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Friday Links — August, 7, 2009


Posted by fatemeh on 07 Aug 2009 / 0 Comment
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  • More on Lubna al-Hussein and the Trouser Fiasco: here, here, and resulting social issue unrest here.
  • In Nigeria, Hauwa Ibrahim fights Shariah with Shariah.
  • The wife of Daniel P. Boyd, who is currently charged by the U.S. in a terror plot, defends her family and denounces her treatment by U.S. marshals.
  • More on France’s negligible burqa findings.
  • KABOBfest follows up on the Burqa Ban.
  • Nuseiba revisits the Stolen documentary.
  • The Dawn gets into the Great Veil Debate.
  • Zainah Anwar discusses the injustices of Lubna al-Hussein’s case and Kartika Sari Dewi Sukarno’s cases.
  • G. Willow Wilson writes about the Ideal Husband at City of Brass.
  • The Dawn’s slideshow on female footballers in Pakistan’s championship.
  • More on the British police officers‘ dressing up as Muslim women.
  • Women in Saudi Arabia staged a rare demonstration at Taif University, alleging discriminatory admissions policies. More here.
  • On saving Afghan women from the “liberators.”
  • In Jordan, men using the niqab to commit crimes creates real problems for women who wear it.
  • How not to talk about Islam and domestic violence.
  • Reza Aslan discusses Neda Agha Soltan’s legacy.
  • NPR discusses Afghan women’s participation and difficulties in upcoming elections.
  • Iraqi women take it to the (wrestling) mat.
  • The National interviews Sarah Elenany. Via Hijab Style.
  • A Toronto mosque overflowed with mourners for a mother and her two daughters who drowned. May Allah give them peace.
  • On Saudi women and plastic surgery.
  • A Dutch TV show will highlight a women who wears niqab.
  • Mona El Tahawy speaks about her experiences at WISE in Kuala Kumpur.
  • Samana Siddiqui discusses divorce and American Muslims.
  • Saudi Amber dissects the problems of Saudi’s first female minister.
  • Muslim clothing company Marabo is going out of business.
  • Quebec, Canada, reconsiders its ban on the hijab, among other things.
  • A woman in New Jersey plans to open a shelter for Muslim women.
  • On women’s job opportunities (or lack thereof) in Saudi Arabia.
  • Shazia Rafi writes that girls in the Swat valley need education most of all right now.
  • The daughter-in-law of Iran’s former president and current politian Rafsanjani was arrested and then released for participating in riots during Ahmadinejad’s inauguration.
  • Khawla Al-Azraq recounts her stay in an Israeli prison.
  • Muslim women in Britain do not report racism.
  • Pakistan’s National Assembly passed a bill outlawing domestic violence.
  • Ayatollah Khomeini’s granddaughter speaks out about the protesters in Iran, urging police to reveal the identities of the detainees for their families.

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