{"id":3476,"date":"2015-12-26T10:46:55","date_gmt":"2015-12-26T16:46:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/admin.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/?p=3476"},"modified":"2016-08-09T09:52:36","modified_gmt":"2016-08-09T15:52:36","slug":"stray-thought-on-the-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/janetheactuary\/2015\/12\/stray-thought-on-the-hijab.html","title":{"rendered":"Stray thought on the hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

So now I\u2019ve read in multiple places (e.g., Ali-Karamali per my summary the other day<\/a>, and the recent piece in the Washington Post<\/a>) that hijab-wearing may connote to the wearer a commitment to observing her religion faithfully, but that there are many Muslims who believe that it is not required of women to cover their hair, much less in the complete, ear-covering way, as opposed to the more casual draping.<\/p>\n

But the media keep perpetuating\u00a0the belief that\u00a0it is a necessity.<\/p>\n

Latest instance: \u00a0an article from The New Republic, \u201cSex and the Muslim Feminist<\/a>,\u201d by Rafia Zakaria, made its way across my twitter feed by way of a re-tweet.<\/p>\n

The article itself\u00a0is about the feminist orthodoxy\u2019s move to emphasizing sex and being \u201csex-positive\u201d and treating feminism as fundamentally about having sex. \u00a0If you skip past the buzzwords, here\u2019s her bottom line:<\/p>\n

The anointing of sex positive feminism has over time permitted the transformation of a deep and complex feminist movement into one that helps brand magazines and sell lingerie to women who can imagine themselves emancipated based on the consumption of sex. In becoming the central metaphor for liberation, it has eviscerated critiques of imperial overtures abroad and encouraged a deliberate deafness toward all the dialects of empowerment that do not translate themselves into its language. Its biggest casualty has been the stereotyping and exclusion of Muslim feminists, whose frontline struggles against terror, against religious obscurantism, and against the weight of patriarchal domination have all been relegated to a position of inferiority, based on their refusal to affirm that freedom essentially and centrally means the freedom to have sex.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

But note\u00a0the photo the magazine choose to pair with the article:<\/p>\n

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And here\u2019s a photo of the author herself, that is, her twitter profile:<\/p>\n

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Did the author select this photo? \u00a0Presumably it\u2019s a stock photo and, like headline-writing, not something that authors do. \u00a0But identifying Muslim women as by definition, hijab\u2019ed, that is, covered, while a nice shortcut, is irresponsible.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: \u00a0another thought: \u00a0Do we say, in speaking of kosher-keeping practices, \u201cJews must follow strict dietary laws\u201d or \u201cJews believe they are required to keep kosher\u201d? \u00a0No. \u00a0We say things like \u201cOrthodox Jews believe . . .\u201d to differentiate the fact that some Jews do so believe, and others do not. \u00a0Yet, because Muslims don\u2019t have these differentiating labels, we don\u2019t have an easy way to express the notion that \u201cMuslims of type X believe that . . . \u201d and others don\u2019t.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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