My view and thoughts on everything!

When I heard that a friend of mine, Sabiha, was working on an hijab article/documentary I asked whether I could give a perspective from a westerners (my) point of view.   So, without further ado, here it is.   What is my view on women who wear hijab (headscarf) and dress moderately? Do I think they are treated as lesser beings for doing so? Or are they generally passionate about their role as Muslim women in respect to their faith? Read on and I will put forward my own unique western view on this rather, at times, over-debated topic. I suppose like most westerners, I didn’t really think a great deal about Muslim women who wore the veil prior to the events of 9/11.   Then Islam became front page news for all of the wrong type of reasons.   Sabiha herself was attacked on a bus as strangers kicked and punched her whilst trying to remove her veil.   Thankfully for her she survived this brutal attack with headscarf still intact. To hear about this more th...

"The class, oops introduction night, started with….a prayer! I began to think, in my groggy food poisoning state, that maybe I had turned up to the wrong place!....Then the Principal asked if there were any more comments while fixing me with a steely glare. I looked away and pretended I hadn’t heard the question." A couple of weeks ago my wife and I attended an introduction night for a local Catholic school. The reason for this was because we are thinking on enrolling our eldest daughter into it when the new school term starts in late January 2008. This school would represent the first year of ‘big school’ for her. Since mentioning the words ‘big school’ our eldest has suddenly become ‘grown up’ and even started to boss around our youngest! It’s amazing how children change their habits so quickly (even quicker than what a Nun could do – very bad joke!) when they think they are growing up. Anyway, there were a few issues about attending this introduction night. Firstly, my wif...