HIJAB - Sebuah Pandangan dari Dalam Muslimah

The Veil: The View From The Inside

Cadar : Sebuah gambaran dari dalam

By Nakata Khaula

When I returned to Islam, the religion of our inborn nature, a fierce debate raged about girls observing the hijab at schools in France. It still does. The majority, it seemed, thought that wearing the head-scarf was contrary to the principle that public -that is state-funded - schools should be neutral with regard to religion. Even as a non-Muslim, I could not understand why there was such a fuss over such a small thing as a scarf on a Muslim student's head.

Ketika saya kembali ke Islam, agama alam yang kita bawa. perdebatan sengit memanas tentang gadis-gadis yang memperhatikan jilbab di sekolah-sekolah di Perancis. Hal itu masih terjadi, Mayoritas terhilat berpandangan bahwa mengenakan syal di kepala itu bertentangan dengan prinsip bahwa sekolah publik yang dibiayai negara harus netral terkait dengan agama. Bahkan sebagai non-Muslim, saya tidak bisa mengerti mengapa ada keributan hal kecil seperti itu tentang syal di kepala siswa Muslim.

Muslims contributed a proportionate amount of tax to the state funds. In my opinion, schools could respect religious beliefs and practices of students as long as they did not disrupt the school routine, nor pose a threat to discipline. However, the French faced, apparently, increasing unemployment and they felt insecure about the immigration of Arab workers. The sight of the hijab in their towns and schools aggravated such insecurity.

Muslim berkontribusi terhadap pajak sebesar proporsinya untuk dana negara. Menurut pendapat saya, sekolah bisa menghormati keyakinan dan praktik agama siswa selama mereka tidak mengganggu rutinitas sekolah, juga menimbulkan ancaman bagi disiplin. Namun, yang dihadapi Prancis, tampaknya, disebabkan peningkatan pengangguran dan mereka merasa tidak aman akibat imigrasi pekerja Arab. Melihat jilbab di kota-kota mereka dan sekolah memperburuk rasa tidak aman tersebut.

More and more young people in Arab countries were ( and are ) wearing the hijab, despite the expectations of many Arabs and non-Arabs alike that it would disappear as Western secularism took root in Arab societies. Such a revival of Islamic practices is often regarded as an attempt by Muslims to restore their pride and identity, both undermined by colonialism. In Japan, it may be seen and understood as conservative traditionalism, or the result of anti-Western feeling, something which the Japanese themselves experienced following the first contact with Western culture during the Meiji era; they too reacted against a non-traditional lifestyle and Western dress. There is a tendency for people to be conservative in their ways and to react against anything new and unfamiliar without taking the time to see if it is good or bad.

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