Posted on 06/08/2008 10:59:18 AM PDT by rocksblues
When I came to this country, I took off my hijab. It wasn't an easy decision. I worried at night that God would punish me for it. That's what I had been taught would happen, and it filled me with fear.
I was 27, coming from my home country of Iraq to study in California. I hoped that by taking off the hijab I had been wearing for eight years, I would be able to maintain a low profile. In Baghdad, you keep a low profile to stay alive. But in the United States, I merely wanted not to be judged.
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But even as the hijab kept me safe, it became a burden for many others. After the fall of Saddam Hussein, there was a dramatic increase in the number of women wearing the hijab. Since then, as religious groups have gained more power, it has become dangerous to be spotted without one -- so much so that even Christian women now wear the hijab when they go out. To me, that signified that something was wrong with my country.
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At the same time, I was disappointed. We shouldn't have to hide the fact that we're Muslims in order to be treated like everyone else. In some ways, it's as bad to feel pressure to take off the hijab in the United States as it is to be pressured to keep it on in Baghdad. It's sad that people here do not always accept you for who you are.
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>>So it’s OK that she wore the hijab in Iraq to protect herself but it’s sad that people look funny at her in America.<<
Simple solution - go back to Iraq. Next question and “Don’t get stuck on stupid”.
Be honest — how many of you clicked on this thread to see if there was a picture posted of an un-hijabed Iranian hottie? :-)
Because when in the United States wear what the women wear... assimilate !!!
cut offs and a tee here...
During WWII Americans might have looked at you funny if you walked around wearing a swastika.
Like it or not, the hijab is strongly supported by those who are trying to kill us, as she herself implies. Wearing it implies support for them.
During WWII Americans might have looked at you funny if you walked around wearing a swastika.
Like it or not, the hijab is strongly supported by those who are trying to kill us, as she herself implies. Wearing it implies support for them.
Me!
Absolitely NO. I am tired of whiners coming to the USA. Send her back to Iraq. Why is she bitching? Deport her.
Students Test Public Reactions To Hijab Scarves
Return to your homeland, Fatima, and take as many muslims with you as you possibly can.
Proof positive that these people don't believe God had the slightest idea what the hell He was doing when He created the universe.
There's a Zarathustrian fable - of dubious origin - that states it well:
Next the knowing fox, taking up the speech said, What superiority in arts doth man possess? The wise Jewânshîr answered. The superiorly of man consisteth in the good dress, and agreeable food and drink which they formerly had, and at the present time in their covering their obscene parts. The wise fox said, In former times your clothes were of wool, and hair, and skins of animals, and still are so. And your sweetest food is from the vomit of the bee ; And animals do not require any covering for their natural parts ; for all that God requires to be covered, is covered ; And, if it be not, God hath not directed it.
She needs to:
1. Wear whatever she wants.
2. Obey laws about masks in public and drivers license pictures and not try change them for her.
3. Leave the rest of us alone.
If she really wants to wear her hijab, she should go back to Iraq. Nobody’s stopping her.
Post of the day!
To many Americans, it is a symbol of religious and sexist oppression.
She herself recognizes the problem in these tyrannical Islamic run nations.
She may not support their tyranny but she is still holding to their restrictive dress code that was even put upon non-muslims.
Could she drive a car in Iran or Iraq? Has she taken on any Western roles that she was prohibited from engaging back home?
Why pick and choose such codes to follow?
Should she be allowed to enter a bank or a convenience store, places that are frequently robbed at gun point, with her face completely covered?
Hey babe, wear or don't wear the damn thing.
Quit your whining.
David Horowitz put out a petition to 100 muslim student organizations to sign if they would denounce big Mo’s call for violent jihad against infidels (Declaration against Genocide).
http://www.terrorismawareness.org/petitions/140/declaration-against-genocide/
He got no takers.
Wonder why people look at muslims with suspicion?
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