An Iranian journalist Masih Alinejad, has started a movement on Facebook; My Stealthy Freedom, advocating for religious freedom and women’s rights. Already the group has over 800,000 followers. In the group, she and many other Iranian women post photos of themselves without the head scarf in public, it is against Iranian laws for a woman to be in public without her head scarf on. The movement is a brave and noble protest against the compulsory Hijab.
Our religions are to guide and define who we are, but who we are still remains. The freedom to choose who we are, where we are, and how we wish to be, shouldn’t be taken from us.
Choice is sometimes all a being has. These women chose to hope, to dream, to fight for a chance to choose; if ,when and how to embrace the Hijab.
to choose if…
to choose when..
to choose how.
Freedom to feel, to relish the beauty God himself has created from the sole of the feet, to the pores on the skin, to the crown of the head.
