Intro and Body

The religious headdress known as a veil, also known as a burqa, has become a highly debated symbol of freedom or oppression. Abu-Lughod (AL) and Maysan Haydar share their opinions from their personal views on the matter. Haydar is a Muslim women with a unique story about her head dress. Abu-Loghod is a member of the perseus book group who gives her own opinion about the burqa and its purpose. Haydar speaks to teenagers and tries to appeal to the new generation, where as AL tries to appeal to high scholars for an educational stance in the argument. Both AL and Haydar defend the culture of the head dress and explain that it is an optional garment that has strong benefits to all women who wear it.


The head dress is not forced by men, as AL and Haydar will explain, but symbolizes modesty and beauty. AL explains "First, the Taliban did not invent the burqas in Afghanistan." (Lughod 3)

The women that wear this head dress should not be pitied, explained by AL. AL writes, "One need only think of the American organization the Feminist Majority, with their campaign for the women in Afghanistan, or the wider discourse about women's human rights. Like the missionaries, these liberal feminists feel the need to speak for and on behalf of Afghan or other Muslim women in a language of women's rights or human rights."

A Huge difference about how AL and Haydar view this argument is their uses of evidence, Haydar like to use her own personal anecdotes to justify her opinion, while AL uses historical evidence to show that women have made this choice to benefit themselves.

AL compared to Haydar

AL speaks to the American audience using the words we and us gives the audience a name. Then, using the word "them" when speaking about those who wear the head dresses. AL speaks to a well educated audience of high scholars and experts. I believe AL responds to the genre of expert knowledge and informative text. I believe this cause of her well known knowledge of how these individuals feel. We is written to be in the form of Americans. AL uses us and them to create titles on the contrasting groups of this argument. AL hits the hard facts front faced and bold, however Haydar uses personal experiences to share her knowledge on the subject.

Haydar Strategies and Abu-Logodh reaction

I believe that Haydar uses a good personal anecdote when she describes the bus situation because it shows how many Americans believe that these women aren't free because of the way they dress. Haydar tries to use an example when describing the constructions workers comments to women walking by, however this is more of a movie situation that may rarely happen in person.


The main points Abu-Lododh brings up are the use of the burqas in images to startle people or create an nonexistent threat, the stereotypes that these women are forced to wear the dressings, and the misconception of tradition. One of the facts that startled me was the fact that the dressings were not made in religion but created by women to show modesty.

Haydar

I made a google search using “haydar veiled intentions publication information.” after finding a link that had direct information, such as the date of publication, publisher, and editor of the document, I have all the listed information:

published in 2003

By Seal Press

editor is Ophira Edut

Haydar is a member of perseus book group

this can all be found on page 454 of: https://books.google.com/books?id=HaMEAAAAQBAJ&pg=PA454&lpg=PA454&dq=haydar+veiled+intentions+publication+information&source=bl&ots=NFX6TUz1G9&sig=CHiNcfnqWZH20mscZwZWMeGKMVI&hl=en&sa=X&ei=JWrJVKmHMtLXoASO1ICQDw&ved=0CEwQ6AEwBw#v=onepage&q=haydar%20veiled%20intentions%20publication%20information&f=false

Haydar’s main claim is that the traditional head dress of her culture has saved her from much harassment that many women seem to go through today. She provides personal anecdotes describing situations in her highschool years of men liking her for who she is not what she looks like. She gives a personal view into her life and states that the veil is an important part of her life. a strength to her argument is that she is persuasive in the way that the veil has helped her and suggest other women use it to too to save them from the harassment of men. A weakness in her story is the way she only takes one side and lets the other side speak for itself.

Kristof Analysis

I believe that Kristof’s main claim is that guns should be regulated to reduce the amount of annual deaths by firearm. Kristof also claims that regulations such as limiting gun purchases and magazine sizes will reduce the number of fatalities if a shooting is to occur. Kristof claims that by imposing on gun sales the amount of firearms to national deaths ratio will go down.

One main form of evidence that Kristoff used was statistical evidence that would improve his ethos. Another form of evidence Kristoff used is an anecdote referring to Australia’s gun control.

Kristoff uses a strong ethical appeal to persuade his audience that guns should be more regulated to decrease the amount of mass murders and deaths in the nation.

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