"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 uneasy Because my hijab reminds you That I'm trying to obey God  And not you. And that bugs you. A great post by Amina from P...

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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 coq...

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