tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post4360200496138483822..comments2024-03-10T00:44:49.280-05:00Comments on This & That: "Lipstick Jihad"Susannehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03115294023069458287noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-71027695858743925182011-11-10T03:56:00.883-05:002011-11-10T03:56:00.883-05:00Thank you for sharing superb informations. Your si...Thank you for sharing superb informations. Your site is very cool. I'm impressed by the details that you’ve on this website. 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Reading what you said about hijab and outside forces either making women take it off or put it on, made me think we are little toy dolls with someone else dressing us. I enjoyed what you said.<br /><br />Funny about the smiling/laughing bit in your culture. Oh, I know what I want you to write about. I just saw your post about that on your blog. It would be wonderful to read about cultural stuff like that. I enjoy it so much! Like maybe how should one conduct herself in public in KSA (things you must do, things you must not do, how you react/respond/interact with others properly) and maybe how you can tell who is Saudi and who is an expat. I find the way people are known as "foreign" so fascinating! :) I'll have to add this to your blog post in case you don't read it here. Hehehe....thanks for the idea!<br /><br /><br /><br />OO, wow, lots of interesting thoughts there. I remember one friend told me that the veil was a status symbol many years ago. Only free women could wear them and slaves were forbidden to wear them. Based just on what you shared, it seems the veil means many things to many people. I'm sure lots of women believe it to be something they do for God, whereas others just do it out of cultural habit or to hide or make a statement. I'm sure someone could write a book on what the veil says and they will get a variety of answers. Thanks for what you shared!<br /><br /><br />Sanil, she never says "I am a Muslim" and often stresses the secular aspects of her family yet she mentions her grandmother teaching her the Fatiha as a child, their presence in the US shouting "Muslim!" and fasting all of two days of Ramadan (which was more than many people she encountered her first months in Iran) so I assumed she considered herself at least culturally Muslim. But she doesn't try to make herself seem religious with her talking of drinking with friends, eating pork in New York, dating and so forth. So I might have jumped the gun claiming this for her! It was more my impression, I guess.<br /><br />Yes, I love learning about the world this way and on blogs. It's so much more interesting than reading a Wikpedia page! :)<br /><br /><br /><br />Thank you all for your feedback!Susannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03115294023069458287noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-76456703769143679542011-11-06T16:27:02.682-05:002011-11-06T16:27:02.682-05:00Do you know what "secular Muslim" means ...Do you know what "secular Muslim" means in this case? Like, does she believe and follow the religion but as sort of a more minor part of her life, or not follow it at all but was raised in it, or what? Just curious.<br /><br />Very interesting post. Honestly, I don't know very much about other parts of the world, I like hearing from people who do. Things like this I think help me understand better than if I were to just read up on it via news articles or wikipedia or something (though those help too). Thanks for sharing them!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07382787889525110718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-31487452420228399462011-11-06T08:29:18.470-05:002011-11-06T08:29:18.470-05:00I always get amazed when it comes to veil. In Indo...I always get amazed when it comes to veil. In Indonesia it becomes a trend, imposed on women by some of the islamic society because it seems that the orthodox Islamic becoming more of the growing movement...leaving behind all the beauty of the indigenous traditional fashion which was very beautiul, which had prevously proven not a distraction at all for indonesian men before this movement that they would keep thinking about women's body!!<br /><br />And now, muslim women students wearing very unattractive veil (they were really good in wrapping themselves in worn out cloth, putting cloth in so many unshaped layers...!!) screamed out loud that they want women to stop wearing mini skirts or pants to avoid rape, whislt they didn't understand that rapes actually happens mostly not among strangers but among the close knitted environment behind closed door. They didn't even acknowledge that many repots of domestic workers abuse come from the coutries that impose shariah law. I really worry that religion do really makes people become so mentally blocked, not capable of thinking for themselves but for the sake of something else that they hold as the truth without testing it.<br /><br />I also know the fact that since you cannot judge the motive behind the actions of some Muslims of wearing veil, you wonder how easy veils become such an alibi to escape from people's judgement or the other way around. One of my girl friends (I would rather say a girl I knew instead of friend) made an affair with a married man who favor women wearing veils, she even managed to break his family. The moment she got the attention of the men, she decided to wear veil (forget all the blame on her ).... One other friends had already worn veil, but when she decided to stop wearing it since whe was thinking that it was a waste of her beautiful young life, she was accused or rumored by her men friends behind her back of having had affairs with men, while there's no proof at all. <br /><br />Public figures also find veils as a very easy way to escape from public critics to gain symphaty. Once you were having troubled with the society, it's easy to just put on a veil and put a face of sorry, then all the society becomes rather doubtful about their guilt.<br /><br />Veils are actually problematic as well in tropical climate, you gain humids in your head, my friends almost loose half of her hair. And who said that veils are way of putting humility? I see so many efforts done by Muslim women on how to wear attractive veils, collecting as many veils with so many styles. They become obsessed with it, and forgetting that natural hair was the most beatiful crown ever given to women instead of cloths , and hair deserves that care and obsession instead of cloth, I suppose.<br /><br />These are just examples of how hyprocritical Islamic society can be. I really think that it's beyond the women's choice. It's a tool to say something, mostly to segregate people to different group, the fearful and the free minds. And it's really a trap thinking that being fearful of something means that one is morally better. I wonder if its a choice, can a muslim women put a veil one day as an accesories, and tomorrow comes out with her natural hair exposed to the sun? NO is it?observant observerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01854462112422242194noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-740924465958245224.post-82641575276827683402011-11-05T16:08:26.460-05:002011-11-05T16:08:26.460-05:00If she considered herself to be a Muslims, then sh...If she considered herself to be a Muslims, then she is in my book.Done.<br /><br />When I was reading about the part of smiling in public, I thought that this is the same in here and hearing a group of women laughing or speaking loudly is considered not polite and disgrace, despite the funny fact that we "Middle Eastern" are born with loud voices!! <br /><br />The most disturbing notion among those who like to impose Islam on everyone and those who wants to get rid the whole world from is "hijab". people would die for that and would kill for that and be the worst because of that. It's just a piece of cloth that woman like to cover themselves with or not according to their belief of Islam.<br />It's so stupid that when France and some more countries wants to free women,it takes the hijab away and when Iran and Saudi Arabia want to prison woman they force it into it !!. <br />Women are probably considered a huge obstacle in this world and so let's free her or imprison her from /with hijab. no one cares about the rights of woman or how to empower her at all anymore. <br /><br />Seems like a good book. Waiting for the next post and thanks for sharing :)Wafahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01533307419295995833noreply@blogger.com