It's strange to complain about how people are stupid and ignorant yet do nothing to help change that. Are you educating them? Are you giving them the resources to educate themselves? Are you teaching them about identification of valid sources? Or are you just calling them dumb?
I get that wilful ignorance is frustrating but I think we still have to try to do our part to educate. Like, I'm Balkan where everyone's resource is the parents or a "friend" and not academic works, but I'm gonna shove academics works in their face anyway.
& I'm not saying this is everyone's responsibility but it absolutely is the responsibility of anyone who positions themselves as a scholar or educator in whatever community they're in.
& btw there will always be those people who refuse to learn & will stick to their misinformation and cling to ignorance as if it's something to carry with pride, but there are far more people who want to learn, don't know where to start, and they're the ones we should support.

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Actually you're wrong, World Hijab Day was created by Nazma Khan to encourage women of all backgrounds to wear the hijab for a day and to educate others about Muslim women's choice to wear what they want. I'd know because I wrote one of the first articles about it, as a hijabi.
& it was actually heavily criticised for many, many years by a good majority of Muslim women, particularly hijab wearing Muslim women. One of the biggest criticism was that wearing it for one day doesn't translate into an experience of Islamophobia.
Another major criticism of it, once again by Muslim women, was that the focus on our individual choice to wear the hijab as Muslim women in the West was erasing our sisters in countries where they were forced into wearing it. We were speaking from a position of privilege.
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I was afraid of my own shadow, it seemed. I don't know when it precisely changed or how it happened, but I started to speak up and speak out. I became me.
But when I was a very shy and timid person, I was also extremely conflict avoidant. I was the peacekeeper. I didn't stand up to my friends. I never rocked the boat. I didn't share my opinions and I was so incredibly anxious all the time.
It's so strange to look back and think about it because I don't even know that person. I'm unbelievably confident. I'm constantly speaking out, in person and online. I have an absurd amount of phenomenal friendships and relationships. I'm deeply liked and loved by people.
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My daughter comes home and tell me that a classmate who she's not all that fond of & has complained about said a racial slur and got in trouble. I asked her what it was, she said "the g word", apparently racist towards Black people. Neither she nor I know what this g word is.
Anyway, I googled it and went down the list of ethnic slurs. First of all, there are an absurd amount of them. Second, how in the hell does a 10 year old learn a racial slur so bad that most people don't even know it. The slur is named after a racist toy. Image
Anyway, I am shocked and really disgusted that this happened.
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Happy #WorldHijabDay! I'm thankful for the times and freedom I chose to wear it and I'm thankful for freedom I had to take it off.

& today I wish the same for all of us: a woman's right to chose to wear or not to wear the hijab. Like my mother, who always wears hers proudly. Image
Muslim women are often infantilised by both sides, particularly those who wear the hijab. In some countries, they are forced to wear it. In some, they are forced to go without. The issue remains the same, patriarchal control over women's bodies, entitlement to our choices.
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There was a period in which this happened but it was not at all a Muslim specific act. In fact, more churches & Catholic/Christian properties were confiscated than Islamic ones. They were confiscated and nationalised. By the 1960s authorities changed their tune towards religion.
The communist regime did look to reduce the impact religion and religious leaders had in the public sphere and were proponents of secularisation. But at pt so was much of the population. In the 1970s we see a huge resurgence of religious tolerance & freedom, esp. towards Muslims.
And then in the '70s & '80's, there was an Islamic revival in Yugoslavia of sorts. The Islamic Theological Faculty was established during the Yugoslav times in 1977. Image
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I want to briefly talk about the misinformation that Yugoslav authorities banned the hijab in Bosnia and that Bosnian-Muslim women were forced out of their hijabs. The reality is that there was an unveiling campaign, led by women, and it had to do with the niqab, not the hijab.
In 1947 it was actually the Islamic Community in Bosnia and across Yugoslavia that declared the niqab was not a mandatory veil in Islam and that veiling the face wasn't required in Islam.
However, this wasn't entirely successful as despite the efforts of the Anti-Fascist Women's Front and the Islamic Community themselves, most women, even those who unveiled publicly, would end up veiling again upon return to their villages due to their husbands.
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