Comments on: She’s (not) a Super Freak

By: RCHOUDH

RCHOUDH — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 22:40:24 +0000

I agree with DIMA I think this article was written with a malicious intent to ridicule the notion of hijab by implying that Muslim women who cover are all “hags” underneath because they don’t need to “beautify” themselves.

By: Mahashakti Dasi

Mahashakti Dasi — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:32:17 +0000

yes, and he was apparently so surrendered to the arrangement, meaning he is obviously a very conservative type of person that he would go along with what his ’superiors’ thought best for him, all the way to the actual marriage, then, you’d think his compliance would have made him think, well, maybe we can have a good marriage and she will become more beautiful to my eyes, blah-blah. But he completely balked at the idea. Means he doesn’t believe in the rules of his culture, whatever they are.

By: Mariam

Mariam — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 21:25:36 +0000

Reason 12018219 for wanting to ban niqab. Ergh.

By: lark

lark — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 20:49:56 +0000

“Growing up, whenever I heard women in my community of Middle Eastern immigrants discussing young women for marriage, I would ask them if they were speaking about women or produce at the super market. The obsession with external appearance was something that really troubled me, so I had a hard time sympathizing with the protagonist of this article.”

I am not a Muslim, but I lived in Iraq when I was a child.

I have always heard that one benefit of veiling was that it removed women from the ‘meat market’ mentality that is so common in the West. You seem to be saying that that is not true, that ‘meat market’ mentality is prevalent in the important area of marriage. If that is the case, why veil?

By: Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist

Deaf Indian Muslim Anarchist — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 16:30:03 +0000

I found the BBC article really offensive. Growing up in the White Man’s land, I have heard comments from ignorant white Christian men who suggested some Muslimahs wear the niqab because they’re so damned ugly, their daddies (or husbands) forced them to cover up.

By: Sumera

Sumera — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 10:30:28 +0000

The article was playing on the circumstance that not seeing what the girl looked like before marriage (which some people do) was a huge factor in his subsequent decision. I found it slightly strange he didnt ask to see her face beforehand

By: Jasmine

Jasmine — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:23:47 +0000

“But I found many problems with the way in which this article was written. It made it seem as though this concept of annulling a marriage over such a superficial quality is something foreign to the Western world.”

I read the article too and it didn’t seem like that to me – but more that they’re surprised that he didn’t see her face beforehand, which is a foreign concept to Westerners and to many Muslims all over the world.