Slate.com put up pictures yesterday for Ramadan, with pictures from as early as 1956 to as recent as 2006, from all over the Middle East and some parts of Europe. What do all these pictures have in common…other than an “othering” effect? A near total absence of women. There is only one picture that has women in it out of eighteen. This picture is black and white, and it shows women entering and leaving Tripoli’s main mosque. The foreground of... Read more
Here are some links for 09/13/2007: Barbie or Fulla? I’d prefer neither. The Brunei Times has a great piece on how Fulla can be just as harmful to young girls’ ideas about women as Barbie. Muslim women work out, too! But I’m confused; if they’re all in a women-only studio with floor-length drapes shielding them from outsiders…why are they still wearing headscarves? “Birminghamabad” in Britain offers British Muslim women different role models: among them a politician and a pop singer.... Read more
Muslimah Media Watch wishes all of its Muslim readers and their families a blessed and happy Ramadan! Read more
In case you haven’t heard, Canada announced Thursday that it would allow niqabis* to vote with their faces covered, prompting everything from voter fraud concerns to xenophobic comments from lawmakers. Since this has been such a big deal lately (it’s all over Google’s news search), reporter James Mennie from newspaper The Gazette had a bright idea: his article is titled, “Hey, here’s an idea: Let’s ask Muslims what they think.” The article is basically a conversation between Mr. Mennie and... Read more
Sorry! I’ve been bi-zaaaaaaaaaaay.I’ll start posting regularly again tomorrow. While you’re waiting, check out this great post about media coverage of Ramazan from Religion Writer.com. Read more
This letter appeared originally on Islam’s Green. It is an open letter from Muddassar Arani, a Muslim lawyer who has been singled out by the media.She needs our assistance. I have included abridged comments here, as well as her email address so that you may contact her with your prayers and/or assistance.She writes: “I am being targeted merely because I happen to be a Muslim, a woman who wears the headscarf. I need the assistance from the Muslim community to... Read more
This piece, titled “Unveiling Muslim Feminism” by Erin Wiegand, is from In These Times, the web version of a print magazine. I didn’t see this cover of the Economist, but you can trust I would have said something if I had! Anyway, I’m including the article here despite some historical date errors the author makes. I include corrective notes within the text (This is my thesis, people). I also included the picture that ran with the piece, which I don’t... Read more
The BBC reports that “A political row has broken out in Switzerland over a campaign poster from the right-wing Swiss People’s Party….” The poster that everyone is mad about is pictured here, because I couldn’t find a picture of the other one: it’s three white sheep kicking a black sheet off of Switzerland’s flag. While this is disgusting enough, the Swiss Racist Party has another poster which I’m equally as angry about, and which is actually relevant to the blog.... Read more
Have you heard of Baba Ali and Hijabman? They’re not a Muslim comic book duo. If you’re an active Muslim youth, it wouldn’t surprise me if you had heard of them. For my non-Muslim readers, Baba Ali has become a YouTube phenomenon with his series The Reminder, a series of webcasts that deal with topics relevant to young Muslims. It has been translated into several languages, has spawned merchandise, and become a huge YouTube hit. Hijabman has a website “to... Read more
Some links for 9/04/2007: Maytha from kabobfest.com talks about an Arabic satellite TV show that’s very similar to The View: four Arab women from different countries talking candidly on all sorts of haram subjects. And how the American media is finally realizing that Arab women aren’t just shy, naïve women who don’t own their own voices. Surprise! NOT cool. A Muslim woman was arrested and denied the right to wear her hejab. Alhamdulillah! Haleh Esfandiari has finally been released! I... Read more
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