A professional job ...for a hijabi?

[Sara516]

Re: A professional job …for a hijabi?

@PyariCgudia

At our school, no girl was ever accepted as a hijabi. There is one girl who wears it, but she started wearing it after she got in.

Why wasn’t she accepted as a hijabi? Did the school just have a “no hijab” policy? or were they just not qualified? B/c not being qualified and wearing the hijab are totally un-related and it makes no sense to make a correlation between the two.

If you’re talking about the US - it just usually looks unprofessional to harp up your religion in your application. A lot of girls do this - they talk ad nauseum about how they were involved with Islamic awareness and with their mosques, etc. What I want to know is, if I’m sitting there reading your application for a law school, or medical school, or business school, what the hell do I care how much time you spent talking to people in your neighborhood about God? You would be training to have specific skills for a job, and you need to have a certain level of skill and intelligence and professionalism to hold these sorts of jobs. That’s what I’d be looking for in your application, not how many hours you spend at Sunday school.

And why shouldn’t they talk about thier involvement in their community?? Since when did that become a taboo subject to put on school/job applications? As far as I know, these type of skills and experience are looked favorably upon on all types of applications. Maybe all those hours at Sunday school, teaching or learning, helped them manage thier time and energy better? Or all that exposure to the people in the neighborhood made the applicant realize how beneficial it would be to have a lawyer/doctor in their community? So, yeah, all that involvement, if it helped them establish the necessary skills to endure in the real working world, they have all the right to include it on their applications w/o being seen as “harp[ing] up [their] religion”..

I’d say one exception would be Christian missionaries - if you write about how much you want to do medicine to be a missionary, some school or other might not mind it, because many medical school admission committees don’t look so unfavorably upon that sort of thing since some medical school faculty are sympathetic to evangelicals. But that’s about it as far as tolerance goes. No one cares whether you wear a hijab or not. Its about you.

Right, so it’s NOT okay for a Muslim girl to talk about her relevant experience on any application but it’s perfectly alright for someone to mention they want to be a Christian missionariy? Not saying that the missionairies are in any way worse, but why is it okay for medical school faculties to be sympathetic to evangelicals but not to muslim women who wear the hijab?

Having said that, there is a great deal of Islamophobia in America right now.

I’m sure there’s lots of it from non-Muslims, but it’s absolutely sad when that Islamophobia comes from Muslims themselves.

Very few girls I know who did wear hijabs got into good schools, but then, I don’t know if its so much the hijab as it was their personality and lack of maturity to begin with.

Again, did they get into those schools b/c of those hijabs? Or b/c of their credentials?? Are htey immature and have bad personalities B/C of their hijab? Sheesh. By attributing pretty much every action to their hijab, you’re just reducing them to the clothing they wear…and that’s exactly the opposite of what hijab is supposed to be.

Do what you feel is best. If you wear the hijab, just don’t make us muslims look like idiots when you represent us with your religious garb. You just make it harder for everyone else that way.

Look like idiots how? by refusing to shake hands? By not joining them for drinks? By not being buddy-buddy with their male employees? If one is passionate about working but their comfort level does not allow for those things then what, they should quit working