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  • noun Plural form of hajib.

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Examples

  • If Muslims - this forum is open to everyone look at me! in the States and abroad - particularly American Muslims stay silent other voices will rush in, and these other voices might misrepresent what Muslims REALLY mean about shariah and stonings, beheadings and barbarities, chadors and hajibs, AND dogs will rush in and fill the void.

    TEXAS FAITH: Do religions oppress women? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • If Muslims - this forum is open to everyone look at me! in the States and abroad - particularly American Muslims stay silent other voices will rush in, and these other voices might misrepresent what Muslims REALLY mean about shariah and stonings, beheadings and barbarities, chadors and hajibs, AND dogs will rush in and fill the void.

    TEXAS FAITH: Do religions oppress women? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • If Muslims - this forum is open to everyone look at me! in the States and abroad - particularly American Muslims stay silent other voices will rush in, and these other voices might misrepresent what Muslims REALLY mean about shariah and stonings, beheadings and barbarities, chadors and hajibs, AND dogs will rush in and fill the void.

    TEXAS FAITH: Do religions oppress women? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2010

  • While hundreds of women have been murdered by religious gangs, unveiled women are routinely targeted and threatened with violence if they don't wear hajibs and follow strict Islamic law.

    Remember Iraqi women on International Women's Day 2008

  • Now feminist theory gives a free pass to Islam, a profoundly patriarchical theology, demanding that women wear scares, hajibs and burkas so as not to expose what men deem an unacceptable amount of skin in public.

    Asifa Quraishi: “Western feminists have lost opportunities to work with - rather than against - Islam and Muslim women." Ann Althouse 2008

  • Nice to see French pride lives on so even the Socialists must acknowledge it, support putting limits on Islamoids like no hajibs in schools, and Ségolène Royal saying that like those backwater American rubes - a good French family should have a Tricolor handy and know the national anthem.

    Frenchness. Ann Althouse 2007

  • And you can bet I'll be on the look out for swarthy men with bulging overcoats or women in hajibs on Election Day this time around!

    Election Reform or Something Else Entirely? No Easy Answers Here 2006

  • Then came the hajibs or chamberlains, the sons of the vizirs, the freed slaves of the khalif, and the wakils or officers of his household.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 342, April, 1844 Various

  • The 2 1/2-hour program brought women in hajibs and men in yamulkes, young people in jeans and older ones in their Sunday best.

    Phillies Zone 2011

  • We do NOT want our women to where hajibs and burkas, or to have to walk behind their husbands out of respect.

    The Rebel Yell Arafat 2010

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