Is there peace for the hijab and skirt ?

Three journalists from Egypt and Serbia, Tarek Mounir, Asma Faty and Sasa Milosevic created an unusual Web site called Hijabskirt Info (www.hijabskirt.info) as a unique educational and social platform to overcome the prejudices about women who wear hijab or (mini)skirt.

Faced with decades long conflict between two pieces of clothes as synonyms of two cultures and two civilizations, they are trying to symbolically reconcile the hijab and a skirt as a way of reconciliation of Christianity and Islam. "Our goal is to encourage people around the world to begin to think by the own heads instead the heads of their governments. Women in hijab as well as the women in skirt are stretched on the cross of the shame. After September 11th Western media treat all veiled Muslim women as terrorists, suicide-bombers and Osama bin Laden's followers. On the other side, Muslim traditionalists look every woman in the (mini) skirts like “easy woman”, a whore, a hunter of the wealthy Arab husbands or “walking wallet” who, for a little money, rents young, sexually-potent and poor Arab men” says Milosevic Egyptian journalist Asma Faty, one of the project creator proudly wears its hijab. Site offers a lot of interesting information such as the history of mini skirt, its golden age in the Middle East, as well as the theological vision of the hijab in the life of Muslim women, with a very useful practical tips such as how to wear hijab, how to make mini skirt of old jeans or how to make a long skirt as a compromise between Western and Islamic way of dressing.