Rima Fakih, Muslim women, and how Americans see them only through the prism of what they wear…
Posted by iPouya on May 22, 2010
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Newsweek – Excerpt: “Burqas in European headlines, bikinis in American ones: which one tells you more about the aspirations of Muslim women? One appears to be primitive and repressed, the other modern, cosmopolitan, and liberated. But the answer is not really so obvious at all. The real test of modernity, including our own, is tolerance. [...]