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Playboy and the False Normalization of the Hijab

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With the best of intentions, no doubt, the magazine has fallen into the slut-shaming game of Islamists around the world.

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Playboy magazine has just featured an article about a hijab-wearing Muslim-American, Noor Taguri, “making a forceful case for modesty.”

Yes. You read that correctly.

In its October “Renegades” issue, Playboy is showcasing a religious-conservative practice as emblematic of an independent woman.

White religious-conservatism is not often celebrated or glamorized by American liberals and...

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