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...characters in The 99 include Muslims from all over the world: Fatah, from Indonesia, can open and close gateways at any location; Daar, from the U.S., can inflict pain; and Mumita, with unparalleled agility, is Portuguese. This year, a burqa-wearing character from Yemen named Batina the Hidden will make an appearance. "Even though there are approximately 50 female superheroes, only five will be covered in that way," says Mutawa. "I want to send the message out that there is not only one way to be Muslim...
...July 27 decision was revealed in Le Monde, which began its story asking whether "the burqa is incompatible with French nationality" The story suggested the answer is apparently yes, and unfurled that tale of a 32 year-old native Moroccan woman identified as Faiza M. as evidence. Though married to a French citizen and the mother of their three, French-born children, Faiza M. was denied citizenship on the grounds that she has "adopted a religious practice incompatible with essential values of the French community, particularly the principle of equality of the sexes...
...uniform. I figured a guy in jeans telling them to bring their seat backs forward would be confusing to passengers, but as soon as I started greeting people, I learned that airline passengers are not in the mood to pay attention to anything. Your flight attendant could wear a burqa, and you wouldn't notice so long as she made your little TV set work...
...Lamentation” as a general “dance of sorrows,” soloist Dakin’s interpretation of Martha Graham’s original 1930 choreography and costumes seemed to allude to the struggles of Arab women trapped within the cultural rigidity of the burqa. As she futilely tried to escape a suffocating purple cloth, Dakin stayed within a constrained circle, making clever use of her space to relay what might be a message of political persecution against women in much of the Arab world. Dakin, who also appeared as the primary dancer...
...precinct in Kabal. In Kalam village, Dr. Fazli Raziq's barber disappeared, driven out of business by a new edict prohibiting men from shaving their beards. Fazli's wife, Zaibi, stopped leaving the house, preferring to stay inside rather than replace her headscarf with the freshly mandated shuttlecock burqa that left only a mesh opening for the eyes. Then militants threatened to bomb their daughter's school. All in all, five out of seven subdistricts - some 68 villages - in this picturesque valley 100 miles (160 km) from the capital are under the control of an extremist group that has torched...