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Friday Links | February 11, 2011


Posted by fatemeh on 11 Feb 2011 / 0 Comment
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  • A Muslim woman in Canada alleges that she was fired because of her headscarf.
  • “It’s stopping anybody perving on anybody in there really.” My favorite quote from The Sydney Morning Herald’s story on a local pool putting up privacy curtains for Muslim women’s swimming hours. Meanwhile, here’s another story about ladies-only times at public Australian swimming pools.
  • This year, the Organization of the Islamic Conference has prepared an action plan to advance the status and rights of women among its member states. More from Today’s Zaman.
  • In Malaysia, Sisters in Islam petitions the PAS party not to play morality police.
  • A 14-year-old rape victim in Bangladesh was flogged to death. Now her death has become a murder investigation.  May Allah give her peace and justice. More from Religion Dispatches.
  • Muslim women and civil society leaders in Mindanao are pushing a role for Muslim women in securing  peace in southern Philippines.
  • TwoCircles.net investigates the rape and arrest of several Godhra Muslim women in India.

  • The U.A.E.’s “Hijab Strangler” gets the death sentence.
  • Female Muslim employees at a Fiji bank are not allowed to wear their headscarves as per the bank’s new dress policy.
  • Canada’s only candidate for a headscarf token security job has been disqualified due to her failure to pass parts of the exam. More from the Montreal Gazette.
  • Muslim men want younger wives, Muslim women want older husbands.
  • How protests in Egypt & Iran shatter myths about Muslim women. More here and here.
  • In Srinagar, India, members of a Muslim women’s group protested against the murder of two women by Lashkar-e Taiba militants.
  • IPS on the feud between Veena Malik and the mullahs.
  • BeliefNet interviews Asra Nomani.
  • The widow of a Pakistani man who was killed by a U.S. official has killed herself by taking poison. May Allah give her peace.
  • The BBC interviews a father who murdered his daughter for “being too Western.”

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

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