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June 15, 2013 8:07 AM   Subscribe

Are female converts to Islam part of a new wave of feminism?
posted by infini (5 comments total)

This post was deleted for the following reason: Single link blog op-ed. If there's something you want to discuss about this in particular it might be good to make that a bit more clear. -- jessamyn



 
No.
posted by birdherder at 8:30 AM on June 15, 2013 [6 favorites]


Betteridge's law of headlines right? (I did read the article and I'm not very convinced.)
posted by meta87 at 8:31 AM on June 15, 2013 [2 favorites]


I find it both curious (on the part of the women) and suspicious (on the part of the author) that he's only talking to women that not only converted to Islam, but a rather fundamentalist version of Islam. This is the niqaab the women are wearing, they're all talking about segregating themselves from men, and they all know each other, which makes me think they're all a part of the same mosque. Checking some of the author's other articles, which to varying degrees extol the virtues of a more fundamentalist philosophy, I suspect he attends the same mosque as the women and is writing from a somewhat biased perspective.
posted by Punkey at 8:36 AM on June 15, 2013 [2 favorites]


"No" and 'Betteridge's thingy' about headlines. Lazy post IMO.
posted by panaceanot at 8:47 AM on June 15, 2013


Whether they are in fact exchanging one rigged game for another some young women experience Islam as an 'opting out' of a system of out-of-control materialism.

It seems the alternative is being condemned to continually aspire to the shoes the bags the boyfriends the clothes and the make up. If you want to reject all this, where do you go?
posted by fingerbang at 8:59 AM on June 15, 2013


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