Soooo.. they seemed more hindu?

Well... It goes to show that culture plays a more important role when it comes to what people choose to wear and how they behave. It all goes down to the lifestyle and culture of the place they are living. In more modern cities muslim women dont actually need to wear headscarves and may choose to dress as they please, and I am sure this is the same reason why the women in this film dress 'flashy'.

What im saying is that not all muslims in all countries have to dress a certain way even though its part of their (muslim) law. I guess that in the middle east its different as they have to dress according to state laws or else get penalised.

Ive lived in Singapore and Jakarta and I say most of the muslim girls there dress more flashy than the non-muslims...

Hope that answers your question?

My word, you really don't know anything about Muslims, don't you? Alright sonny, first off, only one-third of Muslims live in the Middle East. Even they don't tend to all be religious at all - the media attends to cover mostly the ultra-religious Wahhabis sect who are the current rulers of Saudi Arabia - incidentally, many Muslims who are not religious or who are historically aware tend to view the ultra-religious Saudis with suspicion - mostly as they are puppets put in by the British to keep the Arabs in line using religion as a tool to keep them stupid and to lead hem like sheep - in fact a lot of the people who dislike westerners in the Muslim world tend to be anti-religious leftists who favor a socialist style of governing. Mahatir Mohammed of Malaysia for example, is a modernist who is a very staunch critic of the west - he only cozys up to the religious parties for political support in parliament, that's all.

A lot of the non-Arab Muslim states have retained their old pre-Islamic customs - for example, in India and Bangladesh, women dress up in flashy sarees like the ones seen in this movie Touch of Pink for cultural purposes - it's interesting that the OP says that they dress up like Hindus as the only purely Hindu country in the world which is Nepal (NOT India!) most women dress up not in sarees but in salwar khameez dresses like those worn in Pakistan, mainly because of the weather and cultural norms!

In countries like Island nations like Thailand and Indonesia, women love to dress up in flashy colorful outfits to show off their financial status and fashion style - incidentally in India, where live, most of the movie stars are Muslim and everyone seems to have forgotten their shirts or wear skirts so tiny they are suitable only for six year olds - it's like watching a Whitesnake heavy metal music video circa 1987, only with a bunch of South American Ricky Martin lookalikes dancing in it! Heavens above, they'll catch their death of cold if they're not careful!
Bottom line is, people are NOT homogenous, different places have different customs, that's all.
Hope that's cleared it up for you.....

lol middle east. they werent speaking arabic it was urdu or hindi they were from Pakistan or India.

Tell your dad to go down town Dubai and let me know if Muslim women don't dress flashy there. I know Persians that learn French just because it sounds good. I think your dad must be miss informed or been mainly staying in very rural areas in the Middle East.

it has got to do with the place they're coming from (originally), because culture is way way more important than religion in determining one's lifestyle; in my opinion, rightly so.

I'm assuming you're genuingly ignorant about Muslims
Only 20% of Muslims in the world are Arabs; many Arabs are Christian and there are a lot of Jewish ones in Israel. Muslims span a lot of different nationalities, ethnic groups and is interpreted differently, like any other religion. Each culture has their own way of dress, food, language etc, yet all Muslims are somehow connected by religion and religious doctrine, since Islam is a very strict way of life. Islam doesn't nessesarily obliterates culture, rather cultures adapted to Islam, so different ethnicites and nationalities converted to islam while keeping a lot of their culture.
Brown Muslims, like those from the Paki/Indian/Bengali world has a very long long history; there are those who dress from full burqua and long beard to those who dress western. You can't just generalize a group of people.
Most of the world's muslims are sunnis, and most brown muslims are sunnis, but in the show the 'muslims' highlighted are from a offshoot sect called the Ismalis, which most orthodox mainstream muslims consider non muslim. This sect is a small minority that was appearent in the Indo-African community when Kenya and Uganda was under the british crown. Many fled to Canada. They tend to be a lot more modern and westernized, secularized than normal mainstream Muslims...so that's how they really seemed more 'hindu' than muslim. I'm Muslim, and while not gay, i didn't really feel that much connection to the brown characters because they weren't that religious or religion didn't seem that important in their lives, compared to normal average Muslims.

I haven't been to middle east, but I've been to India, and Muslim women over there do wear flashy clothes, they also wear Saris, that hindus wear.