The irony and hypocrisy of ‘World Hijab Day’
The event coordinators fail to see the irony and hypocrisy in the way the 'World Hijab Day' (WHD) organizers changed the hijab from a symbol of Muslim women’s oppression by Muslim men into a symbol of protest against “Islamophobic” non-Muslims.
Another World Hijab Day (WHD) has just passed — the eighth since Bronx resident Nazma Khan founded the event in 2013. The protest-demonstration every February 1st seeks to “foster religious tolerance and understanding by inviting women (non-Hijabi Muslims/non-Muslims) to experience the hijab for one day.” The goal of diminishing bullying and prejudice is admirable, but the bitter irony and mountainous hypocrisy accompanying this event turn it into a farce.
Khan claims that WHD was designed to “foster religious tolerance,” and she promotes the hijab as “empowerment” through the social-media slogan #EmpoweredinHijab. The implication here is that non-Muslim women will stop discriminating against Muslim women if they only “try it on for a day,” but in actual fact, it is Muslim women who suffer the greatest discrimination from the Muslim men who dominate their lives.
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