Salaam waleykum, dear readers! It’s looking like a good week for us, alhamdulillah! Muslimah Media Watch earned an Honorable Mention at the fourth annual Brass Crescent Awards! We’d like to thank all of our readers, who provide us with new viewpoints and great comments, and we’d like to thank all those who voted for us! We still have a lot of growing to do here. By the time next year’s Brass Crescents roll around, we’d like to have a fancier... Read more
Salaam, loyal readers! I hope you’ve gotten your votes in and confirmed for the Brass Crescent Awards; they end today! Also, the newest issue of Bitch magazine is out; be sure to pick up a copy so you can read one of MMW’s earlier posts, featured in the Love It/Shove It section. A young Canadian girl is allegedly murdered by her father because she did not want to wear hejab. May Allah grant her peace. In the wake of... Read more
This past week the death of Pakistani-Canadian teen, Aqsa Parvez, has been in the news in Canada. This terrible tragedy has made headlines because of the nature of her death – she was strangled to death by her own father in their Mississauga, Ontario home. Before I say anymore I would like to pray that God bless her soul and grant her paradise. Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajioon (meaning: Verily we belong to Allah, and to Allah we return).... Read more
This originally appeared on the blog epiphanies, written by Tasnim. Persepolis, the animated film based on Marjane Satrapi’s graphic novel, will be released in the US on 25 December. The film, like the novel, is in black and white and just as visually striking. Satrapi says that she sees “images as a way of writing” in a more accessible, international language: “when you draw a situation—someone is scared or angry or happy— it means the same thing in all cultures”.... Read more
Who’s Danielle Crittenden? She writes a blog for The Huffington Post and recently, she decided to “take on the veil” as a social experiment for one week of her life in Washington, D.C. She went straight for the gold and decided to wear the starkest, blackest niqab out there, ignoring the fact that the hejab is far more prevalent among Muslim women than the niqab. She blogs about her experience in four separate posts under the title, “Islamic Like Me.”... Read more
Readers, I’m traveling today, and so I’m just putting up a quick post. But tomorrow, we’ll have a full-length post as per usual! In the meantime, remember to give us some love at the Brass Crescent Awards—voting ends this Friday! This originally appeared on the blog Abu Aardvark. Al-Sharq al-Awsat runs a piece complaining about an odd choice by Penguin. For their series of 70 books published as part of the 70th anniversary of Pocket Books, Penguin chose to run... Read more
States in Nigeria adopt a softer side of shari’a, and thousands of young women reap the benefits. A group in Miami focuses on combating domestic violence against South Asian women in Florida. The city workers of Vienna have new uniforms, with an optional headscarf for female Muslim workers. Iran decides to reopen the case of Zahra Kazemi, who died while in Iranian governmental custody in 2003. The Canadian Press examines the issue of a middle ground between sports and hijab.... Read more
Television commercials and print ads have fascinated me for some time as these messages are not there to entertain or teach, but to manipulate the people into mass consumerism. As someone who is being schooled to analyze all messages critically, I find myself hyper-aware of the messages we receive through advertisements. In order to be successful, however, the messages must resonate with the masses, reflecting what they feel, desire, and crave, bringing them into the message, as if they themselves... Read more
Muslimah Media Watch thanks Modern Muslimah for the tip! According to Reuters, scores of Muslim women in London are signing up for self-defense classes because of a rise in Islamophobic-based attacks. I support this idea and personally think that all women should be required to take classes such as these in middle or high schools. What I don’t much care for is the whimsical spin the organizers are putting on this. Muslim women are learning to protect themselves? Let’s make... Read more
I usually avoid MTV because of its basic lack of programming that interests me. This weekend, however, I happened to catch an episode of True Life that chronicles people in different walks of life going through different life experiences. The episode I happened to catch was entitled “I’m Having an Arranged Marriage.” I can’t find the episode summary on MTV’s website, but the summary goes like this: MTV follows three people on their journeys through arranged marriage. The show follows... Read more
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