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'Hijab Day' at this Boston area high school was canceled, but it got people talking
PRI.org (Public Radio International) ^ | May 25, 2016 | Matthew Bell

Posted on 05/26/2016 1:50:38 PM PDT by EveningStar

Students from the Arabic Club at the public high school in the city of Medford, about a 15-minute drive north of downtown Boston, wanted to participate in “World Hijab Day” early this semester.

The annual event was created in 2013 to promote awareness and understanding of Muslim women who wear the headscarf as an expression of their faith. At Medford High, the plan was pretty straightforward ...

The date was set for February 1.

But soon after Hijab Day was announced, the Medford public got wind of it. And there was a wave of phone messages, emails and social media posts directed at school and city officials ...

(Excerpt) Read more at pri.org ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: arabicclub; arth; hijab; hijabday; massachusetts; medford; medfordhighschool; worldhijabday
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1 posted on 05/26/2016 1:50:38 PM PDT by EveningStar
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To: EveningStar

When is genital mutilation day?

Rape a 9 year old day?

Take your slave to school day?


2 posted on 05/26/2016 1:51:43 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: EveningStar

World “women are second class citizens” day


3 posted on 05/26/2016 1:52:49 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EveningStar

so whens Military Uniform Day ???


4 posted on 05/26/2016 1:52:58 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: EveningStar

Any Sikh students? Wear a dagger and turban to school day? That’d go over real well, right?


5 posted on 05/26/2016 1:54:54 PM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: 2banana

Stone a homosexual day?


6 posted on 05/26/2016 1:56:20 PM PDT by rfreedom4u (The root word of vigilante is vigilant!)
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To: EveningStar

“Arabic Club”
Don’t say Arabic when you mean muslim.


7 posted on 05/26/2016 1:56:52 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

World CSA battle flag Day.


8 posted on 05/26/2016 1:57:28 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: EveningStar

School officials willingly bow down in abject submission to their new masters: the beard and burka crowd.


9 posted on 05/26/2016 1:58:41 PM PDT by I want the USA back (The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it. Orwell.)
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To: EveningStar

I want a World Prayer Rope Day!!!!

xxhttp://www.orthodoxprayer.org/Prayer%20Rope.html


10 posted on 05/26/2016 1:59:12 PM PDT by Honorary Serb (Kosovo is Serbia! Free Srpska! Abolish ICTY!)
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To: EveningStar

Let’s just pray there isn’t a strap on your explosives and become a martyr day.


11 posted on 05/26/2016 1:59:21 PM PDT by Robert DeLong (u)
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To: EveningStar
How about a camo/jackboot/skinhead day?

Pimp day, wear your bling and a fur hat.

Was going to suggest buckskin and feather headdress, but it's not cool to appropriate other people's cultural constructs, right?

How about a sombrero and big fake mustache?

12 posted on 05/26/2016 2:01:28 PM PDT by ZOOKER (Until further notice the /s is implied...)
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To: EveningStar

One of these days the feminists and the Muslims are going to collide and CABOOM!


13 posted on 05/26/2016 2:02:02 PM PDT by dhs12345
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To: 2banana

Beat me to it. You could add: Honor killing day? Toss a gay off the school roof day? Etc etc.


14 posted on 05/26/2016 2:02:20 PM PDT by SkyDancer
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To: EveningStar

Yeah, hijab day doesn’t go as far as it should, to understand what it is like to be a Muslim woman. Try female circumcision day, but be authentic. Chop off the clitoris and then tightly stitch the labia together as they do in many countries. Oh, don’t worry about anesthesia: they are only girls.

What? Schools say that is crazy? That is going too far?? They don’t believe in such things like Islam??? Hm. Interesting. They don’t want to fully experience Islam. What, again, was the point of hijab day??


15 posted on 05/26/2016 2:03:04 PM PDT by Yaelle (Tinkerbelle glittering up the runway for Trump Force One!)
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To: EveningStar

There needs to be a Crusade to Extinguish Jihad Day....


16 posted on 05/26/2016 2:03:57 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Whatta bout Cowboy dual revolver holster / ammo belt day?


17 posted on 05/26/2016 2:06:08 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Live Free or Die.)
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To: BenLurkin

:)


18 posted on 05/26/2016 2:06:23 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: EveningStar

I would like to know when “THIS IS AMERICA - GET OVER IT” day.


19 posted on 05/26/2016 2:06:54 PM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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To: EveningStar

Another question: Is the LGBTQ club invited to participate?


20 posted on 05/26/2016 2:09:36 PM PDT by RichyTea (To those offended - take off your blinders)
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