Lipstick Jihad

Outward appearance has transcended inward understanding of our selves because our society puts a tremendous amount of value in how we look and how we are perceive by others. There’s no wonder why so many of us are lost in this world because many of us don’t understand our inner identity therefore many of us do not know where we’re going. Genocide and slavery are the cruelest form of how outward appearance can be the only determining factor whether a person lives, die or in slave. Sometimes I wonder if these values were reverse would these terms ever be infamous in our world history.

In Lipstick Jihad Mosveni recall her first day of school being uneasy by the teacher talking roll call simply because her name is different and she look different. Assuming that she couldn’t be more the five years old she already knew she was out of place and this affected her pride in her name because society has shun her because of the origins of her name and she simply reacted ashamedly instead of proudly because her inward understanding of herself was damage. As she grew older it didn’t surprise that she went back to Iran to find out who she was.