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“Amira & Sam” and the Hijab


Posted by samya on 09 Mar 2015 / 4 Comments
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The issue of stereotyping Muslims has been controversial throughout Hollywood’s history, and looking at American films and TV in general, we can see that Muslim men (usually represented as dark skinned, bearded, and speaking broken English) have almost invariably placed the “bad people category.” Nick Recktenwald, from The Mic comments on this here: In general, […]

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Missionary Rhetoric: A Cry of Need from Lands of Darkness


Posted by tasnim on 06 Jul 2010 / 0 Comments
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When Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid’s Tale, a feminist dystopia set in a world run by a totalitarian theocracy, she said that she hadn’t “invented anything,” but taken her inspiration from fundamentalist Christianity in the United States, and the Islamic Revolution in Iran, among other things. In the context of the war on Afghanistan, Mary […]

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Mother Knows Best: CNN’s interview with an alleged suicide bomber


Posted by fatima on 26 Aug 2008 / 0 Comments
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Sometimes I wonder why I even browse CNN.com anymore. However, it does tend to make for a good story for MMW each week 🙂 This story about an Iraqi woman being detained because she is an alleged suicide bomber is pretty ridiculous….more so than what I’m used to seeing on there. Anytime mainstream news sources […]

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