http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/beauty-and-the-beast/ A blog on current events, blogging SEO tips & tutorial, Indonesia, Islam and more Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:41:01 +0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 http://www.fatihsyuhud.com/beauty-and-the-beast/comment-page-1/#comment-41845 Blogger Indonesia of the Week (89): Mulia Nurhasan Fri, 30 Jan 2009 03:46:09 +0000 http://fatihsyuhud.com/2007/08/29/beauty-and-the-beast/#comment-41845 [...] As far as Muslim women is concerned, there’s nothing more controversial than a piece of cloth called headscarf or veil. Popularly known here in Indonesia as jilbab[1]. The simplicity of jilbab or head scarf doesn’t make the effects simpler. In reality, jilbab pros and cons that comes around it represents a symbol between practicing and non-practicing Muslim . And thus, contentious opinions that surrounds it which comes beyond gender zone– from male and male corner –become a matter of continuing heated discourse. Among some non-Muslims, especially in the West, jilbab is considered as a symbol of many bad things: women oppression by men typical in a developing and patriarchal society; backwardness, outdated, old fashioned on the part of the Muslim women themselves, you name it. There’s a case in Indonesia, where a woman named Sandrina Malakiano a presenter in Metro TV–Indonesia’s CNN–has been fired from her jobs after she convert to Islam and decided to wear jilbab. [...] [...] As far as Muslim women is concerned, there’s nothing more controversial than a piece of cloth called headscarf or veil. Popularly known here in Indonesia as jilbab[1]. The simplicity of jilbab or head scarf doesn’t make the effects simpler. In reality, jilbab pros and cons that comes around it represents a symbol between practicing and non-practicing Muslim . And thus, contentious opinions that surrounds it which comes beyond gender zone– from male and male corner –become a matter of continuing heated discourse. Among some non-Muslims, especially in the West, jilbab is considered as a symbol of many bad things: women oppression by men typical in a developing and patriarchal society; backwardness, outdated, old fashioned on the part of the Muslim women themselves, you name it. There’s a case in Indonesia, where a woman named Sandrina Malakiano a presenter in Metro TV–Indonesia’s CNN–has been fired from her jobs after she convert to Islam and decided to wear jilbab. [...]

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