NewsRack: 'Veiling Practices' news in 'Muslim Women' topic for user Iram

Muslima exhibition: interviews and art by Muslim women	20.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Muslima is an online exhibition showcasing the voices, stories and work of diverse Muslim women across the world. Veronique Mistiaen reports "The only woman it seems permissible to judge and even ridicule today is the Muslim woman," says Samina Ali. "What other woman faces as much scrutiny or is the target of random violence from both her own community and others?" An Indian-born Muslim who lives in San Francisco, Ali is the curator of Muslima: Muslim Women's Art & Voices, a new global online exhibition. "The impression many have of Muslim women is that they have no voice, no freedom – not even a face because they move around behind burqas! Even if a woman chooses just a headscarf, there's fear and misunderstanding about the veil," says Ali, a novelist and co-founder of Daughters of Hajar, an American-Muslim feminist organisation. "We wanted to help reverse the stereotypes and the best way to do that seemed to present Muslim women speaking to the complex realities of their own lives, through ...
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Man in burqa arrested from ladies rest room	13.5.2013	Coimbatore - City - The Times of India
A 25-year-old man was arrested from the ladies rest room of a shopping mall on Sunday afternoon.The accused was wearing a burqa and carried red chilly powder, a knife and a pair of gloves in his hand bag.
On the Muslim Question by Anne Norton – review	10.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Anne Norton rejects the 'clash of civilisations' view of Islam and the west, but offers little to replace it Anne Norton thinks that the "Muslim question" is, if anything, a question about non-Muslims. She is straightforward in denying the claim that Islam and the west are involved in a "clash of civilisations", castigating writers of various political persuasions who have, blatantly or inferentially, put forward this view. She thus criticises writers such as John Rawls (as well as those, such as Michael Walzer and Michael Ignatieff , who "have urged them on") for saying that Muslims constantly seek empire and territory, for stereotyping Muslims' political orientation as the antithesis of liberalism, and for promoting a false history that conceals liberalism's own failings. In an effort to find more common ground, she underwrites Derrida 's assertion that Islam is "the other of democracy" because Muslim states could retain their distinctiveness while recognising Israel and promoting democratic ...
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Terror outfit warns women in Waziristan against voting in May 11 polls (Cached)	9.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Islamabad, May 9 : An unknown terror group has warned that women in Pakistan's Waziristan area should not vote in Saturday's general election, threatening punishment if they did.
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Native American encounters took art into pastures nude	6.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Traditionally the rebirth of nudity in art was traced to classical influence, but long-lost images of the New World in a Pinturicchio fresco hint at a different provenance The discovery of what seems to be the first European depiction of Native Americans in a fresco in the Vatican is not just a chapter in the history of two continents. It is a revelation about the origins of the nude in art. In Europe 500 years ago, statues were throwing off their clothes. The naked human body was honoured in a revolutionary way. After more than a millennium of Christian veiling, the flesh was suddenly shown off. Michelangelo carved his statue of David , putting a colossal male nude at the public heart of the Florentine republic. Giorgione emulated him by putting nude paintings of women outdoors in Venice . In Orvieto, the wiry nudes of Luca Signorelli gathered for the Last Judgment . Traditionally this rebirth of the nude, which shaped a new sense of human beauty and helped create modern culture, is ...
Saudi Arabia to allow girls to play sport at private schools	5.5.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Students must adhere to 'decent' dress code and sharia law, but move is seen as thaw in kingdom's restrictions on women Saudi Arabian girls will be allowed to play sport in private schools for the first time in the latest in a series of incremental changes aimed at slowly increasing women's rights in the ultraconservative kingdom. Saudi Arabia's official press agency, SPA, reported on Saturday that private girls' schools are now allowed to hold sport activities in accordance with the rules of sharia law. Students must adhere to "decent dress" codes and Saudi women teachers will be given priority in supervising the activities, according to the education ministry's requirements. The decision makes sport once again a stage for the push to improve women's rights, nearly a year after two Saudi female athletes made an unprecedented appearance at the Olympics . "It's about time," said Aziza Youssef, a professor at King Saud University. "Everything is being held back in Saudi Arabia as far as ...
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€1m safe cracking leaves Belgium town bitter and suspicious	3.5.2013	The Guardian -- Front Page
Zedelgem's mayor disappointed by residents who rushed to sweep up cash from safe thrown out of getaway car It sounds like premise of a film examining the morals of a small Flanders town – and that was the position the residents of Zedelgem found themselves after a botched robbery in which panicked thieves threw a safe from their getaway car, leaving €1m in cash fluttering in the road. The Zedelgem mayor, Patrick Arnou, described it as "a rainstorm of money" enticed dozens from their cars and homes, including one with a broom, to scoop up the notes. But now police say the money must be returned and those who took it face up to two years in jail if they fail to return the cash. A veil of suspicion has fallen over the town: neighbours watch neighbours as police go door to door, questioning residents. "People talk about nothing else any more," said Arnou. "In the street itself, there is an atmosphere of bitterness." Some residents who missed the illicit windfall said they understood ...
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Afghan-father-guns-down-daughter-over-affair (Cached)	3.5.2013	Hindustan Times: World
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Custom officials seize gold worth Rs 25 lakh from woman in Tamil Nadu (Cached)	1.5.2013	New Kerala: India News
Chennai, Apr 30 : Custom officials today arrested a woman at the airport when she alighted here from Dubai with gold valued at Rs 25 lakh.
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How will Saudi Arabia's anti-domestic violence campaign work?	30.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Saudi women can't do anything without a male guardian's permission – including see the advert Here is a laudable campaign against domestic violence in Saudi Arabia – the first ever in that conservative and repressive country. Powerful and affecting – a woman in a niqab with a badly bruised eye stares into the camera above the message "some things can't be covered" – it has been written about by western media outlets from the Daily Mail to the New Zealand Herald . However, the women most likely to be affected by the violence it depicts are unlikely to be able to see it without permission from the men who rules their lives. For the kingdom still forbids women from travelling without their male guardians' permission or from driving a car. The internet, where these women could see the image, is heavily censored and any attempt to leave the country would lead to an automatic text message being sent to her male guardian. In 2009, the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap report ranked Saudi ...
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Mother-of-bomb-suspects-found-deeper-spirituality (Cached)	29.4.2013	Hindustan Times: Top Stories
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Mother of Boston bomb suspects found deeper spirituality (Cached)	29.4.2013	CNN-IBN: World
In photos of her as a younger woman, Zubeidat Tsarnaeva wears a low-cut blouse and has her hair teased like a 1980s rock star. After she arrived in the US from Russia in 2002, she went to beauty school and did facials at a suburban day spa.
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Tamerlan Tsarnaev and radical Islam: friends and neighbours seek answers	27.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Those who knew and worked with parents of Boston bombing suspects say family was increasingly split The third floor of the wood-framed house in which the Tsarnaev family lived in a quiet, residential street in Cambridge used to be noisy and messy, the sound of furious arguments often heard through the open windows by neighbours. More than a week since Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev are alleged to have planted two bombs at the finishing line of the Boston Marathon which killed three people and maimed scores more , it is empty and silent. As investigators turn their attention to the motive behind the attack, friends and neighbours of the Tsarnaevs, ethnic Chechens who came to the US a decade ago, seek their own answers. It seems clear, from interviews given by family members and others, that Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, the older brother who is believed to have been the mastermind of the bombings and who was killed while attempting to escape capture, underwent a process of radicalisation in his ...
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Suspect-s-widow-drawn-into-Boston-bomb-investigation (Cached)	24.4.2013	Hindustan Times: World
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America's greatest asset against radicalisation: Muslim Americans \| Ed Husain	24.4.2013	Guardian: Comment is Free
The threat of extremism inspired by foreign troublespots is real, but what makes the US strong is its tradition of religious freedom Watching the American television news cycle, it is as though the country had been occupied by an army of Islamist radicals. The criminal actions of two young American men are derailing the sense and composure of the world's only superpower. Rightwing pundits are exploiting Boston to revive their pet policies on immigration control, and fueling hatred of Islam. Ann Coulter demanded Tamerlan Tsarnaev's wife to be jailed for merely wearing a hijab, and Sean Hannity wanted to waterboard the suspect. Both wanted to kill, not arrest, try, and convict. No, do not dismiss them as "marginal" – they opine on prime-time television in America's largest cable television network, Fox News. Many on the American left have an altogether different impulse: denial and deflection. Melissa Harris-Perry and her guests at MSNBC thought Islam had as much to do with Boston bombings ...
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Muslim parents appeal hijab ban in Russian court (Cached)	23.4.2013	New Kerala: World News
Moscow, April 23 : Muslim parents whose children have not been allowed to wear headscarves or hijab to school in a southern Russian region have appealed to the Supreme Court.
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Assam school bans hijab, suspends 4-year-old girl for wearing it (Cached)	22.4.2013	CNN-IBN Top Stories
Fatima's parents were served a 15-day notice by the school authorities, saying that they must either abide by rules or not sent the child to school.
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Woman suicide bomber kills five in Pakistan (Cached)	20.4.2013	New Kerala: India News
Islamabad, April 20 : A woman suicide bomber blew herself up outside a hospital in Pakistan's northwest tribal region Saturday, killing five people and injuring four others, a media report said.
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Bi Kidude dies	17.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Enigmatic performer of taarab music and one of the first Zanzibari women to sing in public The Zanzibari singer Bi Kidude (Kiswahili for "Little Granny"), who has died at the age of around 102, had a haunting voice and enigmatic stage presence. In the last 30 years she came to be widely recognised as one of the finest musicians from an island famous for spices and open to influences from the east. She grew up in the village of Mfagimaringo, where her father was a coconut seller: of her age, she said, "I cannot say that I know it myself, but my birth was at the time of the rupee." The Indian currency was used in east Africa up to the first world war, and a near-contemporary calculated that Bi Kidude was born around 1910. Along with the pioneering teenager Siti binti Saad (1880-1950), Bi Kidude was one of the first Zanzibari women to lift the veil and sing in public. This was a courageous move in a society where women were confined to purdah. The two were the first female communicators on ...
Strasbourg's Great Mosque – a tourist magnet	9.4.2013	The Guardian -- World Latest
Political wrangles delayed the start of building and led to restrictions. But now, with plans for an extension, the mosque has become a symbol of ecumenical progress in France One woman asked why Ramadan, the Muslim month of fasting, changes dates every year. Then came a question about how Muslims calculate that the world is entering the year 1434. For Abdelrahman Binjalloun, a Moroccan-born pharmacist who doubles as a guide, the questions were routine. Since it was inaugurated last September after a three-decade controversy – and even while it was under construction – the Great Mosque of Strasbourg has become a tourist site, a destination for school excursions and a meeting place where French people come face to face with their increasingly numerous Muslim neighbours. Such coming together is not the norm in France, whose army has been dispatched to Mali to destroy bands of radical Islamists who hold 15 French citizens hostage. At home Christian traditions have been rubbed the wrong way ...
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