hijab Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/hijab/ My take on our world Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:44 +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 hijab Archives - Heather's Homilies https://www.heatherhastie.com/tag/hijab/ 32 32 The Christchurch Massacre https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/#comments Tue, 02 Apr 2019 05:23:44 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=7135 It was two weeks on Friday since a self-confessed white supremacist changed New Zealand forever. Friday 15th March 2019 is a day many New Zealanders, including me, naïvely thought would never come to this country. It’s the day a terrorist committed mass murder on our soil. “The Christchurch Massacre” is now part of our history. […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/the-christchurch-massacre/feed/ 49 Egypt 1958: Mockery of the Idea of Compulsory Hijab https://www.heatherhastie.com/egypt-1958-mockery-idea-compulsory-hijab/ https://www.heatherhastie.com/egypt-1958-mockery-idea-compulsory-hijab/#comments Fri, 30 Jun 2017 06:16:02 +0000 https://www.heatherhastie.com/?p=4374 This video about requiring women to wear the hijab is from a tweet by Ali A Rizvi with the comment “How times have changed.” It’s from 1958 and has been around for a while, but I think it deserves as much attention as possible. It’s a portion of a speech from Egyptian president Gamel Abdel […]

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]]> https://www.heatherhastie.com/egypt-1958-mockery-idea-compulsory-hijab/feed/ 9 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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