I'm far too frazzled to be anyway coherent atm, but part of my reason for wanting to read the book, once I heard about it, was the desire to hear why someone would choose to wear the hijab and their experience doing so. Because I do feel uneasy about the fact of women being forced to wear it, even though this isn't always the case, of course. Complicated!
And then it gets complicated when you think how many teen girls are going to be harrassed *anyway* - certainly by mean teens - which doesn't make it okay to give someone a hard time for expressing their religious beliefs, of course - not saying that. See - wasn't joking about lack of coherence.
But - minor quibble - she went to the Catholic school because the nearest Islamic one was too far & her parents couldn't do the travelling to take her - and then says 'plus' the values were similar. So it wasn't first choice. But it's good - I'd a friend from grad school in Ithaca who got a job teaching at a Catholic school and said many (non-Catholics) were sending their children there to avoid mixing with ethnic minorities. *That* is bad.
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Date: 2006-09-03 08:51 pm (UTC)I'm far too frazzled to be anyway coherent atm, but part of my reason for wanting to read the book, once I heard about it, was the desire to hear why someone would choose to wear the hijab and their experience doing so. Because I do feel uneasy about the fact of women being forced to wear it, even though this isn't always the case, of course. Complicated!
And then it gets complicated when you think how many teen girls are going to be harrassed *anyway* - certainly by mean teens - which doesn't make it okay to give someone a hard time for expressing their religious beliefs, of course - not saying that. See - wasn't joking about lack of coherence.
But - minor quibble - she went to the Catholic school because the nearest Islamic one was too far & her parents couldn't do the travelling to take her - and then says 'plus' the values were similar. So it wasn't first choice. But it's good - I'd a friend from grad school in Ithaca who got a job teaching at a Catholic school and said many (non-Catholics) were sending their children there to avoid mixing with ethnic minorities. *That* is bad.