Comments on: A Day in the Life: Hijab Challenge Edition

By: Red Ski

Red Ski — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:27:18 +0000

I have to agree with Jeff Klives.
I appreciate the sentiment and personal experience the author expresses, however, I disagree with it being a symbol of equality and liberation. You focus on covering up the woman’s body for “her own sake” so that she can get equal respect from her peers and to protect her from “lust full gazes and sexual objectification” HOWEVER you are failing to realize the root of the problem. Why are the men behaving in such a way? why does a woman need to cover her Entire body besides face and hands JUST to have basic respect from men? instead of changing the culture to not objectify women’s bodies they STIGMATIZE them and cover them up to protect their own wanton desires. and i really dont understand how a head scarf can all of a sudden add validity and substance to what she is saying? her word alone should be valid enough, it is the quality of her words, not her physical experience! there is an UNDENIABLE double standard. everyone should realize there is a MAJOR PROBLEM when a woman needs to cover herself up (and for somereason refrain from physical contact with opposite sex???) just to be considered EQUAL! if you are claiming “equality” why dont the men cover themselves up to protect themselves from my LUST-FULL gazes and sexual objectification?

with all this being said I am still going to try the hijab challenge. who knows, you may convert this feminist/atheist

By: halwani

halwani — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 03:03:33 +0000

The author is well aware of the difference between the Hijab and the Veil,
The Quran does not suggest that women should be veiled, or that they should be kept apart from the world of men. On the contrary, the Quran insist on the full participation of women in society, and in the religious practices prescribed for men.
Congratulation for the author Very good article.

By: Jeff Klives

Jeff Klives — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:22:11 +0000

It sounds like the person who wrote the article projects a lot of her feelings onto others or is very insecure. Personally, I don’t care if some wears a hijab in class or anywhere else. She can wear whatever she wants to make herself feel more empowered but it seems that there is more of a placebo effect than a real effect. I doubt others take what she said more seriously just because she was wearing a hijab versus if she were dressed as the average college student. If believing in a make believe character in the sky and wearing something to let others know she believes in that character, it makes her feel more secure and leads her to live a better life, go for it. Just don’t try to enforce your beliefs on others – not that what is she is doing in this case.

By: Lina Ammari

Lina Ammari — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 01:40:29 +0000

Well Said, I am VERY proud of you.

By: Nesma

Nesma — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:53:22 +0000

I appreciate your responses.
Ali: I agree in that the women in this photo most likely do not feel this sense of empowerment. However, I want to clarify that I am referring to the Hijab and not the Burqa, two distinctly different things. I am also talking about women, like in this country, who have freely chosen to wear the Hijab. I am in no way justifying the Burqa.

By: Koorosh

Koorosh — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:34:51 +0000

No one said that every woman in the world would have the same feeling . . . the author was just sharing her own experience

By: Ali

Ali — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 16:30:29 +0000

“I felt a sense of empowerment.”

Your feelings are certainly not shared by the following women.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2010/03/some-1500-years-ago-it-was-decided-for-an-individuals-personal-reasons-that-women-should-have-purdah.html

By: A

Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:48:24 +0000

very nice indeed.

By: Fazal Ali Deshmukh

Fazal Ali Deshmukh — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 08:45:39 +0000

Thanks for writing such a wonderful article. People really need to be made aware of this fact that Hijab is indeed a symbol of LIBERTY and not that of SUBJUGATION. It gives Muslim women a unique RIGHT that men dont have a right to STARE at her body and think of her as an object of SEX and LUST. It compels other to think of you based on your THOUGHTS, MIND and SOUL, not on your LOOK.
Bravo! Once again thanks