Tweet Ahmed Tharwat The media’s extensive coverage of Donald Trump’s bizarre insulting of the parents of a Muslim American soldier who was killed in Iraq is overblown. Most of them focused on Trump’s dismissive attitude toward Mr. Khan’s wife who stood quietly while her husband delivered his passionate speech at the Democratic National Convention. He was the choice of the must have Muslim guy, since the Republican convention had one before them.
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Somali woman researches health risks of skin-lightening practices
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Western attitude toward Muslim women… the headdress theory! ..
Tweet How do people in Muslim countries prefer women to dress in public? This question was raised by a recent, much-discussed survey from the University of Michigan’s Institute for Social Research, apparently as part of a comprehensive study on post-Arab Spring attitudes toward America and democratic values. The survey was conducted in seven countries (Tunisia, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey), which aren’t all Arab or Muslim. Lebanon is not a Muslim country, and Turkey and Pakistan are not Arab countries. The results, as outlined on the Pew Research Center’s FactTank, find that most people in the countries studied prefer that a woman completely cover her hair,…