Hayat wrote about two Muslim girls who were barred from prime seats directly behind the candidate because staffers were concerned that they were wearing traditional head scarves, or Hijab. Related posts No related posts.

10 days ago · Babel Talk · babeltalk.net/talk by Hisham 1 reference

You may remember how Hillary Clinton liked to plant interesting characters in the backdrop of her campaign speeches. Well it seems Barack Obama likes to pluck them from his. Barry got into hot water recently over his handling of a potentially troublesome visual dilemma that reared it’s scarfed head ...

12 days ago · hopperbach · hopperbach.com by hopperbach

Dear Readers, At a Monday rally in Detroit, Michigan, a town widely recognized as an Arab-American diasporic hub, the Obama camp made two Muslim women in hijab exit the crowd scene behind Obama’s podium. Obama staff explained that they asked the women to leave the stage because in “this political cl ...

16 days ago · Political Poet(ry) · politicalpoet.wordpress.com by naxal 2 references

The SEAL Team Conquers Carytown ...but politely. I had a true Richmond experience yesterday morning around 6 a.m while hiking up to the 7-11 for creamer. The SEAL Team fitness group was out in force, jogging back and forth along Cary Street, about 40 of them. I encountered them running up Belmont as ...

17 days ago · The Blue Raccoon · harrykollatz.blogspot.com by HEK () 5 references

When a Muslim girl asked as to why she was not allowed to sit behind the Senator at his speech with Al Gore last night, the volunteer replied: “We’re not letting anyone with anything on their heads like baseball [caps] or scarves sit behind the stage.” - Obama Volunteer Only problem is that you can ...

17 days ago · Living Jersey · livingjersey.wordpress.com by Aaron 1 reference

Once again, Turkish women can no longer wear headscarves at their universities, after a new ruling from Turkish courts yesterday. In the 1990s, the judicial elites in Turkey banned women from wearing their traditional headscarves on Turkish campuses. The idea was that the veil was too far outside th ...

29 days ago · Religion Transcends · religiontranscends.com by admin

Sigh. This is distressing. Here’s an article about what’s going on in Turkey. The government had moved to lift a ban on head-scarves in school, so that women who want to wear the religious emblem can do so, arguing that preventing them from wearing them to school was inhibiting some Muslim women fro ...

30 days ago · Enough is Enough · honestpoet.wordpress.com by honestpoet 7 references

I have been feeling really old recently. As in ‘Remember Blossom? And Fraggle Rock? And cassette tapes? And Slap bands?’ kind of old. This feeling is only exacerbated by the ladies of the blogosphere who seem to have a 90’s obsession going on that puts me in danger of repeating fashion mistakes that ...

68 days ago · Smaggle Style · smagglestyle.com by Lady Smaggle 12 references

86 days ago · OW! MY SWEET EYES! · owmysweeteyes.blogspot.com by Mr. Walters 4 references

Never let it be said that I am not in tune with feminists doctrine…here’s an excellent article which, so far as i can see, superbly speaks to one of the touch-stones of feminism: choice. The article is from the Washington Post and tackles the issue of head scarves. The author, Mona Eltahawy, has see ...

125 days ago · The Sino-Saudi Blog · thesinosaudiblog.com by davidbroberts 2 references