For several years Muslim celebrating the inside to cover the head, the World Hijab Day. But what is the wear with self-confidence, for others an Instrument of oppression. The dispute also takes place in the network.
Nazma Khan is convinced that The hijab protects, strengthens, creates identity. The hijab covered woman and brings Dignity to you in this way, and freedom. The head covering, so the American with Pakistani roots, bar much for women. Therefore, it was time to pay tribute to the hijab – and through 2013, launched the World’s Hijab Day the world hijab day. Under the Hashtag #WordHijabDay many Muslim network in the social media.
The action finds support in the world. Anywhere the hijab confess-makers to your garment.
“The hijab is for women’s freedom”
She says she happy about the world day of hijab, from Tunisia, living in Germany, Doctor Karima Al-Makeni in an interview with DW. You have worn it already in Tunisia. “The hijab is a piece of clothing that stands for the freedom of women – and not against you. He is in no way an obstacle. I can do everything that non-veiled women do. I can play sports, swim and live a very normal life.” However, she acknowledges: “In the Moment in which a woman feels forced to wear it, he will provide for you a burden.”
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Not all the Muslim head covering so positive. He stands for the oppression of women, their deprivation of rights and degradation as a human being, say critics. “For conservative forces, the identity of the Arab Region is based on the Religion,” says the Tunisian-born, Paris-based journalist Sophie Bessis in her book, “Les arabes, les femmes, la liberté”. “As guarantors of this identity, the women are with them. Identity = Religion = veiled woman: This formula suggest the Islamist movements of the Arabs. And for many of them.”
Conversely, many head to feel the cloth-supporting women in Western countries discriminated against. On Wednesday, the Federal labour court decided in Erfurt, the action brought by a drugstore cashier to the European court of justice (ECJ). The Muslim woman had sued her employer, because he had prohibited the Wearing of religious headgear and symbols in General. Now the ECJ has to determine whether, or the extent to which the employer may intervene in the freedom of religion of their employees.
The headscarf as a political or individual decision-making – Demonstration for variety of clothing in London
Counter-campaigns in the network
In the social media, the dispute over the sovereignty of interpretation continues, meanwhile. A sharp contradiction of the World Hijab Day harvests under the Hashtags #NoHijabDay and #FreeFromHijab. One of the most prominent Critics Ensaf Haidar, wife of Saudi Arabia because of criticism of the religious Establishment to ten years in prison and 1,000 lashes sentenced blogger Raif Badawi.
A user assumes the entire Islam is a reactionary attitude.
Also in Germany, the debate is conducted. It is striking that hardly a user to advertise for the hijab, him to more criticize.
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“Hijab woman rights disappear”
Among the most vehement opponents of the world-hijab-day Mina Ahadi, Chairman of the Council of Ex-Muslims. The day, minimising the damage to the cover-up, says in a DW interview. Natural in the USA or in European countries, women, who held freely a hijab. “I ask these women, however, is whether it is better to have a day against the pressure to have a headscarf to declare. Because there are millions of women example, in Iran, in Sudan, in Afghanistan or in Saudi Arabia who are forced by their own family, from Islamic governments or Islamic terrorist organizations to wear a headscarf.”
Skeptical Ahadi evaluated also the statement of many hijab-wearers, the obfuscation enables your human Dignity. You have made other experiences: “I come from Iran. As a child, I’ve seen what the hijab means as a cultural or religious phenomenon. After that, I got to know him as the Instrument of an Islamic government. As such, the hijab has all the rights of us women invisible.”
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