Ladies: Do you wear a hijab?

[Amira]

If you wear a hijab, did you make the decision to wear it, or were you pressured by your parents and forced to wear it?

If you don't wear a hijab, do you ever feel pressured into wearing it? Or feel judged by Somalis for not wearing it?

 

[paramedic]

Yeah. Wasn't pressured in fact after there was an attack on a hijabi in our area I was asked if I wanted to take it off. This isn't something that you should be pressured into because then it becomes a symbol of your relationship with your parents instead of with Allah, and that's when (SOME) girls who take it off begin to feel it as a symbol of oppression.

 

[NA9]

Started wearing one last year (age 18)

 

[ItsHanna]

Yes and I'm forced to wear it.

 

[Tramo]

Yes and I'm forced to wear it.

say walahi ur walking around in a hijab

 

[VixR]

say walahi ur walking around in a hijab

Does it really shock you that a lot of ppl don't have the option?

 

[dhegdheer]

I only wear a hijab when I'm wearing a bikini @Rorschach

 

[ItsHanna]

say walahi ur walking around in a hijab

Unfortunately I am. My beauty is hidden.

 

[Rorschach]

I only wear a hijab when I'm wearing a bikini @Rorschach

 

[anonymous34]

Hijab is my second skin

 

[yuusufdiin]

Yes and I'm forced to wear it.

wouldnt you love to take it off and have that beautiful atheism blowing in the wind?

 

[Soulei]

say walahi ur walking around in a hijab

It's crazy how some hardcore gaals be walking around looking exactly like Muslims. You would never know

 

[Soulei]

To answer the question, yes I do. Was never forced to by my parents alhamdullilah, I find it stupid to force it on your kids anyway seeing as they'll end up secretly hating it, and taking it off at every opportunity. Most of the girls I know who've kept their hijab on all these years originally chose to wear it, while the ones who were pressured stopped wearing it once they left home, or live that whole double-life thing of taking it off when they're out and putting it back on before they get home.

 

[Zayd]

Yes and I'm forced to wear it.

Why don't you just tell them the truth and stop the hiding?

 

[ItsHanna]

Why don't you just tell them the truth and stop the hiding?

Hmmmmm I would get the living shit beat out of me but thanks for your advice. Like telling them has never crossed my mind.

 

[Zayd]

Hmmmmm I would get the living shit beat out of me but thanks for your advice. Like telling them has never crossed my mind.

It can't go on forever I mean, like, just like the sun shining every day it's inevitable that you will have that 'talk' with them.

 

[ItsHanna]

It can't go on forever I mean, like, just like the sun shining every day it's inevitable that you will have that 'talk' with them.

When I get my shit together and move out!

 

[ItsHanna]

Yes and I'm forced to wear it.

I don't know why 5 people think it's funny that I am forced to wear hijab. You all should be ashamed.

Edit make that 6

 

[NA9]

When I get my shit together and move out!

Your parents won't allow you to take off your hijab but they'll allow you to move out?

 

[Zayd]

The hilarious thing is my kid sister who's 18 wears it when she wants, compulsion was never a thing in my house, and yet my sister is a Muslim and she prays out of her own will.

Then you have closet apostates who appear to look more Muslim than my sister that is so weird.