It's Not About the Burqa: Muslim Women on Faith, Feminism, Sexuality and Race

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As much as this book is a dialogue with the reader, we, the contributors were speaking to each other too. Ranging from satire to sentimental writing, from religion to consumerism, from class to gender differences, from feelings of nationality to exoticism, from the French Revolution to Freud and from art to everyday life, the stylistic and thematic broadness of these thing-essays ultimately shows the multifarious connections between human life and materiality. I loved this essay, and now, reviewing this, I’ve realised just how much Nafisa Bakkar’s essay continues to resonate with me and will continue to do so. But while some essays are very good, some others, such as Afia Ahmed’s and Raifa Rafiq’s, pale in comparison. It's Not About The Burqaoffers a voice to the women that you don't see represented in the national media, women speaking frankly about the hijab and their faith, love and sex, feminism, queer identity, and racism.

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I’ve learnt that I’m not frustrated by people telling me they liked some essays and not others – that is the point of an anthology really. In so doing, the work draws a theoretical framework for the place of religion between public and private space. I sometimes found myself annoyed when I saw a campaign featuring a Muslim woman, because I have walked into brands, into agencies, and seen virtually zero diversity.I’d recommend this to late teen readers as well as it captures some of the experiences that they’ll inevitably come to know. Her essay centres around the idea that the repression of conversations about sex results in Muslim women being woefully underprepared for healthy relationships.

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I was left feeling and thinking a number of things after reading ‘It’s Not About the Burqa’ which is why I would especially recommend doing a buddy read with not only friends, but your family too. Explaining and expounding the ideas of giants of the liberal tradition including Locke, Mill, and Rawls as well as contemporary thinkers like Nussbaum, Kymlicka and Oshana, the book considers a variety of conceptions of liberalism and how they affect the response to the question. Mir’s essay outlines some of the gruelling challenges faced by a minority of Muslim women who are expected to conduct themselves as both trophy wives and domestic slaves. In some essays the women grapple with seeming contradictions — being Muslim and feminist, or being Muslim and queer.For obvious reasons, that comment was entirely presumptuous and ignorant, but it opened up my eyes to the fact that I didn’t feel liberated at all. The book considers a range of current issues and critical debates in the UK and international social policy field. One issue often overlooked is that religious clothing can excite provocation even within the ranks of minority groups themselves – examples include the radio talk show presenter Maajid Nawaz and the author Ayaan Hirsi Ali – who find currency as self-appointed reformers. In 2016, Mariam Khan read that David Cameron had linked the radicalization of Muslim men to the ‘traditional submissiveness’ of Muslim women.

It’s Not About the Burqa review – courageous essays

It’s Not About the Burqa not only made me feel seen and heard, but it also made me question how I connect to and define my identity. We couldn’t ignore the backdrop to all that existed: Trump, Brexit and increasing hate towards Muslims. On 17 April 2020, eleven soldiers of the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) were killed during a battle with 40 fighters of the Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) in Patikul town, in the Sulu region of Mindanao, southern Philippines. With contributions from leading experts from law, sociology and politics, the book presents a comparative and interdisciplinary approach to one of the most contentious and symbolic issues of recent times. However, the picture painted by the stories told here demonstrates that, for these women, religious symbols such as the niqab are deeply personal, freely chosen, multilayered, and socially situated.This book brings clarity to what can be a confusing subject by disentangling the different strands of the problem and breaking through the accusations of misogyny and Islamophobia. Thank you so much Aquib, I hope you’re staying safe and well, and I really hope that Ramadan went well for you and you were able to get a lot out of it! When Mariam Khan read that David Cameron, then British Prime Minister, had privately suggested that the ‘traditional submissiveness of Muslim women’ was a leading factor in leaving young men vulnerable to radicalisation she was ‘pretty pissed off’.