{"id":287799,"date":"2021-02-01T14:43:06","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/?p=287799"},"modified":"2021-02-01T15:08:55","modified_gmt":"2021-02-01T18:08:55","slug":"world-campaign-encourages-use-of-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/anba.com.br\/en\/world-campaign-encourages-use-of-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"World campaign encourages use of hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"

S\u00e3o Paulo – This Monday, February 1st, many Muslim and non-Muslim women are posting pictures of them wearing a hijab on their social media. They are responding to a call from the World Hijab Day<\/a>, which is aimed at encouraging women to wear the veil. In Brazil, a research group at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo (USP) promotes the initiative.<\/p>\n

The World Hijab Day was founded in 2013 by Nazma Khan, who was born in Bangladesh and currently lives in the United States. \u201cToday is the day to support hijab wearers,\u201d explains Francirosy Campos Barbosa (pictured above<\/em>), an anthropologist and professor at USP.<\/p>\n

Barbosa coordinates the Gracias Anthropology Group on Islamic and Arab Contexts at the USP campus in Ribeir\u00e3o Preto and leads a research on Islamophobia. A psychologist, a lawyer, an educator, a psychology student, a sociologist and Barbosa herself run the research, which was started a year ago. The study has not been concluded yet, but there are some findings.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn the Muslim community, women who wear the veil are more vulnerable to violence, particularly the converted ones,\u201d says the researcher on women who converted to Islam, who usually don\u2019t live around many Muslim people. \u201cIt\u2019s not that the women who are born Muslim don\u2019t suffer from violence, but the vulnerability of those who don\u2019t have a Muslim family is bigger,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

Women who wear the veil on public transport are more subjected to violence, Barbosa says. They also find difficult to get a job or a promotion. The researcher says that most people don\u2019t know about the religion or the Islamic clothing, and there are a lot of stereotypes.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople are repelled, some girls were even stoned, had their veils tugged. A professor started wearing the veil and heard extremely harmful comments from her coordinator. It\u2019s a symbolic, verbal, even physical violence. Girls are told, \u2018go back to your country,\u2019 \u2018bomberwoman,\u2019 every kind of harmful comment,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

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