It's a sign of the times, folks! But it was bound to come. It really was. The jilbab is now to liberate the Muslimah! Nike have come up with ever such an exciting range of colourful jilbabs for the gay (old-fashioned meaning!), liberated and lithesome, bejilbabbed ladies of a certain persuasion. Thoroughly modern Farida!
Jilbabs for the daring! Look out for them! Coming soon to sports shops near YOU! Don't miss out!
Girls in a refugee camp in northern Kenya have started playing volleyball for the first time thanks to specially designed sportswear for Muslim women.
Some Muslims believe girls should wear a jilbab - a traditional Islamic dress - which hampers agility.
Sports wear company Nike worked with the girls to find something appropriate and presented the designs last year.
Initially camp leaders renounced the outfits, but the girls have now convinced them of their suitability.
Read it all here: Muslim girls don sporting jilbabs
Mark
14 comments:
Nike knows that there is a market for this garb.
Of course, Nike previously had some dealings with what's acceptable and unacceptable. See this.
Bld:
Don't you think these sporting kilbabs are rather fetching?
Always:
Are you going to go for one of these 'oh so chic' sporting outfits? They're everso colourful. :-)
Bld:
I think cross-dressing is one thing even Muhammad in all his wisdom and foresight did not imagine becoming a phenomenon.
No, Islam does not specifically mention anything about cross-dressing as far as I am aware. But it does have a lot to say about how men and women should dress, as we all know.
Take, for example, the fact that men are supposed to sport an Islamic beard: Long beard, clipped moustache. This is to tell them apart from the females, and is meant to re-inforce the man's masculinity. Men in Islam must be aware of their masculine side, and must project it. No ponsy stuff for the Muslim man!
Cross-dressing is definitely out!
By the way, I wasn't even aware that it has become a multi-million dollar industry. Who on earth is engaging in such frivolity? No wonder Western civilization is going to the dogs! It's all really quite depressing, to say nothing of sad.
As a former captain of my volleyball team--I sure wouldn't want to try to spike any balls in this get-up.
I am glad these poor girls are getting a chance to expand their horizons and have some fun. Too bad they have to be limited by the insane outfits.
Heather:
Aren't they just THE most ridiculous sporting outfits you've ever seen!
The Victorians were positively liberated compared to these people! Even tennis-players in Wimbledon circa 1910 looked pretty on court. Even they weren't as constricted as this.
Yes, Bld, beards do tend to tell the men apart from the women. :-)
Gillette wouldn't have become a multi-million pound industry if they had relied on the Muslims.
Pretty colors, but I won't be wearing any of these outfits. LOL.
Heather:
BTW, love that term 'get-up'. My mother used to use that term frequently. Oh, what a get-up!, she'd say.
And those things really ARE 'get-ups'.
Always:
I can't imagine you in any of these get-ups. They're just not YOU!
Bld:
If these clothes are in popular use at the Bejing Olympics then we can all have a good grin.
I don't mean to be sexist, but can you imagine all those "jiggly bits" as these skimpy cloth-clad gals go a-skip-hop and a-jumping down the track?
Poor old British athlete Linford Christy got enough jokes about his "lunch-pack" during his career.
(two apples and a banana!)
You're sooo funny! "Two apples and a banana" indeed! :-)
Mark,
That is interesting--my mom's side of the family were Brits. Is it a British expression?
I think it is, Heather. I love that expression. It says it all!
JudahQ:
Actually, when it comes to cross-dressing, as a child I did always wonder why Arab men wore frocks.
You couldn't have been a very politically-correct child, could you? :-)
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