Friday Links

Open wide! Here’s a hefty dose of links for 10.19.07:

• The world’s First Muslim Skydiving Center open in Tehran, equipped with special programs just for women.

• Scary. White supremacists demonstrate against niqabis’ rights to vote.

• A great post on exactly why all this political uproar about niqab in Canada is racist.

• Unique Muslimah talks about the sly marginalization of Muslim women on Yahoo!

• Australia kicks around the ridiculous idea of banning hejab in airports. Is Australia still a democracy?

• Tunisia’s courts rule a ban on hejab unconstitutional. Enshallah this will prevent future harassment of hejabis in Tunisia.

• Iranian girls demonstrate against poverty—and there’s lots of adorable pictures!

• A review of AlSanea’s Girls of Riyadh: Just another neo-Orientalist book?

• Science isn’t always objective: James Watson links sunlight to libido, and suggests that Muslim women who cover the majority of their skin are frigid. I think he’s just mad because no Muslim woman in her right mind would want to have sex with him.

• Nirali magazine discusses the fact that people still just don’t get the idea of purdah (or hejab).

• Barikallah! The United Kingdom gets its first Muslim woman in Parliament.