Thanks. Just realizing that "the right to wear the hijab" as I wrote, sounds a bit strange. Think a minute about a right for man to wear a suit and tie in western society.
I think most of discrimination and hate against Muslim customs pops up because of islamic fundamentalism.
An other thought yesterday came to my mind concerning the appearence of Niqab in our streets. These garments counterweight women who are running around in the evening half naked. Those are not prostitutes, they think semself quite fashionable. Both are extremes.
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By Islamic fundamentalism, you mean Muslims adhering strictly to the rules of their religion?
Well, I don't think that has anything to do with the discrimination against the hijab. Discrimination and stigmatisation usually are caused by external factors such as misconception, intolerance, arrogance, and selfishness.
Everyone has elements of fundamentalism in them, and whether they strictly adhere to it or not, I don't think it should be a cause of discrimination.
Ok, fundamentalism as you see it I can't oppose. I thought about a phenomenon what has little to do with religion. Islamism, and Salafism as the primary Sunni-Arab movement, has emerged as a response to the globalization that has not been mastered in the Muslim world. Fundamentalism in this sense was concerned with the destruction of national states and the establishment of an Islamic world order. And what came out of it we have seen in the extremist movements like Taliban, ISIS....
And that makes people in western societies so scary and comes up when they encounter the long black total body cover in our streets.
The Taliba, ISIS, and the likes are political formations camouflaged in religious outfit.
There is nothing intristically scary about these women. The have "the right to wear hijab" or dress anyhow like you pointed out.
You'd agree that men in suit and other clothing too do carry out terrorist acts, and that doesn't make the suits a topic for debate. The law holds people responsible for what they do and not what wear.