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14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Why are some men afrai... · 0 replies · +1 points

Here's another blog that I really enjoy. The folowing is the Closet portion of her blog, she delves into other topics, too.

http://sliceoflemon.com/?page_id=915

This hijabi girl is really funny and I believe she workd for the Washington Post or some other newspaper. She has quite a few "how to wear hijab" videos and about fashion and Muslim women.

She eased her way into hijab by starting out by wearing hats, etc. She was on the college dance team when she started thinking about what it means to be a Muslim and decided she wanted to wear hijab.

She's newly married and her blog reflects that. She's totally in love and it's sooooooooo cute. I think she's a very beautiful woman, and whenever i see pretty hijabi girls, I wonder how anyone can claim, like the author on MSN did, that hijab makes women look ugly.

Here's another fashion blog by a hijabi: http://www.ilovelookinggood.com/

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Why are some men afrai... · 0 replies · +2 points

Seham,

Are you aware of this blog?

http://www.hijabstyle.blogspot.com/

If not, I know you will enjoy it. :)

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Why are some men afrai... · 0 replies · +2 points

Many non-Muslim men that I know that take interest in muhajibas because, simply put, they like them. That's been my experience. Every once in a while they may ask "dumb" questions about the hijab but it's not because they are being condescending but because they don't understand it.

I know a guy who asked my friend out during her freshman year but she explained she couldn't date him. During their senior year he shocked her with a marriage proposal. they got married. They have two kids now and are very happy.

The ones that don't like the hijab, well, don't like Muslim too much to begin with anyway.

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Why are some men afrai... · 4 replies · +4 points

A couple of years back I remember reading an article in the fashion segment on the MSN website that said that hijab makes women look ugly.

The author said that the best way for Muslims who want to cover their hair is to go the route of Jewish women who wear fashionable hats and wigs.

I have seen a couple of women wear these "fashionable" wigs and I can definitely tell they are wigs, and there is nothing fashionable about that. But do you hear us complaining about it or saying that it makes the Jewish women look ugly? Who cares? It's their choice and I don't really care.

I have seen plenty of non-Muslim male interest in hijabi girls at my campus. They don't seem to find that hijab makes them ugly at all.

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Netanyahu's security a... · 0 replies · +1 points

Uzi sounds just like Witty! Talk, talk talk---no substance, no meaning.

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Sabrosky: I express my... · 0 replies · +1 points

Phil,

I think you found your intellectual other half.

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - His resume featured 'm... · 1 reply · +3 points

Some shithead on MSNBC was mad that our culture has gone astray because the massess are upset about Michael Jackson's death and no one seemed to notice that a great "hero", McNarma, (I don't even know how to spell his name, or care to), had also died.

I don't care for a man who killed millions in unjustified wars.

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Jewish body in Germany... · 1 reply · +1 points

I want to know the last name of the killer.

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Kansas City turns out ... · 2 replies · +2 points

Continued:

In Houston, he was scathing of the Muslim and Arab government response to the Gazza massacre, to thunderous applause and shouts of Allahu Akbar, from the largely Arab/Muslim audience. He told how a 10 year-old orphaned girl, who lost all extended family as well, asked him, 'Where is the Arab nation that we read about in school? Where is the Muslim brotherhood that we are taught about in school? "He told of how when his caravan was passing through the different Muslim countries, people would run up to them and the women would throw their wedding rings at them, and tell them to sell it and use it to buy whatever the Gazans need.

He told of how an old man begged him to take him along with him and when Galloway said they don't have space, he cried, and said to tell Gazans, "When they cry, we cry, too. When they bleed, our hearts bleed."
(By the way, Galloway is quite funny. His many jokes made us all laugh as well.)

14 years ago @ Mondoweiss - Kansas City turns out ... · 3 replies · +2 points

Galloway came down to Houston to raise money and to encourage people to go with he delegation. Many are going and many raised money after he left through different fundraisers and other small efforts. I'm not sure how much Houston raised altogether, but the Palestinians community presence here is pretty strong.

Galloway is an awesome speaker. Listening to him in person was inspiring and moving. I wept when he described seeing a young boy, victim of a phosphorous attack in the recent assault on Gaza, for whom the doctors could do nothing, as he lay on the hospital bed, with smoke coming out from his nostrils and his ears--he was literally being cooked alive from the inside. He had inhaled a large amount of phosphorous smoke. Galloway said he turned away, he couldn't bring himself to look at him, and he just wasn’t' strong enough to face the boy.... I cry, even now, as I think about it.

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