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Running for Boston in Jakarta


Posted by afia on 13 May 2013 / 1 Comment
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The weeks following the Boston bombing have been filled with media reports with all-too-familiar suspicion of Islam and –as Nicole explored in a recent post— hijab-wearing Muslim women. However, both local and international media largely missed an act of activism from my part of the world that had taken place even before Ann Coulter appeared […]

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Politics

Hide Your Children, Hide Your Family, Hide Your Mother


Posted by Guest Contributor on 06 May 2013 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by guest contributor Nur Laura Caskey. Ricki Lake. Jerry Springer. Judge Judy gone horribly wrong. In his lectures on how Europeans came to determine which things would be considered “abnormal,” Michel Foucault says “expert psychiatric opinion allows the offense, as defined by the law, to be doubled with a whole series of […]

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Hijab and the Boston Bombers


Posted by nicolejhm on 24 Apr 2013 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by guest contributor Nicole J. Hunter Mostafa (@nicolejhm). Ladies, let’s be honest: hijab is a tired topic for us Muslimahs. We still debate, discuss, and attempt to define it, but pretty much everything has been said at some point or another. But for some, it apparently never gets old. And now, […]

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