Radio Interview, Exhibition and Newspaper

Live on Near90Fm sunday the 26th April between 4:30 and 5:00 pm. Please tune it to hear the latest on our project and call in to voice your opinion on what we are doing.

If you miss the show go to the website and listen to the podcast. All comments are welcome on this site or on the radio show. 

 We will discuss the misrepresentations of islam and muslim women. We will discuss stereotypes and prejudice and how we have conducted our project to battle these issues in todays society as artists. 

Also if you would like to see our project in full visual, then please visit the LAB gallery on |Foley st between the 23rd April and the 1st May. Copies of out handprinted newspaper "The Revealer" are available there to read and request to take home. This newspaper will also be distribute by Nadia Shah And Catherine Clark over the next week throughout Dublin. Visit your local mosque for a copy also. 

NEARFM.IE PODCAST ON HIJAB FASHION SHOW.

http://www.nearfm.ie/podcast/

IRISH WOMAN ON THE HIJAB, AND KEEPING IT.

PLEASE DOUBLE CLICK ON THE IMAGE BELOW TO VIEW THE TEXT IN LARGE. 

The text is an article posted by a website which discusses the Hijab. An Islamic Scholar is said to have issued a Fatwa, whereby muslim women were justified by Islam and himself to take their Hijabs off on order to protect themselves from hate crimes and profanity.

Accompanying this text is the further writings of a young Irish muslim revert who felt very strongly about what was being said in the text. Please read.

British Muslim Women Respect Fatwa, Keep Hijab

While respecting a recent fatwa by a leading British Muslim scholar allowing them to take off hijab to avoid spiraling harassment, a number of young British Muslim women said they would keep their religious dress code and seek police porotection against racists.
"As a British citizen I have every right to wear my hijab, which is part of my Muslim identity," Yusra, a University of London student, told IslamOnline.net by phone, referring to the Constitution's freedom of religion article.
"If harassed because of my religion, I would immediately resort to the Metropolitan Police to protect me from racists."
She maintained that taking off her hijab would be tantamount to giving in to extremists and racists "who would not stop at that."
Sheikh Zaki Badawi, the principal of the Muslim College in London and chairman of the Council of Mosques and Imams in Britain, told IOL Thursday, July 28, 2005, that Muslim women in Britain can don off their hijab to head off racist attacks.
"I have issued a fatwa that Muslim women in Britain have an Islamic right to take off their hijab at this point of time if attacked or fearing to be attacked," he said, citing 15,000 assault against hijab-clad women in three days.
A Guardian/ICM poll published July 26, 2005 indicated that nearly half a million Muslims contemplated leaving Britain after the London attacks.