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The recent unrest and demonstration in Iran followed by the death of Mahsa Amini under the custody of moral police invoke the age-old debate on what and how women should wear. Women’s dress is the center of the recent protest in Iran. The 22-year-old woman was arrested by the moral police for allegedly violating the dress code for women.
While videos of women burning their hijabs or demonstrating without their headscarves in Iran are resurfacing on social media, women’s rights activists in France and Belgium have been fighting against the ban on face covering (burqa and niqab)in public places for several years.
In May 2021, the head of President Emmanuel Macron’s political party withdrew support for one of the party’s candidates, Sarah Zemmahi, for wearing a headscarf on a campaign poster.
In January 2022, in the Indian state Karnata, Muslim students wearing hijab in a junior college were denied entry because it was a violation of the college’s uniform policy. Following massive unrest and the state government’s order to ban hijabs in schools and colleges, the High Court of Karnataka supported the state government’s order that banned headscarves in classrooms.
Be it the mandatory dress code in Iran, Saudi Arabia, or Afghanistan, the ban on face covering in France, or the Karanataka High Court’s ruling in India prohibiting girls from wearing a hijab in school, I can’t stop wondering, when will men stop telling women how to dress?
Many support the protest in Iran, the Karnataka High Court’s decision again wearing hijab in school, or the French government’s decision to ban the burqa in public places simply because they consider hijab or niqab as signs of oppression against women.
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