By Wallah Bros on Muslim Twitter have recently been ravaged by a flame war over the most unimaginable sin on this Earth; An expectant mother had posed with her baby bump. Draped in an abaya with a hijab covering her head, the mother who goes by @halalfrijole posted a beautiful picture of her baby bump and some men just couldn’t bear to see her happiness.
While some people were sharing in her joy and congratulating the lady on her pregnancy, Wallah bros just couldn’t keep it in and quickly jumped in to remind her of her role as a dutiful Muslimah – by levying degrading insults on her husband and sexualising her baby bump. In an age where porn addiction has grown to unprecedented limits, it’s no surprise that young men are triggered by the mere existence of a woman.
However, dear virtue-signaling couch mullahs, with all due respect, it’s not our problem if your lustful gaze is incapable of sharing in with one of the most universal and intimate joys.
One user even went so far as to say that the sister is “too precious to be seen by random people on the internet”, the classic wallah bro way of saying that I’m triggered by anything that makes you happy. A tweet even went as far as to call the shape of her baby bump “too revealing”. Though seemingly innocuous, the sheer entitlement in these statements is baffling. As long as her posts aren’t harming you, why do you yearn so desperately to control her choices?
As one Muslim brother rightly pointed out, these couch mullahs are simply using Islam as a cover-up for their own sexual frustrations. If the concern was truly about Islam, then disgusting insults wouldn’t have been hurled at her husband. Some other men, though far more respectful and well-intentioned, were equally ignorant about the authoritative connotations of their statements.
While they rightfully pointed out that the picture could potentially be misused on the internet, through their egregiously patronizing tone they simply assumed that a Muslim adult woman, posting a picture of her baby bump with every other part of her body completely covered wouldn’t be aware of the way the internet can misuse their pictures. In this digital age, it’s a given that pictures posted anywhere, even on LinkedIn may be misused by creepy men, however, that doesn’t necessitate that women should stop living their lives.
It is utterly disturbing to see men being so triggered by a sister simply trying to share the most fundamental joys of her life. The rapid increases in porn addiction over the past decades have fostered such unimaginable depths of objectification that something as innocuous as a pregnancy can trigger a hateful reaction. It’s just a baby bump guys, wallahi Islam doesn’t forbid pregnancies!