Drawn Together by Modesty

This cartoon collage of hijab styles in Syria is so cool! I’ve been wanting to see something like this for a long time, and today I stumbled upon this one. A very good job to the creator and illustrator.

It would be neat to see one of these for many more areas of the world because it really helps to dispel the stereotypes of how women dress in other countries, especially countries that Westerners consider Muslim countries. Maybe I’ll ask the creator to make one illustrating Minnesota, U.S.A. where I live. Even here where most people aren’t Muslim, we have a variety of Muslims and hijab styles. Even for Iran where a headcovering and outer garment of sorts is required to be worn when outside, there is a huge range of looks. It would be neat to show that to the world.

Have you ever seen one of those world population clocks that count deaths? The first time I saw one, I was awestruck. I suffer from that human limitation of not really “getting it” until I see a picture. This fast-moving counter counting off deaths in “real time” gives me a picture! I’m saying to myself, “Really! THAT many people are dying in the world. How does the angel of death get around that fast?”

Ever since I saw my first population clock a year ago or so, I’ve been much more aware of my own impending death and the life after it—which has been a good thing.

I’d also like to see stats and counters for the ages of people when they died. That would be eye-opening too since I have a mental picture that most people die when they are much older.