Status Updates From The Othered Woman: How Whit...

So far I feel like I’m reading a book about inclusivity rather than discussing Islamic values and how Islam is a societal religion, not an individualistic one so it feels like the book is still trying to abide by “western” values but im still at the very beginning and I am going to give it more chance.

“The Othering of the Orient has developed into the Othering of Islam and its cultures, with the symbol of the Other most commonly being the Muslim hijabi woman. In her book Feminism Interrupted, Lola Olufemi writes, in reference to Muslim women, that ‘the civility of whiteness is contrasted with the barbarism of the Other’.”

We see this propaganda in real time now during the colonial aggression vs Iran.

“Describing French colonial rule in Algeria, Frantz Fanon- a French-Martinican psychiatrist and anti-colonial intellectual - once said: ‘if we want to destroy the structure of Algerian society, its capacity for resistance, we must go and find the behind the veil where they hide themselves and in the houses where the men keep them out of sight’. Pg

“ Muslim women and girls are only viewed as in need of saving as long as they fit into the narrative created for them of the weak and silenced woman”