More on Camden .... or should it be Islamden???

nobody@vox.com(Emu with a Clue) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 17:34:38 -0700

I couldn't find this on youtube back when I posted my Salam Cafe link. Take a look. It is really funny:

For anyone not familiar with the background to this, it centres around the hysteria generated in a small rural (ish) town outside Sydney over plans to build an Islamic school. The solution? Turn Camden into the Islamic State of Islamden! The guy behind the Uncle Sam character is called Waleed Aly and he has a blog on the Salam Cafe website. He and his wife, Susan Carland (a lecturer at Monash University), are both also panellists on Salam Cafe.

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Self portrait Thursday: fitting in

nobody@vox.com(Emu with a Clue) — Wed, 07 May 2008 18:27:27 -0700

Not sure if I have mentioned previously but I live in a pretty Muslim neighbourhood in Sydney. That is not the reason I am wearing my scarf on my head in this photo. I had actually forgotten my umbrella and was trying to prevent my hair from getting wet and frizzy in the rain. I was making the same 'fashion statement' dropping my kids at school one rainy morning and got a big grin from one of the Muslim mums who must have thought I looked pretty funny (or silly).

Self portrait thursday

Actually looking at the photo of myself makes me pretty glad not to be Muslim as I really don't have the face to carry the hijab off.

Our local chemist looks gorgeous in hers. She has a very round, cherubic face and the blue scarf she wears frames it beautifully. Another friend who started wearing a scarf in her 30's has the wildest mop of curly hair you have ever seen and pretty funky at home clothes. I have been at her house when she has been getting ready to go out and it has been amazing to see the tranformation from wild and crazy-looking at home F to neat and demure-looking going out F.

The other confronting thing would be to have to forgo wearing make up. I don't wear a lot but would feel very self-conscious going out without even my eyeliner on. F was telling me about another woman she knew who had started wearing a scarf in her 30's only after having her eyeliner tattooed on. That would be me, I think!

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