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04:15:06 am on July 17, 2008 | # | |
The following image appeared on a Muslim website recently:
(Via Tabsir.)
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aziz 9:28 am on July 17, 2008 | #
brilliant. bonus points for the pun about flies.
Willow 10:06 am on July 17, 2008 | #
To me the biggest hypocrisy is that even the suggestion that hijab will protect you from…ah, unzipped flies…is false. For the first two years I was in Egypt I ran around heavily veiled and got catcalled (sometimes worse) literally every 50 feet. I was so disenchanted that I switched to hijab espani (the ’spanish’ bun veil). And that was only out of duty.
To borrow a phrase from Barack Hussein, the whole gender system is broken in large swaths of the Muslim world. This suggestion that hijab will fix everything is like putting a bandaid over a crack in the Hoover Dam.
Muse 11:00 am on July 17, 2008 | #
My husband recently shared this image with his arabic tutor in Cairo, an imam of a masjid, to get his take on it. He called it “crude” and said it was misguided. He believes hijab is fard, but doesn’t see keeping men away as the point.
I wrote about being assaulted while where hijab in Cairo here.
You cannot fix the problem by focusing on the people that aren’t creating it.
Muse 11:07 am on July 17, 2008 | #
ahem, that should read “while wearing hijab” in Cairo.
one day i’ll make a comment without typos. one day.
Willow 11:37 am on July 17, 2008 | #
Bless your husband’s tutor.
Muse 11:47 am on July 17, 2008 | #
willow, i agree. i was pleasantly surprised by his response (which made me re-examine some of my prejudices). i think (hope) that more traditional scholars would have the same reaction.
Fatemeh 12:04 pm on July 17, 2008 | #
We discussed it here.
Willow 12:38 pm on July 17, 2008 | #
By Ursula Lindsay, no less. She was my editor at Cairo Magazine back in the day.
Lawrence of Arabia 3:34 pm on July 17, 2008 | #
just to take this from the other side for a moment..
i am curious why men don’t get insulted, being compared to flies…or to mindless animals that can’t resist raw meat…or to any of the other things to which men are compared and from which women need to be protected?
aziz 6:22 pm on July 17, 2008 | #
LoA, good question! to be honest I think most of us men know others of our (nominal) gender yet to whom these descriptions apply all too well.
As a geek, it was particularly galling to know that it was precisely these men who attracted the most attention from the objects of their tyranny
at any rate, I am fine with being assumed to be a mindless animal, since as the father of two young daughters thats exactly the paranoia that I hope they develop towards all men to some degree. I figure that if i have some compelling reason to prove to someone of that paranoid mindset that I am not mindless, then I will be able to do so. If not, then its not a big deal.