mehreenkasana:

American Team Don Hijab to Support Captain

Cheering up their Muslim teammate, a Floridian high school football team decided to don hijab before their season finale game to show solidarity with their Muslim captain who has been taunted repeatedly over her religious outfit.

“Everybody looked at us weird,” West Broward senior Marilyn Solorzano told Sun Sentinel website on Friday, April 20.

“I understand now everything she went through and how hard it must have been.”

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Irum Khan had rocks thrown at her and was physically attacked more than once simply because she wore the hijab. Her team decided to show support and solidarity in this wonderful manner. Faith in humanity: Nicely restored.

almaswithinalmas:

Bikini or headscarf — which offers more freedom? || CNN

I thought this was going to be another one of those ridiculous behind-the-veil articles, but it is actually quite interesting. It’s about a mother’s reaction to her young half-Arab daughter’s decision to start wearing a hijab.

The other day, when I dropped her off at school, instead of driving away from the curb in a rush as I usually do, I watched her walk into a crowd of kids, bent forward under the weight of her backpack as if she were bracing against a storm. She moved purposefully, in such a solitary way — so different from the way I was at her age, and I realized once again how mysterious she is to me.

It’s not just her head covering that makes her so: It’s her lack of concern for what others think about her. It’s finding her stash of Halloween candy untouched in her drawer, while I was a child obsessed with sweets. It’s the fact that she would rather dive into a book than into the ocean — that she gets so consumed with her reading that she can’t hear me calling her from the next room.

This was beautiful. “I understood then that while physical exposure had liberated me in some ways, Aliya could discover an entirely different type of freedom by choosing to cover herself.”

(via mendmyheart)