- Genius headline of the week: lewd stares distressing for women. You don’t say!
- TwoCircles.net reports on a study of maternity care and births among Muslim women in Mumbai slums.
- More on Marwa el Sherbini’s murder and global reactions: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here.
- Hundreds of the men, women, and children killed in the Srebrencia massacre have finally been buried. May Allah grant them peace and justice.
- The Boston Globe profiles Fatemeh Haghighatjoo, Iran’s youngest parliament member who is currently a visiting professor in the U.S.
- Several women in Sudan endured lashes for wearing trousers. More from Gulfnews. Nesrine Malik weighs in.
- Belgium’s highest administrative court has overturned the firing of a female Muslim teacher by two schools because she wore a headscarf. Via Islam in Europe.
- Women in Bahrain are gearing up to lobby for equal nationality rights.
- Sweet irony: France’s burqa ban comes after couturiers roll out abaya creations. Via Hijabtrendz.
- Copenhagen hires a female Muslim bus driver to curb unruly passengers. Via Islam in Europe.
- Nuseiba critiques Mona el Tahawy’s position on the burqa ban.
- The Nation looks at “women commandos” in Iran. Really?
- More on Muslim girls in Lucknow, India, training to be muftis.
- IPS covers The Stoning of Soraya M.
- Muslim women in the U.K. want to work. More from The Guardian.
- A Muslim women’s organization is helping women in Malawi.
- CNN reports on the involvement of women in Turkey’s newest mosque.
- In Iraq, more and more women are seeking non-reconstructive plastic surgery. Via Jezebel.
- AltMuslimah has a discussion on the generational cycle of women’s silence.
- Another woman in Jordan has been murdered by a family member. May Allah give her peace and justice.
- Radio Free Asia reports on the role of Uighur women in the Chinese riots.
- Farzaneh Milani divides Iran into male and female camps–guess who’s who!
- Yemeni abayas are becoming even more popular because of new designs.
- On maternal mortality in Afghanistan.
- More thoughts on Neda Agha-Soltani’s death.
- Oregon law may deny teachers the right to wear “religious headcovering.” More info, including contact info for local lawmakers, here.
- Caledoniyya writes about the necessity of a strong legal stance against honor killings.
- The Pakistan Supreme Court has issued that transvestites should receive equal treatment to other Pakistani citizens.
- Iranian women’s rights activist Shadi Sadr has been arrested. May Allah keep her safe.
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Even if the Oregon law passed, it would almost certainly be challenged in court and most likely struck down. A teacher named Brenda Nichol was dismissed for wearing a cross to school, sued with help from the ACLU, and won the suit.
This proposed law in Oregon is downright irresponsible. Not only is it wrong from a moral standpoint, but also from a legal one. The Oregon legislature shouldn’t waste its time supporting a law that will most likely bog down the government with legal challenges.
As an an edit to what I said before, it appears that Oregon Law already bans religious garbs for public workers and that this proposed law will actually make things better — namely, it will only ban teachers from wearing the religious garb, but allow other state workers to wear it. Apparently the reason teachers aren’t allowed to wear it is due to an archaic anti-Catholic law.
Still, the ACLU should challenge the Oregon law.
Oregon law may deny teachers the right to wear “religious headcovering.”
Just as an FYI, this link is to PRWeb, which is merely a repository of press releases (and in many cases, they’re written up to sound like news articles).
@ Dude: I know. I hadn’t found any actual news stories. I didn’t see anything wrong with using this.
The Boston Globe article on Fatemeh Haghighatjoo is very interesting–I liked the women’s studies scholar who made the point that Iran has a tradition of women speaking out in public life, lessening the “exception that proves the oppressive rule” we see so often in US media profiles of Muslim women.
But I really would have liked to hear more about how she thought the cartoons her daughters watches in the US instill democratic values; it seemed like interesting media criticism, but we never got to hear her point. As it was the journalist seemed to wrap all her points about what she liked about her daughter’s education in the US into the usual pat-on-the-back about the West’s superior egalitarian traditions, blah blah blah.
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