السويد: انقسام مجتمعي حول دعم حرية ارتداء الحجاب

خبر من مصادر إنجليزية.

أدت حملة "صرخة حجاب" التي أطلقها عدد من المسلمات وغيرهن في "السويد" لدعم المسلمات المحجبات وحقهن في ارتداء الحجاب - إلى انقسام مجتمعي بين مؤيد ومعارض، وخاصةً في ظل تنامي ممارسات العنف والاعتداء على المسلمات لأسباب دينية، والتي سقط بسببها العديد من الضحايا مؤخرًا.

وقد أعرب العديد من السياسيين والمشاهير عن تأييدهم للحملة التي شهدت ارتداء العديد من غير المسلمات للحجاب مناصرةً لهن، وهذا إضافة إلى انتشار دعم الحملة عبر العديد من مواقع التواصل الاجتماعي، والمطالبة بتشكيل لجنة للتحقيق في الأمر.

ومن ناحية أخرى أكد "أجي كارلبوم" - أستاذ العلوم الإنسانية بـ"جامعة مالمو" - أن آراء السويديين تجاه الحجاب إيجابية مقارنةً بموقفهم من النقاب؛ المصدر: شبكة الألوكة.

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‘Hijab Appeal’ Divides Sweden

A new campaign to support Muslim women’s freedom to don Islamic veil, or hijab, has divided Sweden with supporters seeing it as a show of solidarity to the religious minority and critics saying it supports a symbol of female "oppression".

"The number of hate crimes against Muslim women has increased lately," one of the campaign organizers, Foujan Rouzbeh, told Agence France Presse (AFP) on Sunday, August 25.

A group of Swedish activists organized the "hijab outcry" ('hijabuppropet') campaign earlier this month, urging protection for the rights of the Muslim minority.

The campaign followed an attack on a pregnant Muslim woman earlier in August in Farsta outside Stockholm

The incident has led to a national outcry in social media, where women, religious or non-religious, are encouraged to wear a headscarf for a day as an act of solidarity.

Hundreds of Swedish women have posted photographs of themselves wearing headscarves on social media sites to show solidarity with a heavily pregnant Muslim woman who says she was attacked outside Stockholm for wearing a veil.

The campaign was backed by politicians and celebrities who have published photos of themselves in headscarves.

The outcry has spread in social media through the hashtag #hijabuppropet, or Hijab Appeal.

Police are searching for witnesses to the incident, which is being treated as a hate crime, and has sparked a wave of online protest.

Amid growing support for the campaign, some critics opposed it, saying it supports a symbol of female "oppression".

"I support protesting against the treatment of the woman who was attacked, absolutely. Holding speeches, demonstrating," said Sara Mohammad, the head of a charity for victims of honor crimes.

"Not by wearing the veil, which is known around the world as an Islamic symbol for oppressing women."

Rouzbeh said critics of the Swedish hijab campaign had taken it out of context.

"We're not trying to belittle people's experience of having been forced to wear the veil ...we're basing this on veiled women who wear it out of choice," she said.

“Those women should have the right to do that without being attacked.”

Social anthropologist Aje Carlbom of Malmoe University said Swedish attitudes towards the hijab were largely positive, unlike towards the full-face niqab sometimes worn by more conservative Muslims.

"Ever since we began having immigration from the Muslim world, it's been claimed that (dislike of the veil) is increasing, that it's widespread, and so on," he said.

"I don't know why this is happening right now."

Muslims make up between 450,000 and 500,000 of Sweden’s nine million people, according to the US State Department report in 2011.