
Scarves, Veils, Politics and Women
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"BREAKING" BURQAH-RELATED ITEMS 2015-2016
Egypt: Faculty women to sue Cairo University for banning full-face veil for teachers
Netherlands: After 3 years & 2 coalition governments, parliament finally set for burqa bans
Russia: Muslim women in Moscow creating a more positive image of Islam via fashion
UK: Supreme Court rules in favour of Samantha Elauf denied a job by Abercrombie & Fitch over headscarf
India: Kerala High Court permits Muslim girls to wear hijab for medical entrance test
France: Male republicanism which trumped facts re the face veil, spreads to vulnerable prostitutes
2011 "COVERED" EXHIBITIONS IN BRITAIN AND ELSEWHERE
2011 FEMINIST CONFERENCES: RELIGION, POLITICS & VEILS
VEILED REVOLUTIONARIES 2011
VEILED REVOLUTIONARIES 2012-2014
India: Growing male alcoholism stirs Haryana women to defy marital violence, even discarding veils
Turkey: Women resist token govt reforms which have long disallowed Kurds their mother tongue
Syria: Heroic creativity & resilience of women in building peace and democracy escape political & media eyes
India: The turban both a symbol of identity & a ‘visual shield’ for women
Turkey: Female MPs don headscarves to mark the end of ban
emphatically imposed since the early days of the Republic
India :Courageous 'Daughter of the Sea',Jazeera Vadakkan, undaunted by abuse & threats from Kerala’s all-powerful sand mafia
UK: Sahar Al Faifi answers the imperative for the voices of the face-veiled Muslim women to be heard
Iran: Shirin Gerami, wearing full Islamic attire, creates history in London triathlon grand final
Sweden: Thousands of women from all walks of faith don the veil after assault on hijab-attired pregnant woman
Palestine: Women’s Group in Nablus takes culturally sensitive approaches in quest for gender equity
Egypt: Words of Women project documents women’s leading role in country’s January 25 Revolution
Kyrgyzstan: Women see new popularity of Hijab as about responsibility before Allah, faith & choice
Pakistan: Women rally against Govt apathy towards Hazara killings and insecurity
UK: New Muslim Suffragettes face death threats & fatwas for providng tortured & abused sisters with refuge
"BREAKING" BURQAH-RELATED NEWS 2014
France: French burqa ban being both unequal & biased breeds Religious Intolerance
China: Mounting dress code repression from Xinjiang claims Uighur women as its first victims
Australia: Qld Independent MP Peter Wellington's Identification Laws amendment bill dumped
Tajikistan: Education ministry equates Muslim headscarf with militant security threats
UK: Judge warns jury against prejudice after granting Muslim women her face veil entitlement
Global: A woman is more than her clothes, but her Islamic
dress also about both choice & fashion
UK: Former justice secretary Ken Clarke [most
unhelpfully] sledges court witness veils as “bags”
Read also: Ignore the Ukip bigotry and allow women to choose the attire compatible with their own beliefs
and: Shun France’s burqa ban which both curbs liberty and subjects women
to violent religious hatred
Sudan: Woman’s
headscarf prosecution typifies c ountries where governments rregulating
the wearing of religious symbols & attire
UK: Of 5,000 converting to Islam annually, most are
women seeking an increased spiritual fulfillment
UK: Despite PM Cameron’s approval, Birmingham College forced to retract veil ban
Read also: Wearing a veil in Britain, rather than mandatory, is a woman’s choice
Canada: Quebec Charter widely seen as divisive rather than creating religious harmony
Australia: Anti-migrant Liberal Ray King conjures link between burqa tradition & criminality
US: Lady Gaga’s burqa antics probably inappropriate, but perhaps amusing for Muslim women
Australia: The first AFL umpire to wear a hijab, Melbourne schoolgirl makes history before thousands of fans
France: Heavy-handed police enforcement of veil ban stirs Paris riots
France: Veiled pregnant women assaulted by skinheads causing one to miscarry
Sudan: Exhibition of colourful clothing and trendy fashion sense of women in Darfur
France: Hollande seeks political points via a broadening of headscarf restrictions
India: Former President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam’s visit to St. Ann's College for Women in Hyderabad sees scarf-wearing students banished to rear
Iran: Govt stations morality police in Tehran to arrest women for dress & cosmetic transgressions
Global: Rather
than to the burqa, the roots of female oppression lie in economic,
political, & social discrimination and violence against women
Global: Face veils no risk to State foundations, while other ostensible excuses for bans almost laughable yet succeed in provoking racist violence
Women, Leadership, and Mosques: Changes in Contemporary Islamic Authority, edited by Masooda Bano & Hilary Kalmbach
France: Muslim woman defends right to wear burqa at European Court of Human Rights
Europe: Amnesty Report condemns burqa bans for denying Muslim women jobs and education
India: Compliance with college uniform does not imply a burqa ban at Mangalore Colleges
France: President Hollande to retain burqa ban. Vows instead to ‘have it applied in the best way'
Turkmenistan: Bride price raises value of daughters, but wedding veil ensures brides remain faceless
France: Niqab ban subjects Muslim women to private imprisonment & increased public violence
Turkey: Alâ Magazine becomes the warmlyly welcomed avant-garde of "Tesettür," or "Veiled" fashion
Canada: Citizenship & Immigration Minister Jason Kenney bans women’s veils when taking citizenship oath
But also read: Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s ban on women’s veils at citizenship oath ceremonies is ham-handed, absurd & unnecessary
Arab Spring: Feminists live in fear of rollback of rights granted under past dictatorships
Yemen: Women torch their makrama to globally expose tyrant Ali Abdullah Saleh’s 'bloody massacres'
Tunisia: Women watch in horror as Western do-gooders & Islamic fundamentalists rejoice first free election
Norway: Yemen's veiled mother of the revolution acclaimed as joint 2011 Nobel Peace Laureate
The Netherlands: Ban on Islamic face veils reflect influence of Freedom Party's anti-migrant bigot Geert Wilders
France: Interior Minister, Claude Gueant, hails prejudice extending bans to outdoor Muslim prayers
France: Businessman, Rachid Nekkaz, sets up fund to pay fines for European women choosing to wear banned Islamic veils
Australia: Ban-the-Burqa-Liberal, Senator Cory Bernardi, also in league with Dutch anti-Islamic Geert Wilders
Australia: Ban the Burqa Rallies disingenuously designed to fuel racism & religious intolerance in the name of security
Read also: US allegations of "veiled" women from Australia being recruited by al-Qaeda disputed as fabricated news
and: Australian Women accept Sharia Law where application "fair" to all parties
France: Sarkozy’s burqa ban a windfall for London at the expense of Paris retailers
Jordan: Iranian women’s soccer team unfairly & cruelly banned from playing Olympic qualifier
UK: Confronting Anti-Muslim Hatred with Organized Resistance to Burqah Bans
France: Under Sarkozy’s (Xenophobic) Veil
A Quiet Revolution by Leila Ahmed
Secularism vs communalism: learning from the ban on full face covering veil in France by MariemeHelie Lucas
France: Excessive burqa law risks turning 'wearing the veil' into a national 'anti-Sarkozy symbol'
Towards A Future Without Fundamentalisms: Analyzing Religious Fundamentalist Strategies and Feminist Responses by Cassandra Balchin
Belgium: "Take Two" of efforts to punish women for even partial covering of face in public
As in German, former Bundesbank banker, come author, Thilo Sarrazin also comes across as a white supremicist/racist in English
France: In bid for racist vote, Le Petit Sarkozy outlaws face veils for residents & tourists
India: Europe's burqa intolerance perpetuates false stereotypes which devalue Muslim women
Dr Huma Ahmed-Ghosh: Dilemmas of Islamic and Secular Feminists and Feminisms
Israel: Protests mount as the Taliban Haredi, ultra-religious women, adopt the burqa for “modesty‘s sake”
Iraq: Since US-led invasion, women’s attire marks the ascendancy of religious values in a once secular society
Germany: Frankfurt case set to reignite national debate on permitted public attire for Muslim women
Iran: Some universities placed on notice to enforce stricter Islamic dress code for both female and male students
Walking a Tightrope: Women and Veiling in the United Kingdom by Ayesha Salma Kariapper |