Brainwashed

Taslima Nasrin

Shit Shit Shit

My head bows in shame.

I am ashamed today for the shameless women of my country. I call them shameless because they think of themselves as sexual objects, not people. They believe that men will jump in sexual excitement and jump on them when they look at them. They have humiliated themselves, they have humiliated men too.

The burqa-wearing women of Dhaka University held a procession on Hijab Day today. No one stopped them from wearing hijab, but why did they have to take to the streets? Perhaps they took to the streets to show people that they are many in number. People who do not wear hijab are a minority today. It seems that those who do not wear hijab should take to the streets soon for their right to remain without hijab.

Iran is not very far from Bangladesh. Don't these girls know that their own Muslim sisters in Iran are being forced to protest against hijab? Because in that country, hijab is not a choice, hijab is compulsory! Hundreds of girls have been imprisoned, beaten to death, or shot dead for not wearing the hijab, or for not wearing it correctly! And now, girls are being sentenced to death for not wearing the hijab. Iranian girls are trying to free themselves from the clutches of the hijab, while Bangladeshi girls are trying to get involved in the clutches of the hijab without showing any sympathy for those oppressed girls. When the hijab becomes mandatory, these girls will realize what a terrible trap they have fallen into. Even if they want to take off the hijab, they will not be able to take it off. If they do, it will be a death sentence. Today's hobby of hijab will then become unbearable torture.

Many people say that women are the enemies of women. I generally do not believe that. However, I have no doubt that the girls who took out a procession in Dhaka in favor of the hijab are the enemies of women. These burqa-clad girls have taken back ten times the distance that feminists have advanced in their movement for women's rights. In the war between feminists and misogynists, these burkha-clad girls have taken the side of misogynists. Once upon a time, Dhaka University was a bastion of women's freedom. Today, the university is teeming with pathetic zombies who have been brainwashed by stupid religious fanatics from madrasas.

Let's observe a minute of silence.