I’m living in East London and every time I’m walking on the street I get so amazed- Muslim girls, who are wearing Hijab, the headscarf, are also wearing skinny jeans, lots of make-up, mini skirts or other non- modest dresses. As I have understood the whole point of wearing Hijab is to show your modesty? Or is it just a new fashion? Or perhaps a childhood habit? Either way, in my opinion it’s all or nothing. You can’t go half way with religion. And I know it’s none of my business but I still find it very weird and awkward…You can be modest and still look beautiful and elegant. But how you can be modest and seductive, looking for attention, at the same time? Those two things are like the opposite of one another. Like being a two-faced person? And maybe it gets to me so much because I like honesty in every form. Whether you’re religious or non religious, whatever.
What I think looks right:
Maybe it could be little bit more modest for the ones who look even less attention by wearing only dark colors(or going fully Arabic style), but I still think it looks kinda acceptable. A woman who likes to look beautiful but also in a way which says that she wouldn’t want to be disturbed.
But this? And yet I see it every day around me…
It’s like…
What you guys think??
u r exactly right..Hijab is not a fashion..When someone wear then it should e fully obeying..not like showing boobs size and wearing Hijab wants attention..i get shock whenever i see such kind….U r right LG…
These girls just don’t believe that covering your head has anything to do with modesty, they cover their heads because their families probably make them… But inside they’re regular teenage girls. Well, on the provocative side of ‘regular’, probably also a sign of rebellion against crazily strict family / religious rules.
It’s so stupid from parents to force something, which is not anyway making any sense if they see what other clothes they are wearing together with the headscarf.
Yes, these days it is indeed a fashion. :|
I see this as a way to balance your parents religion and your own sexuality.
But as a background information, I don’t believe in forcing children into religion. If they find it of their own, then it’s right. But with those girls.. they live in modern society, surrounded by half naked girls, fashion and magazines that emphasize showing off bare skin etc.
And in that situation, they cover their heads, they don’t show off their skin, but they do show off their bodies.
It’s hard to balance your life between those two really different worlds.
I agree with you and start to understand how confused and under pressure they must feel.
Going back 15 or 20 years a lot of us were (re)discovering our faith and part of that was putting on hijab, even though it was something our parents never did. Now our children are coming to the age we were then and they’re exploring their faith/identity/culture in a different way. Where Islam was our choice, we’ve raised our children to believe in it from the outset and so they don’t necessarily have the same attachment as we had. Therefore many are likely going to identify with a kind of cultural experience, which includes the hijab, rather than we the close tenets of faith. But anyway, the way they wear hijab is really the least of our problems; under the surface, we’ve got all kinds of issues going on: depression, drugs, alcohol, abortions, STDs… Wearing proper hijab isn’t going to fix all this.
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