Reflections on the Hijab (Veil)

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This paper explains that the author has worn the hijab, or veil, over her head and across her shoulders since she was two years old, mimicing her mother, even though it isn't mandatory for girls to wear the hijab until they reach puberty. The author feels that it is to a woman's advantage to protect herself from men who will ordinarily take advantage of her, often without even realizing it. The paper stresses that the main reason the author wears the hijab is the most persuasive, for her: God wishes the best for all His servants, and so He sets down rules to govern their behavior.

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"Amazingly, Man recognizes and respects my rules, even without any verbal cues. He is careful and deferential, and I do not put him at ease. I want to keep him at a distance so that our public social relationship, whatever it be-student-teacher, supervisor-employee, or colleague-colleague-remains undamaged by the inevitably personal scale that a male-female relationship becomes if we are attuned to each other on more than one level. Revealing clothes immediately describe the less important part of Woman, and the same is true Man. And so I don the simple fabric of hijab before I go out in public with the same sense of protection that plated armor would give me."

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