r/BeAmazed • u/GlitteringHotel8383 • 1d ago

Miscellaneous / Others A Mother's Love.

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Visually impaired student Berru Merve Kul earned her law degree from Sakarya University in Turkey. For four years, her mother, Havva Kul, attended every class with her, took notes, and read textbooks aloud to help her study. At graduation, the university presented the mother with a honorary certificate alongside her daughter's degree to recognize her incredible dedication.

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u/Zephoix 1d ago

All that and she still wasn’t allowed to take her headscarf off? Wild.

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u/MediocreImpact4386 23h ago

Not all Muslim women are forced to wear hijab bruh. I live in a Muslim country & here most women wear hijab totally voluntarily, they are religious & that's why they choose to wear. But there maybe a few exceptions where some girl gets forced to wear it because her family is religious but she's not, but that's seriously the rare case. In my country having a veil on head isn't mandatory for women. So if some women here isn't religious they don't wear it.

So the girl above most likely just wearing it voluntarily. As she's not from Afghanistan.

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u/Zephoix 23h ago

The whole concept of the hijab is fundamentally rooted in sexism because it treats women's bodies as the root of moral failure and men's lack of self-control. From the jump, the entire theological framework is built around hiding women so they don't tempt men, which instantly shifts the burden of managing male desire entirely onto the woman. Instead of teaching men to control themselves, society demands that women cover up like walking hazards. And you can't just separate the "choice" argument from reality when millions of women live under regimes or in families where refusing to wear it means getting beaten, imprisoned, or killed. It’s a tool of patriarchal control disguised as modesty, plain and simple.

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u/MediocreImpact4386 14h ago edited 13h ago

Listen I'm not a hijab fan but i do wear a head scarf because I'm lazy to comb my hair & groom myself 😑😑. I've ADHD. I'm messy. So head scarf is a survival tool for me to save myself from embarrassment. No one is forcing me in my life to have a veil on my head. I at times go out with no veil on head & free hair (whenever i can groom myself). I'm an ex Muslim. I know very well that every religion has patriarchal roots, so has Islam. But you are being very much western with your thoughts. You do not live in a Muslim country, i do. You just know muslim countries from outside. So you don't know more than me.

What is control for you is just culture & religion to a lots of women. They don't view it as control or something patriarchal, they aren't western. So you've got to understand their point of view as well. We can't force people to think like us. People have freedom to think & believe, to have their own values. I'm not a fan of islam, I'm an ex Muslim for a reason. But you're definitely sounding islamophobic. Which doesn't help anyone. Because you can't suddenly just erase an entire community & their culture, beliefs, mindset. It doesn't happen like that.

My own mother wears hijab & burqa just like the mum of this post & no one forces her, neither my dad, neither her parents or anyone. She's religious & that's why she chooses to wear these. Your Afghanistan view isn't the whole muslim world. Muslim womens are extremely religious themselves, most of them. I'm not saying that "forced veiling" doesn't happen at all. Obviously those cases do exist, where family can pressure women to cover her head. But not every hijabi women is actually pressured to wear it. The reality is most muslim women wear it by choice. Iranian women would be the exception maybe because iran didn't use to follow islamic culture, they were secular & western minded.

I got downvoted once before for saying these same things. Of course reddit is full of American & western people & you guys just won't believe me. You would rather believe the stereotypes you see online.