Friday Links | February 4, 2011

• The common-law wife of an accused terrorist in Edmonton, Canada, speaks out after his arrest. More here.

• The Los Angeles Times reports that Muslim and Jewish women grow close at monthly meetings about spirituality.

• The Women’s Legal Centre in South Africa welcomed the draft of the Muslim Marriages Bill as a way forward for Muslim women and their rights.

• A driver’s license mix-up provides The Daily Mail fodder on a slow news day.

• Indonesia’s Center for Education and Information on Islam and Women’s Rights Issues (Rahima) is working to educate Muslim women about gender perspectives, sexual and reproductive health, and Islam.

• The Federation of Muslim Women Association of Nigeria has appealed to all Muslim women, especially those in purdah, to make the most of the extension of the  voter registration period.

• The Borneo Post examines how one woman’s successful business is shaped by songs and drama.

• Maryam Keshavarz’s Circumstance wins Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival. More here and here.

• The Atlantic writes about why the picture of an older woman kissing an Egyptian soldier is a truly revolutionary act.

• Pakistani actress Veena Malik takes on the clerics. More from The Express Tribune.

• A community mourns for a woman in Kashmir.

• One reporter works out how he feels about the niqab and burqa.

• A court in Brussels has acquitted a Muslim woman who was taken to court for wearing the niqab.

• Forbes looks at Egyptian women on the front lines of the protests. More from The Huffington Post. Jezebel looks at Mona Eltahawy as the talking head of the Egyptian protests.

• A court battle between a Muslim woman in Ontario and her former employer gets nasty.

• openDemocracy looks at the question of how to advance the family law rights of women in Britain’s Muslim communities.

• Salon reports that gunmen kill female police officer in Pakistan.

• On “fair skin” in marital ads.

• A text message accidentally detonated a female suicide bomber who was planning to kill herself and others in Red Square. Allah is the best of planners.

• Bangladesh paised for reducing acid attacks.

• Azerbaijan warns religious extremists against protesting ban on headscarves.

• Four people have been arrested in Bangladesh after the death of a 14-year-old girl who was given 100 lashes on the orders of a village cleric.

• Muslim women in Jos, Nigeria, have appealed to warring factions in the state to to stop the killing.

• Another news story about fashionable Muslim clothing!

• A governor in Uttarakhand, India, tells young Muslim girls to “be a catalyst for change and instruments of women’s liberation.”

• Germany prohibits niqabs at work for public employees.

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