Archive for 'Islam'
Muslim Community Liaison Resigns Over Alleged Ties to the Muslim Community
Recently I was listening to this episode of This American Life (Act Two, to be precise) and realized that the American Muslim community is experiencing a frightening witch hunt. In short, Masan Azbahi was an Obama campaign liaison to Chicago’s Muslim community until he was accused of being a terrorist. Why? Because he had once [...]
Posted: March 27th, 2009 under Islam, Media, This American Life, discrimination, irony, media bias, muslim, obama, objectification, religion, religious extremists, terrorism, terrorist, terrorists.
Tags: anti-semitism, chicago, dow jones, fundamentalist, imam, investment, ira glass, irony, Islam, jamal said, masan azbahi, muslim, obama, racism, radical islam, terror, terrorism, wall street journal. this american life, war on terror
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You Can Kill a [Wo]man, but Not an Idea: Benazir Bhutto & Female Leadership
Benazir Bhutto was catapulted into public consciousness in Western media on December 27th when a suicide bomber took her life, as well as those of at least 26 others. Bhutto, a former Pakistani Prime Minister, graduate of Harvard Law School, wife, and mother of three, will be missed not just by the ordinary family members, [...]
Posted: December 30th, 2007 under Harvard, Islam, Media, New York Times, Pakistan, Western, amnesty, asif ali zardari, assassination, benazir, bhutto, bilawal bhutto zardari, candidate, corruption, death, democracy, dubai, east, economy, election, farooq leghari, female, general, general election, ghulam ishaq khan, government, law, leader, leadership, opposition, pakistani, pakistani people's party, politics, power, president, school, socialism, suicide bomber, west.
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I can see clearly now, my Cultural Bias is gone. . .
Rereading my site, it seems to me that some more layers need to be involved. For example, one of my friends who hails from Pakistan told me about how one of her feminist aunts chooses to wear the chador because she finds it freeing to hide her appearance from other people. It happened, she said, [...]
Posted: May 6th, 2007 under Edward Said, Freud, George Washington University, Islam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejah, Mary, Mary Magdalene, New York Times, Orientalism, Pakistan, Richard Gere, Robert Albro, Sex Roles, Shariah, Shilpa Shetty, Wikipedia, chador, cultural bias, human dignity, kissing, objectification, symbolism.
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Hide your knees, it’s the Fashion Po.
This article in the New York Times from May 3rd documents the enforcement of Islamic ideals of modesty in Tehran, Iran. The article reports that “Women have been required by law since the 1979 Islamic revolution to cover their hair and wear long, loose clothing. The ideal dress is considered to be the chador, a [...]
Posted: May 5th, 2007 under Female Sexuality, Iran, Islam, Ismail Ahmadi Moghaddam, Mahmoud Ahmadinejah, Misogyny, New York Times, Sex Roles, Tehran, chador, exploitation, fashion, fashion police, objectification.
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