Former K-Towners who leave Islam
Recently sister Safiya (Outlines) posted an article about the situation of women who got hurt in the Kharabsheh or “K-Town” community in Jordan; this is the community of Shaikh Nuh Ha Mim Keller’s students...
Category: Women
Huge mabrouk to Khadija Bradley
I’d just like to give a huge mabrouk to sister (Cassiopia) Khadija Bradley who got married yesterday (Friday). I don’t know the identity of the lucky man but I am sure he is as...
TMI about Aleppo rape victim?
I’m sure many of you have heard the story of the young girl who suffered terrible injuries in a gang rape in Aleppo last month; you can read the story in English here. There...
Soaked in blood indeed
Rahila Gupta, in today’s Guardian, delivers a confused ramble about the issue of “choice” in wearing or not wearing the hijab in the West and in Saudi Arabia and Iran: I believe it is...
Muslim woman wins bar dress lawsuit
An update about a case I blogged about a few months ago: Fata Lemes, a 33-year-old Muslim woman of Bosnian origin who sued her employer, a Mayfair bar, for sexual discrimination after they made...
Women respond to Melville
Following my rant about Kate Melville's letter in last Saturday's Guardian, two women (one Muslim, one probably not) respond in today's paper: Kate Melville weeps for the hijab- and niqab-wearing Muslim women who have...
Is the hijab just a waste of time?
Last Monday, there was an article by a sister called Jana Kossaibati on finding suitable clothes to go with hijab, complete with a picture feature on various items that the author thought fit the...
A matter of dignity
On Thursday, there were reports about a woman who had taken her former employer, a bar in Mayfair, London, to court for supposedly sacking her for refusing to wear their staff uniform, a short...
Response to Khan & Sikander on Islamic courts
Yesterday, Harry's Place published an article sourced from Gina Khan and one Paul Sikander, attacking Islamic courts and Muslim institutions' marriage practices. I wrote a lengthy article yesterday, but a bug in my blogging...
But freedom for whom?
Yasmin Alibhai-Brown has a confused ramble in today's Independent, lamenting the fact that joining the European Union has decreased in popularity since 2002, when the figure was 70% in favour (by 2006, it was...
Muslimahs Speak Up blog carnival posted
Sister Umm Layth has posted the results of the latest Muslimahs Speak Up! blog carnival, which I was a bit remiss in advertising even though I got an email asking me to, but here...
Niqaabs for Afghanistan?
Having just watched a More 4 documentary of Malalai Joya, the woman who was elected to the Afghani parliament after getting thrown out of the Loya Jirga for standing up to condemn warlords, it...
An example of ignorant pseudo-feminist Islamophobia
Islamophobia Watch pointed up this stupid article which appeared on the Irish Independent's website yesterday, by one Martina Devlin. I'm not all that familiar with Irish newspaper columnists as I rarely read the papers,...
Round-up: Austria, Hassan Butt, Julian Baggini in Rotherham, life in Yemen
Before the week begins in earnest, I thought I might offer a round-up of stories which caught my eye the past week: Stuart Jeffries in the Guardian on the stupid, racist gibberish which has...
Yvonne Ridley wins case against Islam Channel
Harry's Place, a blog I read often but generally disagree with, posted this last week, about Yvonne Ridley winning a case for harassment, sex discrimination and constructive unfair dismissal against the Islam Channel. Since...
Freely: lesser-known facts about the Turkish headscarf ban
Maureen Freely: Cover Stories from Comment is Free Maureen Freely (translator of Orhan Pamuk's books, who has spent a fair amount of time in Turkey) on the politics behind the recent move by the...
Familicide presented as honour killing
Last (i.e. Thursday) night, and the night before, BBC1 showed a two-part series called Honour Kills, about honour-related murders in the British Asian community (mostly Pakistani, with one Kurdish case). Abu Eesa has already...
Emel interviews Carmen Callil
Emel Magazine, a British Muslim lifestyle magazine (Emel is a woman's name meaning hope, and ML stands for Muslim Lifestyle), has an interview with Virago Press founder Carmen Callil. The website has not yet...
Ingrid Mattson on Woman’s Hour
BBC – Radio 4 Woman’s Hour – Ingrid Mattson This is an interview I heard today while out driving; Ingrid Mattson (president of the Islamic Society of North America and the first female, first...
NHS hymen repairs
The other day, Vanessa Feltz brought up the issue of the NHS offering hymen repairs to women of certain ethnic origins who need to appear to be virgins on their wedding night. Apparently, according...