Pictures of Muslims Wearing Things

Muslims, Jews, Christians, and Buddhists — all dressed in their best folk singing garb — sing Woody Guthrie’s “This Land is Your Land” at an interfaith Thanksgiving ceremony held at the Pleasantville Community Synagogue in New York. [NYT article]

In Baghdad, a Muslim woman (in black hair covering and holding a copy of the Quran) stands in solidarity with a Christian woman (in white hair covering and holding a copy of the Bible), to show solidarity with the dwindling number of Iraqi Christians and their right to live freely and peacefully side-by-side with their Muslim sisters and brothers.

Muslim Sufi Jedi Francis Brabazon is pictured without his lightsaber.

Australian boxer and Muslim Billy “The Kid” Dib wears a patriotic mouth-guard to protect his pearly white teeth (all 6 of them).

Amnesty International Secretary General Irene Khan, center, wears a long-sleeved embroidered tunic, cargo khaki pants, white sneakers, salt and pepper curls, while practicing her “jazz hands” with Kenyan schoolchildren.

Muslims in the United States have been popping their collars for quite some time.

Abdulrahman Ibrahim Ibn Sori [1762-1829],  a “prince among slaves,” was captured at the age of 26 from present-day Guinea, and enslaved in the US state of Mississippi. In 1828, he was finally freed  by the order of President John Quincy Adams, after being enslaved for 40 years - during which he lost neither his Muslim faith nor his dignity - both of which finally led to his freedom.

[read more: wikipedia, amazon.com, film]

This is Australian footballer Bachar Houli. He’s Muslim and his garb of choice is short shorts.

PoPMaster Fabel, a.k.a. Shukriy (“the thankful one”) seen here with his wife Christy, doesn’t care much for the “haram police” (his own words) who might not like the red 69 on his black leather vest.

Pentathlon athlete (running, shooting, fencing, equestrian, swimming) Jihan El-Midany of Egypt practices for the Youth Olympics by exhibiting her precise aim. You know, for when she chooses to break out of her quiet Muslim oppression.