A new blog was created with the name of “Proud to wear hijab (veil)”
The blog is created, by a group of girls (or one girl, but the subject speaks on behalf of “we”), in order to defend veiled girls and women and at the same time to share success stories between girls after being veiled and how their lives changed afterwards.
There was also a post entitled “Damn it… we are doing that ourselves” accusing 2 caricatures by Blade who was criticizing Hijab.
Then another post describing several ways of wearing Hijab.
At the end, there was an explanation about why this girl (or this bunch of girls) decided to create this blog, as she/ they have read in Al-Arabia website:
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2008/03/09/46702.html
a call to make the 8th of March a universal day to take off the veil under the name of “World day of taking off Hijab”.
Reading Al-Arabia post, I was provoked by the writer’s style, whereas, as usual, he allegedly mentioned the name of a Christian businessman who spoke about the decrease of good taste of clothes in Egypt; and cited Denmark cartoons (don’t understand the reason either).
In Al-Arabia post, comments (1091 comments!) were varying between backing and opposing Hijab.
Sorry that both, the blog and the website, are in Arabic.
2 responses so far ↓
1 CP // Mar 22, 2008 at 8:04 am
I cannot understand why a woman should be proud to cover her hair and her neck. But as long as it’s her choice…
The problem is when a woman is forced to wear the veil.
2 AH (London, UK) // Mar 26, 2008 at 9:03 am
Even though I’m unable to read this site, it’s interesting to see the caricatures - I clicked on the entry that has about 20 exclamation marks in its title - that alone is telling. I wonder what it says…
It would be interesting to see this translated into English or French, to broaden the blog’s spread and open up more debate. Thanks for the link MM.
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