Hijab’ s Hijab: A Call for Inclusion, Peace, and Resistance Shia Muslims Women’s Standpoints

Abstract

This paper is based on a study that considers appreciating diverse ethnic groups within multiculturalist communities. This conceptualization enables postulating Shia Muslim hijabi women as an ethnic group with varying views and understanding about hijab where they find it a tool for resistance and peacekeeping at the same time. As a result, hijab which is considered as a religious phenomenon appears with an additional alternative meaning where it becomes a call for inclusion, peace, and resistance. Thus, the paper concludes that ‘the hijabis’ situatedness in their contexts plays a significant role to ensure goal 5 ‘gender equality’ and goal 10 ‘the reduced inequalities’ by constructing a collective standpoint to participate for country’s development with their hijab on.