{"id":1421,"date":"2015-03-12T13:24:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T13:24:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/?p=1421"},"modified":"2015-03-10T04:39:43","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T04:39:43","slug":"islam-and-middle-school-in-nyc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/islaminamerica\/2015\/03\/12\/islam-and-middle-school-in-nyc\/","title":{"rendered":"Islam and Middle School in NYC"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sharon Otterman, a reporter for The New York TimesMK\/I> penned a thoughtful article on Sandra Ibrahim. The middle school student’s tentative steps toward wearing hijab have been met with derision, teasing and hazing.<\/p>\n

This writer wonders whether this Arab custom from the seventh century really has a place in 21st century Queens, where it serves only to stigmatize Muslim females by marking them quite visibly as “different”.<\/p>\n

Read more about it here: “Balancing Islam and Middle School in Queens<\/a>“<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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