"Take off your hijab!"

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">I make you uneasy</span></span></i></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">Because my hijab reminds you</span></span></i></span></blockquote><blockquote class="tr_bq"><span style="color: #c27ba0; font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;"><i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">That I'm trying to obey God </span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">And not you.</span></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><br style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;" /></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span style="background-color: white; line-height: 18px;">And that bugs you.</span></span></i></span></blockquote><br />A great post by Amina from <b><a href="http://www.pearl-daisy.com/" target="_blank">Pearl Daisy</a></b>, it reflect what some of us have experimented by being Muslims specially those living in Non-Muslim countries</div><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="//www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/R3a7ftZZAew?rel=0" width="560"></iframe><br /><br /><i><br /></i><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Today I heard that I am not free</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Because apparently</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">A woman's freedom is only granted</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">When her hair shows and her body is flaunted.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Hmm, I must've missed that memo.</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Since when did freedom inherently</span><br style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;" /><span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Require me</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">To show parts of my body</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">That I don't want others to see?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">My freedom is in the way I choose to look.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Does it bother you to know</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">That I have control</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Over what I choose to show and withhold</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">From the world?</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">How ironic</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">When the people who are </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Supposedly pro-freedom</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Incessantly insist that you "take off your hijab"</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Themselves dictating the garb</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">That we should wear.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">So...</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Freedom means to conform to</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Your criteria about how I should dress, right?</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Do I have that right?</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Riiiight...</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-large;">The hijab symbolises my faith,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">And you want to ban it?</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Well, while we're at it,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Let's ban charity, selflessness, </span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Equality amongst races and sexes,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Being good to your neighbour.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Because those are also requirements of a believer.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">But, of course, it's not about freedom,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Is it, really?</span><br /><span style="color: #c27ba0;">I make you uneasy<br />Because my hijab reminds you<br />That I'm trying to obey God<br />And not you.<br /><br />And that bugs you.</span></span></i><br /><blockquote class="tr_bq"><b><i><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">See, if headscarves entered mainstream fashion,</span></span></i><i><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">You would never protest to them.</span></span></i></b></blockquote><i><span class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18px;"><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">You wouldn't assert that my freedom is jeopardised</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Or blurt, "oppression!".</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">It might not be to your fine fashion taste,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">But you'd move on.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Go on, admit it.</span><br /><br /><u><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">But since modesty equals faith,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">You unabashedly bash me,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Claiming to want to "free" me.</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Ladies and gents,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Welcome to modern chivalry -</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">A hidden form of bigotry.</span><br /><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">I depend on God,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Not on your latest analysis of me,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Because, you see,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">Through you, too,</span><br /><span style="color: #333333; font-size: x-small;">He is testing me.</span></u></span></i><br /><br /></div>

"Take off your hijab!"

I make you uneasyBecause my hijab reminds youThat I'm trying to obey God And not you.And that bugs you.A great post by Amina from Pearl Daisy, it reflect what some of us have experimented by being Muslims specially those living in Non-Muslim countriesToday I heard that I am not freeBecause apparentl…

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Lace is on!

<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;">Whether cutwork, crochet or eyelet, this ancient handiwork takes a chic update for spring. </span><br /><span style="background-color: white; color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;">The lovely balance between  conservative and coquettish style that lace gives to this season can be use just in about everything, and why not an engagement and/or bridal ceremony?</span></span></span><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgAmbKQSxzj73kwACAAAApO7ExuqglW3v3qDYk1yqyaVNjr3sI7mqN9BlCOuzVV_TfQDgYyoiKMRzMCuZpamJvk4qVU-pILdF05km1sfgwfiAFh9STiiql1lIDu2x-HD0drB06v40ddjj/s1600/Bridal_fashion_Dresses_engagement_weddings_lace_hijab_Muslim2.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgxgAmbKQSxzj73kwACAAAApO7ExuqglW3v3qDYk1yqyaVNjr3sI7mqN9BlCOuzVV_TfQDgYyoiKMRzMCuZpamJvk4qVU-pILdF05km1sfgwfiAFh9STiiql1lIDu2x-HD0drB06v40ddjj/s1600/Bridal_fashion_Dresses_engagement_weddings_lace_hijab_Muslim2.JPG" width="230" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;">Lace dress by Watters</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;">Want to try out some of this  looks or make your own color choices?, visit </span><a href="http://watters.com/Product/WattersWatters/5220/#Colors:blush,mocha,rosequartz" style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;" target="_blank">Watters</a><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"> page and play with with the color options available, you will enjoy, the price is also accessible and don't forget to visit us on FaceBook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/pages/Muslim-Elegance/156165227729714" target="_blank">Muslim Elegance</a> to find the best color and fabric option for a body to to match with your dress!</span></span></span><br /><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSrqXtJONSLLKej76m4IO8WwaMBAXcbTM7FKgi-qhpXspMjfqLSdVyd8760oEhOK4KwjSQ-JJBCoLuIbu6ndQ6K0G3zqOnvQ3aaX6mt1OGr0247igHPp30VnG7Byd5FtqT-g9d-XzBL5z/s1600/Bridal_fashion_Dresses_engagement_weddings_lace_hijab_Muslim.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="295" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTSrqXtJONSLLKej76m4IO8WwaMBAXcbTM7FKgi-qhpXspMjfqLSdVyd8760oEhOK4KwjSQ-JJBCoLuIbu6ndQ6K0G3zqOnvQ3aaX6mt1OGr0247igHPp30VnG7Byd5FtqT-g9d-XzBL5z/s1600/Bridal_fashion_Dresses_engagement_weddings_lace_hijab_Muslim.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white;"><span style="color: #1d1d1d; font-family: Georgia, Times, serif;"><span style="font-size: 15px; line-height: 19.5px;"><br /></span></span></span></div>

Lace is on!

Whether cutwork, crochet or eyelet, this ancient handiwork takes a chic update for spring. The lovely balance between  conservative and coquettish style that lace gives to this season can be use just in about everything, and why not an engagement and/or bridal ceremony?Lace dress by WattersWant to t…

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