Comments on: Friday Links — October 3, 2008 http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/10/friday-links-october-3-2008/ Looking at Muslim women in the media and pop culture Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:36:06 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.3 By: Fatemeh http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/10/friday-links-october-3-2008/#comment-2280 Fatemeh Sun, 05 Oct 2008 18:20:57 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.wordpress.com/?p=1158#comment-2280 @ Jana: I agree with you, and I might write a post about this, actually. The issue is that this story appeared in several places, not just trashy outlets like the New York Post and the Sun. @ Jana: I agree with you, and I might write a post about this, actually. The issue is that this story appeared in several places, not just trashy outlets like the New York Post and the Sun.

]]> By: Jana http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/10/friday-links-october-3-2008/#comment-2279 Jana Sun, 05 Oct 2008 11:01:04 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.wordpress.com/?p=1158#comment-2279 Re: the story about Yasmin Fostok, Omar Bakri's daughter. I first read this article in the Sun, and knowing the Sun and it's tendency to erm 'elaborate' on the truth, I am suspicious that the story is false, after all there is not proof for half their ridiculous claims. I'd rather give a Muslim woman the benefit of the doubt, that believe what a trashy rag says about her. Re: the story about Yasmin Fostok, Omar Bakri’s daughter. I first read this article in the Sun, and knowing the Sun and it’s tendency to erm ‘elaborate’ on the truth, I am suspicious that the story is false, after all there is not proof for half their ridiculous claims. I’d rather give a Muslim woman the benefit of the doubt, that believe what a trashy rag says about her.

]]> By: Sobia http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/10/friday-links-october-3-2008/#comment-2284 Sobia Sat, 04 Oct 2008 01:07:56 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.wordpress.com/?p=1158#comment-2284 Hey Fatemeh...can you change that from "British Muslims" to "Canadian Muslims"? :) It seems that every week there are cases of violence against women, some which are fatal, on our list. Its so sad. Although such things happen everywhere the circumstances in every culture may be different. The other day I was watching a Pakistani talk show on which they were talking about the increasing occurrences of acid burning of women. One of their guests was a woman whose husband had thrown acid on her because he didn't believe her when she told him numerous times the child she was carrying in her was in fact his. When the interviewers asked her if he had been violent against her before and she said he hadn't. But then later in the conversation it came up that he had hit her a few times before they got married. But the woman brushed it off. The way she normalized his initial violence toward her and in fact did not even consider it violence or mis-behaviour, said a lot about a certain type of thinking. I remember of my own visits to Pakistan, hearing the female help, who were women who lived close by, gossiping about such and such woman who was being beaten by her husband, and such and such woman whose husband beat her. There was always a great deal of pity for these women, yet an acceptance that this was just the way it is. That is just the way men are. Of course everyone knows it's wrong, but there is some sort of disconnect there it seems. Hey Fatemeh…can you change that from “British Muslims” to “Canadian Muslims”? :)

It seems that every week there are cases of violence against women, some which are fatal, on our list. Its so sad.

Although such things happen everywhere the circumstances in every culture may be different.

The other day I was watching a Pakistani talk show on which they were talking about the increasing occurrences of acid burning of women. One of their guests was a woman whose husband had thrown acid on her because he didn’t believe her when she told him numerous times the child she was carrying in her was in fact his. When the interviewers asked her if he had been violent against her before and she said he hadn’t. But then later in the conversation it came up that he had hit her a few times before they got married. But the woman brushed it off. The way she normalized his initial violence toward her and in fact did not even consider it violence or mis-behaviour, said a lot about a certain type of thinking. I remember of my own visits to Pakistan, hearing the female help, who were women who lived close by, gossiping about such and such woman who was being beaten by her husband, and such and such woman whose husband beat her. There was always a great deal of pity for these women, yet an acceptance that this was just the way it is. That is just the way men are.

Of course everyone knows it’s wrong, but there is some sort of disconnect there it seems.

]]> By: Sobia http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/10/friday-links-october-3-2008/#comment-2283 Sobia Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:10:45 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.wordpress.com/?p=1158#comment-2283 Oh yeah...lol...That article is in Canada, not Britain. Oh yeah…lol…That article is in Canada, not Britain.

]]> By: Philip http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/10/friday-links-october-3-2008/#comment-2282 Philip Fri, 03 Oct 2008 12:07:23 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.wordpress.com/?p=1158#comment-2282 have you guys done a review or are planning to do a review of "Inside the Gender Jihad"? have you guys done a review or are planning to do a review of “Inside the Gender Jihad”?

]]> By: spiralsheep http://www.patheos.com/blogs/mmw/2008/10/friday-links-october-3-2008/#comment-2281 spiralsheep Fri, 03 Oct 2008 10:21:14 +0000 http://muslimahmediawatch.wordpress.com/?p=1158#comment-2281 "The Muslim Family Safety Project educates British Muslims about domestic violence issues." Canadians actually. :-) Thank you for all your hard work compiling these links lists. “The Muslim Family Safety Project educates British Muslims about domestic violence issues.”

Canadians actually. :-)

Thank you for all your hard work compiling these links lists.

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