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Jersey Gem Maxi Hijabs
Create beautiful folds and volume with this perfectly sized hijab that’s ideal for wrapping and draping
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Muslim ‘world citizen’ leads Girl Guides in Winnipeg
“The Girl Guide promise is, 'God and Canada.’ So, it’s God. God is my god, your god, it doesn’t matter. And then Canada, so we’re faithful to God and Canada.”
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“I’m 14 years old and I’m in grade 9. I actually just started wearing the hijab about a month ago. My parents have always wanted me to wear it, but it was my own personal choice to start wearing it in the end.
"I used to feel really uncomfortable wearing it around people, which is how I ended up getting to 14 years of age without wearing it often. With everything that’s happening in the world, people get judged a lot by things like that, and I wanted to fit in with everyone else, I guess. I didn’t want to draw attention to myself. I really wasn’t living my life for myself, I was doing what I thought other people wanted me to do. I wasn’t being a leader, I was being a follower. I didn’t want to do that any more. I want people to accept me for who I am. For my religion. For my ethnicity. I want to people accept me for who I actually am rather than the version of myself that was just me trying to be what they wanted me to be. That’s why I started wearing a hijab.
"I used to only wear it occasionally, and some pretty bad stuff would happen. Me and my friends would just be walking down the street, and people would yell negative comments. That really scared me. Even a couple of days ago, somebody who I know saw me with it on and she kind of blew me off. I called out her name and she turned away. I don’t know whether it was because I had it on and she was in front of her friends… I don’t know the actual reason. But in the moment it felt like it was because I was wearing the hijab.”
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Our latest Bokitta Hijab stock is in! http://www.UmmahBoutique.ca
Prewrapped Pinless Style ~
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The Midnight Sun Mosque in Inuvik, Northwest Territories is one of the most Northern mosques in Canada.
According to the most recent Stats Canada numbers the Muslim population of N.W.T is 275 (2011); this little northern community accounts for 0.7% of the Canadian Muslim population
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Let It Snow ~ Winter Hijabi Style
Combine blues with white for an shimmering winter look. Add a modestly elegant winter cape to keep warm & you’ll be ready for all of your special winter occasionsPost link
What it’s actually like to be a Muslim girl in Canada
In the weeks leading up to the 2015 federal election, Stephen Harper’s Conservatives seized on the niqab as a wedge issue. They fought the wearing of the traditional Islamic face veil in citizenship ceremonies; they proposed banning it outright for public servants. And these proposals gained a great deal of support — 55 percent of Canadians polled by Ipsos Reid at that time approved of a ban on the niqab even after a federal court struck down the government’s challenge — exposing a fault line in our treasured multicultural foundation. It wasn’t enough to secure Harper’s re-election, but recent events show that a certain fear remains: In the wake of November’s attacks in Paris, a mosque was set ablaze in Peterborough, Ont.; days later, in Toronto, a Muslim woman was assaulted near a school and two young women were pushed on a subway. The next month, to cheers at a South Carolina rally, presidential candidate Donald Trump called for a “total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States.” Read More Here
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“Diversity” - Bashir & Zoulfira from Ottawa
“You can be both and one doesn’t conflict the other. You can be a good citizen being both.” - Bashir Mustafa
“Diversity. Different cultures from different backgrounds coming together and living peacefully. Taking care of each other and being kind to each other.” - Zoulfira Miniakhmetova
“Alhumdulillah” - Farrah Khan from Toronto
“I feel that to be a Canadian Muslim you live in a fair and just society. I can practice my religion freely, Alhumdulillah”
“I can have both identities.” - Ahmed Alkoka from Mississauga
“I can have both identities. I can enjoy Canadian freedom, while still being able to practice Islam."
”…it’s not only about practicing our religion freely but helping to develop Canada by being productive citizens" - Asad & Mohammed from Toronto
“I think it’s pretty awesome. In Canada you have a lot of freedom. If you’re practicing Islam nobody says anything. Most people don’t judge you by your clothes, you have freedom of expression. You have more freedom of religion, of speech and of yourself.” -Asad Mehmood
“We have the ability to express our freedom of religion. So many people around the world don’t have that kind of privilege. For me personally, it’s not only about practicing our religion freely but helping to develop Canada by being productive citizens, volunteering, helping with other causes and just contributing to society as a whole.” - Mohammed Baig
“Being here made me explore what it was to be Muslim.” - Sahrish Tabrez & Mariyam Farooqi from Toronto
“It gave me more love towards my faith being Canadian-Muslim. I was 7-years-old when I came to Canada and I remember before I came everyone around me was Muslim, I was born Muslim, but nobody told me why or what it means to be a Muslim. But when I came here – as a Canadian Muslim – I realized I am more of myself here than I was, as a Muslim, back home. Being here made me explore what it was to be Muslim.” -Mariyam
“Freedom” - Saima Sheikh & Maariyah Patel from Toronto
“Freedom. In terms of wearing the hijab - we have no "ifs”, “whats” or “buts”, we are free to work wherever we want, practice and pray. We can go out wherever and however we want. We can pray at any time and no one says anything. Alhumdullilah, so far. And the freedom of education. We’re able to be Muslim – I know in many other countries around the world – you’re not able to get an education, women especially. That’s important. Alhumdulillah we’re in a country where a) you can be a woman and you’re empowered and b) you can be a Muslim woman and you’re empowered.“ - Saima Sheikh
Shady Hafez on Being Algonquin and Syrian
A reflection on his First Nations and Arab identity
“Ottawa’s Muslim community is full of uncommon mixed race identities, but Shady Hafez, 22, might be an original. Born in Ottawa, the son of an Algonquin mother from the Kitigan Zibi reservation and a Muslim father from Syria, Shady was raised in two worlds, each misunderstanding of the other, and both misunderstood by mainstream Western culture.”
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