Muslim Women, Vitamin D and Osteomalacia
In the global debate regarding the dress codes for Muslim women, one important factor is often overlooked: The fact that depriving a human being from live-giving sunlight and air represents physical torture. Indeed, this form of torture has been used for centuries in prisons.
It has long been known that the average human being requires a certain amount of sunshine on a daily basis in order to be healthy. Under the right circumstances sunlight creates vitamin D in the oils on the skin, which is then absorbed into the bloodstream and helps generate health throughout the entire body, largely serving to assist calcium in bone formation.
It has also been understood for many years that purdah--the custom of sequestering women from men, forcing them to remain indoors and to cover up the bulk of their skin--creates a serious disease called osteomalacia or "bad bones." Writing decades ago, famed nutritionist Adele Davis stated:
"Osteomalacia. This disease--its name literally means bad bones--results primarily from a severe vitamin-D deficiency. Arabian and Indian women who keep themselves heavily veiled frequently develop such painful backs that they can scarcely rise; and they suffer multiple spontaneous fractures and have extremely rarefied bones, all of which clears up dramatically when vitamin D is given them." (Davis, Let's Get Well, p. 256.)In her classic work Let's Eat Right to Keep Fit (140), Davis also states:
"Sir Robert McCarrison, the great English physician, wrote of osteomalacia in India among the Mohammedan women observing the custom of purdah. These women veil their faces at adolescence and rarely go outside their homes."In this same regard, in Deficient Sunlight in the Aetiology of Osteomalacia in Muslim Women, Dr. OP Kapoor states:
"...in most of the Sunni Muslim women (who form majority of the Muslims), in spite of high intake of calcium, osteomalacia is often seen. There are two reasons for this:
"1. Use of burkha which prevents sunlight reaching the skin.
"2. Living indoors - most of the Muslim women specially those staying in the Muslim localities, do not move out of the house and thus are not exposed to the sun and often develop osteomalacia."
As we now know, vitamin D is necessary for a variety of other metabolic processes in a healthy individual. Moreover, sunlight has other positive effects besides vitamin-D production. For one, it is necessary for the production of the hormone melatonin through the eyes. Thus, Muslim women who wear the full burkha* are deprived of this health-bestowing chemical as well, which is necessary for proper sleep and, consequently, mental health. Also, merely taking vitamin D or melatonin supplements would not make up for other potential health benefits associated with adequate exposure to sunlight, and supplements are not the best choice for optimal health in any event.
In addition to developing bone and other problems from a lack of vitamin D and melatonin, covered women are deprived of fresh air on their skin, which is the body's largest organ. Hence, the skin is not given the opportunity to breathe adequately. Furthermore, the color of choice in covering up women because of "religious" purposes is often black and sometimes blue, undoubtedly creating much sweltering and heat stroke in the very hot regions in which this clothing is traditionally worn.
While the emotional, mental and spiritual problems with forcing a woman to veil herself may be increasingly clear, the grossly under-explored factor in the burkha/niqab debate is the toll on women's physical health. The bottom line is that veiling women and depriving them of life-giving sunlight and air represents physical torture - especially in heat-absorbing dark colors - on a mass scale. How many women are suffering horrendous health problems, exacerbated by being forced to give birth repeatedly, because of this oppressive custom? In the veiling of women, then, we are looking at a serious and appalling health crisis affecting millions worldwide.
* There are many forms of oppressive dress for women within the Islamic world, compelling us to learn these terms: burqa/burkha/burka niqab chador sitar hijab abaya jilbab So obsessive is this women-oppression that there are reputedly over 100 terms for bagging females.See also:
Women in hijabs 'need sunlight or risk illness' Women's Rights in Islam
Excellent article. Allah and
Excellent article. Allah and his consultant Umar Ibn Al-Khattab(at whose insistence the veiling verse was revealed) did not know these scientific and medical facts.At least, may this article open the eyes of muslims.
This author Acharia is yet
This author Acharia is yet another lying infidel bought and paid for by those Jooos. How dare he spread such lies about our noble and liberating burkas. If it was really true our Prophet (PBUH) and Allah (SWT) would have warned us Muslims about it in the Glorious Hadiths and Noble Quran. Did they not warn us about those Jooos and X-tians? If it is not in the Quran, that depository of all true knowledge in the world, then it is all lies.
For your information, invigorating and delicious camel urine mixed with some black cumin and washed down with holy zam-zam water, will cure all disease. Our wise Prophet (PBUH) told us so, so who are you to say different?
Did not our Blessed Prophet (PBUH) who loved peace and hated war and would not even hurt a fly, tell us that if a fly fell into our goat soup we should dip its other wing back again into the soup as the disease was in one wing and the cure was in the other wing? This is so easy to understand, so why do you cursed infidels laugh at him, if not sheer jealousy? You can keep your infidel medicine. You are just jealous of us Muslims who are the healthiest people in the world.
Another good thing about the burka is that it keeps our pious and gorgeous Muslim women safe from you cursed infidels who want them to walk around shamelessly naked just like all your ugly infidel women.
Allahu-Akbar!
1. Veda Says: "Allah and his
1. Veda Says:
"Allah and his consultant Umar Ibn Al-Khattab(at whose insistence the veiling verse was revealed) did not know these scientific and medical facts."
If Allâh is ignorant of even one simple fact then he cannot be omniscient? It would seem that this one deficit disqualifies Allâh as God, or as any other reliable authority.
Muslims...Please use your human brains...examine what Allâh is purported to say by Muhammed. See the inconsistencies and contradictions. Decide for yourself if you want to follow a god or prophet who can't keep his story straight.
I wonder what other problems
I wonder what other problems occur when a pregnant woman deprives its fetus of vitamin D. Does it effect the pregnancy?
It is clear that Osteomalacia
It is clear that Osteomalacia is a disease sent by Satan to force Muslimah's to leave the house and discard the burka in order to make us like the infidel whores that go around with their arms, head, and legs exposed to the perverted infidel men.
Fascinating article. I have
Fascinating article. I have never considered this before. Bizarre and tragic.
Islam is such a perverted religion. Were it not for fear and social pressure it is probably fair to say that very few women would choose to be Muslim. Some women may claim that they respect Muhammad and 'love Allah' and would remain Muslim. Obviously these women have been tricked by the clever lies of the fake prophet of Islam with its fictitious, cruel God. It could be argued that educated Muslim women who by now must know the truth about the lie of Muhammads Islam are betraying their fellow women by continueing to support this terribly harmful fraud.
I've read about this in
I've read about this in several books by female journalists in Afghanistan, Iran, and the autobiography by Ms. bin Ladin a few years ago about her time in Saudi. All say that this is widespread.
Last year someone posted here a news item about Rickets in England (the child version), and that it is making a comeback in Muslims. Children are born with it, and have bowed legs for their whole lives.
I found many medical articles about this too. Some of the databases you can search online and read the abstract or a brief summary. I sent one of these full articles to a prof. at my previous uni. and she said it was all lies, and the women could get the Vit. D through pills and food - which we know is not the way we get it in reality. This prof. also said the author was a "racist" for publishing such blasphemy. Whatever. Postmodernist claptraps will continue to have their heads in the sand.
That's what you got from
That's what you got from following 7th century barbarian who knew nothing but sex, conquering, controlling, etc.
Wait! Ask our great Dr Zakir
Wait! Ask our great Dr Zakir Naik; I am sure he will come up with appropriate verse in Quran that reveals 'science' about burqa.
Are you F=@#ing serious about
Are you F=@#ing serious about this article!
Man, you people have no limits. The title of the article is so funny that I nearly lost control of my bladder.
Now, where in Islam does it say that women should not expose themselves to sunlight. It may come as a surprise to bigoted, self righteous fascists like yourselves but Muslim women CAN expose themselves to the ELEMENTS they are just restricted from exposing themselves to non-related MEN. That even means they can sunbathe my lovelies. Yes, as long as they are in the company of other women, children or their husbands etc etc.
Next time you post a similar article please warn me so that I can visit the toilet before I read it!
#10 kabirlaw , F=@#ing AH,
#10 kabirlaw , F=@#ing AH, Where will poor Mulslima go and take sun bath, (apartment's roof top ?) In India & Pakistan most of them are staying in a hut or single bed room ? when they come out , they come in burka, so no chance of getting a sun light, what you are talking about is for rich Muslims( .00001% of total Muslim population) ( Tell me is there any place in India these muslimas go and take sun bath. - :) - I want to go there. )
Inbreeding is shrinking their
Inbreeding is shrinking their brains and providing them with genetic diseases, the burkha is providing them with deficiency in Vit D.
Islam hurts their ability to think in a critical manner. As soon as you mention the word Mo/Allah.. all critical thinking goes down the flush.
Islam is the curse to humanity, muslims constantly wish to convert or kill the non muslims with force/terrorism.
To ARP I could just about
To ARP
I could just about make out what you wrote. So please don't give up the English grammar classes.
You have not answered my question. Where in Islam does it say that women should not be exposed to sunlight? Give me any hadith, quranic verse, anything!
I am sure if you really want to, you can find a place to expose yourself to the elements (sunbathe or swim). But please don't you do it because you might get arrested for scaring the locals!
To a comment You have not
To a comment
You have not answered the question but simply gone on a rant, as usual.
Kabirlaw: You have not
Kabirlaw:
You have not answered my question. Where in Islam does it say that women should not be exposed to sunlight? Give me any hadith, quranic verse, anything!
I say:
We are not saying that Islam forbids sunlight exposure to women, we are merely stating because of the burka, women are not getting much needed vitamins from the sun because sunlight cannot reach their skin when they are covered head to toe.
To Marie. How silly is this
To Marie.
How silly is this article? Come on, give me a break. There is nothin stopping Muslim women getting a bit of sunlight exposure in private. Nothin.
Kabirlaw: To Marie. How
Kabirlaw:
To Marie.
How silly is this article? Come on, give me a break. There is nothin stopping Muslim women getting a bit of sunlight exposure in private. Nothin.
Then why aren't they getting sunlight exposure in private? Why the hell do they have to get sunlight exposure in private when they can go out any time and get sunlight? This is so stupid.
And as for your comment about women restricting themselves from non-related men, why the hell do they have to restrict themselves from non-related men? Do they think something will happen to them if they let non-related men see their arms, head, and neck? Dude there are indigenous women in countries such as Africa and exc. who are in the nude and nothing ever happens to them.
Marie, Relax...Kabirlaw is
Marie,
Relax...Kabirlaw is just an AllâhTroll...or else he can't put one sequential thought in front of another to arrive at a valid conclusion.
Ignore him...he's just trying to get your goat...and on that subject, he's an expert g**t-f**ker.
You are quite correct in pointing out that women in many other non-Islamic societies have no problem with baring substantial portions of their bodies and encountering nothing but pleasant smiles from appreciative males old and young. It's only in Islam that the man is considered such a beast that women must cover themselves from head-to-toe to protect themselves from sexual assault.
This is due in large part to the rigid segregation of sexes after females attain puberty and to the intense indoctrination of males with violent sexual fantasies (and blameless responsibilites) in order to prepare them for the life of the devout Mujahideen, raping, pillaging, stealing, enslaving, and killing his way through life to attain the perfection of Muhammed's example and evade a fate as Allâh's plaything in Hell!
It should came as no surprise that most Moslim women have run a gauntlet of sexual molestation and rape by uncles, brothers, cousins, and even fathers...frequently before puberty.
It also should not surprise you that Moslim women are extremely fearful of strange men...after all if family members act like beasts to a female relative...then should one expect a stranger to act with more consideration?
To Jockaira Your comments at
To Jockaira
Your comments at No.18 are on record. I am not even gonna bother commenting on the incestuous crap you pulled out off the cuff.
But, shockingly, I see that you have no issues with your sister, wife, mother, daughter, niece baring flesh of their bodies and for "men to pleasantly smile at them in appreciation" (Your words) and pay attention to them just because of the flesh they bare not because of the human minds they have.
If you think thats liberation, freedom and respect then you go ahead and enjoy it. I, on the other hand respect the females of my family and would not tolerate any male stranger staring at them in the manner that you described because they ought to be appreciated for the human beings that they are not anything else.
You are a shameless person with no principles and what you said would be challenged by many feminists in the West also who will, in all probability, not be Muslims themselves.
Are you seriously saying that if a male stranger smiled at your sister because of her body and said "nice legs", or even something more sexual you would be OK with that?
You are one sick person.
To Marie You are the biggest
To Marie
You are the biggest hypocrite on this whole site. But just to refresh your memory, Muslim women wear identical/similar clothing to christian nuns. Have you ever seen a nun in public with flowing hair? I think not.
Remove the mud from your own face before you call others dirty!
Kabirlaw: To Marie You are
Kabirlaw:
To Marie
You are the biggest hypocrite on this whole site. But just to refresh your memory, Muslim women wear identical/similar clothing to christian nuns. Have you ever seen a nun in public with flowing hair? I think not.
Remove the mud from your own face before you call others dirty!
I say:
I am not Catholic and yes I have seen a nun without a head covering. Each order has their own guidelines on what to wear and their are nuns who wear street clothes.
I was not calling anyone dirty.
Let ask you this question
Let ask you this question Kabirlaw:
Do you believe a women who does not wear the Islamic female covering or Burka deserves to be raped?
Kabirlaw, hey mate see this
Kabirlaw, hey mate see this video in which muslimahs are trying hard to eat noodles that too with their burqa on. I feel sorry for them mate!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2kDA9amOfrk
Kabir law, here is another
Kabir law, here is another hilarious video wherein Allah caused the fall of his devotees. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRqO-N-H9MI
# 22 don't bother to ask this
# 22 don't bother to ask this big mouth. Of course he believed that, he's a muslim. This big mouth don't know the difference between a nun and muslimah. Stop behave like a smart ass.
I support u dear Marie, Just
I support u dear Marie,
Just because a lady wears less clothes does not give anybody rights to sexually attack them..and there is no guarantee that burkha protects a lady from rape...in islamic countries women frequently are raped both in house and outside.... but the case are not reported or victim does not get justice as mozzie men ask for 4 males to give evidence...burkha just gives a false sense of protection...do u think a man who wants to rape a woman deterred by a silly burkha?
mozzie ladies must fight for their rights otherwise they have to lead a pig's life.....
# 26 That is why muslimahs
# 26 That is why muslimahs are advised to travel with 4 male companions. If anybody rape them then these people can testify in shariat court against the rapist unless, of course, those 4 too want to join the rapist! because as soon as the veil is removed and flesh revealed, muslims cannot control their sex urge; the actions of their holy prophet comes to their mind and they are forced to emulate him. I, a former kafir, after uttering the shahada, know it....understand the 'divinity' involved in raping and killing! Lo, Allah is Akbar!!!
To Marie No: 22 You said
To Marie No: 22
You said each order of nuns has its own guidelines. So you accept that certain nuns dress just like the Muslim women. So, tell me, aren't they losing exposure to the sun, don't they suffer from Vitamin D deficiency and the rest of it? You see, this article is the stupid one (plain and simple) and not the nuns who dress modestly. You ought to know better as a Christian but I suspect your hypocritical traits to demonise Islam at ALL costs gets the better of you.
If Islam says that a woman who does not wear a burka should be raped then I'll leave Islam. Now, tell me where Islam says that?
To: Wagamama No: 23 and 24
Hilarious. Good ones. Especially the one where the praying Muslims fall down. Humans, forever entertaining aren't they? Now, tell me what your point is.
@28 for Kabirlaw
@28 for Kabirlaw
Kabir, imagine your wife eating noodle in a strict islamic country in the middle east. Mate, she is trying so hard to put the noodle in her mouth, and hey in the mean time you have already finished your meal. How would you feel? You fancy a sense of achievement. You might say I wouldn't ask my wife to wear burqa. OK mate, can you say the same in front of Islamic moral police in Saudi or Iraq or elsewhere?
Video in comment 24: If you see the final moments of the video you will realise that Muslims fall just like a pack of cards. Islam will fall like that in the near future.
I have great respect for your name :) Heard of Saint Kabir?
@29 Oh mulla kahe bang deta,
@29
Oh mulla kahe bang deta, kya tera allah behra? (Sant Kabir)
Oh mullah, why are you giving adhan (loudly), is your allah deaf? (Saint Kabir)
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Its off topic, sorry but could not resist myself
To Wagamama. Don't get
To Wagamama.
Don't get overexcited on the noodle video. In Islam it is not necessary for a woman to cover her face. Those that do it, choose to do it. I,ve been to Saudi Arabia and not all women are veiled. Actually the majority were not veiled.
As for the other video, you shouldn't believe everything you read, hear or see. If you watch the video carefully, you will note that there is a suspicion that the video was a set up. Firstly, the guys fell down like dominos when the first individual actually stumbled forwards not sideways. Moreover, the prayer was a congregational prayer yet there was one person sitting and not joining the congregation. Still funny though, but try not to be a complete sucker, eh!
You should respect the person and not a mere name. Call a rose by any other name and it will still smell as sweet (Shakespeare)!
To Wagamama You say Islam
To Wagamama
You say Islam will fall like that in the near future.
I say:
If your still here and i'm still here, we'll see. But don't hold your breath.
to a_comment Adhan is kinda
to a_comment
Adhan is kinda like intended to call the Muslims dude, not Allah.
Sorry to burst your bubble.
Kabirlaw is right. As long as
Kabirlaw is right. As long as young muslim children are brainwashed thoroughly and continuously through madrassas, it is impossible to beat Islam. It is extremely difficult, if not impossible, to unlearn with later secular education, what they learned in childhood.
@33 Kabirlaw, those are not
@33
Kabirlaw, those are not my words by Saint Kabir, just to prove to you muslims that he was not a Sufi/muslim in any sense, no sufi/muslim would utter such a thing.
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Saach kahu toh maare hai yeh turkani zoor. (Sant Kabir)
If I tell the truth these turkish (muslims) will try to kill me (Saint Kabir)
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another sad story, very
another sad story, very unfortunate for my auntys alot of them wear that stupid black fing and always at home, as a matter of fact my fathers sister is-law HAS this problem, she is seing a homopathic doctor because she claims she has "aching bones!" and am not joking this is serious and she wears this stupid black jubah and niqaab. So sad to see these beautiful women make them selves look ugly :(
Kalaan what you have said
Kalaan what you have said says alot about you and muslims!! You said as soon as the veil is removed the "muslim" cannot control hes sexual desires and has to have sex/rape her. It just shows how perverted and desprate you muslims are. Like prophet like followers haha. That is the reason why in the europian countries lots of muslim immigrants are raping innocent europian women.
The most important question
The most important question is: wether this veil or burqa or whatever, is obligatory? What happened if a muslimah chose not to wear them? This will make everything clear, as clear as muhammad's thigh.
"as soon as the veil is removed the “muslim” cannot control his sexual desires and has to have sex/rape her."
Hmmm, that is make sense. Judging from the character of people in 7th century, they were all beastlike human (including their prophet).
hmmmmm
hmmmmm
O You ... the Fighters of the
O You ... the Fighters of the war of the Morons.... No one can help you if you don't want to help your selves ... you wont see or feel a thing neither will you hear and their is nothing that could make you understand the truth if you don't want to understand yourself. Do not talk rubbish about other religions or there are thousands things that could be said about yours too. I don't even want to know about your religion or its practices.
As per the subject of this Blog, Muslims women are only ordered to keep their adornment off the eyes of the stranger. as for the questions of why............ just ask yourself what did come into your mind when you last saw the most beautiful women you had ever seen in your life.
if there is something wrong in doing this , let this wrong be done everywhere. Now the way you fools have been discussing something as sensitive an issue as this, let me give you some food for your thought you hate Muslims for any reason and they will also hate you for some other reason ,,,,, you try to understand , respect and love them and they might also try to respect, love and understand you.
let me also assure you that you are not gonna like it when someone hates you especially in these times if you are being hated in Muslims. And do not assume the even if some of the fools among the Muslims have taken to mindless merciless killings of the so called infidels, you have the right to abuse the whole of the community in one way or another or criticize its practices (about whom you clearly have no idea but your assumptions) without actually knowing or trying to know the advantage and disadvantages of these practices. (certainly lack of vitamin D is not one of them )
actually i cant understand why some people are so keen to see all these burqa clad womens without their burqas when these women themselves wear them by choice, also please keep in mind that not all muslim women practice hi jab even in countries like India. some do it some don't those who do it do it by their own choice (i don't deny their might be exceptions where the girl does want to wear it but does so because she is afraid of her parents or other family members ) but the truth is not all Muslim women wear hi jab and their is nothing that could force the hijab on them if she choose not to wear it,
Anyways ... coming back to the main topic and the topic itself as far as i know Muslim women specially from those countries where hi jab is practiced are the most beautiful womens in the world and much more healthy then in your own country dude
you think knowing all about
you think knowing all about islam is in this website??
this website knows nothing about islam
islam is great you just people are missing alot
and by the way islam people hate terrorists and that is a big fact
but you just dont know that because you got the wrong idea about islam
don't speak about something you dont know..
AND ALL I KNOW THAT WE ARE RIGHT!!!
"you think knowing all about
"you think knowing all about islam is in this website??"
Not only in this website, but also in reality (which you don't even dare to look)
"this website knows nothing about islam"
This website was created by ex muslim from muslim world.
"islam is great you just people are missing alot"
It is muslim who miss a lot (frozen world)
"and by the way islam people hate terrorists and that is a big fact"
Not to big after all. Terrorists are rampage and all of them use quran as guidence. Your prophet used terror too, remember that.
"don’t speak about something you dont know.."
Same thing to you.
"AND ALL I KNOW THAT WE ARE RIGHT!!!"
The word "know" here is nothing more than your selfish assumption and suggestion.
"but you just dont know that because you got the wrong idea about islam"
Most people here SEE (reality) islam not READ (theory) islam.