Morocco, a fairly Westernized Islamic nation, is making moves to place less emphasis on the headscarf. They claim they’re doing so in order to combat extremism.
I have mixed feelings. As it stands, the Moroccan government is simply cutting down on the number of textbook illustrations featuring women in the headscarf; they aren’t outlawing it, or disallowing girls who wear the scarf from attending school. I have big problems with limiting women’s rights to wear the headscarf in public, just as I have big problems with requiring them to wear it. Many Islamic nations have banned or limited the headscarf at some point in their history in an attempt to seem more modern — and there’s often a significant backlash. Disallowing the headscarf in school or in public only serves to hurt religious girls and women, and bar them from participating in the public space. I hope that Morocco continues this moderate stance, and doesn’t devolve into banning a religious/political symbol in a way which would negatively impact female Moroccans.
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Thinly-veiled bigotry
Posted by Jill @ 11:02 am
Speaking of the headscarf, a Muslim teacher in England has been sus [...]
Why, why, why, why, why, why, why is the veil being described as a “political statement”? It’s symbolic of religious *piety*, not politics. While I don’t doubt that the Radicals use the Hijab to further their agenda *politically*, that does not make the Hijab a “political statement”!
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I’m in a mood today.
Sylvs, I’m not sure about that.
I think for many women it is a symbol of piety. But I think for others it’s clearly political — it’s a reclaimation of traditional dress in the face of Western imperialism. There’s been a substantial return to the headscarf, even among women in more secular/liberal countries like Turkey. I don’t think that’s because there’s been a substantial upsurge in religion. I think for some women, wearing the headscarf is a form of protest. That form of protest is clearly tied to religious piety, but I don’t think it’s as simple as that. I’ve read accounts of women wearing the headscarf in certain situations and not in others — like the Muslim comic who doesn’t wear the headscarf in her daily life, but wears it during her performances to make the point that veiled women aren’t silent. I don’t think that’s bad.
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Posted by Jill @ 1:43 pm
Not trying to make it hijab day here at Feministe, but Russell sends on this articl [...]
And of course, in removing images of women in the hijab from textbooks, you’re going to be removing women from textbooks overall. Particularly in history texts, anyone from earlier times when the hijab was the norm is gone.
Sigh. One more way to make women invisible.
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