Western liberals must stop reducing Muslim women to the caricature of a veil & support Muslim feminists who oppose it as sign of oppression.https://twitter.com/sherlockmichael/status/823064469731307520 …
…Especially when many (like my Muslim mother and the Muslims in my Turkish family) see it as a sign of women’s oppression.
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I can understand that. Signs create assumptions. A language of their own. Veils are like appropriated words. Emotional.
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think the key is to address the Sign on a cultural level, to open it's meaning. Images of women in veils being themselves.
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when I came to Egypt, I had a lot of assumptions about those wearing Hijab. Created a lot of discomfort as I didn't know how to engage
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Now I know each different. To one no contact (maybe a high five), another I was in a mud fight with (playful).
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Cultural Identity is our greatest oppressor, shaped by both in group and out group.
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