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Since 2013, the International Hijab Day is organised. This year’s campaign targets everyone who uses social media.
Through the hashtag #FreeInHijab, the movement will show the world that no woman is oppressed or imprisoned in her veil, but that it is a choice of free will, the founder Nazma Khan explains.
Khan therefore urges all women, regardless of religious affiliation, background and ethnicity, to wear veils for 24 hours on 1 February to show solidarity with all Muslims.
According to the movement’s Facebook page, the day is also about introducing women to wearing a veil.
On Twitter they write that it is now time for “a flood in social media with the hashtag #FreeInHijab”. According to the post, the campaign will “educate” those who label hijab as a symbol of oppression.
Women have already begun to photograph themselves in veils, and post the pictures on social media along with the hashtag.
We urge women to affirm that it is their own choice to wear a veil, to drive away all misconceptions, Khan says.
On the Internet, she has been accused of spreading political Islam. It is, however, something that she denies.
There is no policy involved in our movement. It is only to inform that women with veils are treated poorly. It is only to enlighten, she claims.
As a counter-campaign, Muslim women who say no to wearing veils post videos of themselves without a veil.
At the same time, women in for example Iran fight for their right to remove the veil, which is part of Islam’s oppression of women.
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