My Hijab My Choice?

Linda Sarsour: Champion of the Feminist Left and one of the organizers of the massive Feminist March after the election of Donald Trump as President.  She likes to paint herself as a modern feminist, that her hijab is her choice, & that she has the right to choose.  I fully agree.  Her hijab is her choice, and she has a right to wear it.  However, to women have the right to choose not to wear one?  Is the hijab truly a symbol of female empowerment and liberation?  Facts seem to state otherwise.


Throughout the Middle East, women are forced to wear a hijab.  They don't have the luxury of choosing to do so.  Maryam Rostampour & Marziyeh Amirizadeh were both former Muslims from Iran.  They both testified that when in school, they had to wear their hijab, and that their teachers would rip out any strand of hair that was showing.  In a recent protest in Iran, a young female protester was jailed and received a two-year prison sentence for removing her hijab in protest of Iran's inhumane laws toward women.  In some nations, the law of hijab compulsion is taken to the extreme.  On March 11, 2002, Saudi religious police prevented young girls from leaving their burning school because they were not wearing the proper "Islamic attire."  Fifteen innocent girls burned to death as a result.

What of the girls living hear in the West, do they have a choice?  Well 16-year old Aqsa Parvez who was a citizen of Canada, was not given a choice.  The young Pakistani girl decided that she no longer wanted to wear a hijab, and her father and brother ultimately strangled her to death for "dishonoring the family."  So Aqsa did not have a choice.  So why then to so many feminists in the West wear the hijab as if it's a symbol of empowerment when it is in truth a symbol of repression of so many, and that women end up in prison, or in the grave simply for making the choice not to wear one?  Perhaps the feminists here in the West need to start understand just how blessed they are and start fighting for the rights of women who are suffering actual oppression in the world.  

 Sources
Gabriel, Bridget.  They Must be Stopped: Why We Must Defeat Radical Islam & How We Can Do It.  New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2009.

Rostampour, Maryam & Marziyeh Amirizadeh.  Captive in Iran.  Atlanta: Tyndale Momentum, 2013

"Fifteen Girls Die as Zealots Drive them Into Blaze."  The Guardian.  March 2002.  Accessed from https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/saudiarabia/1387874/15-girls-die-as-zealots-drive-them-into-blaze.html.

 "Iranian Woman who Removed Headscarf Jailed for Two Years."  The Guardian.  March 07, 2018.  Accessed from https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/mar/07/iranian-woman-who-removed-headscarf-sentenced-to-two-years.

Mitchell, Bob & Noor Javed.  "I Killed my Daughter...With my own Hands."  The Star.  June 16, 2010.  Accessed from https://www.thestar.com/news/crime/2010/06/16/i_killed_my_daughter__with_my_hands.html

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