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A great number of Muslim Filipinos who watched the “Jessica Soho’s segment dubbed NO HEADSCARF ZONE featuring Pilar College Hijab Ban ”wa...
— with Raissa Tutanes Guldam and 14 others.A great number of Muslim Filipinos who watched the “Jessica Soho’s segment dubbed NO HEADSCARF ZONE featuring Pilar College Hijab Ban ”wa...
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to shout “this is not as it should be!” Aug. 18, 2012 (Saturday) was a
day of triumph that turned out to be a day of mourning.
It is a day of triumph for the whole nation who witnessed and realized how their south countrymen are marginalized by the existing status quo, just as in choosing to wear hijab in this case, and not to be half-naked.
As the video comes to end, Muslims become pathetic and downhearted for the woman interviewed does not portray a Muslimah, which means a practicing Muslim woman according to the tenets of Islam. It is like interviewing a layman about medical science. Hijaab and Niqaab Advocacy Network (HAN) SecGen Warina Sushil A. Jukuy likens it to asking a swimmer how does she feels wearing a cosmonaut suit!
Ms Jukuy imparted that when she was asked by Jessica Soho’s assistant via phone call (after being referred by colleague PAHRA Paralegal worker Gamson Quijano, MSA-UZ Alumnus) about six hours prior to airing of the NO HEADSCARF ZONE- whether or not to include the interview of the unidentified Tawi-Tawi woman, Ms Jukuy countered: “As journalists, ask yourselves what is your intention in airing that segment: is it to engender peace journalism by enlightening people or is it to stir controversy? If you ask me, do not include that part of the Tawi-Tawi woman putting on veil and narrating an account why she “chose” (it is undoubtedly her choice and her right) not to wear her veil anymore because it is IRRELEVANT to the issue at hand.”
Ms Jukuy further counselled the caller to choose carefully primary sources of interviewees regarding hijaab and Islam as the source of the controversy in the first place is sadly about ignorance on hijaab and Islam by some non-Muslims and even Muslims alike due to lack of Islamic education; and to change the term “headscarf” because it is connotative and will foster more misconception about what hijaab is. As it is, the caller proceeded against the well-intentioned guidance of the person who that caller solicited advice from in the first place. The parapraxis contained in the segment speaks volumes!
It is indeed unfair on the part of practicing Muslims because the Tawi-Tawi woman does not represent them, a grocer -so to speak- representing medical doctors. The questions we would like to ask are: “Is there no other person that can best, if not, or better represent the practicing Muslims?” Is this circumstantial or consciously intended to destroy the building up of public sympathy about hijaab where even non-hijaab wearer can identify? At some point we ask: “What is the connection of Hijab ban policy of Pilar College, a human right violation, to the situation of a struggling Muslimah who has not come to grip sufficiently with the true essence of hijaab” yet. It is absolutely IRRELEVANT and CONTENTIOUS!
Did she unveil so she can enroll in Pilar?!? Why her? They should have interviewed an expert on Islam, a scholar that would explain Islam and its practice well in the context of religious worship vis a vis the right to freedom of religious worship. The issue on HIJAAB is a grave matter, says HAN SecGen. It is not an issue worth to be merely trifled with as ostentatious fanfare where you will direct your interviewees to pretend to either flag a jeep, to sit behind a computer seemingly tapping at work, or to require a 5-minute interview from a respectable Aleem or otherwise require him to choose a venue then field him with questions but at the end the TV production host will just choose less than a minute of that in exchange for a lengthy narrative of a lady from Tawi-Tawi who wishes to share her discomfiture about hijaab looking forward to the day of finding a husband as the day that she would don her hijaab again.
Many were appalled when Jessica Soho referred to Hijaab as a mere tradition! Ms. Jukuy pronounced that HIJAAB per se is NOT a TRADITION, it is an obligation (fardh) as much as it is worship (ibadah) and faith (eeman). And I, the writer personally end up that complying with an obligation does not reside on one’s desire but it depends solely on the one who obligates it, Allah subhanahuwataala. Still, Allaahu Akbar!, Allah in His Infinite Grace and Mercy declares as Hell and Heaven awaits His creatures--- “There is no compulsion in religion!”
With that indignation justified and clearly expressed, we STILL thank Jessica Soho for featuring the story of a Muslim parent Ms Jhumura Napii-Estino, and in part be it seconds only including Aleem Jamal S. Munib and NCMF R9a Legal Division Chief- Atty Yasser Apion who all best represent the Muslim victims’ cause. Frankly, we never would have commented if Ms Soho wants to feature people who unveil by choose be they that Tawi-Tawi lady or a Catholic nun who choose to abandon her vow and veil but with another “separate segment” entitled perhaps, “Kusang Loob Paghuhubad ng Balabal!” Well, simply because the issue on Pres Nina Balbas’ HIJAB BAN POLICY is about “maghubad ka ng balabal at kung ayaw mo huwag kang mag-aral sa PILAR!”, Jukuy segued.
So, we are appealing to the Muslim Ummah to boycott Jessica Soho GMA segment NOW! It is allegedly coming up with another, Ukhti Watha Mando, interview! May media not commit the same injurious blunder again, aameen!
Let NCMF-Pilar College “FINAL” Dialogue Begin ASAP!
See MoreIt is a day of triumph for the whole nation who witnessed and realized how their south countrymen are marginalized by the existing status quo, just as in choosing to wear hijab in this case, and not to be half-naked.
As the video comes to end, Muslims become pathetic and downhearted for the woman interviewed does not portray a Muslimah, which means a practicing Muslim woman according to the tenets of Islam. It is like interviewing a layman about medical science. Hijaab and Niqaab Advocacy Network (HAN) SecGen Warina Sushil A. Jukuy likens it to asking a swimmer how does she feels wearing a cosmonaut suit!
Ms Jukuy imparted that when she was asked by Jessica Soho’s assistant via phone call (after being referred by colleague PAHRA Paralegal worker Gamson Quijano, MSA-UZ Alumnus) about six hours prior to airing of the NO HEADSCARF ZONE- whether or not to include the interview of the unidentified Tawi-Tawi woman, Ms Jukuy countered: “As journalists, ask yourselves what is your intention in airing that segment: is it to engender peace journalism by enlightening people or is it to stir controversy? If you ask me, do not include that part of the Tawi-Tawi woman putting on veil and narrating an account why she “chose” (it is undoubtedly her choice and her right) not to wear her veil anymore because it is IRRELEVANT to the issue at hand.”
Ms Jukuy further counselled the caller to choose carefully primary sources of interviewees regarding hijaab and Islam as the source of the controversy in the first place is sadly about ignorance on hijaab and Islam by some non-Muslims and even Muslims alike due to lack of Islamic education; and to change the term “headscarf” because it is connotative and will foster more misconception about what hijaab is. As it is, the caller proceeded against the well-intentioned guidance of the person who that caller solicited advice from in the first place. The parapraxis contained in the segment speaks volumes!
It is indeed unfair on the part of practicing Muslims because the Tawi-Tawi woman does not represent them, a grocer -so to speak- representing medical doctors. The questions we would like to ask are: “Is there no other person that can best, if not, or better represent the practicing Muslims?” Is this circumstantial or consciously intended to destroy the building up of public sympathy about hijaab where even non-hijaab wearer can identify? At some point we ask: “What is the connection of Hijab ban policy of Pilar College, a human right violation, to the situation of a struggling Muslimah who has not come to grip sufficiently with the true essence of hijaab” yet. It is absolutely IRRELEVANT and CONTENTIOUS!
Did she unveil so she can enroll in Pilar?!? Why her? They should have interviewed an expert on Islam, a scholar that would explain Islam and its practice well in the context of religious worship vis a vis the right to freedom of religious worship. The issue on HIJAAB is a grave matter, says HAN SecGen. It is not an issue worth to be merely trifled with as ostentatious fanfare where you will direct your interviewees to pretend to either flag a jeep, to sit behind a computer seemingly tapping at work, or to require a 5-minute interview from a respectable Aleem or otherwise require him to choose a venue then field him with questions but at the end the TV production host will just choose less than a minute of that in exchange for a lengthy narrative of a lady from Tawi-Tawi who wishes to share her discomfiture about hijaab looking forward to the day of finding a husband as the day that she would don her hijaab again.
Many were appalled when Jessica Soho referred to Hijaab as a mere tradition! Ms. Jukuy pronounced that HIJAAB per se is NOT a TRADITION, it is an obligation (fardh) as much as it is worship (ibadah) and faith (eeman). And I, the writer personally end up that complying with an obligation does not reside on one’s desire but it depends solely on the one who obligates it, Allah subhanahuwataala. Still, Allaahu Akbar!, Allah in His Infinite Grace and Mercy declares as Hell and Heaven awaits His creatures--- “There is no compulsion in religion!”
With that indignation justified and clearly expressed, we STILL thank Jessica Soho for featuring the story of a Muslim parent Ms Jhumura Napii-Estino, and in part be it seconds only including Aleem Jamal S. Munib and NCMF R9a Legal Division Chief- Atty Yasser Apion who all best represent the Muslim victims’ cause. Frankly, we never would have commented if Ms Soho wants to feature people who unveil by choose be they that Tawi-Tawi lady or a Catholic nun who choose to abandon her vow and veil but with another “separate segment” entitled perhaps, “Kusang Loob Paghuhubad ng Balabal!” Well, simply because the issue on Pres Nina Balbas’ HIJAB BAN POLICY is about “maghubad ka ng balabal at kung ayaw mo huwag kang mag-aral sa PILAR!”, Jukuy segued.
So, we are appealing to the Muslim Ummah to boycott Jessica Soho GMA segment NOW! It is allegedly coming up with another, Ukhti Watha Mando, interview! May media not commit the same injurious blunder again, aameen!
Let NCMF-Pilar College “FINAL” Dialogue Begin ASAP!
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