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Challenging Domestic Violence in Tunisia
Protecting women’s rights in post-revolution Tunisia.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali: Convert To White Supremacy
The raw truth is that Ayaan Hirsi Ali left Islam and effectively converted to White supremacy.
Caroline Fourest fined €6000 for defaming young Muslim victim of racist attack
Rabia Bentot sued Fourest for defamation, and last week the Grand Instance Court in Paris ruled in Rabia’s favour.
Working Women and Islam
Challenging misconceptions of Islamic beliefs, and the ensuing stereotypes of Muslim women, this study of women’s mercantile life in Islamic Egypt sets the record straight.
Tunisia’s Amina quits Femen, citing Islamophobia
Amina Sboui, a Tunisian activist who was detained for nearly three months, said on Tuesday she had left the radical women’s protest group Femen, accusing it of Islamophobia.
Muslim Women Reject FEMEN’s Attempt to “Liberate” Them
Orientalist tropes and Islamophobia lead Muslim women to reject FEMEN’s attempts to save them.
Topless Jihad vs. Muslimah Pride
Muslim Women Shockingly Not Grateful for Topless European Ladies Trying To ‘Save’ Them
BBC: “Hijab for a day: Non-Muslim Women Who Try the Headscarf”
Can “World Hijab Day” help promote religious understanding and tolerance?
Feminist Scholar Leila Ahmed’s Book on the Hijab Wins Grawemeyer Award
Ahmed points out that “Many women who wore the hijab, or headscarf, ‘now essentially made up the vanguard of those who are struggling for women’s rights in Islam,’ Ahmed wrote.”
Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson: “Wherever Women are Taking Over, Evil Reigns”
Christian Rev. wants to strip women of voting rights, what if he were Muslim?
MSNBC: Mona Eltahawy vs. Leila Ahmed
When it comes to women’s rights in Egypt and the Arab world, is the glass half empty, or half full? A fellow feminist, also of Egyptian background, challenges Mona Eltahawy’s views.
Why Do They Hate Us? They Don’t.
Mona Eltahawy argues that Arab men hate women. Danios critiques her controversial article.