Tags: Religion
By KC Santos
TAGUIG CITY, METRO MANILA – “Women without hijab will not be allowed entry.”
This sign greets visitors to the Blue Mosque inside the Muslim community of the Maharlika Village.
The hijab, also called the burqa or chador, is a headscarf worn by both Muslim men and women. However, it is the women who are expected to religiously wear this piece of cloth.
According to Free Minds.org, the hijab was invented by an Islamic mullah named Mussa Sadr in the 1970s. Inspired by the headgears worn by Lebanese Catholic nuns, Sadr originally saw the wearing of the hijab as a “mark” that spared Shiite women from sexual harassment or rape by the Palestinians who ruled their country then.
In the 1980s, a law was passed that ordered women, either Muslim or Christian, to wear the hijab in some countries. In the same year, its usage became widespread even in Europe and the US.
In 2004, the French government banned the wearing of “symbols” or garb, which showed religious affiliation in public primary and secondary schools.
This caused an outrage from Muslims worldwide. Online forums showed that there some who oppose the ban and there are some who agree to it.
In one discussion thread, Info_gene wrote: “Radical Islamists everywhere make male morality the responsibility of women.”
On the same thread, El Toro Es Guapo wrote: “The problem occurs when ‘secularists’ force feed the idea of the Hijab as a political statement. No…it’s purely religious based, but it’s not a religious ‘statement’ either.”
Another reader justifies the banning of the hijab for “safety reasons.”
Despite opposing views, the hijab has undeniably become part of the colorful history of Islam.
(Photo taken from Daylife.com, Hijabstyle.co.uk and Tsinoy16)
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“According to Free Minds.org, the hijab was invented by an Islamic mullah named Mussa Sadr in the 1970s. ”
This article is so misleading. It is completely inaccurate that the hijab was a recent man-made innovation. In fact, the observance of hijab was ordered in the Qur’aan by God Almighty nearly 1500 years ago at the time of the Prophet Mohammed (peace be upon him):
“And tell the believing women to lower their gaze and guard their private parts from sin and not show of their adornment except only that which is apparent, and draw their headcovers over their necks and bosoms and not reveal their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, or their brothers’ sons, or their sisters’ sons, or their women (i.e., their sisters in Islam), or their female slaves whom their right hands possess, or old male servants free of physical desires, or small children who have no sense of women’s nakedness. And let them not stamp their feet so as to reveal what they hide of their adornment. And turn unto Allah altogether, O you Believers, in order that you may attain success.[An-Nur, 24:31]”
“O Prophet! Tell thy wives and daughters, and the believing women, that they should cast their outer garments over their persons (when abroad): that is most convenient, that they should be known (as such) and not molested. And Allah is Oft- Forgiving, Most Merciful. [Al-Ahzab 33:59] “