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A painting depicting Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz and Austrian Vice-Chancellor Heinz Christian Strache, in which the hijab is removed from a Muslim girl. Hijabophobia is a type of religious and cultural discrimination against Muslim women who wear the hijab. [1] The discrimination has had manifestations in public, working and educational ...
Similarly, religiously observant Muslim girls and women may feel uncomfortable around girls and women who wear traditionally revealing American outfits, especially during the summer "bikini season". An outfit which is colloquially known as the burqini allows Muslim women to swim without displaying any significant amount of skin.
Bibi Aisha (Pashto: بي بي عایشه; Bibi is a term of respect meaning "Lady"; born Aisha Mohammadzai, [1] legal name in the United States: Aesha Mohammadzai) is an Afghan woman who fled from an abusive marriage she was forced into as a teenager, but was caught, jailed, mutilated and left to die as revenge for her escape.
Being Muslim in America means… “I think there’s always a certain level of bias initially when people meet you. Especially for me as a Muslim woman, they’ll be surprised. I am a professional and I work in an area that is high-paced and intense. I don’t think people usually envision a Muslim woman in that space.
Editor’s Note: Khaled A. Beydoun is a law professor at the Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law.He is the author of many books, including “American Islamophobia ...
In America, women enjoy the same freedoms men do. Men still have advantages, but the American government does not systematically oppress women for something as small as what they’re wearing ...
In a dual interview with Iranian feminist activist Masih Alinejad about the practice of veiling, Sarsour elaborated on her views that the hijab is a spiritual act and not a symbol of oppression, and stressed the Islamophobia experienced by hijabi women in the West. Alinejad accused Sarsour of double standards, saying that Western Muslims in ...
A report titled 100 Years of Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, director of media relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, describes what some in the Arab-American community call "the three B syndrome": "Arabs in TV and movies are portrayed as either bombers, belly dancers, or billionaires" a ...