Alibhai-Brown Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/alibhai-brown/ My take on our world Thu, 08 Sep 2016 22:47:42 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://www.heatherhastie.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/cropped-tweetkiwi-512px-32x32.png Alibhai-Brown Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/alibhai-brown/ 32 32 World Hijab Day: 1 February 2015 https://www.heatherhastie.com/world-hijab-day-1-february-2015/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/world-hijab-day-1-february-2015/#comments Sat, 31 Jan 2015 03:27:47 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=469 Since 2013, 1 February has been World Hijab Day. It was started by a New York woman, Nazma Khan. Khan moved to New York from Bangladesh with her parents at the age of eleven. She was the only child at her school wearing the hijab and was bullied. It seems from her account that at […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/world-hijab-day-1-february-2015/feed/ 15 How Reza Aslan Damages the Discourse https://www.heatherhastie.com/reza-aslan-again/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/reza-aslan-again/#comments Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:00:24 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=166 One of the journalists I most admire is Christiane Amanpour. I never miss her show Amanpour on CNN International if I can help it. On 21 October though she disappointed me – she fell into the trap many liberal Americans do (and New Zealanders too, as I’ve written about) of giving Reza Aslan a voice […]

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