http://ihearthamas.com/2010/01/26/face-veils-pink-taxis-and-white-people/ Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:53:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://ihearthamas.com/2010/01/26/face-veils-pink-taxis-and-white-people/#comment-95 Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:18:43 +0000 http://ihearthamas.com/?p=1465#comment-95 Westerners are just friggin obsessed with hijab. I went to a movie about Syrian youth this past fall, part of the Arab Film Festival, and during the post-screening q&a it was the only thing everyone in the audience wanted to talk(/shout) about…even though it played only a negligible part in the documentary. It is a nuanced issue, like you say, but like we do with everything else, westerners like to load up and project our lopsided opinions onto the most immediately visible target. Stewpid.

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