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Originally posted by Rihlana
You guys make some valid points! I didn't really consider the sexist and misogynistic undertones before I voted. Do you think many women wear it without wanting to?
If your reasoning is anything other than wanting to break down the misogyny, why do you want it banned?
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I have a problem with Islam's
fundamental vision, a vision that reduces women to the status of an object of desire and temptation, and thus forcing them to live their lives according to men by hiding their bodies.
(If they show their skin and get raped, it's their fault after all, they wanted it). Islam teaches women to hide their sexuality but not to men how to supress their urges.
When asked, a few of my ex-classmates told me that no one forced them to wear it, and that it was a personnal choice and I believe them. But that's because they were
conditioned and brainwashed by hundreds of years of "traditions" by their religion to think so. Now, the hijab or niqab is a part of the islamic identity and some women do wear it by choice, but it doesn't change the profoundly sexist nature of it.