It is not women who from the beginning decided that they would be resolved, but it was male religious leaders. As long as women around the world struggle to get rid of hijab / niqab / burka, as long as women in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran are not free, we should never ever accept the veil (ie hijab) as something positive, far less like something feminist .

It is not women who from the beginning decided that they would be resolved, but it was male religious leaders. As long as women around the world struggle to get rid of hijab / niqab / burka, as long as women in countries such as Saudi Arabia and Iran are not free, we should never ever accept the veil (ie hijab) as something positive, far less like something feminist .



In 1958, Egypt's President Nasser laughed well at the dream of the Muslim Brotherhood to get all Egyptian women to wear the hijab. The Muslim Brotherhood was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna. In a few years, the movement across Egypt spread a great deal thanks to Hassan al-Banna's active traveler, where he founded subdivisions in several places. The Brotherhood spread rapidly from Egypt to Sudan, Syria, Palestine, Lebanon and North Africa. This is not any organization. In the 1940s, they had frequent collaborations with Nazi Germany, which led to Nazi Germany giving them the financial support the brotherhood needed to spread its ideology. The Brotherhood's ideology leads to an authoritarian and totalitarian society system; a social system based on sharia.

By systematically indoctrinating girl children, through systematic oppression of women for decades, the brotherhood created its dream in the late 1980s. Today, 2019, even non-Muslim women with a hijab in Egypt - even to be sexually harassed by men with Islamist life views. They managed to get virtually all Egyptian women wearing hijab but not through a feminist equality ideology! The consequence of such ideologies, for example, we have seen in Iran where no man with the full use of his mind can claim that the Iranian regime is a feminist regime.

The woman who chooses to wear a veil by herself usually does so for trying to appease God and appear as a good "pure" Muslim; a pure Muslim compared to the Muslim women without a veil. There is no organization or regime that promotes hijab, niqab or burka that is feminist. All countries with sharia are countries with statutory women's oppression. To choose the hijab by itself is to choose oppression and not freedom. Or, as Devin Rexvid from GAPF put it: “It (the veil) reinforces and normalizes rather than challenges the woman's subordination in ice-cream-engraved environments. Women must cover their body to prove their chastity and purity, showing that the purpose of the hijab is to limit their sexual freedom. "

Mona Eltahawy from EXMNA explains it by saying "this (hijab) is our version of the kind of cleanliness culture promoted by the religious right, with its obsession with women's bodies, its notion of modesty that unfairly charges girls and women with the glorification of female virginity. ! "

If we want to fight Islamist honor culture, we must also fight the foremost Islamist symbol - namely hijab. Regardless of whether the woman in question has, of course, chosen to touch it in her zeal to appear as a "pure" and "chaste". However, it must be an ideological and political struggle. We should never take the right to offend people, behave racist or xenophobic. But we have to take the right to fight for true feminism where women's rights really stand in focus!