For example, in Kazakhstan we have a lot of women who believe in

God but they do not wear a hijab or something like that to show that they believe. Therefore, I

think that women should obey the rules which are written in Kuran but not to show that they

believe in God and wear hijab or if your work somewhere also you should follow their rules and

wear what they require you.

But before we talk about hijab, it has to be made clear first that Muslim women in the Muslim world today do not receive the noble treatment described by Islam! (This is a shocking statement, someone might say. I mean you don't expect a person to defend some Islamic symbol, yet criticize his Muslim society. But one has to be fair!).

Anyway, the vast differences among Muslim societies make most generalizations too simplistic. There is a wide spectrum of attitudes towards women in the Muslim world today. These attitudes differ from one society to another and within each individual society. Nevertheless, certain general trends are discernible. Almost all Muslim societies have, to one degree or another, deviated from the ideals of Islam with respect to the status of women. These deviations have, for the most part, been in one of two opposite directions. The first direction is more conservative, restrictive, and traditions-oriented, while the second is more liberal and Western-oriented.