Friday, November 08, 2013

In Turkey, from headscarf to 'immorality' ban - Al-Monitor: the Pulse of the Middle East

In Turkey, from headscarf to 'immorality' ban

For many in the West, the Islamic headscarf (hijab) that many conservative Muslim women wear is a symbol of oppression. They assume that these women must be wearing this unusual headdress because their husbands, fathers, brothers and others must be forcing them to do so. Even when the headscarf is worn willingly, it is taken by some feminists as the sign of an internalized misogyny — a "false consciousness" into which Muslim women were drawn by patriarchal men.

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