To All The Haters..

I made this years ago, in response to the Quebec Reasonable Accommodation debate, where it was published as a cartoon in my university paper. I suppose more than ever it is still relevent.

And very true. So don’t mess.

Mattel Continues History of Oppression By Burqa’ing Barbie! RAWR!

So, I’m going to confess something here: I loved Barbie.

I loved Barbie until my teenage conditioning would no longer allow it; social mores are far more destructive than we are willing to admit. I loved her in her varying peach skin tones, sometimes sun-kissed tan, sometimes victorian pale. Her silky hair – sometimes wavy, sometimes straight; sometimes blonde and sometimes an auburn brown. And let’s not forget her killer fashion sense and knock out unrealistic measurements.

Beyond Mini-Skirts and Veils

President Sarkozy’s recent declarations against the burqa have fallen out of the news headlines but his words are still ringing loudly within and outside Western Muslim communities. Opinion pieces and letters continue to flood international and local papers, tugging back and forth. While such debates may be painful and trivial to read and listen to by many, they must be welcomed as they both bring into light a far greater issue than any all-encompassing piece of fabric.

Regulating Women’s Bodies

Faiza Silmi, a 32 year-old Moroccan woman married to a French national, was denied French citizenship this week on the grounds that the burqa she wears is incompatible with french values, specifically equality of the sexes. Denied not because she can’t speak French, or doesn’t correctly understand the french code of secularism, but rather, due [...]

Anti-Muslim Cartoon Runs in Michigan

The Arab-American News reported that a week after the Dearborn Press & Guide ran an anti-Immigrant cartoon — yes in Dearborn — another local Detroit newspaper, the Oakland Press, ran a heavily anti-Islamic editorial cartoon. It featured a big-nosed Muslim on a prayer rug kneeled on the ground confessing to what appears to be a [...]