Pakistan: Wearing a headscarf

aug 07

It was indeed sad to read that Turkey`s presidential candidate Abdullah Gul had to publicly defend his wife`s right to wear a headscarf. How far do we Muslims have to bend to prove our absolute loyalties to the powerful western world? We are on a self destruct mode, on one hand the so called Islamic terrorists are killing their own brethren in the name of Islam and on the other extreme we are falling short of words to explain our right to wear a hijab or for men to keep a beard.

I dread the day when Muslims will be asked to stop praying as the western world views that as a symbol of the spirit of Islam. How much more proof do we need to realise that it is not the terrorists that the world powers are out to destroy but Islam itself.

Tehmina Afridi

Bahawalpur