Mornin Frens, Happy Saturday, wake and bake, lets roll.
Just did a quick search on "what is the purpose if the hijab in islam"
Essentially to identify yourself as a chaste Muslim in public, and to differentiate yourselves from the slave class.
"they should draw their khimār over their bosoms and not display their beauty except to their husband, their fathers, their husband's fathers, their sons, their husbands' sons, their brothers or their brothers' sons, or their sisters' sons, or their women, or the slaves whom their right hands possess, or male servants free of physical needs, or small children who have no sense of the shame of sex; and that they should not strike their feet in order to draw attention to their hidden ornaments.(Surah An Noor 31)"
Taken from a post from a Muslim women, asking for clarification from other Muslims on Hijab vs Burqa:
https://islam.stackexchange.com/questions/28477/what-is-the-real-purpose-of-hijab
Right, the link I posted is an Islamic sub-board. Browsing the different topics shows the circuitous logic of zealots.
One post asked about the quran's prescription for killing Muslims that renounce the faith.
A response used the argument, that Muslims don't need to justify the logic of the Islamic law in this case, because the torah has similar laws about decimating non-believers- therefore logical justification is not necessary because…
Correct.