Hijab

Immigration in Color: Does Racial Profiling Affect Treatment of Immigrants? Racial profiling has been an issue for centuries. People generalize other groups of people all the time: Muslims are terrorists, African Americans are poor or criminals, and non-English speakers are illegal immigrants. In his article “I Belong Here,” which The Sun magazine published in January 2010, Amin Ahmad tells a firsthand account of being racially profiled as a colored immigrant. Ahmad immigrated from Calcutta,…

Persepolis’s Place The Iranian Revolution took place in 1979, when Iran became a religious fundamentalist society and theocracy, changing the country as the Iranian people knew it. Clothing and fashion became centered around modesty as the new leaders believed that hair would stimulate and distract others. Children were enlisted—as young as age twelve—to go to war. The new theocratic government had a Supreme Leader who enacted legal changes, not for the will of the people, but for his own agenda…

For a logical response to Jerome’s androcentric criticism of women practicing free will and control over their own bodies, one could look to Beverly Harrison, a professor of Christian Ethics. Harrison defends women’s rights to their own bodies, stating that abortion could be considered not only “morally justifiable,” but “a moral good, because it is not rational to treat a newly fertilized ovum as though it had the same value as an existent, pregnant, female person.“ She goes on to say,…

On September 11, 2001, there was chaos in the streets of New York; screams could be heard for miles as dust and debris flooded the air. The view from above showed towers falling from the sky, an event unlike anyone has seen since. More than two thousand people lost their lives that day in Lower Manhattan, as families were broken. This is what terrorism is, it’s meant to strike fear and disrupt everyday life. It’s meant to attack the innocent without any justified reason. Sociologists would view…

In one instance a man by the name of Jaleb Mubin Zarifi claimed that “we know now that the women are not wearing the hijab, and look what’s happening-there’s cancer and AIDS everywhere in Afghanistan”(kfcjdkslh).Their was a woman in Afghanistan who was brutally beaten by her husband's family and the husband continued to cut the nose and ears off of the wife.Thankfully…

in both of the men’s faces. They are not normal as one of them has a pig face and the other has got an antenna above his head. They are not supposed to look like that. Moreover, the man with the pig face is harassing the young lady who is wearing hijab and the antenna man is acting like he does not care. She is not even wearing any grabbing-attention clothing. The man who has a pig face is not supposed to sexually harass the woman, and if he does, the antenna man should stop him from doing this.…

but the mentality has never changed. If you are a woman and you go out, you deserve these assaults, maybe rape. They are not able to avoid the men’s leer. Iran is an Islamic country, this is true, and assaults keep going against the women who wear hijab in this Islamic Republic. However, to be an Islamic country is not an excuse and actually it is not related to the religion. It is related to the interpretation of the religion and ignorance. That is why, no one can say that education doesn’t…

Your post has some very insightful points that truly sheds light to the importance of religious accommodations in the workplace. Essentially, since employees may experience conflicts between their employment obligations and their religious observations, employers are legally required to reasonably accommodate these religious obligations, unless the accommodation would cause undue hardship for the employer (Ghumman, Ryan, Barclay, & Markel, 2013). Moreover, your post has helped me to really see…

Nearly 20 percent of all international immigrants reside in the United Sate today. People can see how religious and cultural differences divide each individual in a multicultural society like America. America is a cultural melting pot that exposes a person to many cultures other than their own that they would not otherwise. Knowledge alone is not enough to shape our multicultural society like America. Therefore, I believe that learning about other cultures and religious are the best way to…

environment but still never felt like a natural part of it. When I visited the University of Michigan in 2015, that changed. For the first time in my life I experienced a feeling of community and acceptance that I never had before. There were people with hijabs integrated with whites, there was so much love and energy in the air. There were no barriers between people because of their identity. This was what attracted me to U of M: it’s diversity, it’s tolerance, and it’s open minded community.…