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    The Falafel War

    Tweet The Falafel War In my last flight to Paris, I was fortunate of sitting next to a young man who seemed cautious; with an excessive head turning motion. He seems like he is waiting for something to come or to happen. We avoided each other for a few thousand miles until I started playing an Arab movie on my laptop. It is dangerous behavior nowadays especially on airplanes. I was told not to bring anything hard or ethnic on the plane. I stopped ordering the special meal made for Muslim “hellal meal” with no pork. I will even eat pork if I have to.   The young man introduced…

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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,…

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