App Puts Up Hundreds Of Images Of Indian Muslim Women In ‘Online Auction’ To Insult Them, Journalist Files Complaint
New
Age Islam News Bureau
02
January 2022
• App Puts Up Hundreds Of Images Of Indian Muslim
Women In ‘Online Auction’ To Insult Them, Journalist Files Complaint
• Tunisian Ons Jabeur And 10 Arab Sportswomen To Watch
In 2022
• Najd crowned women’s handball champions
• Pakistan women cricketers determined for stellar
performance in 2022
• "To Hurt A Woman Is To Insult God": Pope
Francis In New Year's Speech
• The Underground Sperm Smuggling Ring That Helps Palestinian
Women Have Their Imprisoned Husbands' Babies
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App Puts Up Hundreds Of Images Of Indian Muslim Women In ‘Online Auction’ To Insult Them, Journalist Files Complaint
Scroll Staff
02-01-2022
An online application that put up doctored photographs
of Muslim women to harass and insult them through an auction has attracted the
condemnation of social media users on Saturday. This is the second time in a
span of a year that such an app has been created.
In July, an app called “Sulli deals” had posted
hundreds of images of Muslim women for “online auction”. “Sulli” is a
derogatory term used to refer to Muslim women.
The new app, named “Bulli Bai”, reportedly works in a
similar way as “Sulli Deals”, reported NDTV. Muslim women with a number of
followers on Twitter have been targeted on the both the apps, which were
uploaded on repository hosting service GitHub.
A complaint was filed on Saturday by Delhi-based
journalist Ismat Ara, who posted a screenshot of the website bulli.github.io
that had put up her photograph.
“It is very sad that as a Muslim woman you have to
start your new year with this sense of fear and disgust,” she said. “Of course
it goes without saying that I am not the only one being targeted in this new
version of #sullideals.”
In her complaint, the journalist said that
bulli.github.io had posted a doctored photograph of her “in an improper,
unacceptable and clearly lewd context”. “I am often the target of online trolls
and this seems to be the next step in such harassment,” she said.
The journalist said that “offences of sexual
harassment under sections 354A(iv) [making sexually coloured remarks], 506
[criminal intimidation], 509 [words or gestures intended to sexually harass
women] of the Indian Penal Code and Sections 66 [damaging computer data] and 67
[transmitting obscene material] of the Information Technology Act” had been
clearly committed.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (south-east district)
Esha Pandey said that “appropriate legal action” would be taken, The Indian
Express reported.
Meanwhile, Union Information Technology Minister
Ashwini Vaishnaw said that GitHub had blocked the portal on Saturday morning.
He added that the Indian Computer Emergency Response Team and the police are
“coordinating further action”.
Shiv Sena MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said on Saturday that
she had spoken with the Mumbai Police commissioner and the Maharashtra director
general of police about investigating the matter. “Hoping those behind such
misogynistic and sexist sites are apprehended,” she said.
All India Ittehadul Muslimeen chief Asaduddin Owaisi
said the app was “disgusting” and alleged that “inaction by authorities has
made these criminals brazen”.
The Network of Women in Media described the matter as
“shocking and totally condemnable”. The organisation noted that it had sought
action against the creators of the Sulli deals app.
In July, a first information report was lodged based
on a complaint received on the National Cybercrime Reporting Portal against the
app, the Delhi Police Cyber Cell had said. However, the police have not made
any arrests yet in the “Sulli deals” case, according to The Indian Express.
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Tunisian Ons Jabeur And 10 Arab Sportswomen To Watch
In 2022
Tunisian Ons Jabeur
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Reem Abulleil
Jan 2, 2022
The Tunisian continues her historic rise up the WTA
rankings and kicks off her 2022 campaign at No 10 in the world.
The 27-year-old enjoyed a history-making 2021,
becoming the first Arab player – man or woman – to make it to the top 10 in
tennis, peaking at No 7 in November.
She became the first Arab to win a WTA title when she
triumphed in Birmingham last June, and followed that up by becoming the first
Arab woman to reach the quarter-finals at Wimbledon.
“As you know I’m someone that likes challenges and
especially likes to say the goals out loud. I want to keep breaking records, I
want to keep making history and giving even more the example for the athletes
out there,” Jabeur told reporters in Abu Dhabi last month.
“I want to continue my journey and be able to win more
titles, prove myself that I deserve the spot in the top 10. I’m very ambitious
for next year, I’m going to expand more the team, I’ll let you know when
everything is confirmed and it’s going to be a great season hopefully.”
Having already secured six victories in the F4 UAE
championship, the Emirati teenager made history in 2021, by becoming the first
woman to step on the podium in the Italian F4 Championship, when she finished
third at Misano last June.
“What an amazing feeling! I got my first podium, and
it was quite unexpected. Obviously, I knew I had the pace and I could reach the
top three, but it is a dream come true for me,” Al Qubaisi said after the race.
The 19-year-old from Abu Dhabi, following in the footsteps
of her father Khaled and her older sister Amna, has made a lasting impression
on racing in Italy for Prema Powerteam and will be eyeing further success this
year in Formula 4 and the Formula Regional Asian Championship.
Now 18, the midfielder recently turned up in a photo
on Zinedine Zidane’s Instagram, who met with Jefry and Emirati footballer Nouf
Al Anzi as part of a campaign for their shared sponsor, Adidas.
Jefry is the first woman from Saudi Arabia to be named
as an ambassador for Adidas and she is thrilled to play a part in promoting
women’s sport in the country.
“I am happy with the development of women’s football
in Saudi Arabia, and I aspire to do more with the hope that the spotlight will
be on more female talents,” she said.
In December 2019, at just 12 years of age, Goda became
the first African to be ranked No 1 in the ITTF Under 15 girls’ cadet category.
Last September, age 13, the Egyptian prodigy defeated
Africa's most successful female player Dina Meshref 4-2 in the semi-finals to
become the youngest finalist in the history of the African Table Tennis
Championships.
At the ITTF World Youth Championships last month, Goda
won gold in the U15 girls’ doubles event and took silver in the singles, to
finish her landmark 2021 on a high note.
An Olympic champion in the making, Goda’s journey is
already a remarkable one and she already has her sights set on making more
history in 2022.
The 33-year-old Moroccan is the first Arab to earn
playing privileges on the Ladies European Tour and just wrapped up her 11th
full season competing on the circuit.
In 2021, Haddioui qualified for her second consecutive
Olympic Games, where she stunned with an ace on the seventh hole in Round 2
before concluding her Tokyo campaign in 43rd place.
The Agadir resident’s 2021 season was highlighted by
an 11th-place finish at the Czech Ladies Open and more recently an eighth-place
finish at the Aramco Team Series event in Jeddah.
Back from maternity leave, the former world No 3 made
a winning return to the PSA tour a few weeks ago, defeating compatriot Hana
Ramadan to reach the quarter-finals of the CIB Squash Open Black Ball, just
five months after giving birth to her baby daughter Farida.
El Tayeb, who slipped to No 9 in the rankings, will be
looking to climb her way back up and challenge fellow Egyptians Nour El
Sherbini and Nouran Gohar at the top.
The first Egyptian to win a WTA 125 title, the first
Egyptian woman to win a match at a Grand Slam, the first Egyptian to reach a
WTA final, the first Egyptian woman to crack the top 100 … Sherif’s extensive
list of firsts achieved in 2021 earned her a nomination for the tour’s Newcomer
of the Year award.
The Cairene finished her season ranked a career-high
61 in the world and will be searching for new heights as a new campaign gets
underway this month in Australia.
The 21-year-old Lebanese has qualified for the Beijing
2022 Winter Olympics, where she is set to compete in the slalom and giant
slalom events.
Currently training at her base near Les 3 Vallées in
France, Ouaiss enjoyed a strong 2020-21 campaign with four victories in slalom
and giant slalom in Cedars and great showings at FIS events in Montenegro.
Egypt’s most successful swimmer rebounded from a
difficult Tokyo 2020 Olympics with some strong performances at the World
Championships in Abu Dhabi last month, reaching the final in the 100m butterfly
and the semi-finals in the 50m freestyle and 50m butterfly events.
The African record-holder, three-time Olympian, and
two-time World Championship bronze medallist is looking to hit some best times
in this upcoming season, with an eye on the World Aquatics Championships in
Fukuoka in May.
At the tender age of 15, Al Khatib has already
represented the UAE at a World Championship, thanks to the wildcard she
received to compete in Abu Dhabi last month.
The teenage backstroker recently picked up two gold
medals and a bronze at the Arab Swimming Age Group Championships in the UAE and
is looking to take another step forward in her young career in 2022.
Source: The National News
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Najd crowned women’s handball champions
ARAB NEWS
January 01, 2022
RIYADH: Najd have won the first women’s handball
championship cup organized by the Saudi Handball Federation at Dar Al-Uloom
University Hall in Riyadh.
The teams were Najd, with Jeddah Hands and Al-Majd in
the first group, and Najd Al-Mustaqbal, Elite and Al-Himma making up the second
group.
Opening the tournament, the women of Najd showed their
strength and determination to win the title early, beating Jeddah Hands a 4-11.
Jeddah Hands player Alaa Sindi said she underwent
intensive training with her team in preparation for the launch of the first
women's league in the Kingdom for the game.
And she said she joined referee courses and
participated as a goalkeeper and a referee at the same time in the tournament
that concluded in Riyadh.
"With my team, Jeddah Hands, I played this
tournament as a goalkeeper," she said. "I followed many training
courses in goalkeeping as well as referee courses. I was hoping that we would
win the championship. In Riyadh, we competed with five other teams from Jeddah
and Riyadh."
She said she was relatively new to the game, but said
loved it a lot, adding that she was not put off by the roughness of the sport.
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1996326/sport
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Pakistan women cricketers determined for stellar
performance in 2022
By Sohail Imran
January 02, 2022
LAHORE: Pakistan women cricketers say that COVID-19
has affected sports activities in 2021. It was not easy to play after the
COVID-19 break, and the results of the series against South Africa and the West
Indies were not in favor of the Pakistan team.
But the national women's team players are determined
that they will not repeat the mistakes in 2022 and will only focus on the
Women's World Cup, scheduled to be held in 2022.
Source: Geosuper
https://www.geosuper.tv/latest/12735-pakistan
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"To Hurt A Woman Is To Insult God": Pope
Francis In New Year's Speech
by Chandrajit Mitra
January 01, 2022
Vatican City: Pope Francis used his New Year's message
on Saturday to issue a clarion call for an end to violence against women,
saying it was insulting to God.
Francis, 85, celebrated a Mass in St. Peter's Basilica
on the day the Roman Catholic Church marks both the solemnity of Holy Mary
Mother of God as well as its annual World Day of Peace.
Francis appeared to be in good form on Saturday
following an unexplained incident on New Year's Eve where he attended a service
but at the last minute did not preside over it as he had been expected to.
At the start of the Mass on Saturday, he walked the
entire length of the central aisle of basilica, as opposed to Friday night,
when he emerged from a side entrance close to the altar and watched from the
sidelines.
Francis suffers from a sciatica condition that causes
pain in the legs, and sometimes a flare up prevents him from standing for long
periods.
Francis wove his New Year's homily around the themes
of motherhood and women - saying it was they who kept together the threads of
life - and used it to make one of his strongest calls yet for an end to
violence against them.
"And since mothers bestow life, and women keep
the world (together), let us all make greater efforts to promote mothers and to
protect women," Francis said.
During an Italian television programme last month,
Francis told a woman who had been beaten by her ex-husband that men who commit
violence against women engage in something that is "almost satanic".
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began nearly two years
ago, Francis has several times spoken out against domestic violence, which has
increased in many countries since lockdowns left many women trapped with their
abusers.
Public participation at the Mass was lower than in
some past years because of COVID restrictions. Italy, which surrounds Vatican
City, reported a record 144,243 coronavirus related cases on Friday and has
recently imposed new measures such as an obligation to wear masks outdoors.
In the text of his Message for the World Day of Peace,
issued last month, Francis said nations should divert money spent on armaments
to invest in education, and decried growing military costs at the expense of
social services.
The annual peace message is sent to heads of state and
international organisations, and the pope gives a signed copy to leaders who
make official visits to him at the Vatican during the upcoming year.
Source: Ndtv
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The underground sperm smuggling ring that helps
Palestinian women have their imprisoned husbands' babies
Fouad AbuGhosh
2nd January, 2022
From the moment Hossam Al Attar passed the phial
containing his semen to his wife, Farhana, she knew she had only a small window
to act.
Their hands moved furtively, trying to avoid the
attention of the Israeli prison guards who kept a wary eye on Farhana during
one of her rare visits to the facility where Hossam had been imprisoned since
2009.
Her heart pounding in her chest, she left the prison
and drove an hour to the Gaza border, where she began the arduous process of
crossing the Israeli checkpoint to the other side.
But her mission was of vital importance – the
container of semen was the last hope the couple had for fulfilling a long-held
dream: to conceive a child.
Farhana and Hossam were married in late 2008, young
and in love. Only three months later, Hossam was arrested by Israeli forces
during the Israel-Gaza war, and sentenced to 18 years in prison.
With the prospect of a long separation, they hatched a
plan to secretly transport Hossam's sperm to a clinic in Gaza, the coastal
enclave on the Mediterranean that has been sealed off from the world by Israel
and Egypt for more than a decade.
Before making her visit to her husband in prison,
Farhana sought help from Dr Baha Al Ghalayini, considered one of Gaza's
best-known IVF doctors.
The Cambridge-educated Palestinian gynaecologist and
obstetrician trained under Patrick Steptoe, the late British pioneer of in-vitro
fertility treatment.
The semen samples Dr Al Ghalayini receives vary in
their condition, with many brought to him in makeshift containers. Once
received, they are immediately frozen in specialised storage.
There is no publicly available data on how many
Palestinian couples have conceived using sperm smuggled from Israeli prisons,
but anecdotally there have been dozens since the mid-2000s.
First there is the delicate task of smuggling the
semen out of the prison cell, then the frantic journey to the Gaza border, then
the time-consuming crossing at the Israeli checkpoint, and finally – provided
the semen survives that long – the medical procedure itself on the other side.
"It was hard and risky, especially for the
smugglers. Whoever does this puts his life in danger," said another
Palestinian woman in Gaza, Sherine Al Sakany.
Sherine conceived twins from semen smuggled six years
ago from the Israeli prison where her husband is currently serving a 28-year
sentence.
Next was Farhana's procedure itself. Using sperm taken
from Hossam's container, Dr Al Ghalayini and his team carefully fertilised one
of Farhana's eggs and surgically planted it inside her.
In 2014, Gaza was bearing the brunt of bombardment
from Israeli warplanes during one of the deadliest conflicts between Israel and
Hamas – the militant group that controls Gaza – in several decades.
Sheltering at home, as shells exploded on streets
around her, Farhana received a call from Dr Al Ghalayini. Tests showed the
embryo he had cultivated in his lab and inserted into Farhana's uterus was
healthy.
Many Gazans see conceiving a child using such methods
as an act of resistance to Israel and Egypt's years-long blockade of Gaza,
which has made contact between those living in the territory and the outside
world extraordinarily difficult, if not impossible.
Now seven years old and never having met him, she
knows little of her father except for what she can glean through photos and
stories her mother tells her.
Some nights, Jannat wakes in the small hours and runs
to her mother's bedside, where she tells her of a dream she's had where her
father is sleeping peacefully next to her.
Over breakfast, she laments that her father can't take
her to school and see her off at the gates, or wait for her at the sound of the
bell.
Source: ABC.net
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