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Mariam Khan

It's Not About the Burqa

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When was the last time you heard a Muslim woman speak for herself without a filter?
'Engrossing . . . fascinating . . . courageous' Observer
In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the 'traditional submissiveness' of Muslim women. Mariam felt pretty sure she didn't know a single Muslim woman who would describe herself that way. Why was she hearing about Muslim women from people who were neither Muslim, nor female?
Years later the state of the national discourse has deteriorated even further, and Muslim women's voices are still pushed to the fringes — the figures leading the discussion are white and male.
Taking one of the most politicized and misused words associated with Muslim women and Islamophobia, It's Not About the Burqa is poised to change all that. Here are voices you won't see represented in the national news headlines: seventeen Muslim women speaking…
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    When a woman is ‘too much’, she is essentially uncontrollable and unashamed. That makes her dangerous.
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    The more complicated answer is men and men and a system – patriarchy – that enables and protects them at the same time as it socializes women to internalize the dictates of patriarchy and to accept them as culture and as community.
  • Rantxxzhas quoted2 years ago
    The deplorable campaign by FEMEN, a group that called for an ‘International Topless Jihad’ day by bearing their breasts outside mosques across Europe in 2013 to supposedly ‘free’ Muslim women, was an example of women’s rights and demands being mobilized as part of the sustained attack against the Muslim community.

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