Debate on Hijab and Identity

A piece of cloth.

Why are you so upset? Hashtags.

Just a piece of cloth.

Today, let's find out what this piece of cloth

has done in your lives. Hashtag.

Twenty, thirty, without a niqab.

And today it will come. Why is there still a conflict

over a piece of cloth

and morals?

I will never give up my niqab, no matter what.

And the group of women who

don't want the niqab to go away fights fiercely.

Those who are determined

that women

should take off the niqab, those for the niqab and against

the campaign.

A person without an identity walks through life without

an identity,

her identity exists only within the confines of her home.

And she fights fiercely

and— I mean, she hurls the filthiest

words

online, in this— in this

filthy language. How can you say, "My niqab

is my chastity," and whatever, then criticize in such a

trashy way?

A style that has nothing to do

with a religious person, I mean, since you're wearing a niqab based on

religion,

the women who are determined

to keep the niqab are making videos saying,

"My niqab," and they've added the voice of that crazy woman who says, "No matter what,

I will never give up my niqab," taken from ISIS supporters.

You're crazy, you're crazy.

There's a brain in here.

Where's your brain?

So this group

was crushed professionally,

professionally.

And as usual,

whenever something happens,

aware women talk about it and fight for it, this.

They tell you, "Okay, it's my body, and I'll do what I

want with it,"

"My body is mine."

Okay, so if I cover up, I cover up,

and if I don't, it's my choice. You say freedom, everyone is free.

Who told you it's freedom?

Who told you the hijab—the niqab—is freedom?

There is no freedom. You've been brainwashed into wearing it

because it's actually forbidden even in religion, it's not even there.

Covering the face is an ISIS idea,

and we'll go back to where the niqab came from. I'll take you back to the beginning. You,

I mean, uh, feminists and— those who don't think feminists are

crazy people, people from the Party of Satan, this girl who

speaks out, then they bring out veiled women

on social media,

chatting, appearing in ads, and acting like

they're famous, and they tell you,

"I don't care if you cancel me, I don't"

I don't care if someone cancels me, but the niqab is a personal freedom.

But I'll do what I want. It's the same thing

we saw with women driving.

I oppose driving in the land of the Two Holy Mosques,

and now they're driving Rolls-Royces

in the land of the Two Holy Mosques.

It has absolutely nothing to do with humanity or religion or—

All those who tell you it's fine, she's veiled, say, "It's personal freedom."

Then I say a child molester has personal freedom, he

l-loves children, that's personal freedom.

It's a personal right, and men come out saying, "It's okay, if you want to dress,

dress. If you don't want to dress, that's okay, and no hashtags are necessary." No, it is.

No.

I challenge you.

I challenge any man

to leave his home for work every day in a niqab,

with his face covered every day,

and men.

The niqab, for a woman,

for you as a human being, they're asking you not to go out in a niqab because you're a human being with

an identity.

You see it as a piece of cloth we don't want.

Okay, but this piece of cloth will start

a world war to strip away

all your security and its foundations until you lose your family,

They make you lose them, make your family abandon you,

fight you and prevent you from earning a living,

and even attack you physically and psychologically.

They strip you of all your rights.

Do you know why they fight over this?

Because, to a man, this piece of cloth,

when I put it over my face,

makes me a person without an identity.

And when I am a person without an identity,

it becomes easy for them

to see me as less than human.

So, to a man, covering a woman's face is a form

of power,

a way of stripping you of your humanity so he can do as he pleases with you, but if

a boy separates, they stand by him and give him support because they feel he has

a face, he has an identity.

This is about a person's identity. It has nothing to do—

it has nothing to do with religion, customs, or traditions. None of them actually say you should

cover your face—not customs, traditions, or religion.

Face covering came from the desert.

Men and women in the desert cover their faces from

the dust,

from the cold winter winds that come at night and in the afternoon, at a time

In winter, all men and women in the desert wear head coverings.

On their heads, they wear coverings.

And they cover their faces. They tell you women in the old days covered their faces

from the dust.

Anyone living in the desert, even Americans and the British, when they came to the desert,

put their towels, their own towels, on their heads.

If a woman decides to remove her niqab and tells me she wants to take it off, let her. If she doesn't, let her keep it.

Really?

Electronic flies? No, not electronic flies,

not electronic flies.

They aren't electronic flies.

This is a fact you all have to face. If the state itself says

the niqab is a freedom, then they need to start

introducing laws here that make you pay. Whoever wears a niqab pays

money, pays a fine. Because you're driving a car,

it might not be your car.

You could be a man wearing a niqab, we don't know.

As for women,

okay, when the state gives this decision, they can't—

meaning, it's fine, wear it. They haven't forced you to wear a niqab, they haven't forced you to do

anything. We're talking here

Until there’s a clear law that they don’t allow it,

the people in your lives, your families, are the problem, not the government.

The government said, “God bless you, drive, learn,

study, get scholarships, travel.” The problem here is the family.

Families only break their karma through persistent demands

for change from a large number of people.

When there’s only one girl in the family making demands, they break her.

But if all the girls in the family unite against them and tell them no,

the whole family can change.

But you women,

when each of you is alone, you are defeated, no matter how

strong a person is, they defeat them, because customs overpower strength.

This piece of cloth

doesn’t just destroy a life

and a person’s identity,

it also changes how others see you, their perception of you.

You are deprived of things and stripped of rights, but even

the people in your life don’t see you as human.

So when I see a hijabi

living her life to the fullest and appearing on social media,

okay,

And they say the niqab is a personal freedom.

Cancel me if you want, we’ll stomp on your face, not cancel you.

I don’t want to see any of you whining

about this subject again.

Personal freedom? You’re liars, and they’re liars.

This isn’t personal freedom, we’re being forced.

Forced. If it were personal freedom, you’d have seen girls long ago

taking it off.

Who wants to cover her face, smell the air, and see God?

“See God” is a Southern expression, it means smelling the air.

Who? No person in their right mind wants

to cover their face when they go out into life. No one.

Who wants to put on a piece of cloth when going out? No one.

Either she’s brainwashed, like abused women,

we tell her, “Ma’am, no,” and she says, “No, I want to.”

It has nothing to do with religion, customs, or traditions, it has to do with authority and control.

The proof is that if you took it off, all hell would break loose on your head.

That’s why the campaign is so big. That’s why we want people to become aware.

That’s why we have to talk, give them a window of twenty, thirty—

We want this law, enough.