Monday’s post Between a Rock and Hard Place: Triple Threats and Double Troubles for Muslim Women was featured on Racialicious today. And in the comments there was a really good question: “I wonder what should non-muslims do to help. I read Aaminah Hernández’s excellent post earlier today (Nadia linked to it up thread) and saw […]

This originally appeared as a larger post at the blog Pedestrian. It has been edited for length, but you can read the entire version at the original website. “You might have heard of Laleh Sedigh: Iran’s first female race car driver – in both circuit and rally driving. She has yet to prove herself in […]

You’ve probably heard about the recent ruling given to a Saudi gang-rape victim: 110 lashes added onto the original sentence of 90 lashes because she protested her sentence to the media. It’s a horrible and vindictive sentence, and the callous treatment this woman has received as a victim is insulting to her, Saudi Arabia, and […]

Muslimah Media Watch would like to introduce Melinda, our newest contributor. Melinda is a college student. A convert to Islam, she seeks to reconcile the differences — especially the perceived differences — between “Islam” and “Western culture.” She’s also looking to see the Muslim community grow more progressive, an important factor in bridging this divide. […]

Senegalese women will be able to become foot soldiers starting next year! Another interview with Fatemeh Keshavarz. I so love her! A poor Muslim woman’s body is laid to rest, exhumed, and reburied—all in one day. Australia gets its first Muslim woman lifeguard (or lifesaver, as the Australians put it). Muslim women in Canada work […]

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 […]

Israel Today published a story about an increase in honor killings among Palestinian women. The story itself seemed poorly researched and improperly cited (as in, there were no citations—the story cited “an old Jordanian law” that allowed men who confessed to honor killing to serve light jail time, and yet, they didn’t mention specifically which […]

The Maldives’ state-run television stations will no longer employ women who wear hejab in an effort to quell the spread of militant Islam, as a response to a September 29 bombing in the country’s capital by fundamentalists. While their efforts include some good ideas (i.e., ceasing the glorification of a holy war), this one is […]

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 […]

Benazir Bhutto is put under house arrest. Several Muslim businesswomen head to Dubai on a ladies-only tour. A shelter for women in Dubai gives shelter to women victims of domestic abuse, sex trafficking, and/or housemaid abuse. A story about Nafsheen Luhar, a Californian henna artist. Muslim Hedonist discusses the lack of voice that Muslim women […]