{"id":5481,"date":"2010-01-15T00:00:20","date_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/muslimahmediawatch.org\/?p=5481"},"modified":"2010-01-15T00:00:20","modified_gmt":"2010-01-15T08:00:20","slug":"friday-links-january-15-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/mmw\/2010\/01\/friday-links-january-15-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Links &#8212; January 15, 2009"},"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><ul>\n<li>After the Afghan parliament rejected several of his cabinet member appointments, Hamid Karzai submits new nominees, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rfi.fr\/actuen\/articles\/121\/article_6443.asp\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">three of which are women<\/a>. But don\u2019t get excited yet: the rejected nominees include a woman, so it\u2019s unclear whether parliament doesn\u2019t want any women, or just one in particular.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>One of Turkey\u2019s most prominent human rights lawyers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/01\/06\/world\/europe\/06iht-turkey.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">reveals a secret about her family<\/a> that may help begin to heal the Turkish-Armenian divide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Nadia Hassan <a href=\"http:\/\/www.middle-east-online.com\/english\/features\/?id=36590\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">speaks out about her invasive airport search<\/a> last week in Chicago.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ajc.com\/lifestyle\/muslim-women-embrace-sorority-272595.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Atlanta gets its first Muslim sorority<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Malaysia announces that it has begun an <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/1\/12\/nation\/5454333&amp;sec=nation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">allocation for Muslim women who are undergoing divorce<\/a> and have not been paid maintenance. More <a href=\"http:\/\/thestar.com.my\/news\/story.asp?file=\/2010\/1\/13\/nation\/5458619&amp;sec=nation\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Kuwait is getting their <a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/world\/middle-east\/Eve-taxi-Kuwait-women-to-go-places-on-pink-power\/articleshow\/5434613.cms\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">own ladies-only taxi service<\/a>! Meanwhile, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.almasryalyoum.com\/en\/news\/womens-rights-group-opposes-all-female-taxis\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">women\u2019s group in Egypt is against the same idea<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Grazia gets it, sort of: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.graziadaily.co.uk\/talkingpoints\/archive\/2010\/01\/11\/are-the-fashion-police-going-too-far.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">why fining women for wearing niqabs is just as bad as outright banning them<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Common Ground News examines the role of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commongroundnews.org\/article.php?id=27059&amp;lan=en&amp;sid=1&amp;sp=0&amp;isNew=1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">female religious guides (<em>murshidat<\/em> or <em>mourchidat).<\/em><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em><!--more--><\/em>The BBC follows a <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/8449262.stm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">female driving instructor\u2013who wears a niqab<\/a>.\u00a0 More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lancashiretelegraph.co.uk\/news\/4847401.East_Lancashire_Muslim_ladies_in_the_TV_driving_seat\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Independent <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/uk\/this-britain\/the-many-faces-behind-the-veil-1865772.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">examines the \u201cface behind the veil.\u201d<\/a> *eyeroll*<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>USA Today<\/em> looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/religion\/2010-01-12-france-muslim_N.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">France\u2019s attempt to ban the niqab<\/a>. So does <a href=\"http:\/\/www.islamonline.net\/servlet\/Satellite?c=Article_C&amp;cid=1262372314561&amp;pagename=Zone-English-News\/NWELayout\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Islam Online<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Speaking of burqa bans, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.smh.com.au\/breaking-news-world\/only-three-women-in-denmark-wear-burqa-20100113-m51m.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here\u2019s another reason it\u2019s stupid to ban them in Denmark<\/a>: only <em>three <\/em>women in Denmark wear the burqa.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>AltMuslimah examines the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.altmuslimah.com\/a\/b\/a\/3506\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hui Muslim practice of female spiritual leaders<\/a> (<em>nu ahong). <\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><span>A first-of-its-kind survey by the Malay Muslim Women\u2019s Organization has revealed what could be a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/stories\/singaporelocalnews\/view\/1030458\/1\/.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">worrying trend of early remarriages among Malay divorcees<\/a>. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A student organizes a<a href=\"http:\/\/newstimes.augusta.com\/stories\/2010\/01\/13\/new_562884.shtml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> charity run that will benefit the Jordan River Project<\/a>, a charity that helps Jordanian women and children.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Newsweek <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/\/frameset.aspx\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.newsweekturkiye.com%2Fhaberler%2Fdetay%2F35416%2FMy-Husband-Fought-for-Islam\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">interviews the widow of the Jordanian man who blew himself up in Afghanistan<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/230607\/page\/1\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">looks at the role of women in Al Qaeda<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>People in the Indonesian government <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2010\/01\/12\/gossip-programs-increase-divorce-rate-minister.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">believe that banning \u201cgossip programs\u201d will decrease the divorce rate<\/a>. Riiiiight.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The Feminist School gives us a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranfemschool.com\/english\/spip.php?article355\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">list of all of the female activists arrested in Iran before and during Ashura<\/a>, and<a href=\"http:\/\/iranfemschool.com\/english\/spip.php?article361\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> many of them have been denied visitors<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sr.se\/cgi-bin\/international\/nyhetssidor\/artikel.asp?nyheter=1&amp;programid=2054&amp;Artikel=3367021\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Sex education changes attitudes in Muslim communities<\/a> in Sweden. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/islamineurope.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/sweden-sex-education-interests-young.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IslamInEurope+%28Islam+in+Europe%29\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Islam in Europe. <\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100105\/FOREIGN\/701049860\/1135\/pollarchive\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rate of divorce in Oman has fallen as a result of men marrying second wives<\/a> without divorcing their first to \u201ckeep families together.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>How Iranian women may <a href=\"http:\/\/www.payvand.com\/news\/10\/jan\/1066.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">benefit from the country\u2019s current political crisis<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The <em>Saudi Gazette<\/em> reports that a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.saudigazette.com.sa\/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&amp;contentID=2010011159799\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">conference at the University of Manchester recently covered female Arab writers<\/a> in the diaspora.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Two <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radioaustralia.net.au\/connectasia\/stories\/201001\/s2793143.htm\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shariah officers in Indonesia have been arrested on charges of raping a female detainee<\/a>. May Allah give her justice and peace. More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2010\/01\/13\/sharia-police-arrested-rape.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Iranian television presenter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/tol\/news\/world\/middle_east\/article6982409.ece\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Shahin Mahinfar is refusing to give in to government pressure<\/a> to deny claims that her son was killed by security forces.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Pakistani-Canadian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theasiannews.co.uk\/entertainment\/s\/1188641_college_professor_crowned_mrs_pakistan\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Tahmena Bokhari was crowned Miss Pakistan 2010<\/a> this week in Toronto. More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestar.com\/news\/gta\/article\/750548--porter-this-beauty-queen-has-brains-and-bite\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A domestic worker was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nation.co.ke\/News\/-\/1056\/840238\/-\/vp9oc4\/-\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">thrown out of her employer\u2019s third-story home. By her employer<\/a>. May Allah give this woman justice.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/rising.globalvoicesonline.org\/blog\/2010\/01\/03\/ewmt-candle-in-the-dark-the-women-bloggers-of-yemen\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Global Voices Online hosts female bloggers in Yemen as part of a project <\/a>to increase blogging worldwide.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>H\u00fcrriyet Daily News <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hurriyetdailynews.com\/n.php?n=language-of-women-in-the-kurdish-movement-2010-01-08\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">discusses the language of women in the Kurdish movement<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thepeninsulaqatar.com\/Display_news.asp?section=World_News&amp;subsection=Pakistan+%26+Sub-Continent&amp;month=January2010&amp;file=World_News201001129414.xml\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Bachelors, students and working women are facing residential problems<\/a> due to the acute shortage of accommodation facilities in the Pakistani twin cities of federal capital Islamabad and the adjacent Rawalpindi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>The horrifically regular story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100111\/NATIONAL\/701109834\/1010\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">sex trafficking in the Emirates<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.iranunfiltered.com\/journal\/2010\/1\/11\/30-mourning-mothers-arrested.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Thirty members of Iran\u2019s \u201cMourning Mothers\u201d have been arrested<\/a>, after they were attacked during an earlier gathering.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hijabtrendz.com\/2010\/01\/10\/hijabis-on-the-run-in-singapore\/\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Muslim women in Singapore participate in the Empowered Muslim Women Run<\/a> 2010. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daylife.com\/photo\/01Q7eACeuXgMS?q=empowered+muslim+women+run\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Hijabtrendz<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A local official of Italy\u2019s anti-immigrant Northern League<a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/news\/world\/Muslim+cleaning+woman+called+security+threat+Italy+Report\/2419908\/story.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> accused a Muslim cleaning woman of being a security threa<\/a>t. Via <a href=\"http:\/\/islamineurope.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/italy-muslim-cleaning-woman-called.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+IslamInEurope+%28Islam+in+Europe%29&amp;utm_content=Google+Reader\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Islam in Europe<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100113\/NATIONAL\/701129850\/1139\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">lack of adequate childcare centers is costing Emirati women<\/a> and their country. More <a href=\"http:\/\/gulfnews.com\/news\/gulf\/uae\/general\/key-speakers-at-dubai-forum-highlight-childcare-needs-1.567185\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Iraqi widows<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100114\/NATIONAL\/701139859\/1139\/national\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> speak out against female suicide bombers<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>An Emirati man <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenational.ae\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20100114\/NATIONAL\/701139859\/1139\/national\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">spreads the message about spending more time with one\u2019s wives and children<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>TwoCircles<a href=\"http:\/\/twocircles.net\/2010jan13\/muslim_women_malabar.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"> profiles the Muslim women of Malabar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2010\/01\/13\/a-matter-life-and-death.html\" class=\" decorated-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">maternal mortality in rural Indonesia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em><strong>As always, if we\u2019ve missed any news stories about Muslim women, please feel free to post them in the comments!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After the Afghan parliament rejected several of his cabinet member appointments, Hamid Karzai submits new nominees, three of which are women. 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