Open to interpretation

Busy doing what I'm paid to do, so only have to time to post a few verses from the Quran and the Bible that a friend compiled:

There are two verses in the Koran that are used to justify the veil:

Sura An-Nur (The light): "And tell the believing women to lower their gazes and be modest, and to display of their adornments only that which is apparent, and to draw their veils over their bosoms."(24:31)

Sura Al-Ahzab (The confederates): "O; Prophet! Tell thy wives and thy daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks close round them (when they go outside). That will be better, that so they may be recognized and not molested". (33:59).

For the strict constructionist, there is much controversy on the word "veil" and "cloaks" and whether it was properly interpreted, and of course there is the liberal interpretation which says that the idea was modesty - and that this is not a command that you have to wear veils, but instead is command that you should dress modestly.

The veil was also standard in Christianity, especially in the Orthodoxed church, and to this day nuns still wear head coverings. The source of this is the Bible - 1 Corinthians Chap 11:
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Now I want you to realize that the head of every man is Christ, and the head of the woman is man, and the head of Christ is God.
4 Every man who prays or prophesies with his head covered dishonors his head.
5 And every woman who prays or prophesies with her head uncovered dishonors her head—it is just as though her head were shaved.
6 If a woman does not cover her head, she should have her hair cut off; and if it is a disgrace for a woman to have her hair cut or shaved off, she should cover her head.
7 A man ought not to cover his head,since he is the image and glory of God; but the woman is the glory of man.
8 For man did not come from woman, but woman from man;
9 neither was man created for woman, but woman for man.
10For this reason, and because of the angels, the woman ought to have a sign of authority on her head.

11 In the Lord, however, woman is not independent of man, nor is man independent of woman.
12 For as woman came from man, so also man is born of woman. But everything comes from God.
13 Judge for yourselves: Is it proper for a woman to pray to God with her head uncovered?
14 Does not the very nature of things teach you that if a man has long hair, it is a disgrace to him,
15 but that if a woman has long hair, it is her glory? For long hair is given to her as a covering.
16 If anyone wants to be contentious about this, we have no other practice—nor do the churches of God.

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