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Friday Links — October 15, 2010


Posted by fatemeh on 15 Oct 2010 / 0 Comment
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  • The National profiles Baroness Sayeeda Warsi.
  • Hundreds of Kosovo Muslims protested a ban on wearing a headscarf in school.
  • A British court asked a Muslim woman to remove her face veil to show her facial expression while testifying against her husband in a physical abuse case.
  • The Vancouver Sun profiles a local women’s-only swimming hour.
  • In Bihar, India, as many as six Muslim women have been fielded by political parties, first in Bihar’s electoral history.
  • The Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy and Noor-us Salam jointly condemned the brutal rape of a 21-year-old volunteer nurse by six men, Maguindanao. May Allah give her justice.
  • The Peninsula profiles the Doha Debates on banning the niqab in France.
  • Tamil Nadu has established its first chapter Muslim Women’s Aid Society.
  • Two Muslim women have been promoted by British Labour leader Ed Miliband among a new generation of MPs to prominent positions in his shadow front bench team.

  • The Atlantic revisits the burqa ban.
  • A Canadian court rules that Muslim women can be forced to remove their niqab while testifying only if the fairness of the trial depends on it.
  • Two Malaysian women won gold medals for shooting in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.
  • The Daily Femme interviews Melody Moezzi.
  • On Kyrgyzstan’s first female president.
  • The Women News Network looks at Kashmir’s “half widows.” More from The Guardian.
  • emel looks at the founder of Creative Muslim Network.
  • Singer Mira Awad is tired of being asked to choose between Palestinian and Israeli sides.
  • Female Iraqi refugees in Syria are in danger of becoming victims of sex trafficking in addition to war.
  • On talking sex in Egypt.
  • globalpost looks at “bride kidnapping” in Kyrgyzstan.
  • AltMuslim looks at Sakineh Ashtiani and human rights.
  • Aisha, the young Afghan woman featured on the cover of Time magazine, has a new nose.
  • Mauritanian women are fighting against the tradition of fattening.
  • A French woman accused of ripping off the full face veil of an Emirati tourist and biting and scratching her faced prosecution demands for a two-month suspended prison sentence.
  • Most West Australians want a national ban on women wearing the burqa.

If we’ve missed any news about Muslim women from this week, feel free to post links in the comments.

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