- Can Faisal al Yafai asks why haven’t Arab women broken the glass ceiling?
- On the popularity of plastic surgery in Saudi Arabia.
- Na’ima B. Robert offers her portrait of a Muslim marriage.
- Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno’s caning has been postponed for Ramadan. AltMuslim examines the situation further.
- School girls in Gaza are being told to wear more conservative clothing, including headscarves.
- More protests against a Mali law giving women equal marriage rights.
- Killing the Buddha searches for the “new Muslim woman.”
- The U.A.E will have a national football league for women by 2012!
- Much ado about female ministers in Iranian President Ahmadinejad’s cabinet.
- Beauty salons come back to Iraq.
- The Oregonian law against religious headwear in schools prompts one man to learn more about the hijab.
- An unsafe apartment building cost one woman her husband and children. May Allah give them peace and justice.
- An interview with a Muslim flight attendant.
- The Hindu reviews The Hour Past Midnight.
- ReligionDispatches interviews Daisy Khan.
- A Bahraini man won the right to have his sex change officially recognized by the courts. Via Improvisations.
- Shelina Janmohamed compares the marital rights of British Muslim women and Afghan Muslim women. Via Goatmilk.
- Another Muslim lawmaker in Europe comes out against the burqa–this time, France’s Fadela Amara.
- Students in a Calcutta college believe that a Hindu group pushed a hijab ban on the school.
- The Granada Blog writes about the “oppressed” Afghan woman.
- Jezebel highlights the lives of Bangladeshi acid attack survivors.
- The judge who ordered a woman to remove her headscarf in a Michigan court room will face a lawsuit for it. More from CNN, IslamOnline, and the Detroit Free Press.
- Peace Through Business gives Rwandan and Afghan women business educations.
- Shirin Ebadi will speak at Naropa University in Colorado.
- Nesrine Malik and Asma Barlas respond to The Guardian’s (ridiculous) question: “Can Western feminism save Muslim women?“
- The Turkish-Kurdish divide through women’s eyes.
- A man tries to run over two Muslim women at a gas station. I am beyond words. Via Jezebel.
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This is probably slightly off-topic, but for the last link, why on earth did they put this and the end of an essay about hate crimes?
“Do you know someone who has made New York a better place? Nominate your hero for the 8th Annual New York Post Liberty Medals.”
Um…Malians protesting equality laws for women…WTF???
“Hadja Sapiato Dembele of the National Union of Muslim Women’s Associations said the law goes against Islamic principles.
“We have to stick to the Koran,” Ms Dembele told the BBC’s Focus on Africa programme. “A man must protect his wife, a wife must obey her husband.”
“It’s a tiny minority of women here that wants this new law – the intellectuals. The poor and illiterate women of this country – the real Muslims – are against it,” she added. ”
Again, WTF???
This so makes me want to give up fighting the fight. Seriously ladies?? Seriously??