Friday Links — August 20, 2010

• Shiva Nazar Ahari has been arrested for “causing unease in the public mind.” Here’s how you can help.

• How the the Pakistan floods disproportionately affect women.

• A Muslim woman who sued Disney for refusing to let her wear a  headscarf at her job at Disneyland says she has been suspended without pay for turning down the company’s alternatives. More from her lawyer.

• The BBC reports that cases of FGM in London are increasing. Meanwhile, women who have undergone FGM seek out a doctor in Colorado for reconstructive surgery.

• Both Indonesia and Jerusalem introduce women-only trains.

• Saudi Arabia has appointed 300 female officials to cope with the increasing number of female pilgrims and visitors to the Grand Mosque in Ramadan.

• Iran’s most recent Family Protection Bill is met with resistance.

• The Grand Mufti of Dubai has called for restrictions on Emiratis marrying outside their nationality.

• A Saudi preacher hates on female cashiers.

• A 16-year-old Kurdish girl has disappeared and is thought to have been murdered.

• Dozens of schoolgirls and teachers were sickened by poison gas piped into their high school in Afghanistan. May Allah keep them and give them justice.

• Kuwait has proposed increasing marriage grants.

• How underage marriage effects Yemeni women and girls medically.

• Shirin Ebadi writes for The Progressive about the female face of Iranian resistance.

• How settling with the Taliban will affect Afghan women. More from Common Ground News and CBS News.

• AlterNet looks at how rampant sex trafficking is affecting Iraqi women, despite the U.S. commitment to end it.

• A British woman creates a halal makeup line and hopes its appeal will extend past Muslims.

• France’s burqa ban has nothing to do with female emancipation.

• A Bangladesh court says women should not be forced to wear burqas at educational institutes.

• Amina Wadud talks about the politics and interpretation of hijab.

• Human Rights Watch says that Russia should put an end to local rules forcing women in Chechnya to observe an Islamic dress code.

• The Christian Science Monitor profiles Daisy Khan.

• How Ramadan cuts into salon visits in the Gulf.

• The New York Times looks at stoning.

• On burqa fashion in Mumbai.

If we’ve missed any news about Muslim women this week, feel free to post links in the comments!

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