Wear a scarf on your head for a day and suddenly you become the voice of Muslim women everywhere! This has gotten out of control.
This is cultural/religious appropriation and it is disgusting. I am sure their
intentions are good but you do NOT need to dress up like someone and turn their
religion into a costume in order to feel empathy for your fellow human being.
You should be perfectly capable of standing up for and showing solidarity for
Muslim women without having to dress up like one. And what of the Muslim women
who do not wear hijab? Where is their solidarity? Hijab is an act of worship.
It is a deed commanded by Allah most high. It is not a game, not a costume, not
exotic, not dress up, not sexy.
How about just don't judge, period. |
I feel solidarity
with black struggle in America but to do so I do not need to paint my face
black and walk around or post a selfie while in black face. I feel solidarity
with the struggle of Native Americans but I do not need to dress up like a
Lakota lady to feel it. To do so would be wrong, to do so would be
cultural/religious appropriation, to do so would be insulting and misguided and
so is this "hijabi solidarity". Another point is this: over the past
couple years of this trend developing I have witnessed SO MANY Muslims praising
these women as if they are saints, and Muslim men go out of their way with the
'wowowowow mashallah' comments ... where is this support and praise and
encouragement for actual Muslim women who actually do struggle to wear hijab?
When it comes to reality most Muslim men refuse to marry a woman wearing hijab
... but a white woman playing dress up in one? Oh that is hot, sexy, exotic,
intriguing. Muslim men are all for sexualized hijab just as long as it is not
an actual Muslim woman in hijab. Apparently the men in this ummah of ours are too
weak to handle real hijab.
And where in all of this is the voice of REAL MUSLIM
WOMEN? Where is our narrative, our experience? Where is our voice? It is nowhere.
No one is asking us "hey sister friend what is your life like? What is
your experience?”... No one. Oh but these women in costume offer up their
narrative and suddenly they are the voice of Muslim women everywhere. I
understand that these women have good intentions and they are trying to show
solidarity but the road to hell is paved with good intentions. Good intentions
do not mean the resulting action is good or helpful. Stop supporting this,
start supporting the Muslim women out here doing our thing and living life ...
we are here, we exist, we have a voice and we need you...