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Friday Links — June 20, 2008

Friday Links — June 20, 2008

Last updated on: January 21, 2012 at 2:28 pm by fatemeh

Friday Links — June 20, 2008 2012-01-21T14:28:00-04:00 fatemeh

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A four-year old girl finds a pig’s head with an Islamophobic slur on her doorstep. Via KABOBfest.

A woman speaks out on her experiences with sexism and racism in the British Army. Via Feministing.

More women blowing themselves up in Iraq.

A woman, her daughter, and several members of their family were killed in an automobile accident. May Allah grant them peace.

Arab News examines exam-related depression for Saudi school girls.

Students at Zanjan University in Iran protest to demand punishment for a school official who is accused of sexual harassment. Same story with more detail here.

The Egyptian state forbids a 92-year-old man to wed a 17-year-old girl.

I should just have this story on repeat. Because it happens every freaking summer! Iranian police arrest women for dress code violations. You can see some pictures here.

A Chinese Muslim woman carries the Olympic torch! Barikallah!

Sex trafficking in India.

Sisterhood gets some more press.

Australian groups that cater to Muslim and Christian women have been given additional funding

Remember the Muslim woman in the U.K. who was refused employment in a hair salon because she wears a headscarf? A British court awarded her damages. Barikallah!

Lingerie stores in Saudi Arabia provide more opportunities for sexual harassment than lingerie purchases.

Writeous Sister Speaks shares some of her favorite photos of Muslim women around the world.

Best-selling memoir Burned Alive, about a woman who survives an “honor killing” attempt on her life, is revealed to be a hoax. Via TalkIslam.

One Saudi woman tries to ignore the driving ban and gets caught.

The New York Times profiles Fadela Amara, one of the highest-ranking Muslim women in France.

The Pakistan Muslim League–Nawaz Women’s Wing pledges to hold a sit-in until judges who were fired are reinstated.

More “Wear a Burkha For a Day” stuff.

The charges against Aqsa Parvez’s father have been upgraded to first-degree murder.

A deeper look at the case of Muslim women who were fired from a Minnesota, U.S. factory for refusing to wear pants.

Women in Da’awah, a Muslim women’s group in Nigeria, plans to organize a conference in late June, aiming to stress Muslim unity among women.

Kurdish feminist Hana Abdi is sentenced to five years in an Iranian jail for “subversive activities.”

Andrea Useem looks at the media coverage around The Harvard Gym Shebangang and examines her own views.

A Bahraini female-to-male transsexual won a his three-year legal battle to have his sex-change legally recognized by the courts.

Two Muslim women who wear headscarves were barred from appearing behind Obama’s podium at a rally. Though it was organizers who ask them to move, Obama himself apologized.

Tehran, Iran opens a park where women can wear whatever they want, because no men are allowed inside.

A camp for girls is established in Saudi Arabia.

The U.N. Security Council unanimously adopts a resolution demanding warring nations stop using rape as a tool of war. About damn time.

Turkish singer Bulent Ersoy is tried for dissent over remarks she made about the Turkish military.

Qatar puts forth a law that may help protect the rights of domestic workers.

Conservative Kuwaiti parliament members draft a bunch of misogynist laws. Via TalkIslam.

I don’t know how I missed these, but here’s a link from altmuslim about Fatima Bhutto, niece of Benazir, writer, and poet. And Saraji Umm Zaid discusses violence against women.

A look at Azerbaijan’s first lady, Mehriban Aliyeva.

Inside the abodana (co-operative) for Indian Muslim women. Via Indian Muslims.

Female Muslim artist Ghada Amer is showing her work at the Brooklyn Museum.

More about Muslim women in the U.K. Via Islamify.

Also, here’s a cute video from reader Fadwa. She and her friends created this for an English project:

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