This is a very interesting take on the hijab debate – a video about a British Muslim woman who decided to take off the hijab after realising she was wearing it not for personal pious reasons but political ones – contrary to what Islamists claim. She is of the opinion that it’s better for society that men learn how to function appropriately around unveiled women than that society shroud women from men and place the blame for men’s behavioural inadequacies on women’s shoulders.
Watch it through as she visits various Muslim women around the world and investigates their attitudes towards the hijab.
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Hat tip: Averroes Press
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I think the hijab has different effects in different societies. In a society like Saudi all women should cover up because the men are too immature to handle female faces and hair. In the UK the hijab makes you stand out like a sore thumb and attracts more attention.
I also agree that the hijab does sexualise women.
“In a society like Saudi all women should cover up because the men are too immature to handle female faces and hair”
How pathetic does that make Saudi men though?
In the UK the burkha and niqab should be absolute no no’s, this is not saudi or afghanistan. Headscarves, well, if someone chooses to (as opposed to made to) then thats a little different.
In British culture covering up the face is considered rude and sepratist. And also a tad infantile. The idea that without men controlling women b7y making them cover up their faces as men wouldn’t be able to control themselves is just boundlessly insulting and, frankly, ridiculous.
This is a refreshing and positive development from the Lubna Hussain story, which is also covered on Averroes Press (great site!):
“In Sudan, 20,000 girls and women have been flogged for wearing “indecent clothing” like pants, says Lubna Hussain”