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当前回潮象征的伊斯兰教的复兴 hijab 经常被考虑，当由殖民化和经济迟延一再破坏了阿拉伯穆斯林的企图恢复他们的自豪感和身分。 人总有一个保守的倾向并且起反应反对哪些是新和不熟悉的，无需意识到它是否是好或坏为他。 某些人仍然认为回教妇女坚持佩带 hijab 哪些是被压迫的情况的“非常标志，因为他们由传统奴役并且不知道充足地他们令人悲痛的情况。 “如果只”，他们大概认为， “妇女的解放和独立的运动醒那些妇女的头脑，他们将拿走 hijab.”

这样一个天真观点由有回教一点知识的人民分享。 他们，如此习惯世俗论和宗教折中主义，无法简单地了解回教教学是普遍和永恒的。 无论如何，越来越有妇女，在阿拉伯国籍之外，全世界接受回教作为真实的宗教和包括头发。 hijab 请务必一个奇怪的对象为非穆斯林人。 为他们， hijab 不盖妇女的头发，而且掩藏他们不得以进入的事，并且那是实据至于为什么他们感到心神不安。 从外面，有效地，他们不能看什么是在之后 hijab. 每个穆斯林致力他们的生活于上帝。 它是奇迹至于为什么为什么什么都不说关于“面纱”宽容尼姑的人们批评面纱 muslima认为它“恐怖主义”或“压迫的”标志。

“为什么在它的自然状态掩藏身体？”，您可以要求。 但认为它被考虑了粗俗五十年前在日本游泳在游泳衣。 现在你能毫无遗憾地看日本游泳在比基尼泳装。 如果您游泳，然而，与露胸部，人们说您是无耻的，但是去南法国海滩，许多妇女，年轻和老，在露胸部采取太阳浴。 If you go to a certain beach on the west coast in America, the nudists take a sun-bath as naked as when they are born. On the other side, at the medieval times, a knight trembled at a brief sight of a shoe of his adoring lady. It shows the definition of women’s “secret part” can be changed. How you can answer to a nudist if she asks you why you hide yours busts and hips although they are as natural as your hands and face? It is the same for the hijab of a muslima. We consider all our body except hands and face as private parts because Allah defined it like this. Its why we hide them from male strangers. If you keep something secret, it increases in value. Keeping a woman’s body secret increases its charm.

Even for the eye of the same sex, the nape of a sister’s neck is surprisingly beautiful because it is normally covered. If a man loses the feeling of shame and starts to walk naked and excrete and “make love” in the presence of other people, he would then become no different than an animal. The problem of sexual harassment which is discussed very frequently proves how men are weak to resist to this kind of attraction. We could not expect prevention of sex harassment only by appealing men’s high morality and self-control. A short skirt might be interpreted by men to say: “if you want me, you may take me”, a hijab means clearly, “I am forbidden for you.”

The Muslim woman covers herself for her own dignity. She refuses to be possessed by the eyes of a stranger and to be his object. She feels nothing but a sense of pity for the Western women who display their private parts as sexual objects for male strangers. If one observes the hijab from outside, one will never see what is hidden in it. Observing the hijab from the outside and living it from inside are two completely different things. We see different things.

This gap explains the chasm separating those from the understanding of Islam. From the outside, Islam looks like a “prison” without any liberty. But living inside of it, we feel at peace and experience freedom and joy that we have never known before. We choose Islam against the so-called freedom and pleasure. If it is true that Islam is a religion that oppresses the women, why are there so many young women in Europe, in America, and in Japan who abandon their liberty and independence to embrace Islam? A person blinded because of his prejudice may not see it, but a woman with the hijab is so brightly beautiful as an angel or a saint with self-confidence, calmness, and dignity. Not a slight touch of shade nor any trace of oppression is visible on her face.

“They are blind and cannot see”, says the Qur’an about those who deny the sign of Allah, but by what else can we explain this gap on the understanding of Islam between us and those people?

The author is a college lecturer and she blogs at www.awinsjclarke.com