The Wonderlust Queen

lulushka:

chaje-shukarije:

lulushka:

passionate-opinions:

Hijab is not a scarf to cover your hair.

Hijab is an action. You DO hijab, you follow the guidelines of hijab, and by doing so, you cover your hair… But it is so much more than that.

It is not simply “covering your hair.”

A Muslim woman should look ordinary when she…

Im sorry but this is some total bullshit. The language used in this entry…is really angering. This is my main issue with Islam. Anyone not doing exactly what is “expected” of them..is “choosing” to go against “God.”

Sorry. But no. 

Not all Muslims are like that, though. Many of the Muslimahs I know, who happen to wear hijab, don’t try and force or shame others into it. I think the main problem is that people are trying to enforce their own religious views on others, which is not isolated to Islam. I mean, my family is Catholic and they try to do it all the time. Believe what you want it to believe, but never try and force that on anyone else. That’s a universal rule, IMO. it’s funny, though, because the Qur’an actually states that there should be “no compulsion in religion”, meaning you’re not supposed to try and enforce it on other people.

You said it much better than I could. 

My issue is with people defining others lives. Be it their religious lives, sexual lives, etc. 

Naturally a good majority of religious people try and dictate their version of whats “right” to others. This is the nature of a good number of religions. Here on Tumblr, though, I constantly see the haram police. “OH THATS HARAM WHYS IT ON YOUR BLOG! OH THATS HARAM YOU SHOULDNT BE WEARING THAT!”

And I think…

Who the fuck is anyone else to define another human beings spirituality (be it religious or not) and relationship with their idea of what is divine?

I think hijabs are gorgeous and everyone should wear diklos and hijabs when they want to feel lovely. And yes I do understand the religious and cultural reasons.

romlomluoli:

International Romani And Travelers Pride ~ 2013 World Wide Romani And Traveler Gathering

In Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, U.S.A. on April 5-10 2013 the first ever World Wide Roma and Traveler gathering held in the United States will take place. We are extending the invitation to all Roma and…

Oh how I wish I could go :{

(via thevioletqueenofspades)

diaryofaromanifilmmaker:

THE UK Advertising Standards Authority is to review its decision not to investigate complaints earlier this year about Channel 4’s advertising campaign behind the latest series of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.

The billboard “Bigger, Fatter, Gypsier” campaign led to nearly 500 complaints, but the advertising regulator decided not to investigate, which caused anger in the Irish Traveller Movement in Britain.

Recommending an inquiry now, the authority’s independent reviewer, Sir Hayden Philips, said he believed it should “reconsider” the decision. The authority is not bound by law to accept this.

The Traveller movement’s director, Yvonne McNamara, said the Channel 4 campaign obviously breached regulation, since the authority “would never have permitted a ‘Bigger, Fatter, Muslimer’ or ‘Bigger, Fatter, Blacker’ ” campaign. Travellers and gypsies, she added, “are the last ethnic minority group against whom it is still acceptable to make derogatory jokes and to malign and denigrate in the media, the last bastion of acceptable prejudice. That ends today.”

The Channel 4 documentary series is sponsored by Japanese car maker Honda, which initially was critical of the billboards but later went silent on the issue.

Exactly.

(Source: themisanthropichumanist, via leylahur)