MUSLIM WOMEN IN AMERICA

By: LaShonda Rutherford

Hijab Our Right! The Right to Choose!

The Hijab

The Hijab is a covering that Muslim women wear to conceal their hair from the outside world, they only bare themselves to family and other Muslim women.

The Hijab is said to be an oppressive part of the Muslim faith, but contrary to popular belief most Muslim women actually enjoy and love wearing the Hijab and they embrace it, saying it is their right and their freedom as an American.

The Hijab has even been banned in France.

The Hijab(Continued)

• Muslim American women are being forced to remove the Hijab and even some take it upon themselves to remove it.

• Some Muslims do it out of fear, others do it for social acceptance.

• Others do it out of Law, one that isn't present in the United States

Video: Detroit Judge forces Iraqi Muslim women to take off Hijab Direct Link to Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEaIBQMd3pw

MUSLIM WOMEN FACE

JOB CRISIS

• Muslim women are more likely to be unemployed than

their white counterparts

• Some Muslim women have been

removing their Hijab, or changing

their names to make them sound

more English.

Despite the Job crisis there has been a

huge increase in the Muslim population due to the religious freedom in the U.S

MUSLIM WOMEN FACE JOB CRISIS

Pakistani and Bangladeshi Muslim women are

particularly affected, with 20.5% being unemployed

compared to 6.8% of white women, with 17.7% of black

women also being unemployed.

JOB CRISIS(CONT’D)

Muslim Pakistani and Bangladeshi women trying to

find work: "After 1983 the unemployment rate of Pakistani

and Bangladeshi women has remained consistently and

substantially higher than the rate for white women."

Muslim women can also be seen as superheroes in Comic

Strips

SOURCES

• Google Images

• Dodd, Vikram.2012 “Ethnic minority women face jobs crisis”. Retrieved on Feb. 1, 2013. < http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/07/ethnic-minority-women-jobs-crisis >

• . Muslim Women's League.1995. “Gender Equality in Islam”. Retrieved Feb 15, 2013. http://www.mwlusa.org/topics/equality/gender.html

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEaIBQMd3pw