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Portier describes tradition as a language, an act, or even an historical text handed to us by a family member, the people we interact with on a daily basis and the cultural setting we are a part of. Such tradition, defines who someone is best by dialogue because tradition can give enough illustration of something or give enough room to compare between past and present traditions. (20) Tradition, helps us question and answer the possibilities of human existence and experience through the problems and situations we encounter every day, which life goes on according to what you know as a tradition and influences your everyday life. It acts as an answer to everyday problems or situations that can be answered by past traditions that you become familiar with in time. (17) An example of this tradition would be in the character Amal. Mohamed Nasrullah Abdel-Hakim is a sixteen year old Australian Palestinian-Muslim high school girl who struggles with everyday Teenage issues impacted by Society. Although she is from Australia, these issues are universal. Issues like drinking, smoking, peer pressure and body image are just a few that her friends in the novel, “Does my Head Look big in this, face too. However she stays true to her religion even in the midst of society’s influence especially on teenage girls. In this book she is a Muslim and struggles with the fallacies that come with the idea of the Islamic tradition formed by society. In her efforts to change the minds of those who think of Muslims as being terrorist, she decides to step out on faith and wear a Hijab to school. Amal proudly puts her religion before her outward thoughts and feelings but for many teenage girls grounded on western cultural traditions, which is hard to do, so T...
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.... But Amal is a good example of a teenage girl who was able to surpass societal influences and grow in herself and faith. Something that other teenage girls can learn to do by reading this book. Portier makes interesting points on the minds of humans and how it shapes and individual into who they are which gives us the answers to the great questions we ask in life in what he states, “harbors its own resources for self-criticism and growth.” (22)
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The article “My Body Is My Own Business” by Naheed Mustafa is about an Islamic women’s principle that putting on her usual headscarf, or Hijab, actually empowers her as a female, contrary to the popular principle that the hijab represents male oppressiveness. She ex...
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Fatemeh Fakhraie’s essay “Scarfing it Down,” explains how Muslim women suffer because of what they wear. Fakhraie blogs about Muslim women in her website she explains; “Seeing ourselves portrayed in the media in ways that are one-dimensional and misleading." Several people judge Muslim's by their appearance because they assume they're a bad person. The author of this essay wants the reader to know that Muslim women wearing a hijab are not a threat to the world.
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As an Arab American, a Muslim and a woman writer, Mohja Kahf challenges the stereotypes and misrepresentation of Arab and Muslim women. Her style is always marked by humor, sarcasm, anger and confrontation. “The Marvelous Women,” “The Woman Dear to Herself,” “Hijab Scene #7” and “Hijab Scene #5” are examples of Kahf’s anger of stereotypes about Muslim women and her attempts to fight in order to eradicate them, in addition to her encouragement to women who help her and fight for their rights.