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.”
Can there possibly be anything interesting to say about hijab anymore? I think not, yet I was coaxed into telling my own tale. With apologies to Willow for my use of “hijabi.” (And I’ll note the ingenious phrase “dejab” was coined by my awesome editor, Dilshad Ali.)
The following image appeared on a Muslim website recently:
(Via Tabsir.)
The Fight for Turkey. An op-ed by Roger Cohen in the NYT. He argues that a dose of “secular fascism” is healthy for the bout between the AKP and the secular establishment. Am I the only one finds this ludicrous? Does “Islamofascism” get the same courtesy?
The Onion has its own take on the controversy in Detroit where two muslim women were barred from the podium behind Obama on account of their hijab:
It should be noted of course that Obama personally called both women to apologize.
Who’s afraid of the big bad headscarf? Apparently, Obama volunteers. How a couple of my friends were treated at the O rally in Detroit.
Why Harvard University wasn’t right in granting Muslim women “women-only” gym hours.
Salaams folks, here’s a story I have wanted to write forever, and Slate finally gave me a chance: It’s about loving and leaving Hijab:
http://www.slate.com/id/2191103/
the hijab, it protects your brain! http://tinyurl.com/5bvqg7
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