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...mandated to cover yourself head to toe in this tent," says Taina Bien-Aimé, executive director of Equality Now, the international women's-rights watchdog. Sabet responds that Muslim men too have a dress code: the Koran forbids them to wear saffron or silk or expose skin from navel to knee. But Imam Mohamed Magid, who heads a moderate mosque in Sterling, Va., calls debate over Islamic clothing misdirected. "I wish there was more talk about women as leaders rather than talk about whether nail polish is acceptable in Islam," he says. "We need to move forward...
...Joining Waayaha Cusub also gave Q-Rap a sense of security. Eastleigh is a tough neighborhood, and critics don't restrict themselves to words. Singer Salma Abdul Qadir had her face slashed by unknown attackers for accidentally displaying her navel in one of the band's videos. She has been forced into hiding ever since...
...This navel-gazing has hampered us from gaining a truly “international†perspective. Once, I counted five panels in a given week dedicated to bemoaning U.S. “imperialism†or human rights abuses. This, as it happened, was the same week when embassies were being torched and innocent people murdered elsewhere in the world, amidst the engineered rage that followed the publication of cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed in Denmark. By most indications, it was a remarkable cultural phenomenon, warranting a great blossoming of teach-ins and town-hall meetings?...
When The Crimson hired me four months ago to be its ombudsman, a few editors were concerned this column would amount to a protracted exercise in navel gazing. Were that this was the only navel-gazing The Crimson does...
...LAST SUPPER TO EAT, BY YOURSELF, WHERE WOULD IT BE AND WHAT WOULD YOU EAT? Fresh Burrata [cheese] with roasted peppers eaten on the navel of Scarlett Johansson. The peppers have to be marinated, though. Otherwise, I'd eat somewhere else...