An interesting interview with Jacinda Ardern

[king1]

Garbage. I know several Muslim women, most busy running their own businesses or in professional roles. What they wear is a personal choice, made for many reasons, oppression is not one of them. That attitude you display by such a statement is not only a conditioned political response, but it is ignorant, revealing a real lack of understanding of the roles within a modern Islamic family, or community.

Does wearing the keffiyeh make our politicians into Palestinians?

Is wearing a tie a sign of the patriarchy? Suits? Or a symbol of the role imposed on men they are unable to escape in western society? Socks with sandals? A handkerchief knotted at the corners and worn on the head as my very English step father in law loved to wear while mowing a kiwi lawn to within an inch of its poor summer life (much to my secret hilarity)? We are so bad at judging people by what they wear, we even legislate against entire groups on the basis of the cloth they choose to put on their bodies.

We should be ashamed of ourselves. Or at least more aware...

there are 3 muslim women in my family they dont wear the hijab here but when the go home they must wear it...its not their choice

I feel that says far more about the people they are going home to...