I'm not wearing a veil, you behave!

Miles Between her femininity and his masculinity, millimeters between her privacy and his curiosity. Who is the accused and who is the victim? It has always been a controversial issue. When I was young, I remember I heard women in the neighborhood in which I lived, screaming at a girl as she rode a bike saying: "Bikes are only for males" out of fear of something that I did not understand at the time. I also remember in my childhood, when I fell on the edge of my bed while I was playing,  my mother took me to the doctor to check on something I did not understand, I grew up and realized this thing which has become a title of honor, and later the cause of killings on the background of honor. This thing is leading us today, for example it is not strange to hear news and stories in Egypt bout assaults on girls because they are not wearing veil and it is not surprising to see some of them were beaten for refusing to submit to this approach which insults the woman's body and freedom to expose or cover what she wants from her body. The Arab spring was a dream to change the reality of dictatorship, hoping that personal freedoms would become a beacon that is frequently visited by those who want it. Everyone has their ideology and has the right to exercise it, whatever they wants and whenever they wants, but it seems that reality actually has changed the standards and destroyed opportunities for change. I know that some people accuses me of publishing a Western ideology that contradicts the customs, traditions and religion, but who said that religion is not but a personal decision and you have the right to practice religion,whether you're a Muslim or a Christian or a Jew. Who are you to walk in the street and impose on a woman to cover her body and her head under the pretext that is contrary to religion. The issue was not religious, but from the perspective of turning religion only into opinions related to a woman's body and her virginity, as if there are no other community issues such corrupt ruling regimes, usury banks, cutting family relationships, throwing garbage in the streets, the murdering of women of different backgrounds, violence against women, rape of women and children and gossip that is not connected to religion. A question I always ask myself when I see men who only speak of religion, Halal, Haram, the veil of women and other things, yet they flirt with liberated women at the bottom of the table or commit adultery with them. What is this contradiction and dichotomy in the character of this society? When you confront them, you find them like an ostrich, which hides its head in the sand. I admired the Egyptian girl who responded to the man who asked her  to wear veil and said, "I'm not wearing veil you behave" and also a Sheikh who passed by Palestinian girl in the street and said, "God's forgiveness," she replied, "O Sheikh look to the other side." Sometimes some men laughs when women reply to their request of covering their bodies, saying that God allowed the first and this look is too longest. The Egyptian girl Alia rebelled and wrote on her page on twitter and Facebook asking people to have sex on the streets as a challenge to suppressing freedoms. This thing may not be socially and religiously acceptable. However, the current extreme Arab reality toward the woman's body also made some women become extremist in their protest on this reality. We only find religious edicts that supports this farce, where women became a commodity and hymen becomes extremely important upon which the unjust social concepts are formed, and women become the only victims. Who said that the woman's body belongs to any one, why force women wear veil against their will. Great crisis is that the veil has become a social custom. you will find some veiled women have a boyfriend although they are married, I came across one of them has told me that she met her lover and looking for his compassion and love, because her husband beat her, and does not tell her love words. When I asked her about her hijab, she said that she was socially forced to wear it, and thus, fasting is also a social custom. --- The views expressed by the author do not necessarily represent or reflect the editorial policy of Arabstoday.