The girls make fun of their non-Muslim friends for assuming that the Hijab girls wear the veil because they “have to,” or because their fathers make them. They also roll their eyes at the idea that they are oppressed.
I find it profoundly repugnant, intellectually dishonest, that they do not address the serious geo-political significance of Hijab for the women in predominantly Islamic countries for whom the decision to not wear Hijab is a death sentence. Mocking the American “sensational media” for stereotyping Muslim women is a profoundly disrespectful betrayal of the women who don’t get to satisfy Hijab by tossing a Paris scarf over their hair while wearing jeans and t-shirts.
This attempt to trick women in the West into seeing Hijab as the liberating free choice of the believer failed in France. Only in Sharia-Free societies do Muslim women have the liberty to convince others that they wear Burqa or Hijab of their own accord.
Most of the Hijab Girl-Power videos are made by women, western women. The male Imams and Sheiks have a different view. MEMRI TV offers hundreds of recorded sermons dealing with Hijab- all curiously silent about male appreciation of the female mind and personality. Instead, men are simply warned to keep their cattle, I mean women, covered up, lest they infect the purity of the men. The veiled woman is the sign of male strength, a measure of his ability to rule his household. The real justification of Hijab for Islamic teachers is that men will rape women unless the latter are covered up. This speaks volumes of the civilizing potential of Islam at the level of self-discipline and personal responsibility.
