Does Hijab degrade women and oppress women?

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Three out of four converts to Islam in America are women. What does that tell you?

There are some women in Muslim countries who do feel it oppresses them and they want to be "liberated" from the hijab and Islamic rulings for women. But this has to due with the culture of the country being oppressive towards women and does not stem from Islam. It's a shame Islam gets lost in culture sometimes.
 
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I live in the UK and wear a hijaab and I feel very proud of it MASHALLAH, a lot of western people have said to me that it looks very beautiful. In my opinion it defineltly doesn't degrade a women, however sadly a lot of muslim women themselve prefer to take it off and then use the excuse that they are opressed etc. On the other hand some women in reality are opressed for various reasons i.e they are not accepted in the type of community they live in or there is a lot of fitna (danger of being attacked) because a hijaab is a muslim womens identity. I agree that it does initiate from the country/culture however some just wan't to be free from the hijaab. Hijaabi women in the UK in my opinion are living a care free life and don't feel opressed despite the strong western culture, a lot of them see a hijaab no different than a hat.
 
Hmm... I must be weird if I find Muslim girls brave enough to wear one to be cooler than the ones who don't. Guess I have a thing for the "oppressed and degraded" type LOL!
 
AntiKarateKid said:
Hmm... I must be weird if I find Muslim girls brave enough to wear one to be cooler than the ones who don't. Guess I have a thing for the "oppressed and degraded" type LOL!
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That is not what I meant, Im trying to say that some muslim women prefer no to wear it, its not about being cooler than the other.
 
salam alakium brothers and sisters :)

My sister reverted to islam some time ago, but still she does not wear hijab all the time only for the obvious like praying, entering the mosque etc.

Shes obviousley scared of something but im not really sure what, she looks beautiful with or without her hijab but ive herd stories from other sisters about them having being verbally abused by brothers in the streets for wearing the hijab and been a white woman. i thought they would be more angry that a revert white woman didnt wear hijab. i think this must be some cultural issue or something.

It confuses me.
 
Jess4491 said:
salam alakium brothers and sisters :)

My sister reverted to islam some time ago, but still she does not wear hijab all the time only for the obvious like praying, entering the mosque etc.

Shes obviousley scared of something but im not really sure what, she looks beautiful with or without her hijab but ive herd stories from other sisters about them having being verbally abused by brothers in the streets for wearing the hijab and been a white woman. i thought they would be more angry that a revert white woman didnt wear hijab. i think this must be some cultural issue or something.

It confuses me.
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Yeah it might be due to the way media shows hijab in a wrong way.Its just another form of racism.Hope people finally see the purpose of it.
 
Airforce said:
Yes,bro, we need to go and argue with kafirs like sarkozy about the burkha right their face in their forums rather than doing in an islam forum.
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bro, allhamdulillah, we are doing whatever we can. our aim at Islamic-life is to build a dawah responses database so that everyone can benefit from it and use those responses wherever they want. So if you are active on kafir forums then use it and earn the reward, insha'Allah.

It is waste of time to argue with people who are not seeking truth because they argue to win and showoff. No matter how many times you point out their errors they will never accept. So we should spend our time and energy on better things which would benefit people on a large scale, insha'Allah. Our job is to convey the message and not waste time with ignorant people.

and Allah knows best
 
for the amount of time ive been a muslim, i am more afraid of getting oppressed by a muslim woman then a non muslim and thats the truth. some muslim girls with this fashion craze and a desire to dress like a kufir. they want people to follow after them. these days a muslim girl looks more strange at you then anybody and thats the way things are going now. non muslims don't scare me at all. where i live they are very open to it. alhamdulilah i get a lot of respect
 
yeah i know what you mean, from speaking with my sister and her fellow sisters the muslim community who were born into the religion seem to oppress more,

insha'Allah this wont always be the case :)
 
Just speaking as a counter argument, doesn't it defeat the purpose of wearing a Hijab in western countries(not all but in some areas). Like many said, one of the purpose of the hijab is so the woman isn't harassed. In some cities/town/places in the west a woman might be harassed more by wearing a hijab, as oppose to her not wearing it, will help her blend in and she wont stand out. Doesn't wearing the hijab make the woman stand out from the rest and catch attention of others? I have herd many stories about a Hijabi woman being harassed because of that. I do know, that in majority of the places in the west, people are actually more tolerant and will not harass the woman because they have more decency than that, but the woman still catches the eye of more people by wearing the hijab because she looks different than the rest.

I just want to hear the opinion of people, and i actually want to hold a study on this topic and will be conducting an experiment in different places in western countries to see if this hypothesis is correct.
 
Salaam...
^ Well, you asked whether it makes someone stand out from tha rest... Well tbh I think it jsut depends on where you live, speaking from L-town =P in UK, its a predominantly Muslim area where I live, so I dont think it really does, buh i guess it also depends on tha people around you, referring to their personalities rather than their religous beleifs. However, when I go on London and use public transport, you du get people giving you offkey looks like your just guna make something go kaboom or sumet. Wierdo's! Doesn't really bother me, cause I wouldn't take it off for them for jack & if they really think that ery sister whu wears it gets beaten up ery night and threatened into wearing it, guess thats just pure ignorance. I dont even understand that mentality. I'm not trying to say that there isnt tha minority which does but its not tha majority of muslimahs. Its a crazy wurld we live in.
 
ieshia said:
Like many said, one of the purpose of the hijab is so the woman isn't harassed.
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well not really. the problem with this explanations is that it is extreme as it does not work in all the cases as you pointed out. if there is a great fear of harassment for sister then this is an extreme case where it is allowed for her to take off her hijab. however, if there are cases like these then she should not be going out without a male mahram to begin with. therefore, it will be hardly the case where she will have to take off her hijab.

ieshia said:
but the woman still catches the eye of more people by wearing the hijab because she looks different than the rest.
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correct and this is the problem for bringing up arguments like these. not getting attention is never a shari' argument. however, to be fair to those who bring up this point, what is said regarding is that if she covers herself then the probability of being stared and enjoyed by men is very low in comparison to a women who is showing off her stuff. People may look at her wierdly but this attention is different than the other attention which a half naked women get.

and Allah knows best
 

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