I always wondered what is the meaning of freedom? Does it mean to do whatever you want without harming other people? I repeated this question with the great dispute in our society concerning the veil and sexual harassment. Recently, some people called to take off the veil by many women in a big demonstration in Tahrir Square.
I believe that our real problem doesn’t have much to do with covering the heads, but rather those many covers inside our heads. Many men don’t wear the veil, but they have many covers over their brains that distort their thinking.
Sexual harassing to women in our society considering them just a body to play with is one veil that should be taken off. Such sexual harassment targets both decent and indecent women in our society which reflects great error in our thinking.
Forcing women to wear certain clothes thinking this is the only proper clothing for them is one veil covering the minds of men as well.
We are talking about freedom, but we don’t really live it. As usual, we try to take pain killer without curing the actual disease. First, we have to renew religious discourse as well as our minds. We should understand that wearing indecent clothes doesn’t give men the right to sexually harass a woman.
