1 billion Muslims on the planet but you never have a random hijabi in the background of a Western TV show or movie.
Like in the Avengers, shit goes down in NYC and not a single like, hijabi is seen running for their life too.
Supernatural is going to have 12 seasons and they literally travelled across all of the USA and they stayed at hundreds of motels and they worked with hundreds of clients at different places and not a single hijabi woman was present.
Like did you know a hijabi can work at a bank??? Or at a restaurant??? Or a hotel??? Or a coffee shop??? Or a lab???? Or even as a SHIELD agent??? such a strange concept.
No hijabis stuck in an apocalyptic situation and fighting zombies?? No hijabis getting stranded on an island with the rest of their team or friends??? Are Muslim characters confined to a specific country and specific (non-fictional usually) setting???
I think it’s so interesting that when someone asks why women can’t pray or fast during their time of the month our automatic response is “because they are not pure.” To be honest, I think this response is limited and narrow-minded. The reason women don’t pray while menstruating is because Allah SWT gave women the greatest right when it comes to their body. This right is one that men do not have, and it recognizes the pain and stress a female body undergoes every month. Allah SWT is showing us that women have a right to the biological process which contributes to sustaining life, and that it supersedes other rights such as worshiping Him through obligatory prayers or fasts. Men don’t undergo such a stress therefore they don’t have this right, and simply claiming it is due to “impurity” is not serving Allah SWT’s ultimate wisdom any justice.
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It’s like this:
a boy with brown skin becomes famous
and people accuse him of terrorism.
his white girlfriend wears a bindi
and nobody bats an eye.
It’s like this:
when I was young, my mother said:
“don’t touch your lips; you’ll look like a camel
if they get too big.”
(fast forward ten years: Kylie Jenner says
“lip liner changed my life.”)
It’s like this:
I cannot name you more than one celebrity
who looks like me, like my brother, who has
my country’s blood running in his veins.
but I can name you ten white girls
who wear bindis as a fashion accessory;
who think mehndi is a cool trend;
who imagine my vibrant, beautiful country
as just another third-world wreck.
It’s like this:
I have ripped and burned and lightened my skin
in order to look more like you.
I have watched women who look like my sisters,
who are my sisters, lose their lives for wearing hijabs.
I have watched my brother abandon every word of Urdu
that he has ever known, because he is American.
and American means white.
It’s like this:
I was named for the Prophet’s daughter
and my full name is eight syllables long
but you can’t even pronounce the first two correctly.
you can’t even pronounce Pakistan correctly.
It’s like this:
my country was ravaged and savaged
by people who look just like you.
my grandparents were alive for our Independence Day.
and you say: “the past is the past, forgive and forget.”
and you say: “9/11: never forget.”
It’s like this:
your biggest problem is being called racist
because it’s an ugly word for an ugly person.
It’s like this:
my biggest problem is being called terrorist.
because a boy can’t leave a band
without being that hated.
because an interviewer once asked him:
“is it true you brought a gun to school?”
and he said: “it wasn’t mine, it was a toy gun,
it wasn’t real, I’M NOT A TERRORIST I’M NOT – ”"
After British Prime Minister David Cameron blamed ISIS recruitment on “traditionally submissive” Muslim women and mothers who don’t speak out against radical Islamism, Muslim women are firing back on Twitter. One tweet, featuring Darth Vader (really), was particularly funny and insightful.
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i prayed to Allah for you
before you were mine i asked our Lord
for a woman
who would love me
for a woman
to love
in return
silly me,
even while your were here
i kept asking for you
until one day i asked Allah the right way
not, ‘bring me a woman’
but, ‘show me the women’
and i saw you
we saw each other
i prayed to Allah for you
before you were mine i asked our Lord
for a woman
who would love me
for a woman
to love
in return
lucky me,
Allah listened.
the signs as muslims
aries: the wallahi bro
taurus: the "if only you memorized quran like you memorize song lyrics" mom
gemini: the overinvested activist muslim
cancer: "muslims...we're just like you!"
leo: "don't you mean palestine?"
virgo: the "mashallah...inshallah," "can i dip my zayt in your za'atar?" "so what would you be doing if allah wasn't watching?" muslim fuckboy
libra: "there's no racism in the ummah, we have interracial marriages sometimes
scorpio: the haram police
sagittarius: the scientific muslim philosobro
capricorn: the white convert who changes her name to fatima, picks up bellydancing, and wears more abayahs, henna, and kohl than her egyptian in-laws
aquarius: the "ya allah let me marry an arab boy inshallah!" muslimah
pisces: the overzealous maker of da'wah
Hijab is not to prevent men from looking at women or “protect them” from men. Hijab is not for men, or to help men control themselves - it’s for women themselves, to empower women. Men in Islam have a responsibility to lower their gaze and respect a woman no matter what she is wearing or what she looks like.
FRANCE. Paris. Eid al-Fitr. Overflow of people praying in the street of the Omar mosque. 1991.
Abbas/Magnum Photos
Why does the hijab need to tack on the feminist label in order for it to be deemed acceptable by the west? Why do we have to frame our reasons for wearing it so they appease those non Muslims who are skeptical about it? Why do we have to turn the idea of hijab into a flavor that Westerners will easily eat up and approve?
Thank you !!!!!!!!!
Shout out to all the Muslims who have struggled with eating disorder yet still plan to participate in Ramadan this year
To those who are still in recovery and can’t do it this year for their health
To those who are unsupported by their family for their mental or physical needs this Ramadan
You are strong and Allah (swt) rewards you for every effort you make for Him and for yourself.
LISTEN UP
Ramadaan is coming in a few short weeks, and if you’re non-Muslim you can help your Muslim followers by tagging:
-profanity
-nudity
-sexual content of any kind (gifs/text/pictures etc.)
-food (some people like it tagged, others don’t care)
-other specifics that your Muslim followers ask you to tagI’ve seen “NSFR” or not safe for ramadaan used so that’s probably a good way to get everything without using 30 different tags. thank u!!!
