Satanic War against the Hijab

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Satanic War against the Hijab

By: Siddiq Sajouri

For wearing Hijab (headscarves), Muslim schoolgirls are barred from schools and Muslim women are refused employment in a number of countries. It's ironic that Germany and other European countries allow the schoolgirls in the classrooms to be dressed in backless T-shirts ending high above the midriff, exposing the top of skimpy underwear and the shorts or micro miniskirts barely covering the bare thighs.
With such sexy revealing dress, it has become hard to tell whether the girls are going to the beach, the nightclub or the school.

How can the West claim to have a tolerant and democratic society while they have no respect for women's rights to wear what they wish? How can any country championing the cause of freedom, dictate its citizens what they can and cannot wear?
The ban of the headscarf undermines the so-called religious tolerance and multi-culturalism in the West. Jews are free to wear black hats, skullcaps or the Star of David, Christians can wear crosses around their necks, and Sikh can wear their turbans because this is a matter of personal freedom!!! Why a Muslim woman is denied the freedom to wear a headscarf?

Let us shed some light on this new form of discrimination against Muslim women and the blatant violation of their freedom. It is worrying that such oppressive, unlawful, and unconstitutional ban of the headscarf is aimed at pushing Muslim women out of the protection in the judicial system.

The Rise of Racism

It is amazing that a hot debate has been raging in the West over such a small piece of cloth. The constitution guarantees freedom of religious _expression and unlimited access to public jobs for all. They claim that the headscarf is posing a threat to the secular system of these countries.

Neo-paganism or Satan worship is a widespread religion in the World now and its adherents let their girls go to school half-naked or sexily dressed with pierced navels and Satanic tattoos. Of course, satanic religions never pose a threat to secularism. But Muslim schoolgirls and women are denied the same personal freedom to wear a scarf!!
Fereshta Ludin, a German Muslim teacher, was refused a job in a German state school near Stuttgart because she wore a headscarf. She says she is simply expressing her right to religious freedom. But the Government of Baden-Wuerttemberg in southern Germany, which refused her employment, said the headscarf violates children's right to a religiously neutral education.

Ms Ludin said "I see my religion as a fundamental part of my identity". She declared that the school was violating her freedom of religion.

A federal court upheld the state's argument that the headscarf violated "the strict neutrality of public schools in religious issues. This ruling leaves it open for individual states to establish a legal basis for barring the scarf from schools if they so wish. No wonder that a Turkish woman had been unlawfully sacked by a German department store for wearing a headscarf.

On the other hand, German education officials are beginning to wonder whether freedom of dress is going too far in schools.

Willi Lemke, education minister in the German city of Bremen warned of the "sex bomb" invasion of the classroom and the destructive rivalry among pupils to wear the latest fashions.

The German local state culture ministry asserts, "What pupils wear is their own affair (unless it is a Hijab)".

In France there has been a series of expulsions of Muslim girls from schools. In many French schools, teachers have made protests against pupils wearing headscarves in class. Teachers in a small town even went on strike when a 12-year-old pupil refused to remove her headscarf.

Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin said that he was in favour of banning headscarf. Socialist Party leader, Francois Hollande, said headscarves were "out of place in schools".
In 1989, the then left-wing government declared that the wearing of scarves was not necessarily incompatible with France being a secular state as long as they were not ostentatious. However the new centre-right government has said it is prepared to pass a law banning all religious effects from the classroom.

Campaigns to stop the state cracking down on the wearing of the headscarf in France are often run by young Muslim women confident of their right to express their religion. About 7 per cent of the French population is made up of Muslims.
Hijab Ordained in all Religions

Pious women of all divine religions, dress with dignity and do not expose their perfect bodies and think of other people who do not have much or who are physically disabled. The veil has a long history in the Judeo-Christian tradition. Catholic nuns still engage in the practice.

There are several references to the veil in both the Old and New Testaments (King James Version). The Judeo-Christian sources imply that women should be covered because they were viewed as not being equal to men.

On the other hand, Islam is not only a simple religion, but it is a way of life that is meant to make life easier and happier for people. Islam dignifies and honors women and when something is beautiful and precious, one wants to keep it hidden, and that is what Muslim women are doing by wearing Hijab.

A woman wearing a headscarf is choosing to oppose the common mentality that women need to reveal, that women need to flaunt their uncovered bodies in order to get recognition or attention. Hijab should be perceived as a symbol of empowerment rather than oppression. Hijab is a fashionable protection for women. By simply wearing a headscarf and dressing modestly, a woman can free herself of the lustful and perversely gazes of men.

Unfortunately some Muslim countries also ban the Hijab. In Turkey, wearing the hijab is banned in government offices, schools and universities. The headscarf is worn by more than half of the Turkish women, but the defenders of Turkey's ardently secularist state have banned it. The country's influential generals remain highly suspicious.
In Singapore, four Muslim schoolgirls (aged six to seven years old) were suspended from their schools for wearing Islamic headscarves after a highly publicized standoff between the families and the city-state. Singapore authorities insist they instituted the secular dress code to promote ethnic harmony.

Thus devout Malay Muslim women are oppressed and denied the personal freedom to wear the headscarf despite the fact that schools in Singapore allow Sikh boys to wear turbans!!!
Oppressive Feminism

In so many Muslim countries, women make their own choice to wear or not to wear scarves. So many educated Muslim women in the West wear hijab with confidence and pride. They freely choose to wear hijab without being forced upon them. For instance, Shaista Aziz, a British Muslim lady told the BBC that Hijab, for some women can be one of the most liberating experiences of their lives.
Radical feminists have done so much damage to their society in the last 100 years. Feminism is not liberating women but is enslaving them by denying them the personal freedom. Women in the West are oppressed by the constant pressure to follow up fashion trends and wear unsuitable outfits. They have to dress scantily or fit into a size 8 in order to survive in life.

Women are spending so much time doing make up before getting ready to go out. Women wear revealing outfits or have a new hairdo more frequently so as to draw the attention of men or have them staring at their feminine assets.

Girls who undergo painful tattoo operation or wear rugged jeans and backless T-shirts also need emancipation from peer pressure and fashion trends. There is an outcry from the neo-pagans when a woman decides to respect herself and cover but they don't become abhorrently appalled when such woman is posing nude on the beach!!! True liberation for women is when they realize that they have a right to dignity and they are not portrayed just as a sexual object for marketing purposes.
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asalaama alaikum,

There are so many misconceptions about hijab and freedom of religious expression is a very important issue. From what I've learned about Islam, I think that it adds a new and important level to the discussion of women's independence and women's rights. Muslimahs have a perspective that is definitely needed in the discussion.

I find that my non-muslim friends do not understand hijab at all and it has been very interesting to learn more myself and to pass along what I know.

I have found moderately Christian women to be the most rejecting of the hijab, and the most threatened by it. On the other hand, my neo pagan friends have been very thoughtful and were interested to learn what the "inside" perspective of muslim women is regarding this issue. They were also the least likely to equate Islam with terrorism, probably because, as members of a minority religion, they understand how easy it is for a minority group to be demonized.

I know neo pagans. I do not know any satanists. My neo pagan friends are not satanists. Half of my neo pagan women friends dress conservatively, and all of them wear clothing that they feel is appropriate to the context, that is that evening wear and professional or student wear are not all the same thing.

Belly baring tops are not a neo pagan invention, nor a neo pagan plot to overthrow the world.

I know that these statements might not be popular in this forum, and I apologize for offending any one.

But it hasn't been popular talking about Islam to other non-muslims, but I think it is very very important. People shouldn't stay ignorant, especially
Americans, and especially people I know who are intelligent about other issues.

maa salaama

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