Muslim women uncover myths about the hijab

CNN ^ | 8/12/09 | John Blake

[Nachum]

She doesn't want your frosty public stares; the whispers behind her back; the lament that she's been degraded by her father.

What the Muslim high school senior wants you to understand is that she doesn't wear the hijab, the head scarf worn by Muslim women, because she is submissive.

"It represents beauty to me," says Abdelaziz, the 17-year-old daughter of two Egyptian parents living in Old Bridge, New Jersey.

[Twofortea]

Funny how France is more clever than we are on this issue...

[Monterrosa-24]

She has no choice. In a Muzzie country she would have no choice as an adult. That is what is so offensive about Obambi’s Cairo speech and his “women who chose” comment. Obambi is on the side of oppression. Obambi is a defender of oppression.

[Squantos]

I’ll take that to mean she was goin commando !

Sorry to put ya through that buddy.....:o)

[cdcdawg]

would it be too over the top to call this girl an Uncle Tom?

[Squantos]

I’ll take that to mean she was goin commando !

Sorry to put ya through that buddy.....:o)

[Mila]

"I wonder what would happen to her if she declared that she wanted to date one of the local boys, maybe a Jew or a Christian...or maybe a Rastafarian ?"

Judging from past stories of such "rebellious" behavior by daughters of Islam, I fear the outcome would be something civilized people would not enjoy contemplating.

[goat granny]

Reminds me of a nun's habit, and she doesn't have to waste time fixing her hair...now that is somewhat liberating..When I was a teen, we all wore babushka’s....Needed a head covering to enter a Catholic church...I saw women pinning a tissue on their heads for a quick prayer in church...Life sure gets interesting...

[TXnMA]

"[The hijab] represents beauty to me," says Abdelaziz, the 17-year-old daughter of two Egyptian parents living in Old Bridge, New Jersey.

Yeah, I've known a few 17 year old girls like that -- only they required paper bags to attain "beauty"... ;-)

[Mila]

"Reminds me of a nun's habit,..."

Great minds surely do think alike! I mentioned that very thing to my husband tonight. We are both products of Catholic school and so are familiar with various habits that the sisters wear/wore. You know depending on the style, those habits could be rather flattering to even those who might, in the lay world, be considered homely. Since you mention head coverings, I bet that you remember the lace chapel caps that were rather common before the covering of the head rule was done away with. I think that they were most popular in the 60s. Ah, memories. :)

[goat granny]

When I was a Catholic, I never went into a church without a head covering, but the tackiest one I ever saw was the kleenex held on with a bobby pin...seems silly now a days to do something like that........

some of those nun habits were also quite strange...:O)

[I Buried My Guns]

Mila, that is the hottest nun I’ve ever seen. I may have to convert.....

[Mila]

"Mila, that is the hottest nun I’ve ever seen. I may have to convert....."

Well we would love to have you, but in the interest of full disclosure I can't say for sure if she is a real nun. I have seen some very pretty ones in my time and the habit looks real enough , but the eyebrows and eyes look a little too "done". Who knows though, maybe she belongs to a very progressive order. :)