Originally posted by: The_Best
If women are allowed to wear hijab, how do you make sure most wearing it are doing it out of choice and not pressure? I am financially independent and live in USA, but I still have to wear it every time I am visiting my relatives. So what about those who don’t even have financial means, controlled and don’t even live in west? When I was in Pakistan, I didn’t even have that choice and was forced to burka and abaya it at age 12. It’s only because I am in west that I can at least wear it outside when my extended family members are not around me. And right now too I don’t just wear hijab. I always have to wear burka with it or at minimum a long coat something. Hijab is not enough.
Your family forcing you to wear it is just as wrong as people forcing women to remove it.
Just like you don’t appreciate being forced to wear it there are many who don’t like being told to remove it.
You are living in US, are financially independent, your family seems very oppressive and you don’t seem very happy about it.. if this is making you so unhappy then remove it and then them you will move out if they keep pressuring you like this.
And the less one cares about extended families the better


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