Friday Links — October 22, 2010

• Turkey’s Higher Education Board ruled to stop teachers from expelling students who wear headscarves. And with a sigh, Turkey’s hijab ban was over. More from Salon, Arab News,

• A white American convert shares the discrimination she’s experienced.

• The Washington Post covers the “I Want to Get Married” phenomenon.

• The Global Voices post on Samar Al Badawi.

• The Pamir Times reports on the first person to climb previously the unclimbed Chashkin Sar peak: an 18-year-old Pakistani girl.

• How things are changing for transsexuals in the Gulf.

• On the resurgence of temporary marriage in Iraq.

• A British cleric has ruled that rape is not possible within a marriage.

• In other awful marital news, a court in the Emirates upheld a husband’s “right” to “chastise” his wife and children with physical abuse. More from CNN.

• The Los Angeles Times thinks that Disney could have handled its hijab fiascos better. Uh, yeah.

• Dalia Ziada received the 2010 Anna Lindh Mediterranean Journalist Award in online media.

• Bikya Masr looks at Canada’s double standard regarding the veil.

• In the U.K., a 23-year-old pregnant Pakistani woman was burned to death in her garden. May Allah give her peace and justice.

• A year after putting her competitive basketball career on hold over a headscarf ban, Sura Al Shawk is considering taking her case to Switzerland’s top court.

• GetReligion examines the “fashionable hijab” media coverage.

• Men were ordered out of a Australian court after a judge set down conditions to accommodate a woman giving evidence without her niqab. More here.

• Muslim women living in Southern Thailand want peace.

• A six-year-old Muslim girl has been banned from the school bus because she dacked a boy after he repeatedly told her to take off her hijab. More here.

• George Washington University opened a women-only swimming hour at its rec-center pool.

• Two women marry the same man within 24 hours of each other.

• Mumbai University is now calling for a ban on burqa worn by Muslim women.

• In South Africa, a group of young Muslim women, working under the brand of Faithworks, have launched a documentary screening project to showcase alternate expressions of Islam.

• What the U.S. undid for women in Iraq.

• A Muslim saleswoman from Philadelphia who was fired from her job for refusing to remove her religious head scarf was reinstated  and will be reimbursed for her lost wages.

• The “Love Commandos” is the coolest name for anything, ever.

• A woman who assaulted two Muslim women has been charged with a hate crime.

• Opinion is divided among experts on the changes that the 50% reservation for women in local bodies might usher in in Kerala, India.

• Author and playwright Rohina Malik will perform her powerful solo play, “Unveiled” in Ohio.

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