This week, Angelina Jolie’s filming permit was momentarily revoked in Bosnia, Tony Blair’s sister-in-law converts to Islam, Pink Hijab Day is observed, and Malaysian courts ruled in favor of a vocal women’s rights group.
Read MoreThis week, a Muslim woman is offered her job back after being fired for wearing a headscarf, a six-year-old girl is expelled for punching a boy bullying her choice to wear a headscarf, two Seattle women of Somali descent are attacked at a gas station, and a British Muslim leader declares that there can be no rape in marriage.
Read MoreMaldives reporter challenges court’s male-only requirement for marriage officiators, Quebec’s Orthodox Jews protest bill banning the burqa, GWU campus announces “Sisters’ Splash,” a women-only swim hour.
Read MoreThis week, Turkey rolls back its university headscarf ban, Vela Scarves founder and designer Marwa Atik is profiled, a short film festival on Muslim women is announced, a teenager faces bullying for being Muslim and a young Arab-American discovers he’s being tracked by the FBI.
Read MoreI finally read Dr. Kecia Ali‘s book Sexual Ethics & Islam: Feminist Reflections on Qur’an, Hadith and Jurisprudence. Although this book has long been on my to-read list, the suicide of Tyler Clementi moved it up to the top. The chapter on homosexuality accurately pointed out that Muslims invented “Don’t ask, don’t tell” long before the U.S. military. Of course, this policy has major limitations.
Read MoreAdvocating for the eradication of masculinity is not reactionary, nor is it self-hatred. It is a diligently honest and critical examination of the fundamental concept and construct of masculinity, how it is defined, particularly in mainstream North American societies, and how its normalization in daily life and culture is interrelated with homophobic, sexist, racist, classist, and oppressive social structures in white heteropatriarchal capitalist states.
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The “Niqabitches” take to Parisian streets in veils and hot pants, three British Islamic schools make the burqa a mandatory school uniform, and an openly gay Imam speaks in London on Islam, Gender and Sexuality.
Read MoreThis week, Muslim women’s fashion takes off in India, a new study on Muslim women’s rights in the Middle East is authored, the discrimination faced by Muslim women in headscarves in the workplace is documented, and Disney asks a Muslim employee to wear a beret over hear headscarf.
Read MoreThis week, protesters stop women from praying inside a mosque, a woman threatens France with an attack as the country grows increasingly weary, a 14-year-old girl plunges to her death in Makkah, and Canada institutes new travel rules requiring women to show their faces at airport security check points.
Read MoreThis week, Muslim women offer public prayer and Eid prayer in India, an Iranian woman faces lashes for misidentification, conservatives gain ground in Sweden, and a Muslim woman’s case is reopened in California.
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