Little girls in hijabs

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Re: Little girls in hijabs

@khattichic

^ I wouldn’t think anything except “ok, that must be what the family wants, to each their own”.

It’s not something I would choose to do, if I had a daughter, but so what?

And for the record, I worked at an American public school that had a large concentration of Muslim students (mostly from Indo/Pak or African nations) and there were little girls from KG on up who did Hijab…It did not bother anyone one bit…not the goray teachers nor the goray/mexican students. These little girls would come in from recess with their hijabs askew and half their heads showing and the teachers themselves would help them straighten them up again.

If it’s not something you are comfortable with, so be it, I don’t discount your views, laikin why are you so hell bent on proving that their is something unnatural about this? You even have a blog on the subject of hijab from last year or so that another member dug up and commented in today…it seems like you’re slightly obsessed with the topic lol

The blog is actually from 3 years ago and I was reflecting on the romantic attachment to the hijab that many Pakistani men have on this forum. As for my obsession with this topic, this is my first thread on it. I don’t think there is anything unnatural about it, it’s just foreign to me and I know I’m not the only one who shares that opinion. Growing up in Pakistan, I rarely saw grown women in hijab let alone little girls, so seeing the emergence of very young Pakistani hijabans in my community has me puzzled. I was brought up to believe that hijaab was a choice and that too for adults. When I see little girls in hijabs I have to question if their parents have eliminated the concept of choice for them all together as a convenience.

I have not advocated any harm or hostility to anyone, just challenging some of the people who are simply dismissing this as case of child’s play without questioning the role of the parents in it. I am in no position to take anyone’s freedoms away from them nor would I do that even if I was. Having said that, people judge other’s choices all the time, especially when it comes to parenting. It can be witnessed all over this forum. But I would like to apologize to any parents who may have been offended. This is the internet and anything typed should not be taken to heart.