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Muslim Girl Magazine; was that seventeen?
Topic Started: Oct 6 2007, 05:12 AM (147 Views)
Muda313
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salaam,
when MG first online debut i was skeptical about a magazine for muslim american girls being actually for Muslims rather than Americans. I looked over the new website and liked the articles, liked the stories and pictures, but only from a feminist liberation stance. My brother recently bought me 2 issues of the mag from ISNA, and the gloss and glamoour are nice and attractive, yhe stories entertaining, but not very Muslim.
The magazine seems to be about American girls who (oh Yeah) happen to be Muslim rather than Muslim girls who happen to be American. It seems that Muslim Girl has taken the easy way of of assimilating and falling into the fear brought on by 9-11 by being American first and (oh Yeah) Muslim.
It is nice to see articles about hijab clad Muslims with thier own businesses, dispelling fears and irrational thoughts about Muslims through their actions and behaviors, but I read an article similar to that in cosmo girl or seventeen.com. The majority of the magazine takes the tone of American girl though. Muslim seems to be the afterthought on the cover; which could easily be missed by the presence of a (islamcally speaking) scantily clad girl jumping around.
I read a magazine put out by Focus on the Family encouraging what they view as ideal Christian morals and standards. They have no problem inviting Christians to put God first in a country where religion and religious practice has been put on the back burner. Magazines like seventeen which have no open religious affiliation and jusy encourage people to BE niether good nor bad have been combated by these religious based magazines for some time. I dont find Muslim Girl to be that tpe of Magazine at all. i would have hoped for a Muslim magazine to encourage girls to BE all th Muslim you can BE, not just tell them it's haram to date. Which according to editor in chief Ausma Khan may be up for dispute "...there are a variety of viewpoints about what constitutes acceptable Islamic practice. We don’t make that judgment. We simply reflect the reality of the actual North American Muslim community."
I must be living in a different American Muslim world then, because where I come from Islam is always first and Nationalism is so that "we come to know one another".
Ma Salaam
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abuturab82
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hmmm, i've never read Muslim Girl magazine, so I wouldn't know what its about. but i generally am concerned about the issues facing the youth these days.

if the magazine is as you say it is, then its only going to compound the problems we're facing as a community.

i think my favorite islamic magazine is islamica.

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Muda313
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http://www.muslimgirlmagazine.com/web/index.cfm

i've never read islamica, but jumuah is one of the more comprehensive complete magazines i've seen.
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I agree with everything you said.

Unfortunately I have had the displeasure of coming across a copy of the Muslim Girl Magazine. Although I realize they want to be uncontroversial, I think they have to be more rigid concerning issues that are unanimously decided by the scholars.(the hijab/makeup issue) The magazine I came across had a picture of a muslimah packed with make up similar to mainstream American magazines.
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