By Omar Sacirbey
Religion News Service
(RNS) Jean Younis won’t be wearing an Easter bonnet at church this Sunday. Instead, the office manager at Bonita Valley Adventist Church in National City, Calif., will don an Islamic headscarf to support the family and friends of Shaima Alawadi, the Iraqi immigrant and mother of five who died March 24, three days after being beaten in her home in El Cajon, Calif.
“I do expect a reaction, but that’s the point. It needs to be discussed,” said Younis, 59, who predicted that most church members would be supportive or respectfully inquisitive.
She is one of many non-Muslim women to post photos of themselves wearing a headscarf on “One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi,” a recently created Facebook Page that had nearly 10,000 likes on Monday (April 2) and hundreds of photos. Others posting on the page have identified themselves as Catholics, Quakers, Mennonites, Jews, Pagans, and atheists.
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Our compliments to these American ladies.
May I suggest that Pakistanis could take an example from these non-Muslim American ladies that are wearing the hijab in support of Shaima Alawadi.
The American ladies are saying ‘we are all Alawadis’.
What about if now non-Ahmadi Muslim Pakistanis all say ‘We are all Ahmadi-Muslims’ and a million of them refuse to sign the infamous declaration on the passport and I.D. forms?
(we are patiently waiting for that day)…
Hope and pray that day comes soon, but it would need a lot of courage to stand up for the right cause in Pakistan especially for Ahmadi Muslims. Though for obtaining visas, immigration to other countries on the basis of being Ahamdi muslims, casting fake votes etc, many claim to be Ahmadi muslims. Let us wait for the day when they do it for the right cause.
Wonderful article and beautiful comment.
What can be done which would be good for our Universal Brotherhood / Sisterhood, gender equality, religious freedoms and democratic values:
A Million Hijab March in All Capitals of the World!