The CBC News headline is: “University of Waterloo student’s hijab business addresses lack of Muslim representation in fashion.” This oppressive garment should remain scarcely represented. It should not be normalized in any free society.
Countless young Canadian entrepreneurs are trying to carve out a living across the country, but CBC would never give them the benefit of its large platform to advertise their products, all the while presenting the advertisement as a “news item.”
To think that any Western media outlet would promote a product that is a symbol of the oppression of women, who are deemed inferior in Islam (cf. Qur’an 4:34). This is insensitive to the many women who have been brutalized or even killed for refusing to wear it. But this is not even the first time that CBC has done this. CBC promoted the hijab before featuring Haleema Mustafa, who was subsequently arrested for trying to join the Islamic State.
Obviously this is not to insinuate that Tamania Majeed is a jihadist, but she is promoting a garment that is harmful to women, although it is disguised as mere “modesty.” It is Majeed’s business whether or not she chooses to wear the hijab herself, but it should not be promoted by CBC or anywhere in the West as “modesty” when it is a Sharia requirement that is linked to female inferiority:
(Qur’an 4:34) Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women are obedient. They guard their unseen parts because Allah has guarded them. As for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them and send them to beds apart and beat them.”
(Quran 24:31) And tell the believing women to reduce of their vision and guard their private parts and not expose their adornment except that which appears thereof and to wrap [a portion of] their headcovers over their chests and not expose their adornment except to their husbands, their fathers, their husbands’ fathers, their sons, their husbands’ sons, their brothers, their brothers’ sons, their sisters’ sons, their women, that which their right hands possess, or those male attendants having no physical desire, or children who are not yet aware of the private aspects of women. And let them not stamp their feet to make known what they conceal of their adornment. And turn to Allah in repentance, all of you, O believers, that you might succeed.
If a woman does not cover, woe be unto her….
(Quran 33:59) O Prophet, tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to bring down over themselves of their outer garments. That is more suitable that they will be known and not be abused.
The grim reality is that women have faced prison, lashings and worse in some Muslim countries that enforce the Sharia tenet that women must cover themselves except for their face and hands.
There are hijab stores that are readily available, including online outlets, despite Tamania Majeed’s statement: “Exploring the options I had was extremely frustrating, because there weren’t any.”
We do not often hear people from other cultures and religions complaining about the scant availability of their cultural and religious clothing. Yet Indian sarees are not readily available in fashion stores. Neither are kippahs, turbans, Native American feathered headgear or Mennonite clothing.
Packaged inside a sleek black and brown box and nestled in the folds of scarf material is a card that bears a story written by a Muslim woman. Each time Majeed launches a collection, there are eight new scarves and eight new stories.
Don’t look for the stories of the 29 Iranian women who were rounded up and arrested for shedding their hijab during protests. They don’t have the opportunity to tell their stories. And neither do:
- Ruqiya Farah Yarow: shot dead for not wearing her veil.
- A young Muslim teen girl beaten with an instrument by her own father and threatened with death in Quebec for not wearing her hijab.
- Aqsa Parvez from Mississauga, who was murdered by her father and brother for not wearing her hijab.
- “Malaka,” the Saudi woman who received calls for her beheading for refusing to wear hijab.
- Human rights activist Yasmine Mohammed, who raises awareness about women’s rights in Islam. Why is her story not featured in CBC?
The #NoHijabDay campaign is what Western media to be showcasing: the genuine fight for human rights, opposing the subjugation of women.
“University of Waterloo student’s hijab business addresses lack of Muslim representation in fashion,” by Liny Lamberink, CBC News, October 16, 2020:
When Tamania Majeed first started wearing a hijab at eight years old, she remembers alternating between the same two headscarves because it was hard to find any that she liked.
This was true for her as she grew up in Mississauga and also when she moved to Waterloo region to go to the University of Waterloo.
“Exploring the options I had was extremely frustrating, because there weren’t any,” she said.
“There’s rarely any [local] stores that cater to our needs in terms of what we want to wear or how we want to dress and that’s definitely something that a lot of Muslim women have recognized as a problem,” Majeed said.
The accounting and finance student had been mulling over the idea of starting her own business for two years. On Oct. 31, 2019, she launched Eight Stories of Modesty.
What motivated her, she said, is a lack of representation of Muslim women in the fashion industry across North America but also misconceptions about women who wear the head covering.
‘I want to build a community’
But it’s not just scarves that she’s selling. It’s also — as the business name implies — stories.
“I wanted a more meaningful interaction between the customer and myself,” Majeed explained.
Packaged inside a sleek black and brown box and nestled in the folds of scarf material is a card that bears a story written by a Muslim woman…..
Halal Bacon says
the whole idea of wearing a bag over your head is to NOT be fashionable
revereridesagain says
Equating hijab with fashion is like equating putting lipstick on a pig with cosmetic beauty.
E T says
The CBC/ Liberal propaganda should run a story about the 55 year old lawyer in Iran, Nasrin Sotoudeh, a woman who defended 7 women who removed their head scarves. They were all sent to prison and Nasrin was sentenced to 38 years in prison and 148 lashes.
Men can actually ask that their wives not be sent to prison, they may settle for their wives being disfigured -acid etc.
Confucius said “ The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right name”.
Hijab / oppression
patricia says
Amen,
mortimer says
Unconscionable for women who CALL themselves ‘feminist’ to promote the premiere symbol of MISOGYNY and FEMAL REPRESSION.
The Islamic scarf is the sign that she is OWNED and CONTROLLED by a Muslim male.
revereridesagain says
The ignorant are easily led. They don’t bother to do any independent searching for facts, just swallow whole what their fed in mainstream and social media.
Jayme says
Most womens groups in Ontario are run by muslims.
Keith O says
Whenever I see anything about how Islam treats women I feel a mixture of disgust and rage, how can anyone think that subjugating a woman is “Gods will”.
I’m Pagan and for us females are venerated, protected and celebrated. We know that if it wasn’t for females life as we know it wouldn’t exist and these vermin and their kiss arse, brain dead followers treat women like a piece of property.
And people wonder why I would love to see Islam expunged from this plane of existence!
The Canadian people need to pull their heads out of their arses and do something about this before it’s too late.
Jayme says
There is a growing movement in Ontario and Quebec where bars/stores etc will not call police if something happens with in there building.I would say there is still hope but in reality there is not were beyond screwed at this point.
Falsehope says
I wonder how all those Liberal feminists are going to like it if the Hijab become the chosen body sheet.
PRCS says
Let’s be clear about 33:59 and 24:31, Since neither has been abrogated, each remain today—as written.
33:59 is a non-verbal expression of Islam’s ‘supremacy’.
Women have been ‘abused’ by men since the dawn of mankind’s existence. 1400 years ago, women in Arabia were being hassled during nocturnal visits to public latrines. This ‘revelation’ provided an identification for Muslim women and told Muslim men to leave them alone. Kafir women, of course, remained fair game. It is irrelevant in the West as most women here live in buildings equipped with indoor plumbing, because it is discriminatory, and it is sexist nonsense.
24:31: A note regarding ‘modesty”
“and not expose their adornment except to…that which their right hands possess>/b>
Read…their slaves.
Christopher Watson says
‘lack of Muslim representation in fashion.’
And they say comedy is dead.