Young Muslim women are reclaiming the hijab, reinterpreting it in light of its original purpose to give back to women ultimate control of their own bodies. The Qur'an teaches us that men and women are equal, that individuals should not be judged according to gender, beauty, wealth, or privilege. The only thing that makes one person better than another is her or his character. Nonetheless, people have a difficult time relating to me. After all, I'm young, Canadian born and raised, university educated why I would do this to myself, they ask.
Her film work includes: Older, Stronger, Wiser (1989), Long Time Comin’. (1991), Sisters in the Struggle (1991), Listening for Something (1996), Borderless (2006). The film I have choose for this case study is Older, Stronger, Wiser, Brand is this writer of this film, and it is directed by Claire Prieto. This film was based on Brand’s book No Burden to Carry, which consisted of short biographies and interviews of Black Canadian women of many different walks of life. These women range from farmers, to businesswomen they come from families who have footprints in Canada that date back to the early 18th century.
In the article Listening to the Voices of Hijab, there were interviews held on two types of Muslim women: those who chose to wear the Hijab and those who chose not to. A hiijab, traditionally, is a head covering worn by Muslim women because of their cultural or religious practices. A hijab, for Muslim women, is used to hide their bodies from the sight of men, in hopes of not tempting them, but gaining a man’s respect. In the reading, it was established that to Muslim women, wearing the hijab is a sense of security, a mark of Muslim identity, and protection. The hijab, in a sense, is a shield or mask from the outside world, where men specifically will not have lust towards them or will not objectify them; it will not show men their true beauty or “ornaments.” Wearing the hijab
Behind the Veil Some female artists who wear the veil either wish to celebrate their way of life or they wish to express angst and frustration with the hijab. In fact, Muslim women who embrace the veil do so because it gives them a sense of unity, privacy, protection against men who might objectify them sexually, or simply honor for tradition and their religion. Pamela K. Taylor explains in her essay, “I Just Want to be Me,” her own reasons for wearing hijab. “I started wearing hijab (the Muslim head scarf) some twenty years ago, soon after my conversion to
Mackenzie Ballas The Hijab is not a symbol of oppression nor a division of imprisonment instructed to be worn by a male authority- yet every day Islamic women who adhere to God’s desire and wear the Hijab thrive within an individual, gender-based, organizational and structural discriminating society that fails to acknowledge and accept cultural differences. If the world would just stop and listen, perhaps the hatred, lack of respect and biased racism would come to an end. Just who in fact, in the world we live in today, is being oppressed, patronized and discriminated? The common misconception non-Muslim follower’s especially western women associate with the Hijab is loss of freedom. One may argue that freedom is the ability to act upon anything one would like to do, when in fact freedom is defined as ‘doing the right thing without fearing other people’.
Another argument that religion maintains the oppression of women in terms of rituals is that in some instances women are not allowed in a sacred place when going through the menstrual period. Also, even in marriage the women have to promise to obey the man in their vow whereas the man doesn’t need to make this promise in their vow. Arguments against the idea that religion maintains the oppression of women is that society is becoming more secular so rituals aren’t so important as they use to be, which means women are no longer oppressed. It can also be argued that it is not the rituals that are patriarchal and that it may just be the use of ritual by men. This means it is not religious rituals that are patriarchal, but instead it is the way in which men use rituals to match their own ideology.
The French government rationalized their ban by stating that enacting the “law is in the best traditions of the French republic, which declares all citizens equal before the law and—no less important—equal in the face of one another” (Hitchens). The French government believes that these traditional Muslim face veils are hindering the equality for women and its citizens, and therefore made it illegal to publicly wear the niqab and burqa. The state justifies the ban further by proclaiming that it would help preserve French cultural values and values, establish national assimilation, and relieve what is supposedly oppression against women. Although it is true that Islamic culture suppress women to some degree, subjugation of women is indeed at odds in Western cultures, and outlawing the right to liberally veil will not solve these problems. France’s ban of the niqab and burqa is not the proper solution to assimilate Muslim women more equally into their republic society, by restricting them from their customs and traditional garments will not make them more French, it will only make France less free.
Canada sent 2500 member of the Canadian Forces to help provide security for the people and rebuild Afghanistan. It may have cost a lot of money but it is a legacy for the Canadian government that they were able to aid and assist an ally and a nation-state in it quest for change and the removal of a terrorist group. Canada also took part in the Suez Canal crisis, a conflict that was seen as something that could possibly lead to a WWIII, by being the peacemaker along with the UN. In quest for the Suez Canal, Britain, Egypt, France and Israel had a conflict. When Britain, France and Israel invaded Egypt, the United States opposed because it did not want to ruin its economic trade (oil) with Egypt.
With these facts, gay marriage should not be considered an abomination nor a sin. . Gay Marriage vs. the Bible: Hypocrisy of Life The dream of every young girl is to one day stand before her family, friends, and God and commit her life in marriage to the one she loves. However, the dream of marriage for homosexuals is tarnished with acts of hatred, homophobia, and constant hypocrisy from those that interpret the Bible in a manner that benefits their own personal beliefs and understanding. This is a country based on freedom of religion, yet the religion in which this country was founded on,
“My Body Is My Own Business” by Naheed Mustafa In this essay, Mustafa explains why she has chosen to wear the hijab. She wrote this essay to express how she feels that the wearing of the hijab brings her equality and freedom, not the oppression and forced silence North Americans think it does. She explains the root cause of why she chose to wear the hijab and the effect she believes she will have when wearing it. I believe Mustafas message is that the women in our society are judged based on how they look and that this will never allow women to gain equality. She says, “Women are taught form early childhood that their worth is proportional to their attractiveness.