Hijab - Not My Body Not My Choice - A Conversation with Eeman Abbasi
The Thinking Muslim
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The Problem With the Obligation of Hijab
As Muslim women, our understanding of the obligation of hijab was never a problem. Only until Western nations, colonized, came into our countries and colonized us. The first controlled general in Egypt, from 1878 to 1879, was a man called Lord Koma who had a real problem with Islam. He argued that westernized Christianity elevated the status of women while Islam taught that women should be delegated through the veil.
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