{"id":15368,"date":"2014-05-16T02:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T06:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mmw\/?p=15368"},"modified":"2014-05-15T22:54:33","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T02:54:33","slug":"friday-links-may-16-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mmw\/2014\/05\/friday-links-may-16-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links | May 16, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>A new ad for a fashion label features a <a href=\"http:\/\/jezebel.com\/mens-fashion-commercial-features-burqa-twist-ending-1575125171\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">man in a burqa<\/a> (oops, just spoiled the ending!)<\/p>\n<p><figure id=\"attachment_15369\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15369\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/92\/2014\/05\/may16.jpg\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-15369\" title=\"may16\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.patheos.com\/blogs\/sites\/92\/2014\/05\/may16-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-15369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Muslim woman walking away after casting her vote at a polling station in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh, on Monday. Kevin Frayer\/Getty Images [<a href=\"http:\/\/india.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/12\/in-final-lap-varanasis-muslims-rally-behind-kejriwal\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">source<\/a>].<\/figcaption><\/figure>The photographer whose photos of girls from Guinea-Bissau were <a href=\"http:\/\/lens.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/08\/the-real-story-about-the-wrong-photos-in-bringbackourgirls\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">used as part of campaigns related to the girls kidnapped in Nigeria<\/a>writes about how African girls are not, in fact, interchangeable.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<em>Feminist Wire<\/em> piece by Rochelle Terman looks at the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/thefeministwire.com\/2014\/05\/ayaan-hirsi-ali\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">problems with Ayaan Hirsi Ali\u2019s portrayals<\/a> of Muslim societies and Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/08\/muslim-girls-react-nigeria-kidnapping\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Teenage Muslim girls<\/a> from Indonesia, Yemen, Mali, Pakistan, Nigeria, and Afghanistan speak out on the importance of education for girls and their reactions to the kidnapping of over 200 female students in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>A recent\u00a0<em>TIME<\/em> magazine post about hijab being \u201ca pain in the summer\u201d was widely <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2014\/05\/14\/time-social-media-fail-hijab_n_5325214.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">criticised on social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bina Shah writes about the importance of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/05\/14\/opinion\/shah-teaching-liberation-to-pakistans-girls.html?smid=fb-share&amp;_r=0\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sex education for girls in Pakistan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Nesrine Malik at\u00a0<em>The Guardian<\/em> writes about the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/may\/12\/muslim-scare-stories-media-halal-sharia-niqab\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">scare stories<\/a>\u201d about Muslims that keep coming up in the media.<\/p>\n<p>A\u00a0<em>Telegraph\u00a0<\/em>article on Islamophobia in the UK asks \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/womens-politics\/10819884\/Islamophobia-why-do-so-many-young-men-hate-Muslims.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">why do so many young men hate Muslim women?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cheryl Sudduth of California is the <a href=\"http:\/\/english.alarabiya.net\/en\/perspective\/profiles\/2014\/05\/09\/Muslim-woman-running-for-U-S-Congress.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">second Muslim woman to run<\/a> for the United States Congress.<\/p>\n<p>An article about the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onislam.net\/english\/culture-and-entertainment\/iblog\/472433-uk-mosques-let-down-disabled-muslims.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lack of wheelchair access<\/a> in many UK mosques talks about how accessibility issues have a particularly strong negative impact for disabled Muslim women.<\/p>\n<p>An\u00a0<em>SBS<\/em> report looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/2014\/05\/09\/muslim-fashion-bursting-seams\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Muslim fashion in Australia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new ad for a fashion label features a man in a burqa (oops, just spoiled the ending!) 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