We actually don't want to talk about the hijab. Islam is Holy and great: it does not need our permission or our indignation.
However, we want to talk about feminists. Which, yesterday, had an editorial orgasm when on the weekly Espresso whose past glories are lately exalted by covers such as those of Soumahoro and Zerocalcare they read the interview in which the young activist Aya Mohamed, born in Egypt and raised in Milan , claims, as per the title of the article, that «Wearing the veil is a feminist choice». Wow! Indeed, Woke.
Unfortunately, however, intersectional feminism fits well between Porta Romana and the Quadrilatero. In Helmand province or Qom, a little less.
It is the unsolved problem of the left which feels better by espousing the worst causes. Capitalist by profit, consumerist by choice and liberal by pretense, she aspires to the purity of fundamentalism – exchanging the miniskirt for the veil – as atonement for her own feelings of guilt. And so it takes a moment to claim a symbol of patriarchy as a model of emancipation.
All right. Let us tear away the veil of hypocrisy.
We follow with the same enthusiasm both the battles in defense of women who suffer from oppression in Iran and the journalistic campaigns in favor of women who in the West reclaim their traditions.
However, knowing that the problem is not being free to wear the veil here. But being forced to wear it there.