Muslim Woman’s Veil

Muslim Woman’s Veil:The issue of women in Islam is very controversial. All materials on this subject, whether in print or online, should be used with caution because of the lack of objectivity. While it is generally agreed that the rights granted to women in the Quran and the Prophet Muhammad was a huge step compared to the situation of women in Arabia before Islam, after the death of the Prophet’s position of women in Islam began to decline and return to the pre-Islamic norms. But just as the women’s movement in the West began to gain momentum in the twentieth century, the same place, albeit to a lesser extent, in the Muslim world at this time. Feminists in the Muslim world in the twentieth century (until 1980), as a rule, the upper class women, feminism was modeled after the feminists in the West. But just as the current socio-political model in the Muslim world after the colonial period began in the 20 century, the transition from the Western model of society and government on the “Islamic” model of feminism in the Muslim world began to take on Islamic forms, and will not accept Western feminist form. This was true not only for Muslim women, but for women throughout the Third World. After throwing schackles colonial imperialism, Third World women are increasingly growing resistant to cultural imperialism are sold in the West, even in the form of feminism. Consequently, the third woman in the world, as women of color in the West understands that while they have something in common with the struggle of the Euro-American feminists, what is best for the Euro-American women would not necessarily be better for them. Therefore Muslim women who become distinctly “Islamic” feminism, as women of color in the West develops “womanism” in contrast to feminism, which was mainly formed by the problem of top-class Euro-American women. One example of the differences between Western and Islamic feminism feminism concerns the question of the “veil”. Hijab (often translated as “veil”) is a form of scarf or headdress usually worn Muslim women. This has always been seen by Western feminists as oppressive and as a symbol of subjugation for Muslim women to men. As a result, it often comes as a surprise to Western feminists, the veil has become increasingly common in the Muslim world and is often worn with pride college girls as a symbol of Islamic identity, symbolically freeing them from the neo-Western cultural imperialism and domination.