Hijab - an apparel of piety

Woman’s right to hijab is the right to dignity and protection

Time and again the media blatantly transgresses righteousness by spreading anti Islamic policies (thus building a highly misleading notion by devising a repugnant slogan called “Islam phobia) allegedly on pretext of “liberalizing” women mainly in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries where women (Muslim) go out guarding their modesty by wearing a hijab (cloak). Such chivalrous qualities are deliberately derided by the west where women are treated as mere objects of pleasure.

In USA, UK and other modern countries the crime rates have escalated rapidly surpassing even the biggest of their skyscrapers, thereby exposing the “ugly face” of these self-styled “liberal” countries in matters concerning women.

Women in west are indubitably, the most ill-treated and dejected beings owing to the incessant and merciless assaults on their body and mind, occurring at a frightening rate. Due to the lack of morality, men in west on the whole continue to assume a woman as nothing more than a standby for leisure until the next “woman” is found.

This poor state of immorality is slowly but surely going to destroy the civility, morality and above all- the essence of humanity.

Countries like France have mindlessly affronted Muslim sentiments by placing a ban against wearing hijab or even a headscarf in public institutions, distressing Muslim women all over. What are they trying to convey?

What form of “liberalization” compels upright women to shed their cloaks and protective garments to be harassed and abused ruthlessly?

As a matter of fact, opposing hijab or headscarfs is definitely “not liberal” but an out-and-out violation of the most basics of human rights.

A true liberal and a true human is the one who respects humanity and advocates freedom and dignity in every corner of the world regardless of race, religion or color of the skin.

Sadia Masroor
Kavkaz Center