Comments on: Knit Your Own Sustainable Muslim ‘Sunnah’ Beard https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/ Sustainably Driven. Future Ready. Sun, 08 Nov 2020 10:38:25 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Fauzia https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-20465 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 02:08:51 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-20465 this is hilarious ta very much ..!

]]> By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-18684 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 17:33:23 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-18684 In reply to Charlie.

I am not queer, and wouldn’t mind a beard for when I am in Canada in the winter.

]]> By: Charlie https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-18642 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 16:44:07 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-18642 In addition to being eco-fabulous, warming and superheroic, the knitted beard scores top points for queerness! At last, every woman who wants a beard can have one! Or several, to match with mood. 🙂

]]> By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-17862 Sun, 22 May 2011 17:27:36 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-17862 In reply to Zainab G..

Zainab – are you a knitter?

]]> By: Zainab G. https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-17858 Sun, 22 May 2011 16:51:52 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-17858 Knitters are not exclusively to grandmothers. Knitters are everyone and everyone such as celebrities like Brad Pitt, knitwear designers Jared Flood, Franklin Habit as well as Nicky Epstein, Elizabeth Zimmerman has published, educates, particapted and change the face how knitters are viewed. There are constant knit alongs, fibers events and festival are hosted all the time global. Knitting in the movies X-Men, knitting shows Knitting Daily, knitting blogs, YouTube demo and a global online knitters community like Ravelry. Universities and colleges are now offering knitwear degrees like Academy of Art of San Fransciso, CA. Not to mention many famed designers who are knitters and incorportated knitwear into their lines like Missoni, Alexander McQueen and Christine Dior. Major businesses like Vogue Knitting has hosted Knit Summits this past January boost a large turnout of classes, fashion shows, demo and natural the many fibers/yarns one can sample and purchase, UK Knit Nations, USA Sock Summit, Prince Charles has begun a campaign to bring back the wool to the fashion, retail industry and to the general population of Wales, UK and Australia. Knitters are being introducted into public and some private schools like Waldorf education among school kids and in some after school centers. Knitters are not all grandmothers and not all grandmothers are knitters.

]]> By: Murtaza https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-17655 Thu, 19 May 2011 07:51:56 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-17655 Hi Karin,

Wow, I never actually thought about the environmental benefits of not shaving! Given that “The average shave uses 3-10 gallons of water”*, yeah I would also say that shaving less or not at all would be an environmentally responsible thing to do. I’m surprised, though, I would imagine it requiring a lot less water… especially if you don’t let the water run.

Sorry for the affront Zaufishan, as you can guess, the article *totally* caught me off guard since I did not make the connection between beard-growing and environmental stewardship at all. And I actually consider myself an environmentalist (hopefully! 🙂 ), so if I was lost then I wonder who else?

*http://www.pwrnewmedia.com/2011/anheuser-busch/bud_grow_one/index.html

]]> By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-17652 Thu, 19 May 2011 03:41:39 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-17652 In reply to Murtaza.

Murtaza,

Environmentalists now widely accept that beard growing is green. Here is a post from the Sierra Club on that:
http://sierraclub.typepad.com/greenlife/2011/05/budweiser-wants-you-to-grow-a-beard-do-it-anyway-.html
-Karin

]]> By: Murtaza https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-17648 Thu, 19 May 2011 00:20:25 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-17648 Hi, I honestly don’t get what this has to do with sustainability. I’m not unwelcoming of the topic (of knitted beards) itself, but to claim it is an environmental thing doesn’t fit (or at least, you haven’t demonstrated so), and seems an insult or a joke to more legitimate environmentalism.

]]> By: Zaufishan https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-17589 Tue, 17 May 2011 18:11:00 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-17589 I’m pleased at how well our Muslims viewers are responding to an artificial alternative to an otherwise Muslim practice.

I once knitted a scarf with attached gloves that was large enough to wear as a headscarf (“hijab”). I am so making myself a beard now… !

Peace and love and eco jihad.

]]> By: Karin Kloosterman https://www.greenprophet.com/2011/05/knit-sustainable-beard/#comment-17583 Tue, 17 May 2011 17:17:02 +0000 http://www.greenprophet.com/?p=48033#comment-17583 In reply to Patricia Kloosterman.

Mom, you being a woman: would you wear a knitted beard?

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