Frantz Fanon’s take on why colonisers hated the hijab and made removing and discouraging it one of their utmost priorities:
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Frantz Fanon’s take on why colonisers hated the hijab and made removing and discouraging it one of their utmost priorities:
“Unveiling this woman is revealing her beauty; it is baring her secret, breaking her resistance, making her available for adventure. Hiding the face is also disguising a secret; it is also creating a world of mystery, of the hidden. In a confused way, the European experiences his relation with the Algerian woman at a highly complex level. There is in it the will to bring this woman within his reach, to make her a possible object of possession. This woman who sees without being seen frustrates the colonizer. There is no reciprocity. She does not yield herself, does not give herself, does not offer herself.”
(From Frantz Fanon’s ‘A Dying Colonialism’)
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