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A report titled 100 Years of Anti-Arab and Anti-Muslim stereotyping by Mazin B. Qumsiyeh, director of media relations for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, describes what some in the Arab-American community call "the three B syndrome": "Arabs in TV and movies are portrayed as either bombers, belly dancers, or billionaires" a ...
Islamic clothing is clothing that is interpreted as being in accordance with the teachings of Islam. Muslims wear a wide variety of clothing, which is influenced not only by religious considerations, but also by practical, cultural, social, and political factors. [ 1][ 2] In modern times, some Muslims have adopted clothing based on Western ...
Islamic flag. An Islamic flag is the flag either representing an Islamic Caliphate, religious order, state, civil society, military force or other entity associated with Islam. Islamic flags have a distinct history due to the Islamic prescription on aniconism, making particular colours, inscriptions or symbols such as crescent-and-star popular ...
Betsy Ross. Elizabeth Griscom Ross (née Griscom; [ 1] January 1, 1752 – January 30, 1836), also known by her second and third married names, Ashburn and Claypoole, [ 1] was an American upholsterer who was credited by her relatives in 1870 [ 2] with making the second official U.S. flag, [ 3] accordingly known as the Betsy Ross flag.
Ingrid Mattson – Muslim scholar [149] Warith Deen Mohammed – former leader of the largest Muslim organization, the American Society of Muslims (son of Nation of Islam leader) [150] [151] [152] Abdul Malik Mujahid – Imam, community activist supporting interfaith and progressive causes, president of Sound Vision [153]
On February 11, 1861, the state adopted a flag with a pale yellow star in a red canton and thirteen blue, white, and red stripes. The first flag was used until the end of the Civil War. [3] The flag represented the 13 stripes of the U.S. flag, along with the red, white, and blue of the French tricolor and the yellow and red of the Spanish flag.
The national flag of the United States, often referred to as the American flag or the U.S. flag, consists of thirteen horizontal stripes, alternating red and white, with a blue rectangle in the canton bearing fifty small, white, five-pointed stars arranged in nine offset horizontal rows, where rows of six stars alternate with rows of five stars.
Islamic female dress. In modern usage, hijab ( Arabic: حجاب, romanized : ḥijāb, pronounced [ħɪˈdʒaːb]) generally refers to variety of head coverings conventionally worn by many Muslim women as an expression of faith. [ 1][ 2] Similar to the tichel or snood worn by Orthodox Jewish women, certain headcoverings worn by some Christian ...