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Hijab Pulling: It isn’t Just About Hijab


Posted by sarabi on 20 Nov 2017 / 0 Comments
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Trigger warning: mention of sexual harassment/abuse, violence against children, Islamophobia and gendered violence. The video in question has not been linked. On November 9th, a video of girl’s hijab being ripped off in class began circulating around internet. Apparently, the young woman’s teacher posted the video on his Snapchat account, though she later denied posting […]

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Roundtable

Roundtable on Spiritual Abuse and Gendered Violence: We Believe You


Posted by eren on 25 Sep 2017 / 0 Comments
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Trigger warning: gender-based violence, spiritual abuse, victim-blaming, misogyny On September 23, 2017, Omer M. Mozaffar published a Facebook post in which he wrote about “predatory behavior” on the part of Nouman Ali Khan, a Texas-based Muslim scholar and founder of Bayyinah Institute with millions of online followers. Since then, much of the Muslim internet has […]

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