Colorful Hijabs: Gilding Oppression



A visitor to my article 13 Tee-Shirts You Won`t See at Walmart pointed me to the website of Queens mom Sana Rashid who believes a Muslim woman can wear fashionable and colorful hijab and still be modest.

Here is the story:

NY Daily News, 25 Aug 2013, Queens Muslim fashion follower — a hijabista — breaks new modest yet stylish ground

Fashion blogger Sana Rashid in Bryant Park

Fashion blogger Sana Rashid in Bryant Park.

Sana Rashid wears clothing that covers her body and hair in keeping with her Muslim faith. Still, the Queens mom is a total fashionista, blogging about her life and style choices on the site Modhijabi.com.

“I didn’t want the blog to be just fashion, because I want it to be relatable to more people, and I want people to see that, here I am, I’m a Muslim woman, I lead a very normal life,” said Rashid, who started wearing a head-covering scarf, or hijab, in ninth grade.

“People just have a negative connotation about Muslim women, that we’re forced to wear hijab — that everything is forced,” she said. “I do whatever I want.”

Pakistani-born and American-raised Rashid, 30, is one of a growing number of modest yet stylish Muslim fashion followers — dubbed hijabistas — joining the blogosphere and gathering dedicated followers.


Of course if she were back in Pakistan wearing such outrageous, attention-gathering clothing, she'd be whipped. As for her assertion that people have a negative connotation about Muslim women, she's wrong: people have a correct connotation about Muslim women. If Mrs. Rashid truly could do whatever she wants, she wouldn't be wearing a ridiculous hijab in America. If she believes the nonsense she spouts then she is delusional as are all Muslim women.

Let me explain to all my female Muslim readers: one can gild the chains of slavery and wrap them with party ribbons but that does not hide the oppression the chains symbolize. Only a delusional person wearing such fashionable-appearing chains would declare herself a free person able to do whatever she wants.



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