Asra Nomani on a complicated issue:

The emergence of Playboy’s first Muslim cover girl underscores a dilemma for us in society as we try to assert women’s rights, negotiating competing ideologies that are rooted in one common theme: the hypersexualization of women. To me, protecting women’s freedom doesn’t mean accepting philosophies that define women by their sexuality, veiled or bare-naked. But as Muslim women take bold steps to make the forbidden commonplace, perhaps they will help others make tiny rebellions of their own—to everyone’s benefit.