Exiled Afghanistan Women’s Team Seeks FIFA Recognition
New Age
Islam News Bureau
01 September 2023
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Exiled Afghanistan Women’s Team
Seeks FIFA Recognition
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Delhi Home of Independent
Muslim Woman Journalist, Khushboo Akhtar, Set on Fire; She Suspects Foul Play
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Jordan’s Labour Ministry Slams
Sacking of Pregnant Teacher
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Over 100 Empowered by Women-Led
Kabul Sewing Workshop
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Mumbai: Muslim Women Tied Rakhi
to Cutouts of PM Modi To Celebrate Raksha Bandhan
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Exiled Afghanistan Women’s Team Seeks FIFA
Recognition
Photo: Khaama Press
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By Fidel Rahmati
August 31, 2023
The Afghanistan women’s football
campaign seeks recognition from FIFA and has garnered support from
international figures. Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize laureate, has
recently endorsed the team’s cause.
Malala Yousafzai met with the female
football players of the Afghan team, and she appealed to FIFA on her social
media platform, urging them to recognize the Afghan women’s football team
officially.
She praised the Afghan female football
players and expressed her admiration for their resilient spirit, saying that
being in the company of such “strong” players and standing beside them is an
honour for her.
Former coach of the Afghan women’s
national football team, Khalida Popal, confirmed that FIFA had rejected the
team’s request to be recognized as representatives of Afghan women due to
exile. Popal mentioned FIFA’s gender equality regulations and said that FIFA
has violated human rights, urging people to support it.
Afghan women’s national football team
members recently launched an online campaign to collect signatures for a letter
addressed to FIFA. Over 100,000 signatures have been collected so far. The
letter asks FIFA to recognize the Afghan women’s national football team, which
has been forced to leave the country due to the rule of the Taliban
administration.
After Kabul’s takeover and establishment
of the Taliban regime, the de facto authorities declared a ban on women’s
sports. They halted all female sports activities in both public and private
centres.
The Afghan women’s national football
team members sought refuge in Australia after the fall of the Afghanistan
Republic. They strive to have FIFA recognize their team as the official
Afghanistan women’s national team, enabling them to participate in international
matches.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/exiled-afghanistan-womens-team-seeks-fifa-recognition/
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Delhi Home of Independent Muslim Woman
Journalist, Khushboo Akhtar, Set on Fire; She Suspects Foul Play
'While
33-year-old journalist Khushboo Akhtar, who runs the ‘Pal Pal News’ YouTube
channel, has not identified any miscreants, she claims she was possibly
targeted due to her journalism work'. Photo: By arrangement.
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August 31, 2023
Omar Rashid
New Delhi: A Delhi-based independent
Muslim woman journalist who runs a popular YouTube channel has alleged that
miscreants burnt her house and turned into ashes her books, which included a
copy of the Quran as well as the Ramayana.
While 33-year-old journalist Khushboo
Akhtar, who runs the ‘Pal Pal News’ YouTube channel, has not identified any
miscreants, she claims she was possibly targeted due to her journalism work,
which involves raising issues concerning Muslims and other oppressed
communities.
On Wednesday (August 30), the day of the
incident, Akhtar and her family were not in the said house, as they had shifted
to another house in the city a year ago.
However, they would often visit their
old house – where they had still kept many of their belongings – and meet their
neighbours.
A first information report was lodged at
the Sultanpuri police station here on Akhtar’s complaint on Wednesday. The case
was registered under Section 436 of the Indian Penal Code, which concerns
“mischief by fire or explosive substance with intent to destroy house [sic]”.
No suspect or accused was named.
Akhtar ruled out the possibility of a
short circuit in the house, in which she was raised. Her family had snapped its
power connection to prevent any mishaps, she said.
She suspected foul play after she
noticed that her books, including the Quran and other religious scriptures, as
well as a copy of the Hindu epic Ramayana, which her mother liked to read, had
been pulled out from a cupboard and set on fire next to a washing machine
outside the room.
The burnt bookshelf at Akhtar’s family
home. Photo: By arrangement.
“The books were kept in the almirah,”
Akhtar said.
Akhtar was informed about the fire a
little after 6 am on Wednesday by her neighbours, who noticed smoke coming out
of the third floor. The fire brigade managed to bring the flames under control,
but not before most items were turned to ash or badly damaged.
When she reached her house 45 minutes
after being alerted, Akhtar found that two beds, two cupboards, one dressing
table, a washing machine and many books had been burnt.
“I keep getting threats for regularly
drawing people’s attention to burning topics and social issues,” she said in
her police complaint.
Akhtar said she had no personal enmity
with anyone, but would often receive threats over her work.
When asked to specify any such threat,
she told The Wire, “I often receive rape threats and other threats through
Facebook comments and on WhatsApp. But we would take it as something normal
these days. But setting someone’s house on fire is not normal.”
Pal Pal News has 2.17 million
subscribers on YouTube. Akhtar describes it as a Muslim women-run brand focused
on Muslim, Dalit, tribal, children and women’s rights, and on farmers.
In 2018, Pal Pal News’ account had been
terminated by YouTube on the grounds that certain videos it uploaded had
violated the website’s community guidelines on hate speech.
This happened after it had posted a
video on hate speech against Muslims.
Source: thewire.in
https://thewire.in/communalism/home-of-muslim-woman-journalist-set-on-fire-in-delhi
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Jordan’s Labour Ministry Slams Sacking
of Pregnant Teacher
ARAB NEWS
August 31, 2023
AMMAN: Jordan’s Ministry of Labor on
Thursday condemned the sacking of a teacher on the grounds that she was
pregnant.
Media spokesperson Muhammad Zyoud said
the ministry would not accept such a system to be adopted within schools, the
Jordan News Agency reported.
His comments followed media reports
claiming that some private schools required female teachers to take pregnancy
tests before being hired.
Zyoud urged any teacher who had been
subjected to such treatment to file a complaint via the Hemaya (protection)
electronic platform.
The ministry had also called on the
Teachers’ Committee of the Union of Private Education Workers to provide a list
of schools that employ such practices, he said.
Source: arabnews.com
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2365216/middle-east
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Over 100 empowered by women-led Kabul
sewing workshop
By Fidel Rahmati
August 31, 2023
Farzana Ahmadzai is an entrepreneur who
established a tailoring workshop in Kabul, creating opportunities for 110
individuals. She emphasizes that the silence of women in the face of growing
constraints suppresses the potential of millions of Afghan girls.
Managing her workshop amidst heightened
restrictions on women’s education, work and life, Farzana established a
tailoring workshop two years ago in Dasht-e-Barchi, Kabul. Currently, alongside
men, 35 women between the ages of 15 and 35 who have survived school closures
or government job layoffs work at the workshop.
In her workshop, 110 men and women work,
including 35 young women who are either school survivors or have been laid off
from government jobs. Most of these young women are heads of their households.
Farzana Ahmadzai named her workshop
“FrishtaArizoo” and engages in designing and sewing women’s, children’s, and
men’s clothing. The products are not only used within the country but are also
exported to other countries.
FrishtaArizoo Tailoring Workshop
distributes its products in various parts of Kabul Ghazni province and
maintains a small representative office in Pakistan. They also export the
famous “Afghan scarf” to Germany. The workshop’s founder aimed to escape mental
challenges and confront imposed restrictions through its establishment.
Despite Afghanistan’s conditions, where
women are even constrained in planning their personal life paths due to
pressure from restrictions, Farzana says, “As an Afghan girl, I did not want to
be disheartened in these inappropriate conditions and lose myself amidst
problems and restrictions. Now I feel proud that I could create opportunities
for women.”
She views the market conditions and
sales of her workshop’s products as satisfactory, and they plan to export goods
to all 34 provinces of Afghanistan shortly. “We want our workshop to expand and
achieve global export levels. We aim for citizens to use Afghan products
instead of Chinese and Turkish goods.”
Farzana hopes that national and
international institutions supporting small businesses will support her. She
continues to encourage Afghan girls not to remain silent in these circumstances
and to transform constraints into opportunities.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/over-100-empowered-by-women-led-kabul-sewing-workshop/
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Mumbai: Muslim women tied rakhi to
cutouts of PM Modi to celebrate Raksha Bandhan
Aug 31, 2023
MUMBAI: Responding to PM Narendra Modi's
call to the BJP workers to reach out to "Muslim sisters" and
celebrate Raksha Bandhan with them, the BJP minority morcha in the city invited
over 150 women on the occasion to tie rakhi on a cutout of Modi at the BJP
office in Dadar.
"Modi ji's call to party leaders
and workers to celebrate Raksha Bandhan with Muslim sisters was aimed at
fostering love and tolerance. We invited over 150 women to the party office in
Dadar to participate in the festival," said Waseem Khan, BJP minority
morcha (Mumbai) president and member of the Central Wakf Council.
Khan said that, since these sisters
could not go to Delhi to tie rakhi on the PM, a cutout of him was used to
express the feelings. "Tying the rakhi on the cutout symbolised the
feelings the women have for the PM. They feel indebted to Modiji for scrapping
the draconian practice of triple talaq through a law," he said.
At a recent meeting, Modi had appealed
to party leaders recently to get rakhi tied by Muslim women on Raksha Bandhan
as a way to promote peace and harmony.
Meanwhile, BJP corpoNErWator Atul Shah
too got rakhi tied by many Muslim women at Bhendi Bazaar area. BJP state
Mumbai: Muslim
womenseticerdetraarkyhHitaoji.cuHtaoiudtesr…Azam too2k64aPTdSelegation of
Muslim women to deputy CM Devendra Fadnavis. These women tied rakhis on
Fadnavis as part of celebrations of the festival.
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/muslim-women-tied-rakhi-to-cutouts-of-pm-modi-to-celebrate-raksha-bandhan/articleshow/103252373.cms?from=mdr
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