The man who attacked a Muslim woman in a busy shopping center, because he thought she was “just another illegal immigrant” has now been sentenced. Ian Brazier, was given a six-week sentence that is suspended for 18 months, and ordered to complete a diversity awareness course by magistrates in the town.
12 May 2012 Cultural barriers often stop Muslim women from involving in sports. Muslim Women’s Sports Foundation (MWSF), with the support of FA has launched a new initiative to get the Muslim women to become more physically active and challenge gender related issues in the community.
Yesterday in Dearborn, Michigan, noted anti-Muslim activists Pamela Geller and Robert Spencer hosted a conference promising to advocate for “human rights” in one of the largest Muslim communities in the United States. Geller, writing on her blog on Sunday, warned, “We will meet fierce resistance by Islamic supremacists who will do anything, say anything to…
In a new anthology of essays about flirting, dating and sex published on Tuesday under the title “Love, InshAllah: The Secret Love Lives of American Muslim Women.” The two editors, Ayesha Mattu and Nura Maznavi, sought to create a book that dispelled the stereotype of Muslim women as mute and oppressed. They gathered 24 portraits…
19.07.2011 Topics that dominate the representation of Muslims in the British media today are “women” and “extremism”. As Qantara reports, though, Sara Khan, Director of Inspire, and award-winning British Muslim consultancy, claims that “Muslim women feel that these topics are inadequately addressed by Muslims themselves”. Therefore, two British organizations have decided to take action against…
