Hijab and wrapped-up sweeties
The poem I posted here yesterday was inspired by a thing I read online, about Muslim men trying to influence women to behave like 'proper' women, to wrap up in the hijab in order to protect their modesty. Women were compared to lollipops that get all dirty and nasty if they are out in the dirty world without a wrapper. I found it so inflammatory that it haunted my dreams overnight and I woke with that poem forming itself in my consciousness. The culture of the hijab is superficially in respect... Sign in to see full entry.