Friday Links — June 25, 2010

• GetReligion examines The New York Times’ article about Saudi women fighting for guardianship.

• A Somali woman resists community pressure to give up her daughter.

• World Cup fever extends to abayas!

• In Italy, a woman whose husband beat her has been hospitalized. May Allah keep her.

• The Contra Costa Times profiles Moina Shaiq, a tireless advocate for the local Muslim community in Fremont, California.

• An Australian Muslim woman has complained that she was told to remove her face veil during a job interview at a Northern Territory hospital.

• The European Court of Human Rights rules against Turkey in a domestic violence case.

• Ather Zia writes about how Kashmiri women are helping shape the country’s future.

• Scotland’s leading Islamic scholar is launching an unprecedented campaign to place anti-domestic violence messages in Friday prayers at every mosque in the country.

• A group of women in the West Bank this month launched one of the first all-women’s radio stations in the Arab world.

• An Australian lawmaker introduces a burqa ban, which is rejected by the state’s premier.

• Reporter Asma Halimi is slapped in the face by an Algerian soccer player after the U.S.-Algeria game.

• Spain’s senate votes to ban the burqa.

• Female Afghan soccer leagues train and play hard, inspired by the World Cup.

• The National Post interviews an ex-Mossad agent about Muslim feminists, but no Muslim feminists. Seriously?!

• Niger State Governor, Dr. Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, has advised the Federation of Muslim Women Associations of Nigeria (FOMWAN) to adopt modern trend in their activities to propagate Islam.

• Another flotilla has set sail for Gaza–this one full of female activists.

• In Qom, Iran, authorities issue warnings against “bad hejab” to 62,000 women.

• The decision to allow Egyptian women to recite the Qur’an in public is causing a bit of contention.

• AllAfrica interviews one Somali refugee about her rape after her escape from Darfur her homeland.

• Saudi women threaten to breastfeed their drivers.

• Rochelle Terman writes about the minefield of working for Muslim women’s rights.

• Good news for pray-ins: Washington, D.C. police will no longer intervene in an ongoing protest by Muslim women over their place in area mosques.

• Iran’s national police chief said that the forces under his command “never” use force in countering immodest ethical behavior, dismissing claims that force is used in enforcing “proper” hijab. *side-eye*

• The most thorough menstrual guide I’ve ever seen in a Muslim-majority-country media outlet.

• Thousands of Kosovo Muslims have taken to the streets to protest a new ban, which forbids girls from wearing headscarves in public schools. More from the Montreal Gazette.

• Saudi women act as ambassadors for changing stereotypes.

• On the messages that FIFA’s ban on hijab sends.

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