This pretty much sums up mainstream feminism as it relates to Muslim women.
A lot of feminists seem to think liberating Muslim women is to get them out of the hijab. The thing is, most hijabis (or all of them) like to wear the hijab. They find it liberating for them.
This is why I do not call myself a feminist. I’m all for women rights, but I do not respect mainstream feminism when they are bent on ‘liberating’ poor/backward Muslim women.
I have a mind of my own. I chose to wear the hijab out of my own freewill. My father or male relatives have never forced me to wear it. I chose to wear at the age of 19.
Why must I look like you to be considered to be free? How is showing my hair make me more ‘liberated’? Why do some white, often secularist, females see themselves as the epitome of liberated women.
THIS
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This is so relevant to my life.
All of this. And definitely relevant to my life. Right now, I choose not to wear it, but it’s always a choice, and I think that as time goes by I may choose to wear it.
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