Queen veiled and ironicTurkey. It maybe rare for British media to see her Queen wearing a veiled, that is why they put that event into their headline news. But for me, what is quite rare is Turkey itself ....On a four-day visit to Turkey with her husband Prince Philip, Queen Elizabeth II in the company of Turkish First Lady Hayrünnisa Gül make a visit to 15th century Green Mosque, one of most important mosques in Turkey. Green Mosque is located in the eastern city of Bursa. Queen Elizabeth also visited the tomb of Sultan Mohmed, the fifth of 39 sultans who ruled Turkey during the 624-year Ottoman Empire, inside the mosque.
What make the limelight of this visit for British media is the Queen took off her white shoes at the mosque entrance, wore a head-cover and listened to Noble Quran verses recited by Imam Ayhan Polat. It maybe quite rare for British media to see her Queen wearing a veiled, that is why the put that event into their headline news.
I don't want to discuss what British media says about their Queen wearing a head-cover. But what i see is something weird has happened in Turkey. While the Queen donned a head-cover when visiting a mosque, women in Turkey still has to fight to get permission wearing hijab in public area such as university, school and government buildings.
Secularists, including army generals, judges and university rectors in Turkey are barring women from wearing hijab- a mandatory code of dress in Islam-in public buildings. They see hijab as emblem of Islam which threaten secularism. how ironic it is .....
ironis bgt ya
ReplyDeleteMasalahnya berakar urat dengan sejarah lama yang telah menguat,.. keruntuhan khilafah Islam bermula dari Turki ini, ketika gencarnya sekulerisme yg diboncengi Yahudi..Hancur sudah Izzah Islam..Generasi Turki merangkak dari awal, dengan todongan senjata kaum militer tua yang masih berkuasa mengusung sekulerisme, walau pun presidennya begitu terbuka dengan Islam,..Kita Do'akan untuk mereka..
ReplyDeleteyang lebih parah lagi di Turki, partai yang sekarang berkuasa, partai yang islami dan memperjuangkan kebebasan berjilbab bagi kaum perempuan Turki, malah dituntut agar dibubarkan. Ditambah lagi, Uni Eropa mensyaratkan Turki menjauhi hal-hal yang berbau islami kalau mau diterima jadi anggota Uni Eropa. Ironis banget untuk sebuah negara yang pernah menjadi pusat kekhalifahan Islam, cuma doa yang bisa kita lakukan agar generasi muda disana bangga dengan keislamannya ...
ReplyDeleteMudah-mudahan tante Hayrunnisa istrinya om Gul dapat memberikan contoh bagaimana wanita muslim seharusnya berbusana,,, Turkey sih emang aneh.
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