there is more to this hijab than the whole modesty thing. These girls are strangers to me but I know that we all felt an amazing connection, a sense that this cloth binds us in some kind of universal sisterhood.
Randa Abdel-FattahLife isnโt like the movies. People donโt change overnight. people donโt go from arrogant and self-righteous to ashamed and remorseful. They donโt suddenly give in when theyโve spent years taking out. No doesnโt magically become a Yes.
Randa Abdel-FattahIn a multicultural, diverse society there are countless ways in which people negotiate the everyday lived experience and reality of diversity.
Randa Abdel-FattahIt is time Australian Muslims stop being treated as negotiable citizens in their own country. It is time people stop 'tolerating' us, presuming some right to decide if we have a place in our own home.
Randa Abdel-Fattah