muslim homecoming queen a first for this town
Sana Rahim – sixteen-year-old homecoming queen
It’s nice to see a Muslim in the news for something other than the big T
Thanks to Shyema for passing this on
-Miral
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Glad to see Muslims being accepted. I hope this trend will continue in North America.
I never went to my prom …or homecoming dance…
I never went to my prom or dances either.
But it’s kool that her peers voted for her.
*correction…this has just been brought to my attention. naperville isn’t a small town. it’s one of the biggest and most populated chicago suburbs
apologies for the error!
This is really fun- nice to see someone breaking the stereotype of being a prom queen. I’m actually really happy for this girl. I respect that she stuck to a belief system that is hardly popular and that she managed to win the votes of her peers regardless. That being said, I think the idea of a prom queen is fundamentally ridiculous and I cannot for the life of me understand why it exists or what purpose it serves. I mean, I literally don’t understand, because we had a prom at my school, but no “prom court,” so everything I know about prom I know from Mean Girls. Can someone help me, please?
I think this is very cute! Most highschoolers are too immature to vote for anybody other than a typical catty female who has been able to brainwash them. This homecoming queen is gorgeous, cute, approachable (it seems), and muslim. I think thats perfect.
she go girl
i object to this “typical catty female” language. i think it’s woman hating. and i don’t think it’s ok.
prom court sucks. its high school’s manifestation of the caste system, ses inequalities, and all the other crappy hierarchical systems that exist in the world. that being said, YAY FOR SANA RAHIM! HIJABI HC QUEEN! lets put a positive spin on this and say that perhaps this is the begining of the dismantling of the high school hierarchy. By voting for someone who at any other school may have a slim chance of getting this title, Naperville High is saying, everyone and anyone can be queen, in fact, we’re all queens and no one is better than the rest. idealistic? naive? i hope not. ps. i never went to prom/homecoming either, but my sister did, she was on prom court, and as her date–my parents! they loved it. they danced. we laughed, but mostly cried.
Wow, this is crazy. A muslim hijabi as prom queen. That’s actually pretty cool.
This is inspiring! Hey, back in our day we weren’t allowed to go to the Prom. You go girl
Way to represent!
go sana!!! she deserved it!!! u rock girl!
she’s my sister! I’m the guy in crowning her when she comes down the stairs!
iman, ha, how nice. do let me know if you can send us a better picture
Wow, the times are a-changing! My dad lived in Chicago and has friends in her town- most of the people are very successful, educated, and liberal (when it comes to accepting diversity).
sana rahim is my rolemodel. I heart her. Islam is not opressing and doesn not limit achievement. She is showing everyone that if you truly put your mind to something, you can achieve it, and ‘barriers’ like religion are nothing to hold you back.
Mashallah~!! only god knows how she became the HOMECOMING QUEEN of naperville(where in gods name is that?) Mashallah to Sana…INSHALLAH she’ll become the PROM QUEEN in time as well. I went to prom and told my parents i was a receptionist volunteer at an Islamic conference….By the way who was the homecoming Kings??
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Much respect to this girl, because it hopefully will break barriers, but at the same time GIVE ME A BREAK!
You guys are pathetic to be praising her for something as completely ridiculous and insignificant as homecoming queen, or whatever the hell she won. The whole idea is absolutely useless. Do you honestly think something like that will help you in life? Or anyone else for that matter? And sorry girls, but i think you all could and SHOULD be shooting for something higher than queen of a freakin’ high school dance!
And just to add to it, she doesn’t even wear a hijab properly. If she’s going to go representing hijabis and have all this hijab/muslim/women power crap going on, at least wear it properly. Honestly.
hey thats my older sister. im yoomna her youngest sis. she will always be my role model. she’ll keep on breaking more barriers inshallah.
You’re criticism is absolutely baseless. I am a sophomore in the high school she attended when she won, and I know for a fact that she did not actively campaign or even ask to win the title of homecoming queen. And yes, winning “something like that” not only helps HER in life, but others as well. I hope you realize that she grew as a person because of this event and inspired young Muslims girls, such as myself, to show the world that Islam has not suppressed me in any sense of the word. What disappoints me the most is that you refer to her not wearing a hijab “properly.” Who are you to define the proper way of wearing a hijab? Do you even wear a hijab? And if you do, how can you be so sure that Allah s.w.t. is giving you good deeds for wearing a hijab and not her, regardless of “the way” she wears it. The fact is that you can’t. Nobody, not even myself, knows if God is accepting our acts. The only thing we can do is make our intention to please Allah and hope for the best without judging others, because her relationship with God is different than yours. God himself only knows who is sincere and who isn’t. “Cynicism is a sorry type of wisdom,” and you should be ashamed of yourself for attempting to boost your self-esteem by criticizing others.
ok whoever wrote on how this girl wears a hijab, is completely useless. from what i know, she is helpin young muslim girls in a sense of letting them know that we can do anything. judjing her on how she wears a hijab is completely idiotic because not only do we know what she is like, but how do we even know how her daily hijab is worn. without knowing the facts, it is completely irrevelant and wrong to judje on her on the mere fact that her hijab is supposedly messed up
im happy for her,
she broke the sterotype of homecoming queen,
and im going for homecoming court,
and this inspires me to go for it and not be scared cause im not the more popular thing.
congratulations