2011-12-08T23:35:08-04:00

Last updated on: December 8, 2011 at 11:35 pm   By

MMW thanks Carmen for the tip! This is a t-shirt from ThreadPit.com’s online clothing store: The caption for the shirt reads: “The desert has many hot things. Unfortunately, in Southwestern Asia it’s mostly limited to roads, recently discharged firearms, and bombed out pre-fab metal buildings.” I hate racism/sexism that poses as irony. File this under “Douchebaggery.” I can just see some jackass walking around wearing this shirt, pants that are too damn tight, and a kuffiyeh. Wanna complain? Check out... Read more

2012-01-21T14:40:07-04:00

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 2:40 pm   By

Muslim Hedonist discusses female genital cutting with her daughters. 80% of Muslim women in Maharashtra, India, deliver children at health-care facilities. An article on Muslim women’s activist Raheel Raza. Sheikh Hasina, the former Prime Minister of Bangladesh, has been hospitalized. Al-Ahram looks at Hanan Tork’s beauty shop. The Saudi woman in car crash imbroglio is cleared of reckless driving charges. The Santa Fe Reporter interviews a Muslim homecoming queen. A not-quite-love story. It’s a little old, but an interesting read.... Read more

2011-12-08T23:35:08-04:00

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All our hearts ached for the victims of the devastating tsunami a few of years ago. One of the worst natural disasters in recent history. Many people asked why such a horrible thing would happen. How could so many innocent lives be taken like that? Who knows why things like this happen. Who knows God’s plan. Who knows why God planned that. Well, it seems some people in Indonesia do know why it happened and have found the culprits. Yay!... Read more

2011-12-08T23:35:08-04:00

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MEMRI has a YouTube video entitled “Iranian Police Enforces ‘Islamic Dress Code’ on Women.” As an aside, I’m kind of impressed by the use of quotation marks, because MEMRI videos (whether posted by the news organization itself or reposted by individual users) tend towards inflammatory Islamophobic phrases. The video shows the so-called “hijab police.” A woman, clad in black chador and manteau, walks up to women and asks them questions like, “As an Iranian citizen, do you think the way... Read more

2011-12-08T23:35:08-04:00

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AKI reported last week that the result of Pakistan’s elections will boost counter-terrorism efforts. This was the sole picture posted along with their story. What do Pakistani elections and counter-terrorism efforts that have to do with niqabis? There isn’t anything in the story about women or women who wear niqab. Does AKI think that niqab = terrorist? Read more

2011-12-08T23:35:08-04:00

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MMW thanks Forsoothsayer for the tip! The New York Times’ has a section for more in-depth analysis of news stories, entitled “The Lede” and authored by Mike Nizza. On February 19, 2008, writer Nadim Audi talked to some Egyptian university students about their ideas and their reaction to the Times’ earlier piece about frustrated Egyptian youth who supposedly nuzzle in deep into Islam’s bosom because they can’t get married and nuzzle into a real bosom. Here’s an interesting deconstruction of... Read more

2012-01-21T14:41:40-04:00

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 2:41 pm   By

A woman detonates a bomb in the Karrada district of central Baghdad. The amount of women in the U.A.E. cabinet has doubled. But don’t get all excited: that means there are now four women instead of two in a 29-member cabinet. Yippy skippy. MRZine reviews Lara Deeb’s book An Enchanted Modern: Gender and Public Piety in Shi’i Lebanon. Muslim women get together to discuss their lives as Muslim women living in the U.K. Daisy Khan’s view on why integrating Shari’a... Read more

2011-12-08T23:35:09-04:00

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Qatar’s Gulf Times published three different articles in its February 15, 2008 “Islam” section that have an unsettling theme: telling women how to act. The first article, by Fatima Barakatullah, is titled “Reviving Our Sense of Gheerah,” and has run in several other outlets that are specific to conservative Islamic interpretations. For any readers unfamiliar with the word “gheerah,” Barakatullah defines it as “protectiveness or jealousy.” According to her, it’s “a good type of jealousy, like when a man feels... Read more

2012-01-21T14:41:48-04:00

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 2:41 pm   By

We didn’t know about this until it was published; thanks to Andi for giving us the tip! Muslimah Media Watch was profiled in Utne magazine as part of a larger story on feminist websites! The author got our name wrong, but any publicity is good publicity, right? Anyway, go read about us. While you’re at it, read about some of those other great websites, too. Update: Thanks to the lovely people at Utne for fixing the misspelling in the online... Read more

2011-12-08T23:35:09-04:00

Last updated on: December 8, 2011 at 11:35 pm   By

The secret life of the Middle Eastern Muslim woman is a hot topic. In bookstores around the world, books line the shelves displaying covers of teasing confessionals — desert princesses, seductive eyes lined with makeup behind a niqab, life when related to a terrorist, the disturbing details of what Muslims do to their women. These salacious tales are told by real-live women — don’t you just love memoirs? But there’s one memoir that won’t be snapped up by readers longing... Read more

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