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(Attempting to) Go Beyond the Stereotypes


Posted by Krista Riley on 03 Feb 2011 / 0 Comments
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The headline of a recent series about Muslim women of the community in the Utica Observer-Dispatch reads, “Behind the veil: Stereotypes can be frustrating for Muslim women.”  Major groan.  You know what else can be frustrating for Muslim women?  Headlines like “Behind the veil.” But for the most part, this article, and its related stories […]

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Not Such a Small World, After All: Disney’s Latest Discrimination


Posted by sarahaji on 09 Sep 2010 / 0 Comments
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In the latest hijab shake-down, Imane Boudlal was taken off the schedule as a hostess at Disney’s Grand Californian Hotel because she insisted upon her right to wear hijab to work. Boudlal, a Moroccan-born Muslim woman, already wore the hijab at home, but said that she learned of her Constitutional right to wear it to […]

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More Than Just a Game: The Right to Wear a Scarf and Play Sports


Posted by nicole on 02 Feb 2010 / 0 Comments
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Yet another Muslim woman has been denied the right to play sports while wearing a headscarf. Last summer, a young Swiss Muslimah from Luzern, Surah al Shawk (pictured left), attracted the attention of the Northeastern Swtizerland Basketball Association, ProBasket, when she started playing in second division games in Luzern. Unfortunately, it wasn’t her amazing skills […]

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