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Google celebrates Huda Sha'rawi's birthday

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Google celebrates Huda Sha'rawi's birthday

Who is Huda Sha'rawi? She is the woman who protested with a group of Egyptian women against the British occupation (supposedly!) And suddenly, as part of the "revolution against the occupation," without warning, they all removed the hijab and stomped on it with their feet and set it on fire! After that, the journey of nudity for liberation began! As Google's doodle expresses! So, the place of this dramatic comedy was named (Tahrir Square). This reminds me of a man "whose brains are on his feet" whom my father knew in his youth. If someone slapped him from behind, he would slap the person in front of him in the face! Huda Sha'rawi is an icon of the ideal woman according to Google and behind it the global system and capitalists, the woman who is oppressed by the occupation, whose dignity is violated, and whose livelihood is stolen, so her reaction is to fight Islam, which preserves her dignity and teaches her to reject occupation and human slavery, then her name becomes meaningless as most "icons" today! Congratulations to you, Huda Sha'rawi, O her lovers, and may Allah gather you in the Hereafter as you have glorified her in this world. ************************** After we published what Huda Sha'rawi did, which Google celebrated, some wondered about the source of the information. We say: Her story is mentioned in many books that addressed the issue of Westernizing women, which helps in documenting such historical events. In the article (Huda Sha'rawi and the Decline of Women and Tahrir Square) by the writer: Ahmed Adel: Then the stages of decline followed, and there was the famous women's protest in 1919 in Ismailia Square, which was later named Tahrir Square, where Safia Zaghloul, the wife of Saad Zaghloul, and Huda Sha'rawi were at the forefront, and the women gathered in front of the British army barracks and chanted against the occupation. Then, with prior planning and without apparent preliminaries, they removed the hijab, threw it on the ground, poured petrol on it, and set it on fire, and the woman was liberated, as they claimed, as if removing the hijab would expel the colonialists and end the presence of the British in Egypt.... And Huda Sha'rawi did not stop at that point, but she continued to try to humiliate and mock the hijab. In this regard, Dr. Safinaz Kazem says: (Huda Sha'rawi and her secretary "Siza Nabrawi" removed their hijabs and stomped on them with their feet immediately after arriving from the International Women's Conference held in Rome in the summer of 1923) [Emphasizing the Right and the Truth in the Issue of Unveiling and Hijab, Dr. Safinaz Kazem, p. (9)]. https://www.facebook.com/notes/ثورات-و-حقائق-سرية-revolutions-secret-facts/هدى-شعراوي-و-انحلال-المرأة-و-ميدان-التحرير/250158185019600/ Dr. Muhammad Qutb also mentioned her story in his book (Liberation of Women): (And the cause was adopted by a group of women led by Huda Sha'rawi, and a group of men [defenders] of women's rights. And the first right that women demanded was unveiling! And the issue that the debate revolved around was unveiling and hijab!! And the leader of the [women's] renaissance was Huda [Hanim] Sha'rawi, who turned her house into a salon where she met men unveiled without a guardian (15) (in the footnote, Dr. refers to his talk about these salons and what happened in them in his book (Our Contemporary Reality)). Then he said: (In the midst of these serious demonstrations, a women's demonstration took place, led by Safia Hanim Zaghloul, the wife of Saad Zaghloul, and the women gathered in front of the Nile Palace barracks and chanted against the occupation. Then, with prior planning and without apparent preliminaries, they removed the hijab, threw it on the ground, poured petrol on it, and set it on fire. And the woman was liberated!!! (19) He mentioned Safia Zaghloul as a leader in this incident and others mentioned the presence of Huda Sha'rawi with her as in the article above. In the footnote: ((19) Ismailia Square, where women were liberated from their Islamic hijab, was named [Tahrir Square] in commemoration of this great occasion!) https://www.al-oglaa.com/index.php?section=article&SubjectID=309 And Allah knows best.