World Hijab Day

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AIBU to feel uncomfortable with this day and also really irritated at the lack of discussion over this event from a feminist perspective. There seems to be a wholesale silence from the Feminist blogs and papers I subscribe to, and I can't find any discussion on here. No-one wants to talk to about it.

Just that really.

I tell you what, why don't we just cover the men up? and stick an apple permanently in their bloody gobs I'm sick of all the misogyny now.

I can't see the problem with it, it sounds like quite a positive thing to me.

The sexism that surrounds the hijab in the first place isn't affected by women who genuinely choose to wear the hijab celebrating it for a day.

Modesty

Go to Westfield in the middle of summer and see the woman and daughters covered head to toe. Whilst the husbands and sons walk around in shorts and flip flops.

yep same when we went to a water park in Florida,men and boys paddling in their shorts and flip flops the women walking behind with the bags and shrouded in black from head to toe

We could start a fund to supply all men who haven't yet learnt the simple task of controlling one's self. with virtual reality goggles that automatically turn everyone else into stick people, lowry figures, lego people, what ever works for them(perhaps blobs and they can work their way up to human shape)

or they could drag themselves out of the dark ages and get a grip of themselves.

I'm with MissHoolie

I cannot think of one single reason why anyone would choose to celebrate the hijab or choose to wear one.. So no. I would not be joining in and am rather horrified that any woman thinks this is a good idea.

yep same when we went to a water park in Florida,men and boys paddling in their shorts and flip flops the women walking behind with the bags and shrouded in black from head to toe

Same here at Disneyland in CA. It was hotter than hell (August) and I felt so pissed at these men. Even at the pools, the women (wives and what are apparently nannies) swathed from head to toe stuck sitting in the shallows whilst the men frolicked in the pools.

Fuck that.

its a bit like world Leerdammer cheese day- a complete fucking non event that no one even knows about

fret ye not OP, in fact you have given it the most publicity!

Don't think I will be participating, thanks

I particularly don't like the way it divides women in two groups, the so called modest ones who wear it and the "immodest" ones.

Divide and conquer.

To me, until such time as NO woman is forced or expected to wear this by men, and brainwashed woman, I will assume that all woman who do, do so because they have no choice. As there is no one of knowing who is who. It is therefore a symbol of the oppression of woman and should Not be celebrated.

I find it weird when there are critical discussions about little girls wearing t-shirts with slogans that sexualise them or wearing bikinis yet nobody seems to be concerned that little girls wearing hijabs aren't being sexualised (and punished for being sexualised).

sorry "are".

When is world no hijab day?

I support the banning of niqab's in schools

and I would like to see the banning of girls under 12 wearing hijabs in school

I want our government to stand up against restrictive ultra conservative Islam it has no place in a progressive society

It's a marketing dream. Hijab sales limited to women who wear hijab. Create works hijab day and increase your sales audience

I'd love to see a world no hijab day Sparkly

"People in the West are getting fed up with all this."

I'm a person in the West and I wear hijab, as do lots of other people. Do we not count as people, or are we not actually in the West?

Campaigns against hijab by people who aren't Muslim are pointless. Who wants to be lectured to by people who view you as a lesser form of life in need of re-education? Are Muslim women meant to be grateful for your assumptions and condescension?

Campaigns against hijab by people who aren't Muslim are pointless. Who wants to be lectured to by people who view you as a lesser form of life in need of re-education? Are Muslim women meant to be grateful for your assumptions and condescension

This is what muslins think of non muslims isn't it?

I think it's what Muslims think about people who tell them "If you're not like us, you're wrong."

Scatter - so my British birth, British passport, years of service for the NHS, none of this makes me British?

You do realise the oldest Mosque in the UK is over a hundred years old and that there have been Muslims in the UK before that?

Not "of" the West. What rubbish.

That's what I thought it meant Hiddenhome. I had to read it three times.
muslins!

The day Muslim men are fetchingly decked out in hijab I'll think about it.

Anything that requires different standards of clothes or behaviour for men and women is crap - male invented crap of course.