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This entry is in responses to Lila Abu-Lughod’s Do Muslim Women Really Need Saving?I find this essay to be incredibly important. It challenges the Western notion that women of the Muslim fate are inherently subjugated and oppressed.

The section on the veil was very enighting. I must admit that at one time I shared some of the preconceived notions mentioned in the essay. As millennial New Yorker who was in school on 911And has lived in a post-911 New York I was conditioned to assimilate anything associated with Islam as oppressive. In my teenage years the veil seemed to be a burden placed on women by their evil controlling husbands. I like many westerners was ignorant to the cultural and religious significance of the veil.
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