Friday Links | July 8, 2011

• Australian police allowed to ask for removal of burqa.

• Muslim Stephanie not allowed on bus in France, because of her ‘burqa.’

• NZ prime minister: veil no excuse for discrimination.

• Another Pakistani woman killed, officials stay quiet.

• Female Afghani journalist Farida Nekzad featured on Al-Arabiya.

• Al Jazeera features a series of pictures on women in Gaza.

• Thirty-three Kuwaiti women divorce their husbands because they sneaked off to Lebanon, instead of making ‘umrah. 

• UNHCR helps women in Eastern Libya.

• Afghan minority women at the sharp end of war.

• Hunger in the Horn of Africa: the tragic story of Halima Omar.

• Actress Dewi Perssik undergoes a hymen restoration operation to please her future husband with her virgin-like state.

• UN Women report: Access to justice in Morocco. 

• Pakistan: Demanding a strategy to combat violence against women. 

• EU representative Ashton demands release of Iranian women’s rights activists.

• Ahmedinejad calls on Iranian colleges not to segregate sexes.

• Female Sudani journalist jailed for reporting on alleged rape. 

• Gender anxiety in the Arab Gulf.

• The Guardian features Fatuma Noor, the Somali journalist that won a major journalism price for reporting on Al-Shabaab.

• Four American Muslim women on radicalization in the U.S.

• Outrage as the Obedient Wives Club spreads throughout South East Asia.

• Muslim Brotherhood holds a ‘sisterhood conference’ in Egypt. 

• Salma Yaqoob steps down as city councilor in Birmingham, U.K., reflects on career.

• Do we need women preachers and thinkers? YES.

• The question of Muslim women’s rights.

• Great coverage of the Right 2 Wear campaign.

• Indian government should encourage education for Muslim women.

• Canadian woman says she wants to stay in Saudi Arabia.

• Bangkok Post features Thai Muslim artist Ampannee Satoh and her new exhibition: Burqa.

See any news about Muslim women from this week that we missed? Leave us links in the comments!