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09:49:14 am on August 12, 2008 | # | |
Veiled athletes at the Olympics:
This year’s Games will see a sizable sprinkling of veiled athletes who are determined to avoid offending devout Muslims back home while showing skimpily dressed rivals there is nothing constricting about wearing “hijab.”
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Sy 10:17 am on August 13, 2008 | #
Islam has been massively covered in the media for close to 7 years and they still cannot get basic terminology right re: veil and hijab. Hayzeus Christo.
Andrea Useem 12:26 pm on August 13, 2008 | #
i sympathize with your feeling, but just wonder if “veil” is really a technical term at all.
Sy 11:03 pm on August 13, 2008 | #
well from two perspectives, i don’t think veil is really an islamic technical term perse, (maybe purdah?) but from “western” coverage of Islam, veil just seems to be a catch-all for whatever a muslim woman has on her head that covers any degree of hair that isnt a baseball cap.