Yasmine Mohammed ياسمين محمد  🦋

I also fight for the end of laws that force a woman to wear a hijab. But somehow, some people who insist their concern is Muslim women’s agency lose all interest when it comes to protecting Muslim women’s right to wear it,per their free choice, & call my beliefs “rape culture”.https://twitter.com/YasMohammedxx/status/1101883897363591168 …

1)It was a MUSLIM woman that made the first spot-on analogy to rape culture, @AsraNomani 2)How Islamophobic of you to fight against hijab..I guess that means you always, always, always hate Muslims? 3)It was an ignorant comment aimed to stifle criticism of Islam-& it won’t work

@ConfessionsExMu. Hi @LibyaLiberty. I invite you to have a conversation on your thread about “rape culture” & how purity culture of “hijab” is defined by the precise elements that define rape culture. I understand this is uncomfortable but hope you will dare this inquiry.

This kind of response comes from both privilege and ignorance. No one in these photos is told they'll burn in hell if they don't wear scarves. None of them will be imprisoned, beaten or killed for not wearing scarves unlike millions of women #FreeFromHijab #WhiteWednesdays

Free means free to choose either way. Free means free from judgement, especially the judgement of other women.

Your point is a separate one with which I agree. Now let’s have a deeper conversation about purity culture. If western culture was allowed to challenge rape culture, why deny women from Muslim cultures the right to challenge the ethos of rape culture in our societies?

Would never deny women from Muslim cultures such a thing. As she said, @LibyaLiberty fights for the end of laws requiring women to wear a hijab and I think that's great. But I would also never try to label a woman who freely chose to wear one as participating in rape culture.