Egyptian Actress Sparks Controversy By Removing Veil

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Egyptian Actress Sparks Controversy By Removing Veil

MEMRI, December 2018:

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A draft law to ban the niqab (full-face veil) in public places, which was recently submitted by Egyptian MPs, stirred a heated public debate in the country, and articles for and against it were published in the Egyptian press.

The issue of the Islamic dress code for women periodically comes up for debate in Egyptian society. This also happened several months ago after Egyptian actress Hala Shiha, who has been living in Canada for the last few years, announced that she would return to acting and appeared in the media with her head uncovered. This announcement came 12 years after the actress quit show business to take up a religious lifestyle, as part of which she donned a hijab (which covers a woman’s hair and shoulders but not her face) and occasionally even a niqab. According to reports, she has also shut down a Facebook page on which she used to post religious materials preaching Islam and promoting the veil.

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Shiha with and without the hijab (image: Al-Shurouq, Egypt, August 9, 2018)

In an interview with the Egyptian daily Al-Yawm Al-Sabi’, during which she was photographed bareheaded alongside the daily’s editor Hani ‘Izzat, Shiha said that the decision to resume her acting career had been difficult and had been taken after deep deliberation. In an interview on the Egyptian satellite channel Dream TV she said that she stopped wearing the niqab when she moved to Canada, since it was at odds with the environment there. She added that her removal of the veil did not mean she had left the religion: “The most important thing for a woman is [her] morals, and the hijab is not a measure of religious piety at all… I know many were enraged by my discarding of the hijab, but the hijab is [just one] part of the religion, not the entire religion, and I have not left [Islam]… Every person goes through different stages in life and various upheavals, during which he learns a great deal.”

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Shiha with Hani ‘Izzat (image: Al-Yawm Al-Sabi’, Egypt, August 8, 2018)

Shiha’s decision and her statements about it sparked a heated debate on social media and Egypt‘s traditional media. Some – including Egypt‘s Religious Endowments Minister and other Islamic preachers, as well as Salafis and women activists of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) – opposed her action and called on her to repent, while others – mainly liberal intellectuals and journalists – applauded her and launched hashtags like “#Waiting for you, Hala.” Reactions in support of Hala were also published by journalists and columnists in the Egyptian press. They wrote that the decision whether to don the hijab was hers to make and nobody had the right to interfere in it. Many of them also stated that Hala was an example of a broader phenomenon of women who fell victim to MB preaching, and that her current decision is an act of defiance against the MB and another sign that the Salafis and the movements of political Islam, which are trying to force their “distorted” views on Egyptian society, are collapsing.

This report reviews the debate sparked in Egypt by Hala Shiha’s decision to stop wearing the hijab.

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Navy_Vet
Navy_Vet
5 years ago

I can say what is in store for her. Like many before her, she will probably be sexually tortured/abused/mutilated after she gets thrown in prison.

sovereign_filipino_people
sovereign_filipino_people
5 years ago
Reply to  Navy_Vet

Normally gang rape!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

How can you be a devout Muslim and not know about the jihad promotion written in the Quran?

I could still care less about MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD follower, Jamal Khashoggi being murdered in a Saudi embassy.
One less Muslim Brotherhood follower is ALWAYS a blessing! When the swamp imposes high standards on itself, then I’ll take their self righteous outbursts seriously. I am still waiting for the list of males who used our tax dollars to pay off women and maybe males they sexually harassed or worse. I’d like to see the dates, amounts, names and what they are accused of. MILLIONS of our tax dollars were used to cover this up and they all know WHO they are in the swamp. The swamp has NO HIGH MORAL GROUND!

felix1999
felix1999
5 years ago

Islam oppresses people – especially WOMEN!
Not my cup of tea … but look at the freedom women had in 1974!

Egyptian Dancer Zizi Mostafa Dancing For
Mrs. Jacqueline ‘Kennedy’ Onassis & Her Husband Aristotle Onassis – Cairo In 1974
Egyptian Traditional Dance is very well Known as Raqs Baladi, Raqs Sharqi, Orintal Dance or Belly Dance !
https://www.flickr.com/photos/8637723@N05/4197189752/comment image

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
5 years ago
Reply to  felix1999

is that your mom performing naked dancing ???

SemurJengkolMaknyus
SemurJengkolMaknyus
5 years ago

my apologize if what i’ve said about your mom have made you angry ..

she was good performer though …..

ed
ed
5 years ago

I thought it was your goat, semen…….

Alleged-Comment
Alleged-Comment
5 years ago

Their (leftist) hatred of you is much greater than their logic. Nothing matters to them but your death. And they don’t care how they go about it. Even if it means their own beheading in their delusion.

sovereign_filipino_people
sovereign_filipino_people
5 years ago

They do call conservatives Nazi while they have no clue that they are neo-Marxists! Even if you tell them that is what they are most do not even know what it is as naive snowflake parrots they are deaf dumb and blind to reality following their foreign Muslim professors!

MTC
MTC
5 years ago

Even the more “liberal” and “modern” Islamic sh*tholes are still primitive in many ways.

R. Arandas
R. Arandas
5 years ago

The veil SHOULD be removed, it is an obsolete symbol of an outdated age. Only in the West do leftist women choose to celebrate it.

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