Yes, another thread about them.
Call it generalization, but it is based on experience and discussion with other people. Unfortunately, some 70% (the split goes 70% typically bitter, 25% looking for business and the remaining 5% being those who wear hijab for whatever reasons but are calm and relaxed and not bitter) of hijabis that I have encountered are annoyingly argumentative and consider it their assigned responsibility to win arguments by including passing judgements on people. For some reason, they seem to believe that since they are wearing hijab, not only that they are superior to other beings, including women who decide not to wear hijab, but also they are the authority on social and religious issues. A hijabi, agreeing with someone on a social and/or religious matter, is a rare,rare,rare sight.
Now my idea is, dressing surely is important, but not as important as how pure your inner self is. Unless you are dressing inappropriately i.e. exposing yourself or wearing something too tight or otherwise unacceptable considering our social, cultural and religious background (the combined one), whether or not you decide to wear a hijab is a matter of personal choice and personal comfort, and it has less to do with how righteous you are. Righteousness comes from within, and social skills and how you treat others is one of the most important factors in any religion and society. If wearing hijab equates ill social manners, I am sorry but I would rather take a non-hijabi's word. Given my experience of interacting with hijabis, I already avoid them (but do give them due respect, apart from calling them ninjas).
What I am wondering is, what exactly goes on in their heads and what makes them so bitter in general? Some insecurities, feeling of being holier than thou, compulsive arguments being a service to religion?
PS - my interaction, incase one would want to know, has been in school, college, business meetings, courses and other official interactions which naturally includes discussion on non-official matters.
From my own experience, I seen that people complain about those whom they perceive to be more religious than themselves (or those make an effort to be). The funny thing is that the complaints they make about them are often about faults that the people complaining have themselves. The people who make an effort to try to be more religious are simply easier targets and that's all there is to it.
Otherwise, anyone with a hijab or with a beard (in the case of a man), I see them just like anyone else. Everyone has their qualities and their faults. To me correlating the faults with the hijab or beard or any other religious trait makes as much sense as correlating these faults to the type of car the said person drives, the shoes they wear, the type of job they do or the food they eat etc.
Now I am not saying that those who wear hijab, grow beard, pray, eat strictly halal or make an effort to practice any aspect of deen never do anything wrong or that anything wrong that they do is automatically excused. I am just saying that it doesn't make sense to correlate these characteristics with their faults. Also the fact that the people who are trying to practice something in deen that we are not practicing should not be used as justification of us not practicing it. I'm not implying this is what you're doing, but a lot of times this is what people do according to my own experience.
