I suspect that the basic reason that Muslim
women are covered up is because their men
can't control their erections.
(Just kidding).

As for skimpy clothing on western women?
It's a matter of appropriateness - common
sense, and personal taste.

What you'd wear to the beach, you hopefully
wouldn't wear to church ( unless it's a nudist
wedding), or a funeral.

And choosing a partner on outward appearance
alone would be a major blunder in anyone's
books.

We usually are attracted to someone who satisfies
our emotional appetite. People either connect
or they don't. If they do, that means they're going
to be starting to mould to one another. But the
moulding process takes time. You need time - active
time in a relationship. You need to have taken
the time to discover each other.

Skimpy Clothes and Shallow marriages?
Sounds like a B-grade movie to me.

What is really sad is when parents (mostly mothers) encourage their young girls to dress as sluts (sometimes at a very young age). Their role models seem to be the likes of Madonna and Kylie. When the girls end up on depression pills at 21 they are dumb enough to ask what went wrong.

Dear runner,

What I find even sader is your
referring to little girls as "sluts."

And you're implication that they're
"loose" by the clothes they wear.

That's shifting the blame from what
you're seeing, and blaming them for it.

The "evil" is in your eyes, and mind, - not on
their backs.

Christians and muslims share the same goals: theocracy in Australia. Here is some evidence of the goal on the Christian side. It's ironic that most of our censorship laws are based on the efforts of Christians who cite the same reasons as Islamists, albeit a little more openly as they have been forced to adapt to secular society somewhat. Christians do want to restrict current standards of fashion though (...as does feminism).

Currently Western societies as a whole are hypocritical on this, as they force women to wear clothing on their chests...and the reason? Ask a muslim and you will receive the same answer.

Foxy, spot on.

Steel, you are forgetting that many feminists don't try and impose their dress standards on others. Some do but many have been quite upfront in their opposition to imposed values.

R0bert

R0bert, those feminists are not the point. They are lone powerless voices and often extremely gullible or deceived. The ones that count are those that are organised and campaign under various pretences and NGOs, such as Hetty Johnson. The religious often front as feminists because feminists have been given a free pass by reasonably minded people for too long.