Posted on 10/13/2014 7:24:39 PM PDT by OddLane
The hijab is hot!
That’s the message two Upper West Side artists want to spread by encouraging women around the city to put on the veil and snap a selfie.
“Women who wear a hijab by choice are in complete control of their sexuality,” says Saks Afridi, who started the #DamnILookGood campaign with project partner Qinza Najm. “Here in New York, it’s very brave for a woman to wear one out in public.”
The artists use the term “hijab” to refer to the dress code of modesty for Muslim women. The actual face covering they use in the project is known as a "niqab."
Najm had started wearing a hijab around New York City as an experiment, just to see what it would be like. Though she was raised in Pakistan, she and her family members do not wear the traditional head covering worn by some Muslim women. But one day she put on a hijab in her Lower East Side art studio and went for a walk around the neighborhood.
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But one day she put on a hijab in her Lower East Side art studio and went for a walk around the neighborhood.
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yeah I know where this is going..
she got the first whistle of her life...
In the U.S., we’ve always preferred paper bags.
How about trying a beheading? Hottttttttt!
Hijab... That’s too risqué.
Full black body Burkah baby.
Oh. And those genitals. Cut them off. Chicks love living without their female parts, especially when the custom is to wait until girls are 13 to perform this cleansing female circumcision in certain cultures.
AND OOPS. You got raped? Well it’s your fault so the village will now stone you to death.
Islam is so hot.
Actually, I’m a guy, and I’m thinking of adopting it as my dress code to avoid the surveillance state.
Sooner or later that’s what it’s going to come down to. With cameras, facial recognition, retina scans etc etc becoming ubiquitous, how do Americans protect our privacy?
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