University Daily Kansan
Friday. October 12, 1979
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Moslem women wear chador for devotion
By HAROLD CAMPBELL
Staff Reporter
The chador is no prison, University of Kansas Moslem women say.
The chadar is a long, usually dark-colored veil that is worn by Moslemen women to show modesty to Islam.
"We wear the chador by choice," Zorah Kushner said of her daughter Sharirazir, Iran, graduate student, "Nothing in the Koran (the Islamic Bible) says we must wear it. It only says to dress ourselves."
She said wearing the chador was not an imprisonment - it was only a way for a woman to show her devotion to Islam.
"With the chatter," she said, "men look at the mind of a woman, not her body. Therefore, a woman is not a toy in the hands of men."
The meagherly furnished room that she, her husband, her friend and her six-year-old son sat in fit the Islamic ideal of frugality.
The large white-washed living room had only a sofa, chair and coffee table, a small bookcase and a small kitchen table with four chairs.
Nothing adorned the walls.
Karuna's wife kept a constant tone as she discussed the Islamic way of life. You ask about our freedoms being taken away by the West, and they tell her the freedom," she said. "In the West, women spend lots of time dressing and putting on makeup. In Moslem countries, women do not have to worry about such things, and we also learn other things in the time not spent dressing."
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SHE SAID IT "made sense" to dress modestly because it saved time and brought a woman more respect.
She said she had had no problems adjusting to the life in the United States. "I do what I've always done," she said.
A Moslem woman from Kuwait, who would give only her first name, Banafsheh,
"Women are commanded in the Koran to dress modestly," she said.
said from beneath her dark blue chador that she agreed the chador was not a prison.
One Iranian woman, who would not give her name, said she disagreed with Moslew women about the need for modesty.
"Why should I be forced to wear clothes I don't want to wear? she asked. "It goes against my rights."
SHE WAS WEARING blue jeans and a tight-fitting blouse.
She said she was not planning to return to Iran because "she could not live in that place the way it is now."
Karimi dismissed the woman's comments as comine from a "nonbeliever."
She said media "misrepresentations" had caused the American people to know little about other countries.
According to Hussein Yagh, one of the leaders of the KU Moslem Student Association, there are about 600 Moslim students at KU-200 of them.
It did not take long before Karimi's conversation turned to politics.
"That is why you had to ask why I wear the chador," she said.
The American media does not give the
"OUR AYATOLLAH KOMEINI is made to look like a murderer, not like the great man he is."
right information to the American people," she said.
Tonight's program will include "Souma II in F Major" by handel, James Bastia "Concerto" and "Concertino" by the Japanese composer Toshi Muraumi.
chesters in Waco, Texas and Lansing, Mich. She has given solo performances in Los Angeles, Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas. She has worn the ensemble with the Kansas City Philharmonic.
The percussionist, Linda Makey, a Texas musician, was 64 years old and gave her first major performance in Madison Square Garden for a convention of the International Kiwis.
Marimba player to perform here
Maxey will be accompanied by Alice Downs, associate professor of piano, and by James Moees, dean of the School of Fine Arts and the University organist.
A Lawrence percussionist who has played with symphony orchestras throughout the country will give a marimba recital at 8 tommits in Swaraght Recital Hall.
A marima is a percussion instrument similar to a xylophone, and is used in many symphonies orchestras. Maxev said.
Maxey has played with symphony or-
LAWRENCE POLICE INVESTIGATED a burglary yesterday and reported that officers had destroyed a large quantity of marijuana on Wednesday.
A 1806 Cadillac Coupe DeVille, valued at $39,000 was taken from the library at time of arrest. Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning, police reported. About $2,000 worth of伤物.
In addition, a 1980 Pontiac that was parked in a service stall received an estimated $450 worth of damage.
ON WEDNESDAY, POLICE were called to a vacant house in the 200 block of Haskell Avenue by water department employees and members of marijuana while checking meters.
When police arrived they discovered seven more bundles, weighing between 20 and 40 pounds, in a tree near the house. The police noted, the value of which was not determined.
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