Word: hijab
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...debates over Muslim integration in Europe lies the question: what's decent to do in public? Display your sexuality, or your faith? The French have no problem with bare breasts on billboards and TV, but big problems with hijab-covered heads in public schools and government offices. Many Muslims feel just the opposite. For most Europeans, prayer is something best done in private, a matter for individual souls rather than state institutions. In the Islamic world, religion is out of the closet: on the streets, chanted five times daily from minarets, enshrined in constitutions, party platforms and penal codes. Sexual...
...What do you think about hijab [veil, or headscarf], in relation to Islam and modernity? -Nese Yilmaz in Madison, Wis. For many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. Unfortunately, too many people in the Western world mistakenly perceive it as an expression of powerlessness and oppression. And increasingly it is being turned into a political tool. Modernity is not about dress codes. Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive. In Jordan, a woman cannot be forced to wear a veil against her will...
...many, the hijab represents modesty, piety and devotion to God, and I truly respect that. But the hijab should not be used as a means of applying social pressure on people. In Jordan, for example, a woman cannot be forced to wear a veil against her will...
...Save the veils When Aisha Awan goes out in crowds, she goes under cover. She wears her body-length jilbab, her hijab (a scarf that hides her hair) and a niqab, a Muslim veil that covers almost her entire face. "I feel more comfortable, like I respect myself more when I'm covered," she says. The only things Awan leaves exposed are her eyes. "You can see somebody's whole history by looking into their eyes," she says...
Australia's most senior Islamic cleric, Sheik Taj Al-Din Hilali, was justly slapped down by the community after he described women who did not wear the hijab (headdress) as "uncovered meat." In a Ramadan sermon in September, the mufti also told his flock that women, by the way they dress and act, were to blame for sexual assault. When the comments were reported in late October by the Australian newspaper, the nation's leaders condemned Hilali. After he apologized, claiming his words were taken out of context, Hilali fell into the arms of his physicians. He rode...