A modern hijab poem?

Salam, cute poem..To UZ Or UC whatever your ID is.. Do you know that the rate of STD's and AIDS is less in Islamic communities compared to others in the world?

As a Muslim women I am not oppressed... My husband is a great man who treats me as if I am on a pedestal...he does not cheat nor does he do drugs or drink. I do not have to worry about being beat.. I do not worry about his brothers or cousins being sexually inappropriate.

Hijab Poem

Dedicated to faithful Muslimah

Mashallah!

I think if you want to wear an overcoat in 112 degree weather, that's your choice. Enjoy.

To equate the wearing of anything other than a hijab with being "being a guy's toy", "sexually terrorized and violated", impure, or infected with STDs is ridiculous.

To believe that wearing clothing that allows ones hair and/or face to be seen or that doesn't completely hide the beauty of the form that God gave you will so inflame men by merely being in your presence as to drive them to sin is, at best, pious and arrogant and borders on the absurd.

As for not being oppressed. Here is a recent news article regarding stepped up police action in Iraq over women in unislamic dress.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070716/wl_nm/iran_cra...

I ask, where is the choice? Is not the absence of such a choice the very definition of oppression?

Say, 'We have adopted the religion of Allah; and who is better than Allah in teaching religion, and him alone do we worship.'

Holy Quran

i agree

i jus really dont care whether ppl think im oppressed or whtever if they see me in my hijab....it has been my choice n always will.

you call it a poem, i call it a rant. Free isn't the word i will use to describe a woman tied up in a gown. but that's just me. It's just like telling me that some humans choose to crawl into a cage and lock themselves up and that frees them from rape and sexual abuse and cheating. Ok great.

One last comment, why do opponents of the hijab compare it with STDs, rape, assault etc? They are not mutually exclusive. People wearing the hijab have the same freq of STDs, rape etc, the difference is the communities they live in do not encourage disclosure infact, they could get punished for reporting it because the assumption is that they got raped because they weren't modest.

Frankly, i am tired of people defending the hijab. You don't see me defending my right to dress like i want to despite the fact that it gets condemned by the different religious groups. You know why? It's because i don't care what anyone else thinks. If you are fine with wearing the hijab, good for you but i am tired of hearing about it. Just wear it and go about your day

Jen3365: You don't worry about being assaulted/raped etc because you have decent people around you not because you are islamic. And yes, alot of disease statistics are inaccurate among islamic nations because accurate reporting is almost impossible. I don't agree with your assertion that STDs are low in islamic countries or that men cheat less or that rape is less encountered. Look at the stigma against women for speaking up or even admitting to rape. Some get punished for being raped. That is why it is not reported. You can believe whatever you want to believe unfortunately it wouldn't change the reality of islamic women everywhere

nice poem, kind of reminds me of sami yusef's nasheed "free"

really well written poem-thanks for sharing that

i agree with what is written