Building on this debate (which is still raging), the following clip debates why (or not) women should don the hijab:
There are good arguments for, but ultimately it is the woman’s choice.
When a woman exercises her right either way, she is enacting her rights.
And that is the best we can hope for in a world cobwebbed with patriarchy.
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Nope …. Hijab is not in the quran in the sense of the hijab that is displayed here …
Wow… actually scratch that deconstruction… getting to 1:44 it gets quite ugly.
So let me get this, the best argument for wearing the hijab is shaming women who don’t wear it into feeling they crap so they would done the piece of clothe?
That actually speaks volume to the best arguments the hijab has to put forth. And no, dawning the hijab is not an answer to consumerism, just a redirection.
At the end the whole issue with the hijab is choice. actually seeing this video makes want to write about the hijab, its history, and argument against it being forced at all, and it being used as a litmus test for the religious commitment of muslim women.
I have to say that the video raises a lot of the questions that is flying around 24/7 nowadays.
It addresses the kinds of pressure some girls face just to fit in.
I don’t feel that the video is trying to shame women into wearing a hijab rather it is pointing out many of the other ways that women (especially) are pressured to look a certain way.
It’s well known that generally, women spend more time trying to look good before leaving their homes. Women spend more on products, clothes, shoes, bags etc so that everything matches (if we are to go by stereotypes) therefore, the pressure and responsability is on women to look nice and not so much on men.
Hijab kind of eradicates a lot of that pressure and does force people to think about how they view not only themselves but how other people view them.