Hijab

In modern day society, the hijab is a very controversial item of clothing. While the Muslim women who wear the hijab believe it to be nothing of concern to people, that they simply wear it because it is part of their culture and they believe that their body is their own. Although the hijab is non-threatening, there are still people that believe that they are terrorists, and there are others that believe that Muslim women are forced to wear hijabs by men.
Throughout the article “My Body is My Own Business” by Naheed Mustafa, she explains the reasons why wearing the hijab means so much to her and her culture. She begins by stating that she doesn’t care about the way that people look at her for wearing the hijab. Naheed chooses to wear the hijab
She relates wearing the hijab the covering from the head-to-toe to the image of an animal in a cage. She gives the example of assuming the animal is free so it doesn’t have to deal with the harsh actuality of its real habitat. She says that when women wear the hijab they are allowing themselves to hide themselves and to make them the reason as to why other people look at them. Catherine stated that the hijab is not the way for women to take control of their bodies as they are listening to the orders of a man who cannot control his own sexual desires and frustrations. Muslim women are considered to be a man’s property and they feel the need to protect their woman. In the Western countries, even if a woman is raped while wearing a hijab, they suffer and believe that their communities will no longer accept them even though it isn’t their fault. The hijab is a way of making a woman “feel” as if they are in control of their body when it is the complete opposite. As Catherine relates to seeing several women wearing hijabs and niqabs, she says it makes all women feel submissiveness and degradation as we have no power is we hid ourselves. The hijab does not show freedom; it shows that women have no control over their bodies due to the sexism in today’s society and our