Somehow the topic
of ‘the veil’, just keeps coming up. The discussion of whether or not the veil
should be banned has come up in Britain once again. Recently a young Muslim woman
in France who wears niqab was assaulted by two men, just weeks earlier a
pregnant Muslim woman in Sweden was attacked so badly that her head was bashed
against a car. Women in Sweden were outraged, not only Muslim women showed
solidarity, but non-Muslim women also decided to stand in solidarity for this
cause.
I find it shocking
that anyone could attack a woman like that. It’s really not normal to just
decide to attack a woman who hasn’t even done any harm. But when I think about
this issue in more depth, it makes a lot of sense.
You see, all the
media hype about the veil has succeeded in turning covered Muslim women into
monster type creatures. They have dehumanised women who wear the veil with all
their talk of banning and liberation and what not and so instead of seeing a
woman, with a life, feelings and choices, all people see are faceless beings
who are going against the law and thus can be assaulted at will.
But, while women
have been turned into ‘monsters’, all of this has also managed to somehow
unleash hatred and aggression in people and they in turn have become ‘monster
type’ people. Those who assault innocent women, who swear at women who have
done nothing to them, who insult, curse and mock at women, simply because she’s
chosen to cover her face, these people have displayed such negativity and aggression
with the belief that they have a right to do so, and so we see that all the
discussion, all the claims for liberation and freedom has once again resulted
in Muslim women being the ones who end up suffering.
We need to question
the world we live in when things like this happen. It seems that all the
debating is useless when it comes down to what’s actually happening on a
practical level. Clearly, the only thing that is happening from all this ‘discussion’
is that Muslim women are made even more voiceless and now to top it off, they
are seen as less human than ever before.
If people want the
world’s problems to be solved, they are first going to have to look deeply at
the monsters they are creating in society, both physically and on an ideological
level. Only once we remove all the stereotypes, all the negativity and all the
false assertions, then only can we start looking at making changes that matter,
until then, we will be faced with an increase of monster type behaviour, and
while this thought is saddening, it is unfortunately, a reality.
May Almighty Allah save us
all, protect us from harm and make it easy for all people to see the truth!
Inshaa-Allah
Image 1 from here
Image 2 from here
