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In many interviews people keep saying that in Islamic countries the Hijab is totally optional, but that the woman want to wear it. Now we're finding out the wo
by almosthere 8mo ago
In many interviews people keep saying that in Islamic countries the Hijab is totally optional, but that the woman want to wear it.
Now we're finding out the woman that don't want to wear it get shot.
- mittensc 8mo agothey want to wear it because they dont want to get shot or arrested and tortured
- dyauspitr 8mo agoNot true, I’ve lived in middle eastern countries where it’s not as draconian and it’s definitely not mostly involuntary.
- mittensc 8mo agoperhaps they want to wear because they dont want those slightly better consequences?
- almosthere 8mo ago> as draconian So its draconian, just not "as draconian".
- dyauspitr 8mo agoYou’re assuming what culturally specific women want.
- epolanski 8mo agoIn most muslim-majority secular countries it's more up to tradition than religion. You won't find wearing hijab that common in Albania, Kosovo, Indonesia or many of the central asian stans. In Turkey or Jordan you will often see hijabs, but most women don't wear it. Hell, most muslim women in western countries do not wear it. Thus, I don't know what kind of data backs such comments. Of course many like wearing it. As a muslim female friend of mine says "it's very convenient when you don't have time/energy to do your hair to just wear an hijab". My female, christian, SO liked wearing the hijab too in muslim countries (even in those were it's not common) because she finds them fashionable. But I don't think women want to have to wear it and given the choice it seems clear most don't.
- tty456 8mo agoMany times it is not "optional" within a family or even in public. Men in those countries often enforce this.
- 9dev 8mo agoOvergeneralisations like these are just lazy, and most importantly not helpful. There are a lot of predominantly Muslim regions in the world. Reducing all of them to the Iranian regime is like concluding Christian women all wear string Tangas because that’s what you’ve seen on a beach in Brazil.
- jananas 8mo agoI know this is just a troll. Nevertheless: Iran was always known to enforce some level of covering a woman’s hair. There are other Islamic countries that do so, some more strictly then it has been the case in Iran. And there are plenty which don‘t, like Egypt, Turkey or Marocco.