• Somalia’s women’s minister, Asha Osman Aqil, has been kidnapped by Al Shabab. God keep her safe.

• Egyptian women take a stand against harassment with HarassMap.

• Emirati women will enjoy full participation in an upcoming election to be held in September; they may both vote and run in the election.

• How the Muslim community rose to Rumana Monzur’s defense after her husband attacked her.

• Pakistan appoints its first female foreign minister. More from the BBC.

• The Obedient Wives Club not doing very well in Singapore.

• A Muslim woman says she won’t fall victim to fear or hate after surviving a brutal assault.

• On feminist trends in Pakistan.

• The Star looks at the powerful women of Turkey’s Dinçer family.

• A review of the play Dirty Paki Lingerie, written and performed by Aizzah Fatima.

• Common Ground News Service looks at the gains women are making toward the right to drive in Saudi Arabia.

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• The British Jihad Against Violence gets some coverage in Common Ground News.

• Surprise! The Iranian government will support books about hijab and modesty.

• USA Today profiles Kulsoom Abdullah’s and her fight to wear hijab during weightlifting competitions.

• Women in rural Bangladesh raise money for their own microfinance programs.

• British Muslim men are urged to “find women from within their own community” instead of “outsourcing” wives.

• Muslim women in parts of Australia would be required to remove their veils and show police their faces under a new law proposed in one of the country’s state legislatures. Meanwhile, Multicultural Affairs and Citizenship Minister Nick Kotsiras said that he was comfortable with Muslim women wearing the burqa and full-face veil niqab.

• How some German Muslims, including women, are held back by stereotypes in the workplace.

• The Bangkok Post looks at the business of Islamic fashion.

• PopMatters interviews Sabina England. And so does AlterNet.

• How are women faring in new South Sudan?

• Lingerie shops in Saudi Arabia are targeted for raids by the morality police because of female clerks, despite an official decree that women should work in them.

• On street harassment in Afghanistan.

• Asra Nomani writes about ending gender segregation in U.S. mosques.

• AltMuslimah explores the idea behind the Obedient Wives’ Club.

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