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What do you make of it, Al-Mu'minah?
Is it a good thing? Or not? :?
Peace
Lets say I rather perfer if she stay at home....
What do you make of it, Al-Mu'minah?
Is it a good thing? Or not? :?
Peace
I must say that it surprised me that a devout Muslim woman (I am assuming - rightly or wrongly - that she is a devout Muslim by the way she dresses) should want to have anything to do with giving a Christmas message.Lets say I rather perfer if she stay at home....
Me too!I shall just waite and see what she has to say Insha Allah![]()
http://comment.independent.co.uk/letters/article2055543.eceC4's veiled woman does not speak for British Muslims
Sir: Your article "Veiled Muslim to deliver C4's Christmas message" (6 December) quotes Allen Jewhurst, the producer for Chameleon's alternative Christmas message describing the veiled woman as "an everyone who can articulate the views of British Muslims".
Given much of Chameleon's programmes, I am not in the least bit surprised that his research team should suggest that this individual can in fact represent the views of the ethnically, politically, and economically diverse slice of society that is labelled "British Muslims". Considering that less than 1 per cent of Muslim women in Britain actually wear a niqab, who on earth can deduce such a pitiful figure as being representative of such a group?
Yet again, British Muslims are being misrepresented in the media, portrayed only in their most extreme incarnations, rather than as the vast and overwhelming majority of British citizens they are; dressing in contemporary clothing, contributing to the economy, society and culture of their country, pursuing relationships with people of all cultures, nationalities and faiths, and respecting and cherishing the (albeit diminishing) freedoms and rights that living in a modern British secular society affords them - one of which is increasingly under threat: the right to practice their religion freely and without persecution or prejudice.
When will the British media stop giving a voice to these extreme elements and foolishly and irresponsibly conferring upon them a status they do not hold amongst the community they are imagined to represent?
MS REWA BOUJI
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