Friday Links — August 1, 2008
August 1st, 2008
Fatemeh
- The Guardian profiles Asmaa Abdol-Hamid. Via Hijab Style.
- A woman is sentenced to death for prostitution. Prostitution that her own husband forced her into. Here’s what you can do. Via Feministe.
- Three female suicide bombers killed 25 and wounded approximately 70 in Baghdad. May Allah give peace to the victims.
- Yvonne Ridley believes that Al-Qaeda suspect Aafia Siddiqui is in an Afghan prison.
- A man who severely beat his wife for rolling up her veil because of the heat was sentenced to two years, but has had most of time that suspended. WTF?!
- Saudi government departments try to work out a stalemate on rules that govern women that study abroad.
- The Indonesian Embassy in Saudi Arabia rolls out discouraging numbers of sexual assault on Indonesian maids for only the first half of 2008.
- Women in Egypt fashion a campaign similar to the Iranian One Million Signatures Campaign in hopes of changing laws that ignore sexual harassment.
- Many of Iraq’s parliament members believe that female quotas are the only solution for ensuring that women are represented.
- Despite a law intended to stop them, child marriages are still happening in Morocco.
- AIDS activists in South Africa protest against a call for mandatory HIV testing for Muslim couples before marriage, saying that it will further stigmatise and discriminate against those with HIV.
- Iranian filmmaker Rakhshan Bani-Etemad received an honorary doctorate from the University of London.
- Migrant Rights discusses maid abuse in the Arabian Peninsula.
- BeliefNet and Newsweek discuss the Turkish soap opera that’s supposedly enlightening men and women across the Middle East.
- Saudi Arabia’s Olympic team will appear in Beijing without any female members, but women are trying to make headway within the country’s sports systems.
- Muslims in Uganda want to include issues concerning Muslim women on a domestic relations bill that will be considered by Parliament.
- Oh, the sickly sweet irony: a member of Saudi Arabia’s vice squad is arrested for having six wives. More here.
- Lebanese singer Suzan al-Tamim was found stabbed to death in her Dubai apartment. More here. May Allah grant her peace and justice.
- Saudi businesswomen are preparing to be voted into the board of directors of the Riyadh Chamber of Commerce and Industry for the the first time.
- A Muslim woman punches a Christian preacher for insulting the prophet. Warning: there are some pretty nasty comments made about the prophet. Disclaimer: Violence is not acceptable, no matter how much better you feel when she punches him. Via Islamify.
- The Nation celebrates the birth anniversary of Fatima Jinnah, known as the “Mother of Pakistan.”
- Somali women in Oregon have asked for a portion of time after hours for the pool to be women-only.
- Pedestrian gives her opinion on the wives of Middle Eastern statesmen.
- The New York Times looks at the success of the The American Muslim Teenager’s Handbook.
Via The New York Times: Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrencia watch watch Radovan Karadzic’s first appearance before court in The Hague.
Friday Links
Via The New York Times: Bosnian Muslim women from Srebrencia watch watch Radovan Karadzic’s first appearance before court in The Hague.
dont have time to comment on much but just watched the video from the girl who punched the guy. Amusing…. I think she could have handled it better really.. the guy at the end makes a comment about Muhammed, wonder where he got the comment of him being a guy of pieces when the original preacher mentioned the same analogy.. original? me thinks not! La hawla wala qwata illah billah
Re: Akbar Ahmed’s daughter
Yay for her! We need to highlight these Muslim women more and demonstrate the wonderful work Muslim women are doing for the betterment of the world. A very impressive woman indeed! Masha’Allah. And what a wonderful relationship father and daughter have. I’ve been lucky to have this kind of relationship with my father as well Alhumdollilah. I wish it were more common.
Re: Turkish Daily
Ditto! The statistics and research are clear – rape, sexual assault, and harassment have nothing to do with a woman’s clothing. It is a result of a patriarchal way of thinking which places women in an inferior position where they are considered property, not people, and there is a desire to control women. If harassment was a result of how we dressed then we would see all men harassing us. But because it is about a way of thinking we see a certain type of man harassing /assaulting women – those who think of women as inferior and in need of control by men. This unfortunate and harmful belief rampant among Muslims, that a woman is responsible when a man harasses or assaults her, not only victimizes a victim but it does not hold those men accountable who are violating women’s rights. We need to work at eradicating this belief.
Thank you for linking and also thank you for linking to the article about the Bosnian woman and rape camp. While the arrest of Karadzic is important – it’s so much more important that we actually know how the ethnic cleansing campaign worked and how it will affect people’s lives forever.
I couldn’t help but right an email to the Iranian judiciary regarding the decision to stone Kobar Najjar. Although i’m aware of the demonisation of Iran via Western discourse, these decisions are often made in the name of Islam! I encourage everyone else to write in support of Najjar.