Interview with Saleemah Abdul-Ghafur

Last Friday, BlogTalkRadio’s The American Muslim presented a special program about Muslim women, specifically in the context of life for Muslims in the United States. Saleema Abdul-Ghafur, author of Living Islam Out Loud: American Muslim Women Speak, guest stars.

Check it out. It’s a great interview, despite a somewhat comical technical difficulty an hour into the program: Abdul-Ghafur talks about what inspired her to write/edit her book, whose voices appeared in the book and why, etc. This book sounds really interesting; I’ll have to get my hands on a copy.

Here are some news stories so important I couldn’t wait until Friday to post them:

• Palestinian women demonstrate to keep the Rafah border open.

• Violence against Iraqi women, in the gruesome form of “retribution for violating Islamic teachings,” is escalating. (shudder)

• Kurdish women are sometimes turning to self-immolation to express themselves.

• Turkey lifts the ban on head scarves on campuses!