Friday Links — October 15, 2010

• The National profiles Baroness Sayeeda Warsi.

• Hundreds of Kosovo Muslims protested a ban on wearing a headscarf in school.

• A British court asked a Muslim woman to remove her face veil to show her facial expression while testifying against her husband in a physical abuse case.

• The Vancouver Sun profiles a local women’s-only swimming hour.

• In Bihar, India, as many as six Muslim women have been fielded by political parties, first in Bihar’s electoral history.

• The Philippine Center for Islam and Democracy and Noor-us Salam jointly condemned the brutal rape of a 21-year-old volunteer nurse by six men, Maguindanao. May Allah give her justice.

• The Peninsula profiles the Doha Debates on banning the niqab in France.

• Tamil Nadu has established its first chapter Muslim Women’s Aid Society.

• Two Muslim women have been promoted by British Labour leader Ed Miliband among a new generation of MPs to prominent positions in his shadow front bench team.

• The Atlantic revisits the burqa ban.

• A Canadian court rules that Muslim women can be forced to remove their niqab while testifying only if the fairness of the trial depends on it.

• Two Malaysian women won gold medals for shooting in the 2010 Commonwealth Games.

• The Daily Femme interviews Melody Moezzi.

• On Kyrgyzstan’s first female president.

• The Women News Network looks at Kashmir’s “half widows.” More from The Guardian.

• emel looks at the founder of Creative Muslim Network.

• Singer Mira Awad is tired of being asked to choose between Palestinian and Israeli sides.

• Female Iraqi refugees in Syria are in danger of becoming victims of sex trafficking in addition to war.

• On talking sex in Egypt.

• globalpost looks at “bride kidnapping” in Kyrgyzstan.

• AltMuslim looks at Sakineh Ashtiani and human rights.

• Aisha, the young Afghan woman featured on the cover of Time magazine, has a new nose.

• Mauritanian women are fighting against the tradition of fattening.

• A French woman accused of ripping off the full face veil of an Emirati tourist and biting and scratching her faced prosecution demands for a two-month suspended prison sentence.

• Most West Australians want a national ban on women wearing the burqa.

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