HIJAB- The dress of modesty

[Sugar Cookie]

A Muslim call center has received about 200 hate calls in a week after a billboard was put up in Dallas to help clear negative stereotypes about hijabs and Muslim women.

The Dallas chapter of the Islamic Circle of North America and Gain Peace launched a six-week public outreach campaign and paid for a billboard on southbound I-35E near Northwest Highway.

The main goal of the campaign was to portray the hijab -- a head covering worn by many Muslim women -- as a symbol of empowerment and not repression.

After the billboard was put up in Dallas, GainPeace’s call center received more hate calls “than from any billboard in the last 12 years of GainPeace’s campaigns,” according to Dr. Sabeel Ahmed, director of the call center at GainPeace.

Call center officials said they did get some callers with genuine questions about the hijab.

But they also heard from callers who would yell profanities and then hang up, as well some people who would say, “You are terrorists. Go home.”

Muslim call center gets hundreds of hate calls after hijab billboard put up in Dallas

A Muslim call center has received about 200 hate calls in a week after a billboard was put up in Dallas to help clear negative stereotypes about hijabs and Muslim women.

www.fox4news.com

 

[Brillig]

How exactly was that supposed to clear negative stereotypes?

 

[Satanica]

Texas is certainly not the most inclusive state and putting up that billboard was inviting trouble. It was well intended but not very well thought out. Remember that "prevent vegetable abuse" billboard that caused a meltdown among the easily offended was in a Dallas suburb.

For sure, if you don't want ALL opinions, don't invite them to call! I feel bad for the people who manned those phones.

 

[BBBLUE77]

I drive past the one in Houston every day on my commute home. I had to do a double-take when I first saw it. Then I was slightly confused because the placement of the sign is in a predominantly Hispanic area off the freeway. I did giggle to myself, though, thinking "that's gonna go over well here". <insert eye roll>

 

[Fellofftheporch]

I personally would like to wear one for the coverage. If I got a long one, I would go naked under it. Plus I would never comb my hair.

 

[Old Man Metal]

The wanted phone calls, they got phone calls.