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Muslim Women Learning to Defend Themselves? What a Joke!


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 05 Dec 2007 / 0 Comments
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Muslimah Media Watch thanks Modern Muslimah for the tip! According to Reuters, scores of Muslim women in London are signing up for self-defense classes because of a rise in Islamophobic-based attacks. I support this idea and personally think that all women should be required to take classes such as these in middle or high schools. […]

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An Enemy in Friend’s Clothing?


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 29 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
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The Dallas Morning News’ Alessandra L. González writes about Islamic feminism. But she gets some facts wrong, which really worries me because she is director and principal investigator of the Islamic Social Attitudes Survey Project at the Institute for the Studies of Religion at Baylor University. Hmmmmm. For someone who is the director and principle […]

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Heavyweights: Jordanian Women Flex Their Political Muscles, and the Media Gets Hysterical


Posted by Guest Contributor on 22 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
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This story originally appeared on Improvisations: Arab Woman Progressive Voice. “Al Quds al Arabi reports that 204 women are running in the Jordanian parliamentary elections. The language the paper chooses to deliver the news is … hysterical! In fact, “women’s election hysteria” appears in the title of the article. If you are not scared away […]

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Terra Incognita: Hymen Reconstruction in the U.K.


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 19 Nov 2007 / 0 Comments
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Recently, the U.K.’s Daily Mail ran a story uncovering the fact that between 2005 and 2006, 24* hymen reconstructions have been performed on “immigrants and British women of ethnic origin” by the National Health Service (NHS), which is funded by taxpayer money. Hm. (Personal thoughts: Do you think that if these 24 women were white […]

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The Spoils of Sexism


Posted by muslimahmediawatch on 29 Oct 2007 / 0 Comments
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No matter what your feelings are on Benazir Bhutto, you have to admit this caption is really poorly-worded: If not simply in poor taste, the caption also raises the question of sexism: if the newspaper was investigating a man, would the word “booty” have been used?

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The Guardian: Missing the Point


Posted by Guest Contributor on 25 Oct 2007 / 0 Comments
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The following originally appeared at the blog FreeWriters. Browsing the Guardian‘s web site earlier this week, I came across a picture of four hijabis*. I don’t know what it is about me, but as soon as I see a veil / headscarf / bearded bro / muslimah / anything related to Islam / Muslims – […]

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