So, in the latest news, the French Minister for Women's Affairs claimed that women who voluntarily don the hijab are just like Negro slaves who attempted to justify slavery upon themselves.
As if that wasn't bad enough, an online petition was launched complaining against this minister...not for likening our hijabi sisters to slaves, but for the derogatory usage of the term 'Negro'!!!
And so she apologized, but only for the term, and said she would stand by 100 % everything else she said.
Truly, we live in times predicted by our Prophet (salla Allahu alayhi wa sallam), where morality and modesty are considered backwards, and indecency and nudity are considered progress and enlightenment.
What if an argument were to be made in the exact opposite vein? That people who feel they must show skin, and dress in a provocative manner, are themselves slaves to the ever-changing norms of society and to the false gods of fashion?
From a purely philosophical and intellectual standpoint, it's a two-way street, and just as she wishes to argue that Muslims are brainwashed, one could just as easily argue that it is her ilk who are brainwashed.
Who will be the judge?
"Surely, the One who has created knows what is best. For indeed He is the Knower of Hidden Affairs, the One Aware of all" [Tabarak: 14].
Our Creator knows what is best for us, and in one aspect I do agree with this racist pompous supercilious patronizing xenophobe: all Muslims are indeed slaves, and we're proud of it. We are all slaves unto Allah, and we humble ourselves before Him.
- Yasir Qadhi
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