There’s moolah to be made riding the mad mullahs’ gravy train
If only they wore hijabs! Stephen Johnson, Daily Mail, May 25:
Yassmin Abdel-Magied (says Nine’s) Love Island’s toned and apparently all-white cast is making her feel unattractive. … “I’ve never watched a show like this … But the advert kinda demonstrates why I grew up in Australia never thinking a person with a darker shade of skin or different features (like myself) was even remotely attractive. And I’m not even really dark skinned. Hot damn.’’
A series more to Abdel-Magied’s liking? ABC iView May 8:
Hijabistas! With Yassmin Abdel-Magied — For years, girls who wear (sic) the headscarf and dress modestly were ignored by the fashion industry. Now, they’re finally being noticed.
Living doll! Abdel-Magied tweets November 18, 2017:
How dope is this? (Salam Sisters) … is a brand designed to empower young Muslim girls. Each doll has a different personality, interests and loads of hijab options … And awesomely … one of them is named Yasmina (hehe) and she wants to start her own NGO (sound familiar?)
Salamsisters.com explains:
With young daughters ourselves … we created … five culturally diverse characters who are faith-grounded, fun, modest, fashion-forward, and future thinking. Yasmina (retails for) £39.95.
Abdel-Magied, Facebook, May 21:
So proud to feature the Salam Sisters dolls on #Hijabistas …
ABC editorial policies, abc.net.au:
Ensure that editorial decisions are not improperly influenced by political, sectional, commercial or personal interests. … Product placement and other forms of embedded or surreptitious advertising are prohibited. …
Way to sell hijabs! Nila Choudhury, thetealmango.com January 31:
Nazma Khan … the trailblazer behind World Hijab Day … (says:) Right after I graduated from university, I started an online hijab business in 2010.
Hijabis? Saba Aziz, Aljazeera, May 28:
Grace Lloyd got a round of applause when she walked into … Doha’s Gulf English School … wearing a black hijab … The shy 11-year-old … British Christian … (is) the youngest participant (in World Hijab Day. Mum and daughter) had to “completely change their wardrobes” … “There’s no point in wearing the hijab and then wearing skinny jeans and a crop top …”
Ho-jabis! Asra Nomani and Hala Arafa, The Washington Post,December 21, 2015:
Born in the 1960s … we … (didn’t) cover our hair. But … following the 1979 Iranian revolution … and the rise of well-funded Saudi clerics … we have been bullied … (by) women … called “enforce-hers” and “Muslim mean girls” … (who refer) to “hijabis” in skinny jeans as “ho-jabis” … an indelicate term for “whores”.
Hair rousing. Al Arabiya, May 13:
The superintendent of an … (Iranian) school … cut a girl’s hair for not properly covering it … (saying:) “The schoolmaster is a man and her hair sticking out could have roused him.”
Hair razing. Masih Alinejad, The Wall Street Journal, 25 May:
In 2014 … “bad hijab” … led to 3.6 million cases of police intervention (in Iran) … In 2016, the regime … (deployed) 7000 undercover morality police in Tehran to enforce hijab laws.
David Menzies, therebel.media, February 12:
If World Hijab Day … proves anything, it’s that the progressives are backing the wrong Muslims.