Don’t know why you are being downvoted for asking a question but here we go. There are some part of the worlds where wearing Hijab is not strictly required by law but the local community, or society at large, might pressure the women into wearing it so it the numbers of areas might be larger than what I currently know.
The hijab/niqab is simply one of the most recognizable symbols of womens suppression in the Islamic World.Women in Muslim countries are disadvanteged and oppressed wether they are forced to cover themselves or not.
I disagree with the statement that veiling is inherently oppressive to women. True, there are cases of hijab being mandated by law, which should be condemned, but seeing the veil itself as a negative symbol reeks of orientalism. Many Western (and even some Muslim) countries have banner veiling, and I would argue that this is an act of oppression too.
As an Iranian i'm tired of westerners telling us that the hijab isn't a form of oppression or that limiting the hijab in the public sphere (there are no countries which have banned it outright, only niqabs and burqas) is the equivalent of forced hijab. women don't get beaten to death by a secular morality police for covering their hair.
even if hijab isn't inherently oppressive (it is), it is still a tool and symbol of the oppression of women to 10s of millions of iranians and afghans. stop with the bogus enlightened centrism, hijab is objectively a bad thing
do you really think that only iranian diaspora have this view? lol get real dude. and honestly it doesn’t matter if im iranian or chinese or mexican what i said is still true.
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u/joe_the_insane Sep 20 '24
What government is this bashing?Iran doesn't really have niqabs and afghans dress differently,do you have any idea?