America’s newest sorority won’t be hosting toga parties anytime soon.
That’s because the girls of Gamma Gamma Chi will allow no booze, no boys and no barely-there outfits.
Membership in the country’s first Islamic sorority, rolling out at Rutgers, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and other schools this year, requires a grade-point average of at least 3.2, prayer to Allah and observance of such sacred Ramadan practices as fasting.
Hijabs, or head scarves, however, are optional.
“We have a secret induction ceremony and a secret handshake,” said founder Imani Abdul-Haqq, a business major at Guilford College in Greensboro, N.C.
They also have “Gamma Gear” for sale on their Web site to help reach their funding goal of $500,000. Among the merchandise are “baby doll” T-shirts that proclaim, “No, I am not oppressed!!!” and “Real Women Pray,” and go for $18 a pop.
There’s also a “beer stein” that depicts a dancing girl decked out in traditional Muslim garb.
Quick to point out that the stein need not hold alcoholic beverages, Abdul-Haqq said she’d soon be adding a disclaimer to the $14 item, noting that GGC does not condone drinking.
Abdul-Haqq – who’s 34, married and has six kids – conceived of GGC in April while rushing sororities at Guilford.
“When she showed up in her hijab, the girls looked at her like she was from outer space,” said her mom, Althia Collins.
So Collins, who then ran an educational-consulting firm in Alexandria, Va., quit her job to help make GGC a reality.
“People see a Muslim woman in a scarf and assume she’s oppressed and uneducated,” Collins told The Post. “Though the scarf may be covering her head, it’s not covering her mind.”
Six months ago, Collins and Abdul-Haqq, both Christians who converted to Islam in 1999, incorporated the sorority in Virginia.
Since then, the mother-daughter team has been holding membership drives at such schools as the University of Kentucky.
And sorority houses may be at least a year out – “until we get enough members on each campus to make that feasible,” Collins said.
GGC is open to Muslims and non-Muslims alike, but all interested sisters to date – 175 from 18 states – have been Muslim.
One such co-ed is Iman Kandil, 18, an MIT freshman from Virginia. She lives in the school’s only all-girl dorm, but gripes that men are allowed to visit.
“I don’t like having to worry about walking in on a roommate who’s fooling around with her boyfriend,” Kandil said. “I hope there will be a Gamma Gamma Chi house here sooner than later.”
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