Walk A Mile In The Hijab

In our current world, the debate about Muslims, Islam, and Islamophobia has become a very controversial issue. A person cannot go a day without hearing more news about an atrocity that was committed by ISIS, a hate crime against innocent Muslims, or even how the topic came up in the presidential debate. The question is, how does the media play into these discussions? Do they succeed in revealing the truth or do they focus on only the negative? For this paper, I decided to use articles about a group of students in Chicago who sponsored an event titled, “Walk a Mile in her Hijab”, where participants would wear a hijab in order to spread awareness and information about what it actually stands for. My second article is about the European court’s …show more content…
From what we have learned in class, Islam does not seek to oppress women. In fact, women are often honored, such as Muhammad’s first wife Khadijah. As my article talks about, the hijab or niqab, is a choice for Muslim women and is seen as way for them to express their religion and faith. This view follows the type of Islam that I have learned about thus far and I believe that this is the case because Islam isn’t the only religion to have clothing for women that represents their virtue. Christian nuns have their habits, Jewish men wear the kippah, and Sikhs wear turbans. However, not everyone shares a distaste for the hijab and there are even people who are trying to spread awareness for Muslim …show more content…
Senior Yasmeen Abdallah, the president of the group organizing the event said that, “This event is to hopefully denounce negative stereotypes” (The Siasat Daily). It is individuals such as Yasmeen that will hopefully educate non-Muslims about the type of Islam that we learn about in class so that events such as the one I am about to talk about, do not happen again.
On February 10th, 2015, Deah Barakat, Yusor Abu-Salha, and Razan Abu-Salha were killed in their Chapel Hill apartment with bullet wounds in their heads. Their murderer, Craig Hicks, turned himself in several hours after the event, but the supposed cause of the murder was over a parking dispute. The worst part of this whole tragedy is how it was almost swept under the rug until news stations were pressured by social media to report of the murders. This event ties in with many of the Eight Closed Views of Islam and shows what can happened when the media reports on just the negative aspects of a

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