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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was googling and I found this preview by Mona Eltahawy, page 32 starts to talk about hijabs and brings up a lot of the points brought up in this thread:

https://books.google.com/books?id=0v-cBAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false

Most importantly to some pps, she's not white!

It's not "neocolonialism" to look at a backwards practice and decide it's backwards.  Being white does not mean you are precluded from making any observations ever.

-non white person[/quote]
Aren't you curious at all about why women who cover continue to cover, in their own words? Why are you only seeking out opinions that match your own? [/quote]

This is fair, so not having a hijab-wearing Muslim woman handy this weekend, I decided to google "Why I wear hijab."  One of the first articles is this one, from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/14/opinion/the-freedom-of-the-hijab.html

As I have always thought, this is an intense and very personal decision, but I found her logic weirdly circular.

[quote]In a society that embraces uncovering, how can it be oppressive if I decided to cover up? I see hijab as the freedom to regard my body as my own concern and as a way to secure personal liberty in a world that objectifies women.  I refuse to see how a woman’s significance is rated according to her looks and the clothes she wears. I am also absolutely certain that the skewed perception of women’s equality as the right to bare our breasts in public only contributes to our own objectification. [/quote]

[quote]In a world besotted with the looks, body and sexuality of women, the hijab can be an assertive mode of individual feministic expression and rights. I regard my hijab to be a commanding question of “I control what you see, how is that not empowering” mixed with a munificent amount of authority emanating from the “My body is my own concern” clause. [/quote]

I found this whole article to be mostly buzzwords strung together to form sentences.  Are the choices really walking about half-naked or covering every inch of your body except for your face and hands?  If I walk down the street in a sleeveless shirt, is my body no longer my own concern?  How does covering hair secure personal liberty unless I am literally unable to walk around without covering my hair?  I feel like fighting the objectification of women by wearing uncomfortable clothing to be a poorly thought out method.  If all women walk around completely covered, this only fetishizes women's bodies further.  I have seen this for myself in countries where women cover.[/quote]

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