Re: Hijab and Veil Issue...An article i wrote a while back...
points well taken. thanks for sharing an article which has truth to facts as well.
hijab or chadowr for women in Islam is not a compulsion - it is indeed a choice and a admonished one.
the veil also as a negetive connotation - something like a woman is clad in some cloth that has to be taken off. that cheap mentality has to be eliminated.
in the context of the social and policitical debacles, mis-construel of Muslim women wearing hijab, is seen as opression of women in Islam and in societies where ' muslims men' and women exist.
the layers of reasons as to why such a concept exist has to be fully minded and reasoned with, lest non muslim societal structures begin to mock at the sacred symbolic effect that wearing hijab or chadowr has for muslims women.
on an individual and personal level, muslim women need to feel empowered in choosing what they want and feel comfortable in. if the idea is to drape a woman, and create hinderance in her ability to work or to feel able to simply walk on her own in her country, on her country's streets, because she is a woman, then, we have a problem that is one of narrow minded ness and dis regard for the God given rights of women to make their own choices as assertive and wel-meaning, self conscious individual humanbeings.