The world must stop trying to 'rescue' Muslim women

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The measure of our freedom is not how closely we resemble somebody else's image of liberation There is perhaps no woman in contemporary political discourse who has been rescued quite as relentlessly as the Muslim woman. The image is familiar: the Muslim woman, particularly the woman in a hijab, appears as the passive victim of religion, tradition, family and patriarchy. Her clothing is treated as evidence: a visible confession of subjugation, rather than a religious or personal choice. A woman i