8. Pressure of westernization

This is affecting even the fatwa sometimes; for example, with the situation of the hijaab in France, a mufti of one of the Muslim countries came in support of the Muslims in France and gave the fatwa that it is OK for the women to remove their hijaab for the sake of education since knowledge is waajib. However, even the Muslims in France rejected this fatwa and told the mufti to mind his own business. Now they are building Islamic schools and the Muslims girls are fighting for their right to show their opinion and to wear the hijaab, believing it to be an Islamic obligation and not something forced upon them.