不幸的是，如今穆斯林关于希贾卜（hijab）的所有言论和著述都被各种扭曲和误解所污染，遮蔽了面纱的意义、目的和重要性。残酷的现实是，希贾卜无法靠女权主义来辩护。希贾卜与“女性解放”“女性选择”“女性赋权”“物化”，或任何这些现代哲学概念都毫无关系。这些概念不仅外在于伊斯兰的世界观，而且历史上正是作为攻击伊斯兰世界观的工具，与之对立地被界定出来的。 试看，当有人说我们应当摒弃正统伊斯兰，因为正统伊斯兰与女权主义不相容时，我们的回应不应是那种牵强的努力，去证明伊斯兰本身就是女权主义的，所有穆斯林都是女权主义者，《古兰经》也是女权主义的，诸如此类，令人厌烦地反复论证。我们的回应应当是追问：为什么有人应当在乎女权主义？随后便应对女权主义进行透彻的思想批判，揭示它是一种何等卑劣、具有破坏性、前后不一、不自洽的哲学，以及尽管它声称要促进女性的利益，实际上却在损害这些利益，并且在我们这个时代对女性的处境和人类的处境造成了不可估量的破坏。这才是有原则的回应，但我猜这在政治上是不正确的，那就算了吧。毕竟不想冒犯任何人，对吧？

Unfortunately, everything Muslims today say and write about hijab is polluted with distortions and misconceptions that occlude the meaning, purpose, and significance of the veil. The stark reality is the hijab cannot be defended by feminism. The hijab has nothing to do with “women’s liberation” or “women’s choice” or “women’s empowerment” or “objectification,” or any of these modern philosophical concepts that are not only external to the Islamic worldview but were historically defined in opposition to the Islamic worldview as a means to attack it. See, when someone says we should reject orthodox Islam because orthodox Islam is not compatible with feminism, our response should not be some strained attempt to show how Islam is indeed feminist and all Muslims are feminists and the Quran is feminist, etc., etc., ad nauseam. Our response ought to be to ask, why should anyone care about feminism? It should then be followed a thorough intellectual critique of feminism, showing what a base, destructive, inconsistent, and incoherent philosophy it really is, and how despite its claim to further the interests of women, it actually undermines those interests and has done immeasurable damage to the female condition and the human condition in our times. That would be a principled response, but it would be politically incorrect, I guess, so never mind. Wouldn’t want to offend anyone, right?