A group of Muslim women I saw at the supermarket last week.

[TexasProgresive]

This store is in a university dominated community. There are lots of foreign students and staff from all over the world.I have seen women wearing Hijab and traditional Pakistani dress. This day I saw what might be the influence of American ways upon those from elsewhere in action. One woman I cannot tell her age because she was wearing (if I have the names correct) Abaya and Niqab, all in black. I admit that she got more of my attention than did her companion pushing a cart with a baby boy. This young mother was wearing a hijab. I can't remember what else she was wearing. Now here comes little Miss America, a young teen in skinny jeans and long, loose flowing hair. It was the contrast of the 3 that really made it stick in my mind.

If the woman in more conservative and traditional dress is the grandmother of this girl I wonder the conversations about dress in the home. Our granddaughter was prone to wearing cut off jeans so short that the pockets were hanging out. We would be going to town and her grandmother would say, "Put on some clothes. You're not going out in THAT!"

[exboyfil]

1. My neighbor is Muslim

His daughter, who was between my daughter, in grades wore her Hijab out of the house. Strangely by the time she got to school she had already removed it.

Nice guy in general. He once asked me how I keep my girls in line. I told them that I didn't know. I let them live their lives, and they decide how they are going to act.

Both his kids and my kids graduated college early. I did appreciate how he emphasized education. I see so many of my daughters' peer group floundering around and spending big bucks in college with little discernible purpose.

People who criticize standards set by Muslim families forget that similar restrictions are applied to Orthodox Jews and Pentecostal Christians. A girl I liked in high school was a Pentecostal Christian. Unfortunately we drifted apart, and she graduated early.