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14 Orientalisation of Veil: Unpacking the Politics of Veil in the Context of Bangladesh UMME BUSRA FATEHA SULTANA 160
14 Unpacking the Politics of Veil in the Context of Bangladesh 161 INTRODUCTION Perhaps one of the most frequently asked question regarding Muslims is: why do their women wear veil? The veil - a piece of cloth has often been seen by the West as a barrier to “modernity” and “freedom” thus politically used to represent the oppressed and submissive Muslim women under “Muslim Patriarch”. France’s banning of the veil contextualizes the politics behind these representations as successfully revealed by Scott (2007). Presentation of the veil as the ultimate symbol of Islam’s resistance to modernity is a part of the Orientalist discourse of veil, which reminds us of the larger politics of creating an “other culture” and labeling it as an “inferior culture” to construct a “superior Western culture”. Such a discourse remains static, and has been further used by different political groups for their own political projects. From this perspective, in this paper I attempt to unmask the politics of the veil in the context of Bangladesh. In the first section, I focus on different meanings of the veil. Tracing the history of the veil, I explain different practices of veiling in Bangladesh and sketch the complexities surrounding it from an antagonistic position of feminists and Islamist fundamentalists. Given the larger spectrum of debates surrounding veil in Bangladesh, in the second section I employ Said’ s (1978) ‘Orientalism’, Abu-Lughod’s (1991) ‘remaking women’ and ‘reverse Orientalism’, and Scott’s (2007) ‘clash of civilizations’ to understand the rigid positions of both groups regarding the veil. Finally, I conclude with the concern that the notions of “cultural fixity” bring multiple dangers, and the solution to get rid of such dangers is to learn to live together with negotiated differences. TOPOGRAPHY OF THE VEIL COMPLEXITIES IN BANGLADESH Symbols alone cannot be meaningful unless we give them certain meanings. The political use of veil both by certain “feminists” and “Islamic fundamentalists” in Bangladesh demonstrates how powerful symbols can be given the meanings we attach to them. Before going in depth with the veil debate in Bangladesh, first I want to briefly focus on what the veil means. While some people consider the veil an expression of modesty and piety, it is mostly represented by Western world as a conspicuous sign of submissiveness, through the oppression of Muslim women by Muslim men and as a symbol of terrorism and aggression towards non-
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Foreword This collection of essays
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Contents Acknowledgements Foreword
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Contents ix 14 Orientalisation of V
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50 SERGIO FERRAGUT THE ROLE OF THE
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58 SERGIO FERRAGUT SYNERGIES WITH T
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94 MEKALIA PAULOS AKLILU REFERENCES
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