Friday Links | June 10, 2011

• In case you didn’t hear, FIFA barred Iran’s women’s soccer team from the field over their headgear. Plenty has been written about why it happened, and the subject may be reopened for discussion. Maybe they can wear this?

• Some cool research focuses on Muslim women who lived through the Khmer Rouge.

• Lamia Shakkour, Syria’s ambassador to France, may or may not have resigned. We’re not sure, because the woman who resigned may be an impersonator.

• Controversy in the southern U.S. as a Georgian woman fights to wear hijab while weightlifting and a Louisiana woman fights to wear hijab in jail.

• A Muslim women’s group in Britain has launched a “Jihad against Violence” to generate greater awareness of women’s rights. You can listen to an interview with Radio Australia about the group here.

• IPS looks at how political crackdowns in Iran are spurring women to action.

• Pakistani women understand that it’s lonely at the top.

• Members of the newly formed Sisters of Deenul Islam in Sierra Leone have expressed their determination to bring to an end the discrimination faced by women wearing head scarves.

• We’re just not sure what to think about Amina Abdullah.

• Some women who think obedience to one’s husband in all things will save marriage and society got together and started a club in Indonesia.

• On the Arab Spring’s impact on women’s rights in Saudi Arabia.

• Huma Abedin has been in the media all week because her husband is sleazy and she’s pregnant.

• The Nation speaks with Wajeha al-Huwaider during a week when several Saudi women are arrested for driving.

• Azizah al-Hibri is appointed to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom.

Did we forget to include any news about Muslim women this week? If so, feel free to leave links in the comments!