Compulsory hijab: Difference between revisions

====Criticism====

In critique of the view that accepts hijab as part of privacy, the following have been said:

# Clothing does not have only a personal aspect in covering the body; rather, it also possesses a social aspect. Therefore, the issue of mandating women’s social clothing is about social communications and contacts with non-mahram people in the society, not about private life.<ref>Malik Afḍalī Ardakānī, Taḥlīl va Naqd-i Adilli-yi Fardī Būdan-i Hijab, p. 187</ref> According to [[Sayyid Ali Khamenei]], the Shia Marja’ (legal authority), what is done in streets and in the public is actually public activity and education, and creates a duty for the system that has emerged from Islam, and what is made forbidden by the Sharia should not be openly performed in the country.<ref>Statements of the Iranian Supreme Leader in the meeting with maddahs (panegyrists) on 8th March 2018</ref>

# It has been said that even if not wearing hijab is part of privacy, believing in something is different from expressing that belief, and not believing in hijab does not necessarily enable the person to act according to that belief. Clear examples of this are religious minorities who live in Islamic countries, but one of the compulsory rules for them and also for other citizens is not to openly perform what is prohibited in Islam.<ref>Malik Afḍalī Ardakānī, Taḥlīl va Naqd-i Adilli-yi Fardī Būdan-i Hijab, p. 186</ref>