Bizda davlatlarning KKK kiyimlari, nosistlar formasi yoki Konfederatsiya bayrog'ini jamoat joylarida taqiqlashiga muammo bormi? Umid qilamizki, yo'q. Lekin agar Fransiya xalqi hijobga nisbatan KKK, nosist va Konfederatsiya kiyimlariga bo'lgan munosabatda bo'lsa-chi?

Do we have a problem with countries that ban people from wearing KKK garb or Nazi uniforms or Confederate flags in public? Hopefully not. But what if the people of a country — like France — feel about the hijab how we feel about KKK, Nazi, and Confederate dress?

Bu spekulyatsiya emas. Bu deyarli Fransiya, Germaniya va boshqa mamlakatlardagi dunyoviylar (sekulyarlar) ta'kidlayotgan narsadir: ularning nazarida hijob eng yomon turdagi zulmni ifodalaydi, va musulmonlar hijob nimani anglatishini aytishlarining ahamiyati yo'q, xuddi neonatsistlar svastika nimani anglatishini aytishlarining ahamiyati bo'lmagani kabi. Ular uchun faqat hijobning o'zlariga va butun jamiyatga nimani ramziy qilishi muhim.

This is not speculation. This is more or less what secularists in France, Germany, and elsewhere argue, namely that the hijab represents to them the worst kind of oppression and it doesn’t matter what Muslims say the hijab means any more than what neo-Nazis say the swastika means. All that matters is what the hijab symbolizes to them, and to their society at large.