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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima]

Muslim women  who choose to wear the hijab are not oppressed, but consider themselves liberated. For many women, the adornment of the headscarf is the representation of the antithesis of female objectification and subjugation in a social sphere where the female body is, essentially, a capitalistic transaction. Women’s bodies are used to sell us, nearly everything, and this undoubtedly has an effect on how women engage with their own bodies and how men and women both engage with one another. Also, you have to understand that everything in our religion (islam) aims to free us from the chains of our egos, from vanity and from self-consumption, all through the belief in one God and through worshipping Him (and how this belief plays out in our daily interactions and self-pursuits). And some Christian (catholic nuns) and Jewish women do cover their hair too, but they are never seen as oppressed, so I don't understand the double standard. For ex, I've never seen a picture of the Virgin Mary with her head not covered but I don't think anyone would look at her as an oppressed woman.[/quote]
I may agree with you about Muslims women who choose to wear the hijab, but the fact of the matter is that in Muslim-majority societies, there are serious social costs attached to NOT wearing it, and so for every Muslim woman who chooses to cover, there are others who don't have a choice in the matter.  And that little matter of choice distinguishes them from catholic nuns who took the orders on their own free will.[/quote]

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