Camel Race with Female Jockeys Held In Dubai
New Age Islam News Bureau
01 November 2022
• UAE Women’s Team Steal Show with 10 Medals in
Jiu-Jitsu World Championship
• Kuwait Women’s Ice Hockey National Team Prepares for
International Championship
• Afghan Women Stage Protests in Kabul to Express
Concern On Female Employment
• Iranian Women Protest In Front Of Switzerland
Embassy in Tehran
• Taliban Rips Academic Documents as Women Displayed Them
in Protest
• Iran’s Situation Is a Warning against Hijab
Mandates: Experts
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Camel Race with Female Jockeys Held In Dubai
Women take part in the C1
Championship Female Camel Racing Series in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, October
29, 2022. (Reuters)
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01 November, 2022
Wearing brightly coloured helmets, eight female
jockeys tightly clutch the reigns of their camels as they wait for the gates to
be lifted and the race to kick-off.
The women are taking part the Arabian Desert Camel
Riding Centre Championship, held for the second year in a row at the al-Marmoom
track in Dubai.
“This event has a lot more components than just the
race of the camels or the athletic part behind it,” said co-founder of the
centre, Linda Krockenberger
“It’s also building bridges between Emirati heritages,
with a bit of a new side to it, which is ladies. It also brings together
residents who chose the UAE as their home, and engage in a more traditional
hobby,” she added.
Participant Joanna Patejuk, who is representing Poland
and Ukraine, says riding camels presents different challenges to riding on
horses.
“The important thing is to keep the balance, to keep
the rhythm and to find the connection - the right connection with the proper
camel you actually ride in the race,” she said.
The jockeys will compete with their camels in five
races across a six-month period. The jockey with the most point collected
overall will be crowned the season champion, and receive a cash prize.
Camels hold a great significance in Arab culture. They
have been used for centuries by the bedouins of the region for food, transport,
as a war machine and companion.
In an effort to preserve the Gulf Arab country’s
cultural legacy, the UAE encourages and hosts a variety of camel- related
events, from racing, to festivals to beauty pageants.
https://english.alarabiya.net/News/gulf/2022/11/01/Camel-race-with-female-jockeys-held-in-Dubai
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UAE Women’s Team Steal Show with 10 Medals in
Jiu-Jitsu World Championship
The UAE national women’s
team U16 stole the spotlight on the second day of the 27th Jiu-Jitsu World
Championship.
Image Credit: Supplied
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October 31, 2022
Abu Dhabi: The UAE national women’s team U-16 stole
the spotlight on the second day of the 27th Jiu-Jitsu World Championship,
capturing ten medals, including five gold, in the U-16 division. As the
competitions on Sunday came to a close at the Jiu-Jitsu Arena in Zayed Sports
City, the squad, sponsored by Mubadala Investment Company, was looking strong
with 19 medals in their kitty.
Amna Alhosani (-36 Kg), Dana Albraiki (-40 Kg), Zamzam
Alhammadi (-52 Kg), Alanood Alharbi (-48 Kg), and Haira Aldaheri (-32 Kg) led
the Sunday’s haul by capturing gold. Shamsa Alameri (-48 Kg) and Alhanoof
Almarzooqi (+63 KG) grabbed silver, while Mariam Ahmed (-44 Kg), Meera Alhosani
(-40 Kg), and Maitha Almezaini (-52 Kg) took bronze.
9 medals
The women’s team performance comes close on the heels
of a stunning show by the men’s team, who won nine medals in the under-16
division on the opening day on Saturday, including 2 gold, 2 and 5 bronze.
The Jiu-Jitsu Falcons, as they are affectionately
referred to, produced an outstanding performance on the mats and demonstrated
they were determined to defend the World Champions title secured last year.
Sheikh Khalid Bin Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, Member
of the Abu Dhabi Executive Council and Chairman of the Abu Dhabi Executive Office,
attended the official opening ceremony of the Jiu-Jitsu World Championship on
Saturday. The international championship, considered one of the most important
events in the jiu-jitsu sporting calendar, will run until November 8.
The competitions were attended by Panagiotis
Theodoropoulos, President of the Jiu-Jitsu International Federation (JJIF),
Mohamed Salem Al Dhaheri, Vice-President of the UAEJJF, and Dajana Tanasijevic,
Second Secretary of the Embassy of the Republic of Serbia, in addition to several
officials from the UAEJJF and JJIF and the delegations of participating
nations.
Fahad Ali Al Shamsi, Secretary-General of the UAE
Jiu-Jitsu Federation, hailed the team’s brilliant performance. “I want to
appreciate the girls in the Under 16 division for their great performance and
good spirit. They took out remarkable performance today, It was an amazing
feat,” he said.
Strong start
“Overall, the UAE national team is off to a strong
start at the Jiu-Jitsu World Championship. In just the first two days of the
championship, they were able to bring home 19 medals. Their great performance
today indicates their desire to retain the championship title from last year
and to make all of us proud.”
Dana Albraiki of the UAE national team Under-16
division, gave the team a solid start by winning a gold medal in the Under-40kg
weight class. “I can’t explain how thrilled I was when I saw my name and the
final score on the screen. This impressive accomplishment at the start of my
career was made possible by constant training and support from the technical
team and coaches.”
Jessica Henriques, UAE women’s team coach, said:
“Being the coach of the women’s national team makes me extremely proud of our
team members. They have performed as well, thanks to their rigorous training
and commitment. I congratulate the winners and, of course, the officials of the
UAEJJF and the players’ families for all of their support.”
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Kuwait Women’s Ice hockey National team prepares for international championship
November 1, 2022
KUWAIT CITY, Oct 31: Kuwait Women Ice Hockey National
Team prepares for Kuwait International Developmental Championship that Kicks
off Sunday and proceeds until November 12 with participation of six national
teams under the supervision of the International Ice Hockey Federation (IIHF).
In a statement for KUNA, Kuwait National Team Director
Mohammad Al-Ajmi said on Monday that the players are ready to put on a strong
performance in the tournament that includes Luxemburg, UAE, Ireland, Columbia,
Andorra and Kuwait. He added that the team had a summer training camp in Turkey
to prepare for the season, and also had an internal camp in preparation for
this tournament(KUNA)
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Afghan women stage protests in Kabul to express concern on female employment
1
November, 2022
Kabul
[Afghanistan], November 1 (ANI): Since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan
in August last year, restrictions on the basic rights of women have become a
global concern as a result of which a group of women staged a protest in Kabul
to express their concerns about the continued effective ban on female students
over 6th grade and on female employment, TOLONews reported.
The
women protesters called on the Taliban to work for women and to allow girls
above grade six to learn as the organization’s rule has only added to the
poverty in the country.
“We
call on the United Nations and the international community to pay attention to
us and save women from these violations of their rights,” said Marghalare, a
former employee of the Ministry of Interior.
Due
to a lack of employment and Taliban atrocities women in Afghanistan have become
tragic sufferers as there are limitations on education. The women protesters
held a protest and showed their educational documents as a sign of protest, and
asked the government for jobs and education.
“The
document that we have in our hands is useless because all of us are at home and
do not have any jobs,” said Shokorya, a protester, TOLOnews reported.
After
the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan on August 15, 2021, they immediately
began rolling back the rights of women and girls. Women began to protest on the
streets since Taliban’s first week in power, despite the grave risks they faced
in doing so.
According
to Human Rights Watch, the Taliban response was brutal from the beginning,
beating protesters, disrupting protests, and detaining and torturing
journalists covering the demonstrations. The Taliban also banned unauthorized
protests. Over time, the Taliban’s abusive responses escalated, with a
particularly brutal response to a protest on January 16 in Kabul, when Taliban
members threatened, intimidated, and physically assaulted protesters, using
pepper spray and electric shock devices.
Notably,
the situation of human rights in Afghanistan has worsened since the collapse of
the Afghan government and the Taliban’s return to power in August last year.
Although
the fighting in the country has ended, serious human rights violations continue
unabated, especially against women and minorities. Besides this, the
continuously soaring prices of food products in the country have emerged as a
new challenge for Afghans. In a span of one year, food prices have almost
doubled, reported Khaama Press. (ANI)
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Iranian
women protest in front of Switzerland Embassy in Tehran
1st
November 2022
Sameer
Khan
Tehran:
Iranian women have protested in front of the Switzerland Embassy in Tehran
which also looks after the USA diplomatic interests in Iran.
Demonstrating
against the terror attack at the Shah-e-Cherag shrine in Shiraz, Iran, they
alleged that the USA supports various terrorist outfits to carry out terrorist
attacks inside Iran.
Terror
attack on Shah Cheragh Shrine
An
armed attack on the Shah Cheragh shrine in the Iran city of Shiraz left 15 people
dead on Wednesday and injured 40.
ISIL
(ISIS) took responsibility for the brutal attack in a statement on their
telegram channel. The attackers targeted the Shah Cheragh shrine in Shiraz at
around 5:45 p.m. (local time).
Iranian
President, Ebrahim Raisi vowed to respond to the attack and stated that it will
not go unanswered.
“This
crime will definitely not go unanswered, and the security and law enforcement
forces will teach a lesson to those who designed and carried out the attack,”
Al Arabiya reported quoting Raisi as saying.
The
Wednesday attack comes as the unrest in Iran continues unabated as
anti-government protests sparked by the death of 22-year-old Mahsa Amini in
police custody have only surged in Iran since September 16.
https://www.siasat.com/iranian-women-protest-in-front-of-switzerland-embassy-in-tehran-2447050/
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Taliban
Rips Academic Documents as Women Displayed Them in Protest
By
Saqalain Eqbal
31
Oct 2022
A
number of women displayed their educational credentials at a protest rally as
part of the ongoing protests against the Taliban’s restrictive policies but the
Taliban members, quickly, dispersed them, ripping their documents.
The
Taliban allegedly interrupted and suppressed the demonstration of women in
Kabul, the Afghan capital, held by the Afghanistan Powerful Women Movement
members on Monday, October 31.
According
to protesters who spoke with the local media, the Taliban resorted to violence,
intimidation, and humiliation in addition to tearing some of the women’s
documents to scatter their protest march.
Meanwhile,
a large number of female students at Badakhshan University in northeastern
Afghanistan protested as well after being denied access to the university for
not wearing a burqa.
The
girls are struck with a whip by one of the Taliban fighters in the publicly
available videos, who is supposedly a virtue and vice official of the Taliban.
Student
protests in Badakhshan received extensive coverage in domestic media. Social
networks have strongly criticized the Taliban’s treatment of students.
This
comes as Richard Bennett, the UN’s special rapporteur on the situation of human
rights in Afghanistan, said that the country had put in place harsh
restrictions and hurdles aimed at making women “invisible” in society, a
setback that was “unprecedented” in the country’s history.
The
Taliban’s policy of barring girls from going to school, according to many
Islamic studies experts, has no basis in Islam, and Afghanistan is the only
country in the world to ban girls from getting an education past the 6th grade.
https://www.khaama.com/taliban-rips-academic-documents-as-women-displayed-them-in-protest-47834/
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Iran’s
situation is a warning against hijab mandates: Experts
November
1, 2022
JAKARTA
– Experts, activists and researchers have warned that the persisting trend of
wardrobe policing and mandatory hijab rules in Indonesia is “dangerous” and
potentially deadly as protests over Mahsa Amini’s death spread over the weekend
in universities across Iran.
They
are calling for the continued preservation of democracy and feminist movements
as a means to strengthen women’s rights and safety upon reflecting on the death
of Amini, a 22-year-old woman who died shortly after being captured by the
Iranian moral police for “improper” wearing of the hijab.
Amini’s
death has triggered one of Iran’s largest protests in at least 13 years, with
thousands rallying in defiance of the Tehran government. With police cracking
down on protests, hundreds have died over the past weeks.
That
the case of religious wardrobe policing could turn bloody and possibly threaten
a regime should be noted by Indonesia, experts said in a webinar on Thursday.
They argued that many parallels can be drawn between the incident in Iran and
the increasingly repressive social trend — one of discrimination against
unveiled women and girls — in Indonesia.
“Though
the [Amini’s] case did not happen in Indonesia, we do not live in an isolated
world. Everything is interconnected, especially considering that both countries
are Muslim-majority,” said feminist writer Julia Suryakusuma.
Neng
Dara Afifah, a lecturer at the Nahdlatul Ulama University and self-proclaimed
“Muslim feminist”, explained that Indonesian college students started to wear
the hijab in larger volumes starting in the ‘90s due to excitement over a new
Islamic intellectual movement brewed by the 1979 revolution in Iran.
But,
decades later, the intellectual element of hijab-wearing has seemingly worn
off, said Neng Dara, as state or institutional mandates started using the
religious veil as a tool of uniformity instead of the women’s personal choice.
It
is only through a robust democracy and an active feminist movement that
Indonesian women can defend themselves against this repressive trend, the
scholar suggested.
“Democracy
comes at high cost. In Indonesia, where we have successfully passed the Sexual
Violence Law, there are reasons to celebrate. […] But above all, what is most
important here is the struggle of our women’s movements,” she said.
While
democracy can ebb and flow, it is the women’s movements and organizations that
provide a sense of relief and security, she said. In Special Region of Aceh for
example, where laws are used to justify wardrobe policing mostly targeted at
women, a growing feminist movement has presented a safe space to air out
frustrations and advance empowerment, Neng Dara added.
Mechanisms
like the National Commission on Violence Against Women (Komnas Perempuan)
cannot be taken for granted, the scholar asserted, noting that such democratic
mechanisms may be precisely the elements needed to prevent Indonesia from
spiraling into an Iran-esque state of affairs.
School
of thought
Maziyar
Parvizi, an exiled Persian rights activist living in Indonesia, echoed Neng
Dara’s statement, saying that “while [Amini’s case] may happen anywhere, Iran
is at a disadvantage for not having any tools for civilian protection”. The
core of the problem begins at school in the case of Tehran, Parvizi said, where
a thick undertone of patriarchal ideas is perpetrated on children as young as 5
years old.
“Students
are taught that men are the head of the family, and that women must obey these
masculine figures. […] There is no separation between religion and the state
anymore. I am sorry to say that I see some similarities here in Indonesia,”
said Parvizi.
A
2021 research from the HRW noted that in the 24 Muslim-majority provinces of
Indonesia, “a majority” of the 300,000 state schools have mandated their Muslim
schoolgirls to don the religious headscarf.
Data
from the National Commission Against Violence to Women (Komnas Perempuan) noted
32 districts and provinces with the same rule applied to civil institutions and
public places.
Even
in instances where these rules are not applied through legal means, the
de-facto pressure faced by the women is harsh enough to cause fatalities, said
HRW researcher Andreas Harsono.
“We
have observed bullying cases against women and girls without the hijab in
public spaces. […] The pressure caused by forced mandates has caused several
mental illness cases and suicide attempts,” he said.
In
schools, punitive hijab mandates have also been recorded, such as cases of
schoolgirls getting their uniforms vandalized with markers or having their hair
forcibly cut as a punishment for not “dressing accordingly”, Andreas said. He
added that these rules have also been observed to extend to non-Muslim students
as well.
If
there is anything that another Muslim-majority country can learn from Iran’s
case, it should be that apathy toward the face of repression will only result
in violence and the death of many, Parvizi warned.
“Nonchalance
should not be the response here. I would like to urge all Indonesians to pay
close attention,” he asserted.
https://asianews.network/irans-situation-is-a-warning-against-hijab-mandates-experts/
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