Anti-Racial Profiling Of Muslim Women

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Islam is in fact one of the fastest growing religions in the world, however in today’s society Muslim women who wear the Islamic veil or hijab are portrayed to be oppressed, lack democracy, weak and unfree individuals. In a study, written by Wayne Martino and Goli M. Rezai-Rashti in the article, The politics of veiling, gender and the Muslim subject: on the limits and possibilities of anti-racist education in the aftermath of September 11 attempt to address the basis of veiling out of an anti-racist procedures that is able to engage with Islamophobia without ignoring the implications of prejudice across the Orientalist divide. This paper will illustrates three ways in which women’s veiling practices challenge the construction and perception …show more content…

Advertisements in mainstream magazines have increasingly relied on explicit sexualisation of both men and women to sell products. They provide impossible body images for women to strive towards, the female body is repeatedly objectified in advertising and rapes and beatings are often results from dehumanization of women. According to the study done by Hoodfar “veiling was adopted as a feminist protest against the objectification of the female body and the tyranny of beauty”. (p.422) Many Muslim women do not wear the veil because they are oppressed or the lack freedom, they wear because they want to be considered as a person and not a sex object. The literal meaning of oppression is “inflicting harsh and authoritarian treatment” (oxford dictionary) An individual who prefers to be judge as an equal and not as a piece meat, is viewed in today’s society as oppressed and weak. However females are who are constantly objectified and dehumanized in advertisement are consider to liberal and free. This backward thinking has blocked many individuals to gain basic knowledge about ones religion. Anyone with a brain would be able to identify which of these two cases are really being oppressed. The problem is not that Muslims women are being oppressed the problem is that many people choose to be ignorant. In the study done by Hoodfar, some of the Muslim women wear the veil because it represents a means by which it diverts the gaze of men away from sexualizing the female body. (p.422) most females in today’s society are pro feminism and the veil allows Muslim women to be treated as an equal and not as

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