if he was raised Catholic he would've almost certainly converted to Protestantism later. And no one screamed at him "but that's ridiculous to say, how could you possibly know that?!" sort of things.

[I spent the winter writing songs about getting better]

Why. Was. This. Thread. Bumped.

I think a better question would be: “Why was this thread made in the first place?”

Is it really much different than the countless "If you lived in *different country* what party would you vote for threads?