The Heresy of Hijab In Islam.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=210jpT- ... herifGaber

another ostentatious
'n' virtuesignalling too


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(silly) old link
https://www.agoravox.fr/tribune-libre/a ... -la-142316

& the balance act
https://www.haaretz.com/reflections-on- ... -1.5286038

Interesting.

Have only gotten thirty three minutes into it. Its long.

Interesting how both Nassar, and his audience, are laughing at the thought that all women should be veiled. That must have been in the Fifties, or Sixties. Interesting how the rise of Fundamentalism has made that less laughable now. The middeast has slid backward in time.

An American author of a book about the history of subject ( I saw interviewed on TV) said similar things, about how in ancient times they would punish women FOR wearing a veil (because they were putting on airs, or trying to avoid being harrassed by men), not for NOT wearing veils because veils were reserved for non slave women. Slave women had to go unveiled.

Nasser was very secular. He believed in secular pan-Arabism, and despised Israel.

His Vice President was Anwar Sadat, who sought to make peace with Israel, and got killed for it.

Will watch this as a fellow Middle Eastern who doesn't wear hijab but know a few people who do.

I think it is more of a tradition and societal norm where i live. Although i am pretty sure the few people who wear hijab that i know are perfectly comfortable with it, someone i know has even told me that they are so used to it they would feel strange and uncomfortable if they would take it off outside.

None of my family and close friends wear it though, as i don't come from a religious background. This will be an interesting watch anyhow so thanks.

Very interesting. Thanks for posting this, Boo.