Thursday, May 1

Women head scarves Middle East

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1OiYDRIdIKo ß 2014 U of M study of ME women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T-ORarZNeJg ß Somali culture vs. American culture.  “Our culture is based on religion”  if You don’t pray, it don’t matter if you wear one or not.  Gotta paise Allah.    I wanna wear one – I don’t want to be looked at funny because I wear it.   I want non-Muslims to understand why I wear it – not to judge me real quick.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MXaatHbEQw START 1 min:  Turkey banned it in 1923.  1982 more ban.   Now, in 2013, people are protesting.  97.8% Muslim.  Banned in public sector.  Find it discrimative towards women on the basis of their religion.  Women entitled to their own freedom.  Cannot be wrn in any govt job:  atty, gov, teacher.   Kids cannot wear them in schoold.  University students:  no.  Muslim women want more freedom. 
 They want the ban lifted in the name of democracy. 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6gNhtC8CZo ß kid in two diff hats.  Argues with self.  Muslim women are the most beautiful
*** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXzUuKdfnRE ß great one 10 min.   3 types.    Middle one it’s based on the fact I want to be judged on what I do, not what I look like.   It’s to make men behave better towards you – right?     What is my mission, asks the one who does not wear.  It will create barrier.   As a Muslim, you’re a missionary at heart:  you are supposed to bring Islam to them.  We need to integrate, assimilate, and move from one culture or another.  Covered one:  I don’t think you have to assimilate.  You need to represent Islam as an emvcompassing thing, not an exclusionary thing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JSIjfnpPCsg ß ban in France (two Muslim women argue)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbKqqai1V-c career Western women converting to Islam.  3/4 of new converts to Islam are women.


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