While the word hijab has a range of meanings, it is most often used to describe the head covering or headscarf worn in public by some Muslim women to cover their hair. It is used to maintain modesty and privacy, primarily from men who are not family members. Characters like Hira, Karamat, and Eamonn view the hijab as a symbol of female oppression—of men dictating the dress and modesty of women. But for Isma and Aneeka, both of whom wear hijabs, the hijab becomes something different: a symbol of pride in one’s faith, and a symbol of female empowerment. As Aneeka says to Eamonn, “I get to choose which parts of me I want strangers to look at, and which are for you.” Thus, the hijab represents the way that Muslim people (especially women) are often stereotyped as a homogenous group, when in reality they are all individuals with their own views and beliefs. From the outside, the hijab might seem like a simple emblem of Muslim conservatism, but to specific women like Aneeka and Isma, it’s a way to express their unique interpretations of their faith and claim ownership over their own sexuality.
Hijab Quotes in Home Fire
“Do you consider yourself British?” the man said.
“I am British.”
“But do you consider yourself British?”
“I’ve lived here all my life.” She meant there was no other country of which she could feel herself a part, but the words came out sounding evasive.
All the old muck. He meant the picture of Karamat Lone entering a mosque that had been in the news for its “hate preacher.” LONE WOLF’S PACK REVEALED, the headlines screamed when a tabloid got hold of it, near the end of his first term as an MP. The Lone Wolf's response had been to point out that the picture was several years old, he had been there only for his uncle’s funeral prayers and would otherwise never enter a gender-segregated space. This was followed by pictures of him and his wife walking hand in hand into a church.
The video wouldn’t reveal the things that were most striking about her in those moments: the intensity of her concentration, how completely it could swerve from her God to him in the time she took those few footsteps, or her total lack of self-consciousness in everything she did—love and prayer, the covered head and the naked body.
Aneeka “Knickers” Pasha, the 19-year-old twin sister of Muslim fanatic Parvaiz “Pervy” Pasha has been revealed as her brother’s accomplice. She hunted down the Home Secretary's son, Eamonn, 24, and used sex to try and brainwash him into convincing his father to allow her terrorist brother back into England.
Probably a virgin, he thought, and wondered when he’d become the kind of man who reacted in this way to the sight of a woman with a covered head who made no effort to look anything but plain.
Hijab Symbol Timeline in Home Fire
