veiled4allah: Betty Crocker, Not Bin Laden veiled4allah: Betty Crocker, Not Bin LadenThe majority of Arab women are not the oppressed subjects of Afghanistan or the ridiculously restricted of Saudi Arabia. The majority of Arab women, as with most women of the world, are struggling with familiar issues, not alien ones. They are balancing hectic lives of caring for their families and working. Yet, the relentless stereotyped assumptions day in and day out make Arab American women feel like the task to educate and have an honest discussion is nearly impossible. At this time the exchange of ideas between Arabs, Muslims and Americans of all backgrounds is of the utmost importance. It may even help us forge better strategies on how to improve the lives of women and their families here in the US.
All comments are copyright their authors
Here's who's pinging me:
The following is a list of the ten most recent entries in veiled4allah as of Mar 10, 2006:
View a list of all entries in veiled4allah
This entry has been tagged as covering the following subjects: feminism. The following is a list of the ten most recent entries in Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs that share any of these tags:
A semantic analysis of this entry also suggests the following keywords to search for related content on: exchange ideas, arab women, majority arab, women, arab, Arab, Why, American, majority, day, muslims, people, american, exchange, families, stereotypes, Muslims, lives, why, ideas
What links here: View a list of other entries in this blog (if any) that link to this entry
For a further discussion of Islam and feminism, see Controversial Issues About Islam: Women.
Or look generally for informational pages on my website tagged with feminism
A semantic search of Al-Muhajabah's Islamic Blogs suggests the following as the ten entries most closely related to this entry:
Check out other web pages (if any) that I've bookmarked via del.icio.us that share the same tags: feminism
Explore reference materials from Answers.com about these subjects: feminism
Read news stories at Common Times about these subjects: feminism
View search results at gada.be metasearch service for these subjects: feminism
Find books at Amazon.com on these subjects: feminism
Check Waypath for blog entries generally related to this entry, or Technorati or Bloglines for blog entries that link to this entry.
Technorati tags: View blog entries, bookmarks and photos tagged by others with the same subjects as this entry: feminism
For external resources on the topic of this entry, you can run a search for its title betty crocker, not bin laden (Google, DayPop, Feedster) or keyword(s) feminism (Google, DayPop, Feedster). DayPop is a search engine similar to Google that focuses on searching news sources and blogs. Feedster searches blogs via RSS feeds.
Subject: Re: Betty Crocker, Not Bin Laden
The call for an exchange of ideas, rather than of stereotypes, is certainly a welcome one, sister.Why could not American Muslims and Christians and Jews unite on something of consequence -- like, for instance, actively opposing media exploitation of human sexuality in general ... and of women in particular?
Why couldn't people of good will and monotheistic belief choose to focus on the values they actually have in COMMON?
Yusuf