Hijabs and Women
Types of veils: The veil, ‘hijab’ has many names, numbering about twenty-eight or more. The names are derived from Arabic, Turkish, Persian, Kurdish, Afghani and Pakistani…according to the culture of the people or the country to which the veil belongs. Among them are the most well-known and famous names in the world.
•Al-Abaya
•Al-Baranga
•Al-Broca
•Al-Burqa
•Al-Chador
•Al-Hayek
•Al-Hijab
•Al-Jadeite, ‘Al-Yashmac’
•Al-Kardung, ‘Al-Kardounaj’
•Al-Kemashic
•Al-Khimar
•Al-Niqab
•Al-Purdah
•Al-Robes, ‘Al-Jalbab’
•Al-Shawl, Al-Sheila
•Al-Shef, ‘Al-Sharshaf’
The truth about the hijab is not only related to women.
Since the time of the painful and disgusting incidents that took place in the Middle East in the mid-sixties through the seventies, including the change of politics, the emergence of the Mohammadiah revolution ‘the Islamic Republic’ in Iran, the dispute between Palestinians and Jews in modern Israel and the rest of Palestine, wars between Jews and Arabs, chaos and terrorism, the veil, ‘khimar,’ has returned to the region and appeared emphatically on the woman. The fanatic Mohammadian ideological appearance in general dominated the Eastern Mohammadiah societies and split it again, as if the East had erased from the essence of its soul the philosophy of Judaism, Christianity and moderate Mohammadiah.
The Middle East has become hostage to the ideological tyrants, the Mohammadians who are outside the Mohammadiah, their philosophy of fanaticism, extremism, violence, terrorism and murder. As a result of the escalation of hostility between the Mohammadian Arabs and the Jews, the Mohammadians have shown worldwide their insistence on the weakness of the poor woman by coercing her into wearing the veil compulsorily and against her will and in fact it has no comprehensive relationship with the Mohammadiah belief.
The woman with her natural weakness since creation, her passing through many different beliefs and customs over time, the stripping or denial of her rights in the world of politics and civil life, she succumbed to the oppressive reality in the East and West. She walked the path of silence and threats from the arrogant and tyrannical man with his ideology, selfishness and blind fanaticism.
But Western women in the Christian world, who are infidel in the mind of the Mohammadians scholars, rose up and revolted against false traditions and gained some of their rights since the time of the separation of ‘religion from politics.’ From the point of view of the rights of the Eastern Mohammadiah woman, the ignorant racist world blames and accuses her while she is innocent.
O world, o people! Neither the soul of the Messenger Mohammad calls for fanaticism towards women, nor does the Noble Qur’an have any evangelism or a relationship with those reactionary, narrow fanatic backward minds. And they create misguidance or slander in their visions, thinking and translations of the Mohammadiah creed.
These minds are lost and backward and motivated by abnormal, weak ideas that are contrary to the course of development, discoveries and demands of modern life. It cannot be accepted and applied arbitrarily and threateningly to the new emerging Mohammadiah generations, whose dreams and visions of the modern scientific future ignite in their hearts.
The owners of those narrow, extremist minds found an opportunity and emerged to mobilize the desperate Arab and international Mohammadiah youth, who are calling in the street for their freedom and the rights of their future life, behind them to raise their voices and support and impose their misguided political stances that have no determination, no fruitful result and no success.
These narrow minds have no new or useful means to oppose the West in the service of society, support for world peace and the development of modern life. Thus, the ideas of fanatics in the face of the West remain rejected for ever, retreating and idling about their administration, laws, legislation, motivation, purpose and new discoveries.
The Mohammadiah woman obtained the rule of her Mohammadian dress forcibly from the legislation of a weak, tyrannical, selfish man who was disguised with slanderous claims he said were linked to the god of the Messenger Mohammad and the Noble Qur’an. The sophistic Mohammadian man imposed exclusive conditions on woman’s dress including the veil and even its type and colour, because he considered veiling a woman’s body to be honourable and not attracting someone else’s attention to her, as if she were a weak and incomplete creature without an intellectual will. Additionally, he claimed and said that god wants it and it is a woman’s duty to be covered with veil. His theory was only for the purpose of achieving his political, doctrinal goal, to promote his role in his society, the success of his position and his ambiguous philosophy.
The Mohammadian man publicly proves that he is weak in will of thought, unable to control himself when he looks at the unveiled woman. He takes advantage of the opportunity and turns on the weak, peaceful woman who is deprived of her rights and throws at her the weight of his mysterious laws and arbitrary rulings. This is how the Mohammadian woman remains throughout her life as a prisoner and servant of the selfish purpose of her man, who is closed to himself, the developed society and to the understanding of the guidance of the Noble Qur’an.
Yes, in some social situations, it is appropriate for a woman to cover her head or body when she goes to the mosque for prayer and out of respect when she is with the clergy, at times of death, condolences, anniversaries…And official religious meetings.
The Mohammadian Man
As for the Mohammadian man who pretends to be religious and chaste and believes in himself as upright and above sin and defilement of the world, he is considered the enjoyment of freedom of life and purity and everything is his property.
Does he have the right alone without the opinion of a conscious, educated woman, to bind, untie, legalise, enact laws and impose rulings in his society as he imagines and misunderstands the Mohammadiah creed?
Does a Mohammadian sophist with his selfishness and the laws of his tyrannical rulings have the right to sit and talk to a non-Mohammadian woman in a café, theatre, cinema, sports field, workplace or public park, or dance with her in a club?
Does he have the right to take a walk on the beach in the summer or to swim in a swimming pool among girls and women and look at their bodies and talk to them?
Does he have the right, if he is a doctor and it is permissible for him, to touch a woman’s body at the time of her examination and treatment?
Does he have the right to sit in front the TV and watch the bodies of athletic girls?
Does he have the right to watch on television an analogue film that is prohibited for young people to see under the age of fifteen?
Does he have the right to watch on television the bodies of Miss Universe and the World or in their showroom on stage live?
Does he have the right, if he is a women’s hairdresser, to touch and manipulate a woman’s hair at the time of washing, cutting and decorating it?
Does he have the right, if he is a fashion designer, to touch a woman’s body and the dress to cut and sew it?
Does he have the right, for a model dancer, to watch her body live in front of him on or near the stage and enjoy her desire and the attractiveness of her art?
The opponent of women in the Mohammadian world is the selfishness and stupidity of the sophist man and the tyranny of his weak mind, nothing else.
To be continued, next time I will talk specifically on hijab, until then have good times with care.
These excerpts are from the book: “Is God a Lie or Are We? Certainly We Are!”
Author: Jamil Elias Kabalan
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