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" Muslim Women Play Bingo IF YOU’RE A MUSLIM woman playing this special version of bingo, you’ve probably heard it all before. The Why can’t you drink wine? It must be so hard to be you to the Oh. My. God. So-and-so said you drink wine. You will burn in hell, sister. But I’ll pray for you. If you’re not a Muslim woman, welcome to our world. From the Islamophobic to the absurd—and often an asinine mixture of the two—Muslim women endure ignorant comments the world over. Sometimes they come from our own, sometimes they come from non-Muslims who harbor misconceptions about what it means to be a Muslim woman and assume we are oppressed and overheated beneath our chadors and hijabs, or else wildly rebellious and confusing (to them) when we twerk in booty shorts on the dance floor. "

Seema Yasmin , Muslim Women Are Everything: Stereotype-Shattering Stories of Courage, Inspiration, and Adventure


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Seema Yasmin quote : Muslim Women Play Bingo IF YOU’RE A MUSLIM woman playing this special version of bingo, you’ve probably heard it all before. The Why can’t you drink wine? It must be so hard to be you to the Oh. My. God. So-and-so said you drink wine. You will burn in hell, sister. But I’ll pray for you. If you’re not a Muslim woman, welcome to our world. From the Islamophobic to the absurd—and often an asinine mixture of the two—Muslim women endure ignorant comments the world over. Sometimes they come from our own, sometimes they come from non-Muslims who harbor misconceptions about what it means to be a Muslim woman and assume we are oppressed and overheated beneath our chadors and hijabs, or else wildly rebellious and confusing (to them) when we twerk in booty shorts on the dance floor.