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[quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous][quote=Muslima][quote=Anonymous]I hate the hijab, the niqab and the burqa, although I don't think (might be wrong) it stems from the Quran.

oppressive forms of clothing

same could be said for Jewish dress codes for women (tznuit)

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Really? I love them. There is nothing more beautiful to me than a veiled woman. I'm not too hot on the burqa but I love the hijab & niqab. I don't think of them as "Oppressive' at all, to the contrary I find them liberating. It's all about perception....

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That is an awesome illustration of the narrow cognitive box that western people live in.  Especially those who "live" their lives and "see" the world through the lens of US media.[/quote]

I always read stories of how Muslim Women are oppressed with their hijabs and niqabs, and have been told in person how sorry people felt for my oppressed self when I wear the hijab. The poor, oppressed Muslim woman, covered from head to toe, has no free will, no rights what-so-ever and is blindly blackmailed into following this backward desert religion, dominated by men and seen almost as a slave trapped in the four walls of her home. To be honest, there is a heavy dose of paternalism and imperialism that comes along, because no one ever asks Muslim women what we think.

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]

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