Upon reading your chapter “Why they Hate Us” I was not sure who “they” and “us” referred to, but you quickly set the stage to depict a struggle of women vs.
I mention all of this because despite the fact that in your writing you spend a lot of time dismissing those of us who critique your work, it is important for the readers to know where this critique is coming from. Our writers’ sexual and gender identities are also varied, and in some cases fluid. Some of us have privileged upbringings and lives, while some others have known scarcity and hardship. Some are based in the West, some are in the Middle East and Africa, and others are in South East Asia and Europe. Our writers are social and political activists, change-leading mosque attenders, unmosqued-spiritual women, grassroots organizers, artists, protesters, academics or/and mothers raising the new generation of Muslim women and men. We have writers who are married, divorced, widowed, single, coupled or in “complicated relationships.” We also have writers who have taken it off, and some who have put it back on again and have been very open about it.
We have writers who wear the veil and some who do not. Many of the people who have helped me make sense of my own experiences are the very women in this blog, who have tirelessly written about media depictions of Muslim women in the media, about their own experiences as Muslim women, about policy and law, religion and culture and tradition and transformations.
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