Who released these posters & why? Why echo the Sanghi "Hijab OR Kitab" narrative? Why "pehle hijab fir kitab', why not 'hijab bhi, kitab bhi'? 🤮 "Precious things shd b kept covered"?! NO, women are not "things", rape isn't theft of "precious things". #thread 
Some (not all) of these posters & statements are old but show how "Precious things shd be covered", like "stay in your veil & the world will stay in line" "Don’t cross Lakshman rekha, you won't be raped' is rape culture, victim blaming. #HijabisOurRight struggle says the opposite
As our statement against #HijabBan says: What women choose to wear whether they choose to cover or uncover, is a matter of ‘choice’. Cannot be a measure of modesty and immodesty. True for patriarchal imposition of religious practices across the spectrum. bit.ly/3gBo6yL
To patriarchs across communities: Stop trying to tell women what they must wear in order to be respected - instead respect women no matter what they wear. That's what the #HijabisOurRight struggle is about. Sign here bit.ly/3gBo6yL
To paraphrase the great feminist educator Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain, author of Sultana's Dream parodying pardah; and a campaigner against mandatory pardah for Muslim and Hindu women in the 19th century: "forcing women out of the veil is just as oppressive as forcing them into it."
The deliberate framing of the #HijabBan issue as a false binary of "hijab vs kitab", pick one OR the other, makes me suspect the motives & politics of whoever released this poster that Republic and other bigoted propaganda channels are now busy amplifying.
I find that one of these posters at least has been owned by Farooqui Luqmaan, who says he's an @aimim_national leader. I also note that on TV he modified his stand to say "we choose both". @asadowaisi pl get him to realise & regret the "precious thing shd b covered" bit as well?
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