By Shazia ChowdhuryWhy is it that people who are not family, who aren’t genuinely concerned or care about you, end up asking silly, intrusive questions? Sadly, some people simply won’t stop making you uncomfortable by asking personal, inappropriate, or downright rude questions. Our tongues are like double-edged swords. They can work for us or against us, both…
By Salma#MuslimGirlProbs is our weekly link roundup of headlines, stories, events, and situations that make us want to rip our hijabs off. This lot of headlines is particularly blood-boiling. Enjoy. Week of 5/24/15: A really non-violent, peaceful white man insists that his ANTI-Muslim rally is ‘friendly’ despite his marketing of “F*ck Islam” t-shirts, and encouraging of…
By Salma#MuslimGirlProbs is our weekly link roundup of headlines, stories, events, and situations that make us want to rip our hijabs off. Yet another set of crazy headlines. Enjoy. Week of 3/29/15: The chairman of a branch of the Idaho Republican Party “accidentally” sent out a mass email on Monday. Surprisingly it was offensively anti-Islamic. Unsurprisingly,…
By Salma#MuslimGirlProbs is our weekly link roundup of headlines, stories, events, and situations that make us want to rip our hijabs off. The outrageous intensity of headlines just keeps getting worse. It’s like a painfully slow linear upwards trend in between sharp spikes of “Islamic” advertised terrorism. Non-coincidentally, and unsurprisingly, the progression of stupidity is directly…
By Salma#MuslimGirlProbs is our weekly link roundup of headlines, stories, events, and situations that make us want to rip our hijabs off. Another week, another set of headlines. Here we go again. Week of 3/15/2015: A Canadian backbencher, Larry Miller, apologizes for telling niqab-wearing Muslim women to, and we quote, “stay the hell where they come…
By Salma#MuslimGirlProbs is our weekly link roundup of headlines, stories, events, and situations that make us want to rip our hijabs off. Brace yourselves. Here’s this week’s roundup with a side of stupidity, racism, abuse, and ignorance. Enjoy. Week of 3/08/15: Canadian Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, announces that the niqab is “rooted in a culture that…
