Friday Links | February 11, 2011

• A Muslim woman in Canada alleges that she was fired because of her headscarf.

• “It’s stopping anybody perving on anybody in there really.” My favorite quote from The Sydney Morning Herald’s story on a local pool putting up privacy curtains for Muslim women’s swimming hours. Meanwhile, here’s another story about ladies-only times at public Australian swimming pools.

• This year, the Organization of the Islamic Conference has prepared an action plan to advance the status and rights of women among its member states. More from Today’s Zaman.

• In Malaysia, Sisters in Islam petitions the PAS party not to play morality police.

• A 14-year-old rape victim in Bangladesh was flogged to death. Now her death has become a murder investigation.  May Allah give her peace and justice. More from Religion Dispatches.

• Muslim women and civil society leaders in Mindanao are pushing a role for Muslim women in securing  peace in southern Philippines.

• TwoCircles.net investigates the rape and arrest of several Godhra Muslim women in India.

• The U.A.E.’s “Hijab Strangler” gets the death sentence.

• Female Muslim employees at a Fiji bank are not allowed to wear their headscarves as per the bank’s new dress policy.

• Canada’s only candidate for a headscarf token security job has been disqualified due to her failure to pass parts of the exam. More from the Montreal Gazette.

• Muslim men want younger wives, Muslim women want older husbands.

• How protests in Egypt & Iran shatter myths about Muslim women. More here and here.

• In Srinagar, India, members of a Muslim women’s group protested against the murder of two women by Lashkar-e Taiba militants.

• IPS on the feud between Veena Malik and the mullahs.

• BeliefNet interviews Asra Nomani.

• The widow of a Pakistani man who was killed by a U.S. official has killed herself by taking poison. May Allah give her peace.

• The BBC interviews a father who murdered his daughter for “being too Western.”

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