الثلاثاء، 20 سبتمبر 2011

Hijab, all it takes to be a good muslima?




A couple of days ago, I got startled as I came across two photos online (ironically, both in one session). The first depicts Ethar El-Ketaney, the young award-winning Egyptian journalist, with Khaled Diab, a scenarist who partook in Amr Khaled's Mujaddidun TV show, and his "unveiled" wife Aisha. The former posted the photo on her fan page on facebook commenting she ran into Khaled and his wife Aisha accidently in the US and added 'it's a small small world'. Till this point in the story, it's all fine. I was astonished when I read the comments by the fans and facebook users making fun of them and the fact Khaled's wife is not veiled:

Inas Lotfy لا حول و لا قوة الا بالله حقا انهم مجددون!!!!!!!!!!! 
Hazem Mohamed و نعم التجديد و القدوة لشباب المسلمين...لا حول و لا قوة الا بالله
Tito Emad Eldein بصراحه ياريتك ما نزلتيها
Aly Mostafa يا جماعة هى زوجت خالد مش محجبة


The second incident was a news piece on youm7.com covering Amina Erdogan's activities in her last visit to Cairo, surprisingly what bothered some of the readers most was:

الحجاب ايتها السيدات
بواسطة: omar
بتاريخ: الأربعاء، 14 سبتمبر 2011 - 21:18
يا ريت سيدات مصر (سيدات الاعمال) يقلدن أمينة أردوغان فى حجابها

Should I go on with endless exclamation marks?!
I wonder why we have reached this prevailing thinking?  Why do we always conotate women with hijab? Why do we have to adopt such duaalism: hijabis and non-hijabis? Why do we refer to a hair-covered woman as hijabi while her legs are half-exposed and not so in the opposite situation?
Why can't Khaled's wife be called 90% hijabi? 
I get so disgusted at such sick thoughts!!
Listen to Moez and reflect….



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