Thursday, 6 October 2016

The Right to Complain: A Word on Women's Rights

This is a very hypocritical society we live in. A society that talks about equality, justice and human rights when all the majority of the people care about is themselves.

This blog however is not an argument based on religion or ethnicity. It is simply what the title says. "The Right to Complain".

I would like to quote a few blogs from the Huffington Post.

These are just few of the thousands of blogs you can find out there on the same topic. Speaking from a completely neutral point of view... Outrageous! Isn't it?
Muslims are accused of being extremists. But these blogs and the other thousands on the same topic, it isn't the Muslims denying people the rights of what they should be wearing. This is just logical. I am not even talking about religion right now. I am just talking about the basic human rights. There isn't supposed to be any restriction on what you want to wear. What's so bothersome about a lady wearing a Hijab? I am a 100% sure that all Muslims worldwide would agree with this. Great!

Oh, but there's more...


This is about Nazí Paikidze, a 22 year old Georgian-American chess player participating in the World Chess Championship being held in Iran.

It's exactly the opposite happening here. Non-Muslims forced to wear Hijab. Iran volunteered for holding the Chess Championship knowingly it is an international competition and now imposes such a regulation on all participants. 

Nazí Paikidze is petitioning the World Chess Federation (FIDE) in a bid to change the host country of the women’s world championship competition from Iran. In her petition, she cites FIDE’s handbook in which it says one of the moral principles of the organisation is that it “rejects discriminatory treatment for national, political, racial, social or religious reasons or on account of sex.”

Volunteering for the championship themselves and then imposing regulations conflict with FIDE's own set of regulations and principles? Is that justified?



That was just the story of both the sides.This chess issue is pretty recent and I am seeing people losing their minds over the issue all over Twitter. But I have question to both the sides, the question about your right to complain...

Dear [People who support the first cause of banning Hijab],

Do you really have the right to complain?

If you think that's right, then why are you complaining now that the same is happening, only tables turned.

Dear [People who support the second cause of forcefully imposing Hijab],
Do you really have the right to complain?

Why complain about the west banning Hijab when we feel no guilt in doing the same to them?

I must also mention that during the Rio Olympics 2016, it was imposed that no one must be allowed to wear Hijab in Olympic Basketball which had a number of female Muslim participants. It is no hidden fact that people and especially women worldwide gave all their support to these Muslim women. Many petitions were sent to FIBA to allow the wearing of Hijab during Basketball.

#LetThemPlay: people petition to lift hijab basketball ban

That's exactly what I wish to see here. We should all respect others' values. There is no point in imposing your way on others. I extend my full support to the cause of Ms. Nazí Paikidze. And I hope more people do so.

Here are a few words from Nazí Paikidze's Twitter.

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