Why is the hijab seen contradictory to womens human rights in the west?

Question

a society's or religious expectations don't violate human rights i think.

Answer 1

Persian- what countries women are you talking with? Dont you think sisters in Islam keep quite about rape for fear of not being able to get married and family social stigma...you totally need to read more about womens issues. crimes are crimes every place-

Hijab is not seen as contradictory to a womens human rights in the west- its the oppression of women to keep them out of the public sphere of office and capitalism and hence equality opportunties to progress as humans without gendar oppression or the hijab being make as a symbol of exclusion is the problem.

Why would you ask a question but add a statement if you didnt want an answer? Start listening to the voices of many muslim women and you will get the answer- you just argued with nile 1) you will no doubt argue with mine 2) so what thoughts do you actually want to hear? That hijab is now a symbol that can be used as much as a liberation as it is an oppression? With the amount of sexual repression of many men living in muslim countries and the lack of job prospects then no wonder they have time to twist the true meaning of hijab.

Answer 2

They don't see the hijab as a contradiction of human rights. They see places such as Afganistan beating and sometimes killing women who do not wear it as a violation of human rights. They see things such as imams saying women who dont wear it should be raped, or deserve to be raped, as a violation of human rights.

*EDIT*

What does your additional detail have to do with my answer? I didn't connect hijab to rape. I said that the West does not see the hijab as oppressive. They actually never have. They see women being forcefully kept in the private sphere- out of jobs, uneducated, forced into marriages etc. as oppressive. It has nothing to do with hijab.

Also, as AA has clarified. Rapes in Muslim countries are both undereported by the victims, and then in addition to this, the government underreports what got reported to human rights agencies.

Did you know in the UAE there are no official statistics on murders even?

It's all public image propaganda.

*EDIT*

With you there, AA. Directly it doesn't even get much play in the Quran. It's the idea of modesty itself, not how much of a cloth is or isn't there. And nothing proves that more than the fact that there are non-hijabis who are sometimes much more modest, caring and kind then some hijabis.

I'll also never understand when hijab became proof of the validity of a country's rape statistic.