Sentences with phrase «turbaned men»

Eqbal Ahmed writes of a television image from 1985, of Ronald Reagan meeting a group of turbaned men, all Afghani, all leaders of the Mujaheddin.

No one, he says, was going to hire a turbaned man for the stage.

Study on the Amazing Comeback of Dr Freud (2005), for instance, shows a naked, turbaned man in high heels standing vulnerable against a wall in a forest setting, its title suggesting at once a specific event, a romanticised account and the vagaries of the unconscious that were Freud's object of study.

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For men, standard fare is turbans and long tops that come down to the knees.

Forget the man in the robe, (i have no idea why but as a child i always thought God had a robe and a turban).

On one occasion he went searching for a man in an orange robe with a white beard and turban, having received a word of knowledge.

And many bigots ignorantly mistake Sikhs for Muslims because, like Osama bin Laden, many Sikh men (and some Sikh women) wear turbans.

And, of course, you are so utterly clueless that you can't see the difference between asking someone to take off their baseball cap which they're wearing simply because they like wearing a baseball cap... and asking a woman to take off her faith - based scarf or an Amish man to shave his faith - based beard or a Sikh (which is * not * a Muslim faith) to take off his turban or a Catholic priest to take off his cross... well, if you can't figure out the difference yet, there's no hope for you.

But in 2011, he says, a turban feels outdated and not in sync with the Western fashions adopted by Indian men.

Google «Sagoo and Bus Driver» you will see a man with a Turban and Beard who is around 60 something who was drink driving and drove a double decker bus into a low bridge.

You guys keep pivoting the fact that your cult says a man in a dress shirt and Sikh turban is Jesus.

Turbans have been worn by Cypriot men since ancient times and were recorded by Herodotus, during the Persian rule of the island, to demonstrate their «oriental» customs compared to Greeks.

Many contemporary images show European men of the Middle Ages and Renaissance wearing headgear that looks like turbans.

There is a headdress for a man and a turban veil and brassiere for a woman.

We nod hello to each other, the picnic tables of men in turbans at the park, they're solving the world's problems apparently.

If you were to draw a cartoon of a bearded man with a bomb on his head in place of a turban, and lived in Europe, you would be at risk of attempts being made on your life.

The tongue - in - cheek answers are part of an explosion of sharply satirical responses on Twitter to a Newsweek magazine cover showing Muslim men in turbans and keffiyahs, apparently rioting, under the banner all caps headline «MUSLIM RAGE.»

An elderly, bearded, white man dressed in ancient Middle Eastern garb, turban and all, stood on a stage in the middle of a field in Williamstown, Kentucky, and played a tune on what appeared to be a wooden flute.

Since observant Sikh men keep a turban (known as dastaar or pagri) and unshorn hair, which often manifests itself into a long beard, many Americans after September 11 wrongfully conflated Sikh Americans with Muslim Americans because of this «turban - and - beard» look.

Why do Sikh men wear turbans?

Even Liberty, which usually does commendable work, argued the case was equivalent to a «Sikh man in a turban or a Muslim woman with a headscarf».

Are they doing so with the intention of trying to undermine the right of people to have religious exemptions for regulations surrounding ID photos, such as Sikh men being allowed to wear turbans or Muslim women wearing headscarves?

At the Dress for Success booth, an older man demonstrates the Windsor knot for a kid wearing a Sikh turban.

Reworkings of another portrait back in England rendered a Tahitian man into an orientalist stereotype complete with turban.

First Marc Jacobs has decided to culturally appropriate dreadlocks, now he's appropriating turbans!!?? Why is the media not talking about this?!? does the media only rage when racist white men appropriate black culture?!

other muslim women of color all around the world are being discriminated JUST for choosing to cover their hair with a turban... and this idiot white trash of a man is making it a FASHION STATEMENT and people are ACTUALLY buying it?

Most of the women were wearing bright bell - shaped tunics over slim trousers, with fringed head scarves over their hair, while the men were attired in long white tunics, trousers, and turbans.

Against the barren landscape, the men of the desert cut tall, elegant figures, solitary and mysterious, wrapped in flowing blue and black robes and turbans.

As for me, I won't forget joining in the massive red - and - white street party that consumed downtown Vancouver anytime soon — I think my favorite moment had to be seeing a crowd of turbaned Indo - Canadian kids dancing to a bhangra beat to celebrate our victory in men's hockey, creating their very own wonder of the shrinking planet.

His subjects included veiled, statuesque women filling water jars at the edge of ancient temples, men in turbans operating traditional Shadoofs, dances and scenes of Islamic ritual.

Peter Paul Rubens, (Flemish, 1577 — 1640), Head of an African Man Wearing a Turban, painted in 1609 is in danger of leaving the UK forever.

If a Sikh man wears a turban or a Jewish man a yamoulka, we can readily assume that it was his free choice to adopt the dress dictated by the teachings of his religion.

The Globe's front page had a wonderful picture of a seated line of older, bearded, turbaned Sikh men, among whom sits Gursimran Kaur, a 19 year old woman who ran successfully on the youth slate.

The Globe's front page had a wonderful picture of a seated line of older, bearded, turbaned Sikh men, among whom sits Gursimran Kaur, a 19 year old woman who ran successfully on the youth slate... [more]

In several Canadian court cases, Sikh men have advanced claims regarding the wearing of turbans and kirpans.

Similarly, in the more recent case of R. v. Badesha, the court was called upon to balance a Sikh man's claim to his religious freedom to wear a turban against the health and social policy concerns justifying the mandatory wearing of helmets while riding motorcycles.30

There was an agent, a good looking middle aged man, who wore a turban.