How I Came To Love The Veil Analysis

Islamophobia is running rampant in the western world today. Many people see Islam as a radical religion and sees it as a threat to people in the western world. To many women in particular, they see Islam as a degrading religion, but for some such as Yvonne Ridley, they see it as a wonderful. In the article “How I came to love the Veil” by Yvonne Ridley she talks about her experiences on being captured and seeing a different side of Islam or “The Veil” and how she is viewed and seen in the western world. Ridley learns and writes about how people treat her because of her religion and her side of the “The Veil”. While Yvonne Ridley has very good points and ideas of the topic of perceiving Islam in the western world she discredits herself by the aggressive nature of her article and the …show more content…
This gives her credibility to discuss the religion of Islam because she understands the culture and readings of Islam and can talk about such topics because of her religion. Another reason why she is a credible source of information on the topic of Islam is her background as a woman in the religion and how it is seen in the western world. She states this by talking about how the Koran talks about women, “Under Islam, I am respected. It tells me that I have a right to an education and that it is my duty to seek out knowledge, regardless of whether I am single or married.” This quote shows that she has read the Koran and has interpreted what it means for women in Islam which shows she is a credible source of information on Islam for women. Besides being a credible source of information, she uses personal anecdotes to sway people to agree with her. An example of this idea is when in the article she writes about a taxi cab experience, “One cabbie glared at me when I rapped on his window hen drove off. Another said, Don’t leave a bomb in the back seat.” She uses her personal anecdote to