This
gets even better. For the faithful among us, women don’t just represent the meat
part of the meal, they are the whole deal. Mona Eltahawy has a story for you.
Faith
is dressed in tribal garb as Muslims debate British ruling on niqab
The niqab, or the face veil,
terrifies me. I am a Muslim woman for whom the niqab says very little about
religion but a whole lot about the erasure of a woman’s identity, her very
existence as a human being in any society.
I am the first to admit that my views on the niqab are
thoroughly grounded as much in my own very personal struggles with the hijab,
which I wore for nine years, as they are more generally with the obsessive
focus on how Muslim women dress – an obsession shared by Muslims and
non-Muslims alike.
The woman, dressed in black from head to toe, began by asking me
why I did not wear the niqab. I pointed to my headscarf and asked her “Is this
not enough?”
I will never forget her answer.
“If you wanted a piece of candy, would you choose an unwrapped piece or one
that came in a wrapper?” she asked.
“I am not candy,” I answered.
“Women are not candy.”
Freedom
for Egyptians has more on the theory that women originate from a sugary like
substance:
Believe it or not but in my last years of high school, I had a
history teacher who sometimes volunteered to vomit his personal views on women
and religion. He sometimes digressed from the class to express some personal
opinions.
One of the comments that I cannot forget until today is that when he said one
time that women are like sweets (particularly Basbosa) if left uncovered, flies
will stop on her. Hence, he believes that women’s best place is their homes and
wearing headscarves.
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