I learned something new about fashion statements in the Kingdom and in
other parts of the world of Islam.
There are many ways of showing or not showing a woman's face. Some
women use a scarf to magnify the touch-don't touch aspect of male-female
relations. But what I didn't know is that there are two ways of
treating the eyes. The most common one in Saudi Arabia is the
hijab which covers the entire physiognomy except the two
eyes.
This, now says a Muslim cleric in the country, encourages women to use
make-up on their eyes, which provokes them to be more provocative, rather
than less.
Sheikh Mohammed al-Habadan has come out for the niqab which covers
one of the woman's two eyes. Less
lee-way, the less salacious, I suppose. But doesn't the pious
cleric realize that the rule is that the less that is shown the more that
is imagined.