While both “Miss or Diss” by Scarf Ace and “Scarfing It Down” by Fatemeh Fakhraie agree on the prejudice people have towards Muslims and hijab, Scarf Ace and Fatemeh disagree on why Muslims wear hijab, they also have differences in audience.
Towards the end of “Miss or Diss,” Scarf Ace discusses how prejudice America is towards Muslims that wear hijab. Scarf Ace starts off by asking herself why she lives in America and not somewhere where wearing hijab is a common occurrence, she expresses that she knows thinking like this is dangerous in America because it leads to negativity towards anything different, “America says there is no way to look like an American, but then there’s another part that says yes there is, and it doesn’t include a Muslim headscarf, a Sikh turban, or a Hindu dot on the forehead, but it does seem to include a Nun’s Habit” (Scarf Ace 489). Scarf Ace talks about how Christians aren’t accepting of Muslims and how she “saw
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She starts by talking about how Canada has followed in the footsteps of France and Turkey in the banning of hijab from schools and government buildings and how both Canada and the United States sports federations are banning women from wearing a hijab, deeming it unsafe, even though a student had competed and won wearing a hijab in previous seasons “Many female sports teams (both in Canada and the United States) with members who wear hijab have been subject to short- or long-term rulings by sports federations banning them from playing on the basis that hijab is unsafe, despite the development of sport-safe hijabs” (Fatemeh Fakhraie, 491). Fakhraie talks about the media coverage and how the reporters “stories nearly always take away the voices of those who should have a say in these bans-namely, Muslim women themselves” (Fatemeh Fakhraie,