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The “witches” of Pattharghatia By Zehra Rizavi, November 6, 2009 |
The Muslim cleric and the village women in India who recently labeled five widows as witches played the role of self-appointed judge, jury and executioner, condemning their victims to a savage beating. Widows are popular targets because they may possess money or property, however paltry, which their neighbors have a covetous eye on. And the law fails to protect them, leaving their fate to be determined by local patriarchal interpretations of tradition, custom, and religion.  ( ) |
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WISE Muslim women standing up By Sumbul Ali-Karamali, October 23, 2009 |
Promoting women's rights from any perspective is requisite. An Islamic perspective is just one of many avenues. But for Muslim women's rights, this avenue is crucial, because Muslim women need to know that their religion gives them rights that their patriarchal culture often takes away. Malaysia's WISE conference, which gathered Muslim women activists from around the world, is helping demonstrate this. ( ) |
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The new fight to ban the veil By Asra Nomani, October 14, 2009 |
For all those politically correct folks who wonder whether it’s OK to ban Muslim women from wearing the face veil, consider this headline in Pakistan's The Daily Times: “Al-Azhar Plans to Ban Face Veil.” Yes, indeed, the news spreading through the Muslim world is this: Al-Azhar University, the Harvard of Islamic theology in mainstream Sunni Muslim circles, is planning to ban its female students from covering their faces with the face veil, commonly called the niqab. ( ) |
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Rifqa Bary and the Xenos cult By Davi Barker, September 9, 2009 |
Although we should consider all parties innocent until proven guilty, the most likely culprit in the case of Rifqa Bary, the 17 year-old who ran away from her Ohio home in fear of her father, is the Xenos cult, a group that specifically emphasizes Biblical verses where Jesus tells the disciples to leave their family, disown their loved ones. Xenos tears families apart. ( ) |
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Seeking solidarity without reductionism By Misha Maynerick, September 4, 2009 |
Non-Muslim women who desire to build a sense of solidarity with Muslim women need to know that it is absolutely possible to speak out against gross human rights violations within global Muslim communities, and yet avoid the multiple traps of cultural reductionism that we are so bombarded with in the mainstream media. Judy Bachrach’s article, Twice Branded: Western Women in Muslim Lands abounds with examples of what not to do when striving for an authentic sense of sisterhood. ( ) |
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The marital rights of the British Muslim wife By Shelina Zahra Janmohamed, September 2, 2009 |
By recognising the nikah as legally valid, subsequent links in the marriage chain will be forced to deal with legal protection issues with higher standards and in line with legal norms, thereby respecting the religious wishes of the Muslim woman, and at the same time affording her full protection in the law. ( ) |
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Fighting sexism by exploiting class-based oppression By Krista Riley, August 10, 2009 |
An apparent defense of women from sexual harassment in the UAE is encouraging - until you notice that it is directed at the lower class immigrants who make up the bulk of the Emirates population. Richer Arabs harass women too, and should be called out on it. ( ) |
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Abuse, asylum and America By Rafia Zakaria, July 31, 2009 |
A new policy by the Obama Administration has provided an opportunity for abused women, including those under threat of death from karo kari, to claim asylum in the United States. Concerns about notions of Western patriarchy should be seen in the context of the lack of options that hundreds of thousands of women, from Mexico to Pakistan, currently have. ( ) |
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Who wears the trousers in Sudan? By Nesrine Malik, July 20, 2009 |
By flogging women for wearing trousers, the Sudanese government has shown its fear of challenges to the status quo. As with all self-declared Islamic governments, what a woman wears becomes no longer an issue of religious modesty but one of audacity and defiance to a regime's raison d'etre and authority. ( ) |
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Women take charge in Uighur protests By Abbas Jaffer, July 18, 2009 |
The role of women cannot be underestimated in interethnic crisis occurring between Uighurs and Han Chinese in western China. They are protesters, leaders, and they reflect the unique development of Uighur society. And more broadly, these personalities have emerged from social and political marginalization. ( ) |
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Pluralism, partition, and women’s development By Saadia Chaudhry, July 13, 2009 |
Women’s rights, human rights, and pluralism are often a subject in developing democracies. Part of Bapsi Sidhwa’s intent in her book Cracking India was to tell the stories of women, which can be a formative part of the process. Cracking India illustrates what South Asian tolerance once was. We can question how it might evolve. ( ) |
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The Iranian election and the global politics of “pretty” By Latoya Peterson, July 12, 2009 |
Images are driving the Western response to the Iranian elections and, with reporting opportunities strictly limited in Iran, images carry the narrative. For a variety of reasons, many of them are focusing on young, attractive women. Here, Latoya Peterson wonders about complexities hidden behind the emerging icons. ( ) |
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The dos and don’ts of defending Muslim women By Fatemeh Fakhraie, July 7, 2009 |
While the defense of the rights of Muslim women from all faiths and from all corners of the globe is laudable, it’s important to call non-Muslims out on their privileges and prejudices about Muslim women’s lives and manifestations of faith, and the arrogance in how they speak about and interact with Muslim women. ( ) |
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To burqa or not to burqa? By Rabea Chaudhry, June 26, 2009 |
As a secular nation, France has no right to espouse interpretations of any religion or delve into theological discussions of Islam in particular. But we should acknowledge that France’s discussion of a burqa ban stems from an internal need for Muslims to address outstanding, blatant inequities in religious interpretations. ( ) |
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