Re: Little girls in hijabs
I don’t know you tell me. I never claimed anyone was being “oppressed”. It’s just seems silly to see little girls dressed in a way that is meant for adults.
It’s also interesting that the taliban get called all types of names for forcing burqa on their daughters but if this was Muslims living in the west, people don’t dare to judge.
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Most parents who have small children, Muslim or otherwise, dress their children in a style that they, the parents, like. Why is hijab, which ultimately is just a piece of cloth, any different? Would you argue that these parents are “forcing” their children to dress according to their liking?
As far as the Taliban, they did not force the burqa on their daughters, they enforced this on ALL women living in Afghanistan at the time, including women they had no connection or authority over whatsoever and who were adult enough to make their own decisions. That is what people found immoral. One cannot compare parental rights over small children to the rights of adults being trampled by a totalitarian regime.
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It is not any different. It is just as silly as little jewish girls who don’t wear pants. I don’t know about judaism but in Islam little girls don’t have to have a hijab on as it is meant for adults. It just seems out of place.
What would you think if you saw a little girl come to school in a burqa?
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^ 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
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I would not think anything except that it must be what her family wants and to each, their own.
When I have children, I really do not want people passing judgement on my decisions as a parent, and thus, give others the same courtesy and refrain from passing judgement on the decisions of parents (assuming they are harmless, of course).
Little girls in hijabs
What exactly is being defended here now? I raise my children, you raise yours.
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Dude…drop it.. you are not going to win this argument… coz you know you are in the wrong… this is an issue of parents’ right to raise their child the way they want to … don’t try to make it out to be some sort of oppression against women…
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OP, I really think you are blowing it out of proportion based on what you saw, and perceived. Unless you live with any of those families, and can verifiably say that they force anything on anyone within the house, to put it in a crude manner ‘It’s all in your head’.
It is possible the children may have been struggling with the attire, but so do Adults when it gets hot or muggy outside. And how do you know the moment you went your way, the mother/father didn’t loosen the hijab for the girl after seeing her struggling with it?
Assumptions can go both ways.
As most have pointed out, parents have the right to dress their children how they see appropriate, till an age where children can choose for themselves; it’s not a new phenomenon. Perhaps just easy to pick on because of What they were wearing rather than Why.
You have a right to judge according to your own mindset, but because we all have the freedom to do so, does not certify what we think is always the truth and all else is smoke screen to hide skeletons. Sometimes it’s just that that, our own thinking and perception.
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Quit looking at little girls. Its creepy.
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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.
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Jew Children:
Hindu Children:
Sikh children:
Muslim Children:
According to OP’s twisted logic, parents of these children must have forced/ somehow made, these children either wear these attire or assume these looks.
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It was fancy dress show 
Honestly, if a white man was showing such disdainful opposition to brown people’s choices. he would’ve been called a racist skinhead. Well in my country at least…
Life is really not fair.
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Hijab is not just brown people choice. No idea why you brought color based discrimination in to it.
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It was a tongue in cheek comment. Since OP’s basically throwing a tantrum about Pakistani people’s choice to wear Hijab, I thought perhaps the colour brown might be a better contrast to white, and of course Pakistanis comes in all shades of NC’s and NW’s shades of MAC foundation, so don’t read too much into it. I agree with what you said.