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Assignment 12

In the article, “Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?” written by Lila Abu-Lughod, she explains the difficulties Muslim women and people of the Islamic culture face. Muslim people are judges based off of their appearance and their culture. Muslim women have to fight for their rights and freedoms in their homeland because they have very little freedom. Since the terror attack in New York City on 9/11, Muslim men and woman have been subjected and treated poorly just because of their religion and beliefs. Most muslim women will wear a hijab which covers her hair on her head. Sometime’s muslim women would wear a burqa which covers them from head to toe. If these women did not cover themselves they would be threatened and even harmed. These muslim women have been oppressed in so many ways. In my opinion going off of the title of this article, yes I do believe that Muslim women need saving. These women are being discriminated against just because of their religion. Even though many feel muslim women are being oppressed by wearing these burqas, it is also a sign or respect for their religion and their culture by wearing them. It is too show that they are being modest. I once watched a video online about muslim women talking about wearing their hijabs and most of them like wearing them because it is normal for them. One of the main reasoning behind wearing these is so men can fall in love with a women by who she is as a person, and not what she looks like, her inner beauty.