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Ramadan ~ Maybe Next Year


Posted by nicole on 17 May 2018 / 2 Comments
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After a health setback a few years ago, I was under medical instructions not to fast for Ramadan.  In the years since, I kept thinking “maybe I can fast next year.”  I wrote about this in 2016.  It is now 2018 and it doesn’t look like I will be fasting again any time soon. Although […]

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Culture/Society

Tariq Ramadan, Islamophobia and Rape Culture


Posted by nicole on 22 Nov 2017 / 3 Comments
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Famous Muslim scholar Tariq Ramadan has been accused of rape by at least three adult women as well as having been accused of having  sexual relationships with underage students while he was teaching in Geneva. As a Muslim living in Switzerland, and who didn’t run in his circles, I was warned about his “close relationships” […]

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Books/Magazines

A Review of Stained by Abda Khan


Posted by nicole on 15 Nov 2016 / 0 Comments
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TW: rape. NB: this review contains a spoiler but the spoiler is pretty evident in the first pages of the book, and does not take away from the suspense of the rest of the novel. Stained is the story of Selina Hussain, an 18 year old whose father has died and who is living with […]

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Culture/Society

No Swimming Lessons: No Passport!


Posted by nicole on 27 Jul 2016 / 0 Comments
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Four years ago, I wrote about some school girls who refused to take communal swimming lessons in the Swiss city of Basel.  As a recap, from my previous article: In Basel, the families of five Muslim girls in elementary school were fined upon appeal to the Swiss Supreme Court for refusing that their daughters take […]

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Ramadan 2016

Not Fasting in the Muslim Closet


Posted by nicole on 15 Jun 2016 / 0 Comments
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I have been burned a lot, fam, in this fasting stuff. This year, for a series of TMI medical reasons signed off on by the appropriate Muslim medical personnel, I am not fasting.  I laugh at the meme going around (“Not even water?” – White Person Proverb) because my medical issues are such that it […]

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Books/Magazines

A Review of Asma Lamrabet’s “Women in the Qu’ran”


Posted by nicole on 23 May 2016 / 0 Comments
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One of the rare books I didn’t read in French first (and as such cannot vouch for the translation), Asma Lamrabet’s Women in the Qu’ran: An Emancipatory Reading is a short (just under 170 pages) and uplifting read.  The book is definitely an interesting contribution to scholarship on women in Islam, and i found it […]

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Culture/Society

Laurence Rossignol: Sticking it to Muslim Women by Any Means Necessary, Including Racism


Posted by nicole on 25 Apr 2016 / 0 Comments
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So the French are talking about their enduring obsession, Muslim women and their clothing, again. I am a little late to the ball game on this one, but between a needed vacation and Handshake Gate in Switzerland, I had to walk away from the hate to keep my own sanity. Laurence Rossignol, the French Minister […]

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Politics

Switzerland’s Proposed Federal Burqa Ban


Posted by nicole on 23 Mar 2016 / 0 Comments
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A year ago I wrote an article here on Muslimah Media Watch about Swiss headscarf bans and mentioned while sharing the link on Facebook that “It is 2015 and I am still writing about this.” It is now 2016, and I am STILL writing about Switzerland and populist fringe politicians trying to crap on Muslims […]

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Culture/Society

When French Muslims Become Targets


Posted by nicole on 23 Feb 2016 / 0 Comments
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Two weeks ago, a mother in a headscarf was threatened by a woman with a knife while she was trying to pick up her children outside their school.  According to an article published on the website of the Collectif contre l’islamophobie en France (CCIF, Collective against Islamophobia in France), the woman screamed, “What is wrong […]

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Culture/Society

Coverage of the Assaults in Cologne, or When People Suddenly Decide Rape is a Muslim Problem


Posted by nicole on 18 Jan 2016 / 0 Comments
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The New Year’s Eve assaults and sexual assaults in Cologne (as well as in other European cities, including mine, Zurich) have been all over the news lately and people have been taking cultural relativism a little too far. Within the difficult context of the ongoing influx of refugees since last year in Germany, many see […]

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