One way to determine if someone is bigoted towards Muslims is to see how they react to Muslim women wearing hijab or promoting the hijab.
Many "critics" of Islam who say they "love Muslims, but hate Islam", often go on tirades about Muslim women's own interpretations of what the hijab means to them -- condemning events such as 'World Hijab Day' or accusing these women of being brainwashed or lying. Apparently, their view of hijab is the only view that these women should be allowed to hold. Apparently, because some women are forced to wear it based on supposed oppressive societal standards (or family), this means that celebrating the hijab is akin to promoting and supporting the oppression of those women.
But this is absurd. It's like being against Mothers Day because some women were raped and forced to be mothers, only then to accuse women celebrating motherhood as being brainwashed or lying to protect their patriarchal overlords attempting to enslave them through childbirth.
Aside from the fallacious nature of these "criticisms", individuals who oppose the free religious expression of Muslim women based on the anecdotes of other women, or their own personal understanding of the hijab, showcase that they are in fact bigoted, because they refuse to allow Muslim women the choice to identify as anything other than oppressed and mindless -- openly demonizing and degrading every Muslim woman who dons the hijab.
But of course, they will object to this accusation of bigotry, all the while thinking it normal to harass our mothers, our wives, our sisters, and our daughters for merely disagreeing with them. #PleaseReflect
From Asadullah Ali
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