The «feminist» governor of New York puts on headscarf
Democrat Kathy Hochul covered her hair during a visit to a mosque. She defends submission as a sign of religious respect.
Feminist with a hijab
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The Democratic governor of New York, Kathy Hochul covered her hair with a hijab during a visit to the Islamic Cultural Center in Manhattan.. In the face of criticism, He defended the gesture as a simple show of “respect” towards the place of worship.. Hochul has made women's equality one of her political banners, but It has ended up adopting a gender-specific dress code. precisely within a religious space. According to ABC7 New York, The governor justified that she always adapts her dress when visiting religious communities.
According to American media, It was also not the first time the governor had covered her hair at a Muslim event.He had already done so in 2022 during a visit to a mosque in Ronkonkoma and in 2025 at the funeral of police officer Didarul Islam.
The feminism of «Hijab Hochul»
Kathy Hochul has been Governor of New York since August 2021 and it was the First woman to hold the post. As governor, she has placed the gender equality and reproductive rights among the priorities of its government. Its first government programme explicitly spoke of moving towards “true gender equality” and reinforced access to abortion and family planning.
It is precisely this trajectory that has turned hijab-wearing photography into political ammunition for the Republican. Bruce Blakeman. His team nicknamed the governor as “Hijab Hochul” and accused her of tailoring her speech and image to the audience before her. Blakeman went further and claimed that Wearing a hijab and identifying as a feminist are two incompatible positions..
Hochul responded without delving too deeply into this contradiction: “I love it when men lecture women about whether they're feminists or not.”, she declared. The response, however, does not resolve the question posed by her critics: why does a leader who champions equality between men and women voluntarily accept a religious dress code that applies only to women?
Submission turned into freedom
Hochul's response fits into a framework that has become customary among a section of the Western left: The hijab is no longer presented as a gender-specific religious norm and instead becomes a matter of individual freedom.. AThis approach completely shifts the debate about what the hijab represents and why this specific modesty requirement exists for women.. The garment is analysed solely from the individual act of putting it on, rather than from the religious system that dictates that women's hair must be covered in the presence of certain men.
The same discourse has been seen in recent days at France. After the Rassemblement National revived the proposal to ban the Islamic veil in public spaces and to fine anyone using it, Feminist men and women began to publish videos on social media. putting on the veil in solidarity with Muslim women. The result is that a garment which in Islamic societies may be imposed by law, family or social pressure becomes a symbol of female freedom.
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