Is anyone else freaking out that it’s 2008 already?! Malaysian Muslim actress Sharifah Amani bucks the idea that Muslim women should have long hair. News Hounds calls a Fox commenter out on her false statement that “there is no sympathy in the Muslim world for Benazir Bhutto.” Sounds like this commenter either can’t read or […]

This originally appeared as part of a larger post at the blog Pedestrian. It has been edited for length, but you can read the entire version at the original website. I don’t know whether this is considered a virtue or a vice: Laleh Sedigh’s showing up for a sports race with a face full of […]

Last year, the Internet advocacy group Avaaz created the video “Stop the Clash of Civilizations” to complement a petition by the same name. Avaaz, “Talk is rising of a ‘clash of civilizations’. But the problem isn’t culture, it’s politics – from 9/11 to Guantanamo, Iraq to Iran. This clash is not inevitable, and we don’t […]

Speaking of words we call ourselves, I must mention the derogatory terms. “Hojabi” and “muhajababe” have worked their way into our vocabulary (hojabi even has its own entry in UrbanDictionary.com). And, they are pervasive enough that non-Muslims have begun to use them in reference to us. They exist because we ourselves have invented them and […]

The names we call ourselves has been on my mind a lot lately. It started when I read a fellow blogger’s post that about an alleged hejabi- and niqabi-only cafe. In it, she implied that right-wing conservatives used the term “hijabi” and “niqabi”. Since I don’t consider myself a Muslim version of Michelle Malkin, I […]

More Moroccan women are taking classes to become religious female guides (mourchidates). Mashallah! Women in Bangladesh undergo a three-day course to learn about their rights under Islam. A Muslim woman in Vancouver, Canada, is allegedly fired from her job because of her religion. Just Another Angry Black Woman? talks about why lots of Black American […]

Benazir Bhutto, former prime minister of Pakistan, has been murdered. May Allah grant her and the country she loved so much peace. What’s especially disgusting about this news is that, in many outlets, it’s being accompanied by an assessment of the price of goods, stocks, currency, or oil. A woman has been murdered, and all […]

In very recent times it seems that news about violence against Muslim women is everywhere. I was recently directed to a Boston Globe article entitled The Islamist War on Muslim Women by Jeff Jacoby. He describes the many recent incidents of violence, leading to death, against Muslim women in Muslim countries as well as in […]

This post continues my look at the portrayal of Muslim women in young adult fiction. Marina Budhos is not a Muslim. She is not an immigrant. But the daughter of an Indo-Guyanese father and a Jewish-American mother, Budhos has had a strong interest in the stories of immigrant teenagers. Her book Ask Me No Questions: […]

Muslimah Media Watch thanks Safiya for the tip! The U.K.’s Channel 4 is airing a film festival this week, titled: “Unveiled: Love and Sex in the Arab World.” (sigh) Nice title. Very original. So we’re guessing that the aim is…to show that Arabs love and have sex? If that is the aim, then it’s not […]