It's a way to wear your religion like a badge. neato.

I just love the denial filled responses here. There is a lot of focus on how wearing the hijab makes you different and unique and how that is a great thing. Well that only works in a westernized country. What about back in there native countries? The hijab is the norm so using their logic that it is "good to be different" they should NOT wear the hijab when in an environment were that does not make them stand out as being "different".

They also talk about how "men don't force them" to wear the hijab. Really? Just because you think you are choosing to do what they would force you to do otherwise doesn't remove that element from the equation. Tell us what your family and the men of your religion would do if you stopped wearing the hijab and started wearing western style clothes. If the "men don't force them" then it should not be an issue right?

And as usual...it always comes back to us oversexed horn-dog males who can't focus on anything accept sex if we know there is a female near by.

Finally...if all these reasons for the hijab are valid...why only for women? Why are they also not as valid for the men?

Grimm makes a very good point, though only a few states in the Gulf enforce wearing the veil there is alot of cultural and social pressure to do so, the reverse choice is not given, most can't just take up Western styles.

Some Muslims I have met in the west are Muslims not because they believe it wholeheartedly sometimes but because it is inherently different and more rigid in its beliefs and practices. I thought that was a mistake.

However to this video's defense it is trying to raise the issue of having choice regardless of the situation, one should be allowed to do as they want, if you want to wear a veil so be it, if you want to be emo so be it, its about intrinsic personal choices.

Is it personal choice though if as you say the "reverse choice" is not given or accepted?

I erupted into laughter about 4 minutes into this. Ya lady, if you didn't where that bag on your head I'd never be able to get my mind out of the gutter.

It's good to be different. This makes me look like every other follower of Islam. And that's different. What?

I want to hear from a girl who stopped wearing the Hijab. How did her family react? How did her peers react? The fact that this is so one-sided makes me question it.

Oh, and how about you stop wearing make-up if it's supposed to be about removing distractions?

The curious thing to me, is that even with the girls who wear the hijab here in the Kuwait, they wear the hijab yes but then wear tight fitting clothes that leave nothing to the imagination coupled with copious amounts of make up.

This is true even with most who do not wear the hijab, they really have no sense of fashion or good taste. I find it a curio living here in Kuwait. Maybe they need time to find their own style.

The government stance is liberal here in Kuwait, there is no social religious enforcement bar, however this is not reflected in the political process where some Salafist MPs constantly try to impose wearing the hijab to female ministers because frankly they have no better political ideas to work off.

Though I disagree with most of these ladies' reasons for wearing hijabs, I respect their right to wear them if that's what they really want. As long as it's not being forced upon them in any way, either directly or indirectly, then let them freely express their religious beliefs through their personal garb.

I still see the hijab as a symbol of patriarchy, but then Judaism, Christianity, and Islam have always been patriarchal faiths. Just one more reason that religion is not my bag.

This is a one-sided propaganda video that neglects to interview anybody in more conservative regions where Hijab is required by law, and neglects to interview muslims who have chosen not to wear the hijab about the reactions of their families and societies.

If you don't look at what happens to women when they choose to stop wearing the hijab, then saying the hijab is a free choice is unfalsifiable (like saying the unicorn repellant is working).

Im pretty sure the Koran doesnt demand women to wear hijab or burkas. Its more of a tradition imposed so that a wife wont be seen by other men and so that the men wont be turned on. Something like that...

I love imagination frustration stimulation.....hajab is ok by me, baby!(god I hope her ears are tiny and nibbleable and that she practices the fine art of regular ear cleansing)oh, and that dumb-ass white woman that wears the affectation??, her badge of confusion/delusion, because her husband is Islamic???.."Flakes,flakes!"-Zappa

The arguments sound like Scientology and hard core Evangelism.

"if you're a Muslim woman you really -should- wear the hijab".

translation:

if you're a Muslim woman you -will- do what you're told and you -will- wear the hijab or else you'll be endlessly harrassed by zealots who are more than willing to relentlessly inflict their twisted view of reality on your til you cave in, see the light, and conform.

Of course it's your choice.

I don't care about all this jibber jabber. All i know is that I have a thing for Muslim girls, especially the stereotypically middle eastern looking ones (big eyes, big nose, big mouth!)

>> ^jwray:
This is a one-sided propaganda video

Calling this a propaganda video is taking a bit far, its explaining the choices of some muslim women who choose to wear the hijab in the Western world, its not the videos fault when it doesn't answer all your questions about one religion or the other.

Its not required by Islam to wear a hijab, it is mainly traditional and social based phenomena mostly caused by spread of Wahhabi Islam of Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan is a Islamic nation but we do not follow the Sharia nor do our women wear the hijab.

If people have such a problem with extremist Islam why not start at the source called Saudi Arabia which imposes a strict interpretation of Islam used as a political tool of control and influence by the Royal Family against their own population.

But of course that won't ever happen, the oil is too important.

The burka and hijab are symbolic of male domination over women. End of.

Maybetheywearitbecausetakingitoffisdangerouseveninwesterncountries?

Hijabs and honor killings are two different things, they stem not from religious reasons but from cultural ones, usually using religious reasoning to back it up.

That is why honor killings and other such violence doesn't take place in Muslim communities based in Canada, USA, Australia, Indonesia.

But your bias was already know before this

>> ^Farhad2000:

That is why honor killings and other such violence doesn't take place in Muslim communities based in Canada, USA, Australia, Indonesia.


Did you even read those links?