WHY WEAR THE HIJAB?

It's a known fact the Muslim women are stipulated by religion to wear the hijab. On why Allah, or rather, Prophet Muhammad issued this injunction is not known to many.

Well, first of all, let's see what Muslim women are allowed by Islam to expose and the restriction varies from the intensity of Islamic radicalism and fanaticism.

In some countries, only the face, hands and the feet of Muslim women are allowed to be seen by public. Yet some cover their faces and the whole body by a garb known as burqa, seen in Afghanistan women. In some Taliban ruled places, not wearing the hijab is punishable by death. Still, there are Pakistani and Arabic women who are in the entertainment business who renounce this in question Muslim women attribute.

I live in an Islamic country and I have Muslim female friends who either wear the hijab or ditch the piece of cloth. Once, I asked, my hijab wearing Muslim girlfriend regarding this and she told me that Allah won't bless those women who don't close their 'aurat', meaning the body parts that a Muslim woman is imposed to cover. She also told me that for every strand of hair a woman exposes, she will be whipped in hell, one stroke for one stroke of hair exposed to non-Muhrims (unknown men and men outside family) in afterlife. 

I did some research and found out that in Islam women must cover their aurat and should not wear make up publicly to avoid being sexually harassed or raped. The only place a woman should expose her aurat is before her husband for reasons I know you can guess.

Are Muslim men that weak? Unable to control an erection at the sight of a woman or a girl child for that matter. Note Aisyah and countless other Muslim child brides.

Princess Amira of Saudi doesn't seem to worry that she will be whipped for every strand of hair she exposes. Seen here below, her husband seems to wear the hijab for her and she is dressed like Kate Middleton or Ivanka Trump as a matter of fact.

So, why such discrepancy? It is to keep women subjugated to satisfy the Muslim male ego; lest a woman gets educated, she will be a threat to such patriarchal customs in the name of righteous religion and godly establishments. 

The Saudi royalty, Dubai, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi lots are progressive; not to mention Queen Rania of Jordan (I admire that lady) Taliban's influence failed to penetrate these areas; at least to the upper class. And, the upper class is well educated in Western educational systems while Malala was shot in the head for being outspoken on girls' education. Oh, the irony of it.

Afghanistan and Iran were highly progressive in the 60s and 70s and everyone knows how both countries are faring now in terms of women's rights and even human rights.

Like how the advancing Islamic civilization was decimated in Cordova, Spain in ancient times by a religious zealot, putting a stop to all scientific and mathematical achievements, Taliban is extending it today and they know that if they cripple women, they cripple the society and their propagating of extremism would be facilitated further.

Princess Amira of Saudi

Putting a stop to education means blocking knowledge from the rest of the world and the hijab is just another way to shut out information in the disguise of goodness of religion. Where women liberation is forbidden, that's where a society fails to progress.

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