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A critique of some disparaging comments from Yasmin Alibhai-Brown about white converts:
…if, as Alibhai-Brown states, white converts are whimsies that Progressive Muslims have no time for, how can converts be blamed for seeking communities that will accept them? [ie, conservative communities]
Even when it blatantly conflicts with the values otherwise expressed, people still fall into the puritanical error, giving rise to stridency, narrow-mindedness and carping.
This week on MMW, we examined the Rahma campaign for domestic workers’ treatment, pondered about whether online activism is effective, reviewed Leila Aboulela’s book Minaret, discussed Egypt’s first female mayor, talked about a Facebook campaign aiming to improve perception of spinsters, and overdosed on our Friday links.
This week on MMW, we criticized a Muslim magazine’s use of bodies, examined the way Muslim women fare in Bollywood movies, discussed gender segregation in Australian mosques, wondered about lingerie’s connection to sexual empowerment for Muslim women, profiled Princess Hijab’s advertising activism, and linked up a storm.