Comments on: Friday Links — December 5, 2008

By: Reader Passing By

Reader Passing By — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 08:43:46 +0000

Re: The hijab party post: @@ Suckers of joy. Any party but that for an Eid is a bidaa mentality. When a woman / girl puts on hijab and no one pats her on the back (ie, they just go about their regular life), the same people complain that we aren’t giving this piece of cloth it’s due place as the second pillar of a woman’s Islam. Not that I’m prone to believe anecdotal stories about quincineara-style hijab parties. It sounds like emotional muckraking to me, which about fits mm’s style of writing.

By: Fatemeh

Fatemeh — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:30:56 +0000

@ Saha: I wasn’t suggesting that he had some evil horticultural-based plan for justifying polygamy. I just thought it was interesting how he framed polygyny within a horticultural/labor point of view and wrote about it thusly.

Just because I’m not down with polygyny doesn’t mean I meant to make a statement condemning it as “abhorrent.” Perhaps I should have used the word “lauded” instead of “justified”?

By: Saha

Saha — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:20:12 +0000

unless you want to change the entire social structure regarding division of labour in rural Yemen

By: Saha

Saha — Tue, 09 Dec 2008 21:07:35 +0000

re – article in Yemen Times regarding Polygyny. Does it matter that the writer is a horticulturalist? It seems that you are suggesting he had some kind of self-motivation for writing the article. Even if he did, which isn’t clear, it’s irrelevant. Not a case of the biased man sticking up for the “abhorrent” custom.

I saw polygyny practiced in Yemen and it was beautiful, that’s not to say that there aren’t abuses, as there certainly are, as there are abuse in monogomous marriages, but it is not always the case, and sometimes when someone writes a positive article about polygyny, it is just that.

By: Fatemeh

Fatemeh — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 03:39:34 +0000

@ Dude: it works when I click on it.

By: Dude

Dude — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 01:41:02 +0000

Daily Orange link messed up…

By: cycads

cycads — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 22:12:43 +0000

I am SO getting that book, ‘Secret Life of Syrian Lingerie’! Sounds brilliant, but I hoping that it’s not tacky and predictable. Having underwear that plays music and attached with plastic mobile phones would be downright *wicked*.

By: Jana

Jana — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 20:49:56 +0000

Bridget Jones, the Cairo version

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/babylonbeyond/2008/12/egypt-facebook.html

Interesting article about efforts to change the negative attitudes towards unmarried women in Egypt.