“Pagri or Pagadi (Hindi: पगड़ी, Marathi: पगडी, Punjabi: ਪਗੜੀ) is the term for a turban within India. It specifically refers to a headdress that is worn by men and needs to be manually tied. In several regional dialects it is often shortened to Pag (पग).”

-from wiki

also, i’ve met bengali’s who seemed to be using burqa to mean niqab,whereas i was only familar with it in reference to the shuttlecock burqa of afghanistan. in algeria, people don’t seem generally familair with the term, niqab, although it hink the term was coined by western muslims, wasn’t it? interesting break down, though.

The Malay for a headscarf is tudung (the “Indonesian” language is in fact Malay, although most people on Java, outside Jakarta, actually speak Javanese or Sundanese, although Malay is also spoken on Sumatra and Borneo). The original Arabic jilbab was actually worn over the head, not from the shoulders, so a headscarf may be regarded as a shorter version of the jilbab.

It’s just as confusing as the Indonesian usage of jilbab in reference to a headscarf. (Someone told me that when Indonesians say “hijab” they mean “niqab”, is this true?)

@Bint_n Totally agree with you. Pearson (who looks like your classic peadophile) had bugger all to say. I cant believe Ukip made this loser their treasurer/spokesman. Despite their anti-eu rhetoric, ukip are nothing but a bunch of bnp suits.

Did miryam host an episode of Islam channel at one time?

Wassalaam

I hadn’t thought of that angle of it. Yes, the convert who’d been off the rails previously is a common stereotype.

Where have you been? I haven’t seen you on here in years.

Muslim Driving school…the bit where they had the imam/driving instructor saying that he was patient and then being shown to be other than patient when in the car created a poor impression. It’s possible the film makers used only the bits where he’d lost his patience and interspaced them with shots of him in his pupil’s house talking about the need foragood instructor to be patient etc.

Also, I have noticed that when converts are portrayed, it’s not generally someone form a normal, trouble free background but someone who went off the rails not someone the vast majority of non Muslims can realte to. Alhamdulillah for stacey, though!