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= ﻿ Muslim Teenage Girls = toc Sigi Nielsen and Cassie Caruso

Muslim Teen Clothing and It's Influence on Social Interaction
Muslim teenage girls have a superfluous amount of rules that they are obligated to follow at all times; long term and short term. There are very strict rules against any interaction with the opposite gender. Islam opposes any kind of romantic interaction before marriage. To avoid temptations, Muslim teenage girls wear dresses that cover their whole body, called a Burqa. The Hijab is worn on the head of a Muslim, and covers their whole face except for their eyes. TheBurqa cannot be see-through, and may not have any sort of design that would cause attraction from other Muslim teens. These dresses must always be worn in public. 

Struggles With Finding Education
Many Muslim girls are desperate to receive an education, but are rejected because of an excessive amount of reasons. Most parents who send their children to school feel as though it is more worthwhile to send a boy to school rather than a girl; most parents feel as though girls should be at home, preparing for their married life, than at school. The overwhelming amounts of stereotypes that are brought upon Muslims also influence girls’ struggles to receive an education. The system tends to make very strong statements in schoolbooks to children, such as "my father is working and my mother is cooking". The environment of a school also has a great impact on a student’s education, especially on girls. If a schooling environment is unhygienic, it makes it harder for a student to learn. If you are paired with a bad teacher, it is more likely for you to fail. After failing a couple of times, girls tend to eventually give up. There are many people who also object to classrooms with mixed genders, or having a female student paired up with a male teacher, most likely because they feel as though it would be inappropriate and distracting.

Religious R esponsibilities
The responsibilities, or Obligations, of a Muslim teenager is to fulfill the duties towards the parents to be a good son or daughter. One Obligation is to develop real faith in the teachings of the Qur'an as explained by Muhammad. To have faith you must have freedom from doubt to change the whole system of values, ambitions, and behavior in favor of Islam. They also have to live life a total o bedience to the Almighty God. (This duty is described in the Holy Qur'an) It teaches them that the faithful are those who love their Lord, they find it easy to obey Him. They are obligated to preach and disseminate the word of Almighty Allah. The responsibility for Muhammad is to preach and deliver the message of God to the entire humanity, but now, the responsibility, has been transferred on to the Ummah, the Islamic community, as a whole. They are conditioned to, try their utmost in establishing a polity based on Qur'an and Sunnah and the Islamic System of Collective Justice. Terms to describe this highest of all their duties is to establish the Deen of Allah, achieving the domination of Islam.



==Fears and Struggles That Muslim Teenage Girls Fa ce == A Muslim teenage girl has many fears that she is forced to deal with in order to remain faithful to her religion. For example, a 17-year-old Muslim girl converted to Christianity, resulting in her father threatening to kill her. The Father quotes, " If you have this Jesus in your heart, you are dead to me!" and then stated, "I will kill you!" She ran away from Ohio to Florida and took refuge with the Global Revolution Church in Orlando. She heard of the pastor, or leader of a Christian church, through a prayer group on Facebook. After the court hearing, the judge may force all the parties involved into mediation, followed by an adjudication hearing. Another example of abuse happening because of religion-related disagreements, is when a Muslim teenager’s parents murdered her, because she refused to wear her Hijab correctly at all times. She began to come to school bruised, and was eventually murdered. It was a struggle that may have led to the Muslim teenager's death with the charge of her father strangling her. As a result, Parents of Muslim teens create an overwhelming amount of rules that they are forced to follow, or else life-threatening consequences could occur .

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