A smattering of articles have appeared in newspapers lately, aiming to spread the word about how fashionable Muslim women are. These articles seem to refute the idea that Muslim women are against or unreceptive to fashion: “You can be religious and fashionable! Lots of them are! See?” Is this supposed to be a compliment? Generalizing […]

In the post from earlier today, I talked about Muslim women featured in fashion news under the “fetishization” category. So instead of fetishization, how about Muslim women as a big joke? For an International Women’s Day show in Norway, designers created some new styles of burqas, including one outfitted in holly-jolly-Santa gear. The picture included […]

Last week, Forbes.com featured a briefing from Oxford Analytica entitled, “Why So Many Female Bombers?” The article outlines several reasons that there seem to be so many “female bombers”, according to Forbes and the rest of the news networks: Maternal loss Nationalism Absolution from sins Exploitation I’ll get to these reasons in a minute. A […]

A teenage Egyptian girl is shot in the head outside her home. May Allah give her peace. Wazhma Frogh is one bad-ass Afghan woman: she uses Islam to fight conservative Afghan cultural viewpoints on women’s rights. Barikallah! The body of Guinean former supermodel and activist against female genital cutting, Katoucha Niane, was found in the […]

“Muslim Comedy Prescribes Women’s Lib” By Bill Harris. This originally appeared here. Women’s lib is alive and well on Little Mosque on the Prairie. Think about the situations encountered by Sitara Hewitt’s character, Dr. Rayyan Hamoudi. Now think about the struggles of early-1970s sitcom characters such as Maude, or Mary Richards, or even Laurie Partridge. […]

MMW thanks Salma for the tip! Just like Qur’an recitation, devotional music is often designated the realm of men. Women’s voices are often thought to be too erotic to sing or perform religious content — they sway men to sinful thoughts when they should be focusing on God. But some women have broken from behind […]

MMW thanks Carmen for the tip! This is a t-shirt from ThreadPit.com’s online clothing store: The caption for the shirt reads: “The desert has many hot things. Unfortunately, in Southwestern Asia it’s mostly limited to roads, recently discharged firearms, and bombed out pre-fab metal buildings.” I hate racism/sexism that poses as irony. File this under […]

Muslim Hedonist discusses female genital cutting with her daughters. 80% of Muslim women in Maharashtra, India, deliver children at health-care facilities. An article on Muslim women’s activist Raheel Raza. Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been hospitalized. Al-Ahram looks at Hanan Tork’s beauty shop. The Saudi woman in car crash imbroglio is […]

All our hearts ached for the victims of the devastating tsunami a few of years ago. One of the worst natural disasters in recent history. Many people asked why such a horrible thing would happen. How could so many innocent lives be taken like that? Who knows why things like this happen. Who knows God’s […]

MEMRI has a YouTube video entitled “Iranian Police Enforces ‘Islamic Dress Code’ on Women.” As an aside, I’m kind of impressed by the use of quotation marks, because MEMRI videos (whether posted by the news organization itself or reposted by individual users) tend towards inflammatory Islamophobic phrases. The video shows the so-called “hijab police.” A […]