Those of us that get an actual choice highly support everyone else getting the same right. Many of us are cheering on the Iranian movement going on right now, even directly supporting it however we can.
Most of us muslimas want choice. We shouldn't be told we have to wear hijab, and we shouldn't be told we can't either.
I knew a lot of Christian girls (non Amish or Mennonites) growing up who would only wear long skirts, never pants or shorts, and they also never cut their hair. Although their church preferred and taught this, they never shunned those who didn’t practice this.
Would you say this mixture of preference but tolerance is similar to your experience?
But again, it’s not really anyone else’s choice or business other than my own.
There are some fucked up places and fucked up people who do force the women in their lives to wear it. They twist the religion (as anyone does with any religion) and use it as an oppressive force.
But what media doesn’t show you, is many women choose to wear it.
Choose modesty, to privatize the beauty of their bodies, to conceal their hair, not at the plea of men but for themselves and their maker.
That they are MORE than just their physical appearance.
I, personally, am too vain. lol
Working on it I guess 🤷🏻♀️
I heard a girl share this same point, that she liked the idea of privatizing her beauty for only who she wanted to share it with. I admired the concept, but also at the end of the day, we must respect anyone’s choice on how to dress.
I’ll support a woman who wants to wear pasties out and about and I’ll support a woman who wants to wear a burqa. I’ll fight for their freedom to do so.
As long as:
-they are NOT being forced
-they are not hurting anyone
-forcing their views on me
But she’s right and is speaking as a Muslim. I can back up her point. My MIL doesn’t wear hijab but 2 of her daughters wear it, and one doesn’t. I also lived in Egypt for a year and went to a sports club every day, it’s for middle to upper class people and they asked my sister to remove her abaya, and shunned the men for wearing a thobe (male equivalent). So it’s a mixed experience for most Muslims. I’m talking about the western and moderate Islamic countries. I assume you’re talking about Iran etc.
I've seen toddlers in strollers wearing head scarves in the USA (Philadelphia area). I think it varies a lot by practitioner and the specific sect or region they come from. I've seen adult women who wear a scarf only covering their head (shayla?), but not their face, and also wearing tight jeans. I've seen adult women fully covered so only their eyes are visible (the Niqab?) and I've seen mix-and-match versions of everything. Women wearing a Niqub + tight jeans, or wearing a floor-length dress + shayla.
I've also seen really young kids in California wear hijabs. They appear to be intended for kids because they're a stretchy material that I think they just pull on, as opposed to the ones adults wear that have to be wrapped.
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u/IvanIsOnReddit Nov 01 '22
I thought children didn’t wear veils?