Muslims Women’s Rights to Practice Their Religion

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There is a huge controversy about the hijab in some countries; France, Turkey and Tunisia are the most recognized countries in banning the hijab. France is not like other countries that allow the hijab; it rejects the whole idea of wearing headscarves. France bans Muslim women who wear the hijab from going to schools or even having jobs. In the Islamic countries like Saudi Arabia and Iran, women are forced to wear head scarves. Other countries like Turkey and Tunisia ban whoever female works in the education field from covering her head. The hijab is a symbol of being Muslim, and it should it be left to the Muslim women to wear it or not.

French, Turkish, and Tunisian should ask themselves the question, why do we have Muslims here? The answer is that Muslims left their countries and traveled to France, Turkey and Tunisia yearning for peace, freedom, and money. The grass is greener there; Muslims want to have better lives that they didn’t have in their native countries. The majority of Middle East population is Muslims, whereas in France is Christians. Every country in the Middle East has churches. It’s not a necessity to force France to build mosques for Muslims, but to permit them to practice out religion. The only thing that Muslim women want is to allow them wear the hijab.

The French people (and others who ban the hijab) have many misconceptions about the hijab, even though they have the largest number of Muslims in the world which is between 3.5 and 5 million people (Hunter 2). They take the hijab for granted; they think it is a symbol of jihad, which is a holy war. The hijab is simply a symbol of Islam not the idea that Muslims want to proselyte others. Similarly, the French have a misconception even about how Muslims t...

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Esposito, John. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World. London: Oxford P, 2009. Print.

Haq, Husan. “Wearing the Muslim Veil in America: What it’s Like; Wearing the Muslim veil in America May Cause Awlward Moments, but This Hijab Finds More Positive than Negative in Her Choice.” Lexis Nexis. Web. 22 March 2011.

Hunter. Islam, Europe’s Second Religion. Washington D.C.: Center for Startegic and International Studies P, 2002. Print.

“Prohibition of The Wearing of Hijab(Muslim Headscarves),” JSTOR. Web. 16 March 2011.

Sachs, Susan. “Will France Dictate What Muslim Women Can Wear?” AlJazeera. JSTOR. Web. 16 March 2011.

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