Radical Islam vs. Radical Secularism, is Hijab our biggest problem in the Islamic World?

Couple of days ago there was an interview with Ghassan Ben Jeddou, head of AlJazeera TV in Lebanon, he said as we are suffering radical Islam in the Arab world, we do suffer a radical secularism, I though, yea he is write, specially after I saw this group on facebook, the title was something around the day to remove the veil “Hijab”.

As a start I was wondering who gave the people behind this group the right to speak on behalf of Muslim women? Yes some of them might be forced to wear Hijab, but many of them do believe.

Now, thousands of people are being killed in Palestine and Iraq, let’s forget about them, let’s forget about poverty, unemployment, illiteracy, occupations, human rights, let’s ignore all other problems in the Arab world, our main enemy is that piece of fabric that covers Muslim women’s heads, this is our main problem. This is how this bunch of morons decided to solve Arab world’s problems.

But is Hijab the real enemy?

I would like to run a small comparison here, in Iran Hijab is a must, while Tunisia totally bans it, which I consider an extreme violence to personal freedom. But does this make Tunisia a better country than Iran? Iran has a nuclear power, economy, political influence in many countries, and I guess a little better example than Tunisia when it comes to democracy, at least the Iranian president is being changed once a while.

Now let’s back to this group, look at the approach they are using, picturing Islam as a terrorist religion, but how does this help you in accomplishing your objectives? Do you think the west will award you a noble prize for labeling your religion with terrorism? Believe me you are making things worse.

Just for the record, Hijab is not only part of Islam, it’s part of the Middle Eastern culture. Look at these pictures of Jews in Yemen, as you can see some of Jewish women cover their heads, even little girls, some don’t, some of them are covered from head to toe.

Those aren’t Muslim women:

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