Muslim women Talked about how to wear Hijab A new pole is “strong” in front of a new pole Half of Britain believes women are pressurized To insert it.
The survey found that 49 percent of the British people believe that Muslim women wear hijab due to family or community pressure, while only one quarter (26 percent) see Decisions as a personal choice,
New YouGov Survey – by which was commissioned Ahmadiyya Muslim community And earlier this month included 2,130 Britain adults – more than 20,000 Muslim women gather in the country’s largest Muslim conferences, Jalsa annually in the UK.
Dr. One of more than 6,000 female volunteers in Munaja Chow, 40, Jalsa Salana helps to run a tent city on 210 acres Hampshire Farmland. Independent He started wearing hijabs at the age of 16. “There are many options that we make daily,” he said. “I have made an option to wear hijab as an expression of my religious beliefs.”
His words were Dr. Maliha Mansoor echoed, who felt that the hijab was “strong”.
Responding to the findings, 36 -year -old maternity science and UXBRIDGE’s Gynecological Registrar said: “I am not surprised by the results, but it is disappointing, because I want people to hear how Muslim women really feel.”
The women we talked to in the attack Salana believe that wearing hijab is a free option.
“Wearing hijab is an option like any other, and the hijab enables us to feel spiritually grounded in a world that is physically oriented”, an ophthalmologist Dr. of Fernham in Surrey. Chow said.
“It’s strong because when I am going about my day -day life, I don’t have to think or worry about showing – I don’t think it’s most importantly”, Dr., Dr. Mansoor echoed, who is also a teaching companion in the Nafield Department of Women and Breeding Health at Oxford University.
“It’s strong because I choose who meets and who does not.”
The results of the survey also revealed that Britain’s majority (53 percent) believes that Islam is not compatible with British values. And an inequality was found among the number of people watching negatively (41 percent) negatively (41 percent) to Muslim immigrants as compared to Christians (7 percent), Jews (13 percent), Sikhs (14 percent) and Hindu (15 percent). Meanwhile, about one third of the British people (31 percent) believe that Islam promotes violence, according to research.
In Jalsa Salana, Union Jack will be raised with an Islamic flag, which will be to mark the beginning of a three -day “Muslim Festival” with more than 40,000 people from all over the world.
The annual event organized by the Ahmadiyya Muslim community is a series of main speeches by Khalifa of Ahmadiyya Muslim community and purity worldwide by Mirza Masor Ahmed. The people present at this year’s program also displayed exhibitions, bookstalls and a market, insisting that there was no conflict between being British and being Muslim.
Media narratives are blamed for increasing misconceptions, Dr. Chow believes. “Public assumptions are not made in a vacuum. I think the media coverage of Muslim women ends the idea that we are ‘others’ instead of the members of the society completely.”
A doctoral student at Cambridge University, 26-year-old Ifat Mirza-Rashid said about his decision to wear a hijab:
“Look at the society today – there is a lot of pressure on women to see in a certain way. Hijab is a powerful response and resistance to that kind of pressure. It encourages people around us to see who we are, instead of what we look – and it is really strong.”
The comparative literature researcher continued: “This is just a piece of cloth – but then it is too much, because it is a reflection of your beliefs. It is powerful to be able to express your beliefs because you can give a certain statement to give a certain statement about who you are and what your priorities are.”
