Posted on 11/06/2015 7:20:27 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
At 15, I never thought I would put it on. And by 18, I never imagined taking it off.
And today, I wear a headscarf, commonly known as hijab, part-time.
More than a year and a half ago, I decided to explore outside the boundaries of my scarf -- I removed it. It had taken me six years to make this decision.
The scarf symbolizes a collection of meanings for different Muslim women. Some would argue it is a requirement to cover a woman's hair and adhere to an understood "modest" dress code referenced in the Quran, the Muslim holy book. They consider it a religious duty. A must.
I once did, too.
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Feminists and islam, oil and water.
Just say NO to the death cult of islam.
Go away Slma Shelbayah. I never saw a name like that growing up in old America. And I don’t care to hear your story of stupidity.
Islam - all ugly chicks covering up.
How's about cutting people's heads off and bombing innocents - that represents islam pretty well to me.
(Just hope that no one decides you are worth your weight in goats...daddy will sell you off in a Baghdad minute.)
She was dropped on her head as a child or else has been doing meth.
nowhere, NOWHERE in that wratched book does it say the stooopid cows HAVE to wear the headjob, nowhere...
Jim Jones was an abject amateur compared to islam.
What an oddity, a muzzie woman thinking for herself.
In other news, Pigs Fly!
I do not care what this mental masturbater does.
“I wanted what I was deprived of — my right to decide for myself.”
That is what “submission” (islam, in Arabic) is all about dummy.
For someone who spent years studying islam, she doesn’t seem to catch on too quickly.
“What an oddity, a muzzie woman thinking for herself.”
Well, she’s not making a very good job of it if you ask me.
So much dithering over a scarf. Wear it or don’t wear it, but for heaven’s sake shut up about it already.
Oh, and btw, Madam, don’t think all these protestations of being a Muslim will save your neck from ISIS, et al.
Muslim women who reject sexualized fashions? I’ve actually been in homes where the women wear hijab in public...but not at home with family and friends lol In fact, at home they wear what would be commonly seen as sexy garb. I’ve even seen girls albeit in Western countries, wear hijab with tight jeans, cropped tops and belly rings.
Do some women wear it as a political statement? of course.. but there are a great deal who wear it out of societal/cultural pressure.
I have a very good Egyptian friend, who has always been appalled by the use of the hijab as a political statement... she sees it as the oppression that her parents generation got rid of.
I’d like to see it GONE.
Jim Jones only had a couple of decades to put his cult together.
“For someone who spent years studying islam, she doesn’t seem to catch on too quickly.”
None are so blind as those who refuse to see...
As someone over in the UAE right now, you are spot on with your comment about the fashion statement.
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