The-Shattering-Light t1_itq58tk wrote on October 25, 2022 at 2:23 PM

Reply to comment by Rapierian in BREAKING: The Boston city council has passed the resolution to declare Mahsa Amin’s birthday as “Boston Hijab Day” despite the backlash. by HearingAppropriate46

No it’s really not.

The hijab has nothing to do with her murder, and is importantly symbolic to many people who wear it.

Rapierian t1_itqwhw6 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 5:22 PM

If it has nothing to do with her murder, why would we declare a day in her memory as "National Hijab Day"?

SileAnimus t1_its69ku wrote on October 25, 2022 at 10:19 PM

Because a bunch of old white middle/upper class dudes in Boston probably aren't very in touch with something happening on the other side of the globe?

It's not complicated

Rapierian t1_ituvg9e wrote on October 26, 2022 at 2:12 PM

Except that the City Counselor who did it is an Islamic woman named Fernandez Anderson.

SileAnimus t1_itwz7ij wrote on October 26, 2022 at 10:26 PM

That only makes the ridiculousness of making it a day about hijabs all the more hilarious.

UniWheel t1_itqt1g6 wrote on October 25, 2022 at 5:00 PM

>The hijab has nothing to do with her murder, and is importantly symbolic to many people who wear it.

That's tone deaf, too.

Being allowed to wear one by free personal choice is indeed important.

But being compelled to wear one is unacceptable.

And that's why the association with a person who's death resulted from events originating in the "crime" of not wearing one is absurdly intolerable

The-Shattering-Light t1_itqvjyr wrote on October 25, 2022 at 5:16 PM

People are not compelled to wear them in this country. Considering it’s this country where the recognition happened, claiming what you have is not reasonable.

abluetruedream t1_itr0uap wrote on October 25, 2022 at 5:50 PM

I don’t think anyone is saying that having a “Hijab Day” is bad. Supporting the freedom to individually express your faith is important. But creating it in some performative attempt to honor someone who died because of rejecting the hijab is pretty awful.

Do you really think Masha Amini or any other woman fighting religious oppression in Iran would be happy to be memorialized by something called “Hijab Day?”

UniWheel t1_itqxodq wrote on October 25, 2022 at 5:29 PM

>Considering it’s this country where the recognition happened, claiming what you have is not reasonable.

You're being absurd.

The "recognition" that happened was not of the right of free choice - what's being recognized by choosing the victim of compulsion's birthday is not the right of free choice, but rather the abhorrent elsewhere tradition of misogynistic compulsion.

That's not something to celebrate in a free society, and none of your transparent lies can make it so.

If you want to celebrate the hijab as a personal choice, do it on some day of significance to that as a choice such as a religious holiday, or on a random day, but not on a victim's birthday specifically chosen to celebrate an act of literally murderous compulsion.

We see your lies for what they are.