- A Somali woman resists community pressure to give up her daughter.
- In Italy, a woman whose husband beat her has been hospitalized. May Allah keep her.
- The Contra Costa Times profiles Moina Shaiq, a tireless advocate for the local Muslim community in Fremont, California.
- An Australian Muslim woman has complained that she was told to remove her face veil during a job interview at a Northern Territory hospital.
- The European Court of Human Rights rules against Turkey in a domestic violence case.
- Ather Zia writes about how Kashmiri women are helping shape the country’s future.
- Scotland’s leading Islamic scholar is launching an unprecedented campaign to place anti-domestic violence messages in Friday prayers at every mosque in the country.
- A group of women in the West Bank this month launched one of the first all-women’s radio stations in the Arab world.
- Reporter Asma Halimi is slapped in the face by an Algerian soccer player after the U.S.-Algeria game.
- Female Afghan soccer leagues train and play hard, inspired by the World Cup.
- The National Post interviews an ex-Mossad agent about Muslim feminists, but no Muslim feminists. Seriously?!
- Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has advised the Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN) to adopt modern trend in their activities to propagate Islam.
- Another flotilla has set sail for Gaza–this one full of female activists.
- AllAfrica interviews one Somali refugee about her rape after her escape from Darfur her homeland.
- Saudi women threaten to breastfeed their drivers.
- Rochelle Terman writes about the minefield of working for Muslim women’s rights.
- Good news for pray-ins: Washington, D.C. police will no longer intervene in an ongoing protest by Muslim women over their place in area mosques.
- Iran’s national police chief said that the forces under his command “never” use force in countering immodest ethical behavior, dismissing claims that force is used in enforcing “proper” hijab. *side-eye*
- The most thorough menstrual guide I’ve ever seen in a Muslim-majority-country media outlet.
- Thousands of Kosovo Muslims have taken to the streets to protest a new ban, which forbids girls from wearing headscarves in public schools. More from the Montreal Gazette.
- Saudi women act as ambassadors for changing stereotypes.
If we’ve missed any news about Muslim women this week, please post links in the comments!
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The Somali woman who was raped was fleeing Somalia, not Darfur. Darfur is in Sudan, which is a long way from southern Somalia and the people there are not Somalis.
@ Yusuf Smith: Thank you for the correction! I go through these pretty fast sometimes…