ABSTRACT
The Muslim woman’s story is represented by many voices – the Muslim male scholar, the feminist, the colonial Orientalist, the media and by Muslim women themselves. Often the former voices do not fully grasp the Muslimah’s dual challenge of being both a woman and a Muslim. The question of the authority and authenticity of all of these voices is debatable – which of them have the ‘authority to be authentic’? These different voices, authentic or not, create an othering of Muslim women, with one stereotype often strengthening the imagery created by the other.
