Word: hijab
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...sufficiency projects-for Afghans for Civil Society, a nongovernmental organization founded by Qayum Karzai, brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Every morning, she walks the crooked lanes of Kandahar urging women to learn to read and encouraging families to send their little girls to school. Refusing to wear a hijab, Rangina is an unusual sight in deeply conservative Kandahar, where most women remain cloistered at home. Hers is not a universally popular pitch. Some husbands forbid their wives to listen...
...Rangina gets a warm reception at Ghotair's lane. Children playing outside alert their mothers and elder sisters. Clad anonymously in the customary blue-pleated hijab, they head for Ghotair's hut, carrying shawls and tablecloths they have embroidered. Behind the dirty rag that serves as a front door, they give Rangina their work, for which she pays from the ngo's funds. (They are sold through a loose network of friends and family back in the U.S.) "It has changed our lives," marvels Ghotair. "We can get clothes for our children and milk powder for the babies." She points...
...Najaf, base of the 1991 Shia rebellion, a woman laughs as I struggle with my slippery hijab, then helps tie the scarf that covers my hair. Is she scared of war, I ask, miming planes and bombs. She shrugged and pointed to the sky. God will decide. Then she turns to pray at the beautiful, golden shrine. She looks extremely devout, and perhaps her God is listening. She is praying for peace...
...Sept. 11. Thanks in part to Osama bin Laden, Roald and other Muslims unfairly bear what she calls "guilt by association." She often feels the judgment of others the instant they see her headscarf. "When I became a Muslim, I didn't know you were supposed to wear the hijab. Most Muslims in Norway didn't," Roald recalls. "I thought people just wore it when it was windy." After a friend prodded her to study the subject more closely, she concluded that she ought to veil. This external sign of faith seemed harder for her nominally Lutheran family to accept...
Campuses were not immune from the wave of backlashes and blatant intimidation. Only a week after the Sept. 11 attacks, two Muslim girls were beaten at Moraine Valley College in Palos Hills, Illinois. At the University of Connecticut, a Muslim female student had her hijab (Islamic head covering) torn off and then she was chased off campus...