Muslim women are caught between a rock – an Islamophobic and racist right wing that is eager to demonize Muslim men, and to that end misuses our words and the ways we resist misogyny within our Muslim communities – and a hard place: our Muslim communities that are eager to defend Muslim men, and to that end try to silence us and shut down the ways we resist misogyny. Both the rock and the hard place are more concerned with each other than they are with Muslim women. They speak over our heads – literally and figuratively. Our bodies – what parts of them are covered or uncovered, for example –
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loved this paragraph, perfect example of how it’s ‘not about the burqa’. arguments based around muslim women are never actually about them as individuals, more so just an excuse for racists and misogynists to talk over the oppressed; through discriminating against them, or trying to speak for them (we should be speaking up and trying to challenge the oppression and discrimination minorities face, however we should NEVER be speaking over them; let muslim women use their voices, let them be heard!)
