Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Hijeb: How, When, Why





"Hijab" or woman's muslim scarf as it is called by some people, is a critical issue in muslim arab world. Tunisia women have been always blamed of not following the religious traditions of wearing such a type of clothing. In the link below you will notice the extent to which Tunisia is rebuked because of such an issue while the relaity is completely the opposite. In Tunisia hijab is not an opression but is never abused. Wearing hijab or not in Tunisia is completely bound by the social circumstances of the people there and to a contamporary fexible and soft interpretation to the conditin mentioned in our religion which was, is, and will be always islam.


Here it is another link where you can realize that hijab is not an opression but also is not somthing that we should refuse. In this article, although few is mentioned about the woman's opinion of hijab in Islam wolrld, still the way woman dresses in Islam is not as important as her role in the family, at work, and in the society as a whole,. It's rather, to consider hijab as a personal issue; each woman should have the choice to wear it or not according to her personal convictions.

1 comment:

Yvon said...

hi Waffa i strongly agree with you that every human has his right that shoudnt be flouted. For the fact,Tunisia, which is a democratic and autonom States, has the rights to vote or adopt whatever rules they estimated benefit for their citizens.Therefor, im strongly against those muslims authorities who qualify Tunisia as a boycott of the fundamental rules of the koran.