Reflect, refract, illumine ([info]ywns) wrote,
@ 2007-09-22 13:41:00
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Class & da'wa resources
Awesome site on women & art in Islam, veils, veiling, the western gaze, orientalism, etc. It seems like undergrad-readable postcolonialism and Muslimah-positive without the chauvinist smugness of a lot of observant male-written material. "The Qur'an freed women. Things today are exactly like they were in the first generation! Hooray for them! Now bring me some tea, habibi."

http://hudson2.skidmore.edu/academics/arthistory/ah369/finalveil.htm

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[info]margots_coat
2007-09-24 07:28 am UTC (link)
Interesting article! Thanks for sharing. I didn't know the Muslim Women's League actually came out and said Muslimas shouldn't veil for safety purposes, though. Wow. :(

I actually have never gotten much crap for it (the occasional stare maybe, or "isn't that thing hot?" sort of thing) but on September 11 of this year I got such bad service at Walgreens that I had to take my business elsewhere and complain to corporate. It didnt' occur to me until I got home that my hijab may have been the reason - I was totally oblivious about what day it was.

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