{"id":23381,"date":"2015-10-07T21:52:33","date_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:52:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/?p=23381"},"modified":"2015-10-07T21:52:33","modified_gmt":"2015-10-08T01:52:33","slug":"anglican-priest-wears-a-hijab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/anglican-priest-wears-a-hijab\/","title":{"rendered":"Anglican priest wears a hijab"},"content":{"rendered":"

Rev. Cheryl Toth from the Anglican Diocese of Qu’Appelle wore a hijab for a day to \u201csee what it\u2019s like\u201d<\/em> and because she is unhappy that hostility towards women who wear a\u00a0hijab,\u00a0niqab\u00a0or burka is increasing. And, of course, “to\u00a0contribute to the conversation\u201d <\/em>– it wouldn’t be Anglican without that.<\/p>\n

She didn\u2019t go for the full cover-up of a burka, presumably because in a burka, no one would have any idea that she was a lady Anglican priest declaring “look at me, aren’t I progressive”, rather than an actual Muslim. That wouldn\u2019t have been much of a publicity stunt.<\/p>\n

Here she is:<\/p>\n

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And here are thousands of women protesting against being forced to wear a hijab in Iran in March 1979. I know which spectacle find more convincing:<\/p>\n

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From here<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Anglican priest Cheryl Toth decided to wear a hijab for a day to see what the experience is like. (Submitted by Cheryl Toth)<\/p>\n

Concerned with what she calls\u00a0the \u201cincreasing rhetoric about the wearing of the niqab by Muslim women,\u201d an Anglican priest\u00a0in Regina decided to take matters into her own hands. She wore\u00a0a hijab for a day to see what\u2019s [sic] like.<\/p>\n

In a post on Facebook,\u00a0Cheryl Toth\u00a0said she\u2019s \u201cuncomfortable with the way the debate focuses on what women wear (or decide not to wear). I am\u00a0afraid that [the rhetoric]\u00a0will increase hostility towards women who choose to wear a\u00a0hijab, a\u00a0niqab\u00a0or a\u00a0burka.\u201d<\/p>\n

She said she sees her trial run with the hijab\u00a0as a way \u201cto\u00a0contribute to the conversation.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rev. Cheryl Toth from the Anglican Diocese of Qu’Appelle wore a hijab for a day to \u201csee what it\u2019s like\u201d and because she is unhappy that hostility towards women who wear a\u00a0hijab,\u00a0niqab\u00a0or burka is increasing. And, of course, “to\u00a0contribute to … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":1,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[2032,2318,2178,2317],"class_list":["post-23381","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-anglican-church-of-canada","tag-hijab","tag-islam","tag-rev-cheryl-toth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23381\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}