Exiled Afghan Women’s Cycling Champ, Fariba Hashimi, to Ride for Israeli Team
New Age Islam News Bureau
26 October 2022
• 24 Bangladeshi Women Rescued From Captivity of a
Saudi Recruiting Agency in Saudi Arabia
• Rep. Rashida Tlaib Refuses To Back Dearborn Muslim
Parents Outraged Over 'Sexually Explicit' School Books
• Turkish NGO KADEM’s Summit Highlights Cultural Codes
and Women
• Left-Wing Feminists Are Missing In Action on Iran
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Exiled Afghan Women’s Cycling Champ, Fariba Hashimi, to Ride for Israeli Team
Fariba Hashimi
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25 October 2022
An Israeli cycling team announced Monday it has
recruited exiled Afghan athlete Fariba Hashimi, a day after she won her
national championship — held in Switzerland since the women’s sports event has
been banned by the ruling Taliban.
Hashimi, 19, and her sister Yulduz, 22 — who took
second place in the event — fled Afghanistan days before the ultra-conservative
Taliban entered Kabul last year and took over the country, carrying out a
crackdown on women’s rights.
Now building a new life in Italy, Fariba Hashimi has
accepted an invitation to join Women’s WorldTour team Israel – Premier Tech
Roland, extended by the team’s owner Sylvan Adams, according to a statement on
the team’s behalf.
The statement said Yulduz will join the team as well
next year, “with the announcement of a U23 Continental team in the works.”
“We are making history here as these two brave women
become the first from their country to reach this level of the sport,” said
Adams. “It is part of our commitment to helping young cyclists from all over
the world – from developing nations to war zones.”
“I can’t lie – it’s so exciting but it’s pressure,
too,” said Fariba Hashimi. “Honestly, I didn’t think I would get this
opportunity to ride for a WorldTour team and a chance to race in the Tour de
France.
“I will take the challenge head-on and race for all
the women in Afghanistan. My country today is dangerous for many of the women
living there. Women are not free to live and thrive as they wish, but if they
see me riding in the TDF with the Afghan colors they will see that everything
is possible.”
Adams, an Israeli-Canadian philanthropist, has been
involved with efforts to rescue Afghans following the Taliban takeover last
August.
The Taliban have banned women from playing sports,
barred women from many government jobs and forbidden secondary school education
for girls.
The Islamist organization also takes a hard line
against Israel, with a spokesman declaring last year it was open to ties all
with countries except the Jewish state. The Taliban has a history of supporting
al-Qaeda, which routinely makes threats against Israel and uses anti-Israel
rhetoric in its propaganda.
The internationally-backed government that was toppled
by the Taliban, the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, also did not have
relations with Israel.
Source: Times Of Israel
https://www.timesofisrael.com/exiled-afghan-womens-cycling-champ-to-ride-for-israeli-team/
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24 Bangladeshi Women Rescued From Captivity of a Saudi Recruiting Agency in
Saudi Arabia
24 Bangladeshi women
rescued from captivity in Saudi PC: collected
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October 25, 2022
A total of 24 Bangladeshi women, who remained captive
illegally by a Saudi recruiting agency, have been rescued in the Kingdom of
Saudi Arabia (KSA) recently.
With the initiative of the Bangladeshi embassy and the
help of Saudi law enforcers, the women were rescued from Arar city, 1,100km
away from the Saudi capital city Riyadh, according to a press release, received
on Tuesday.
Receiving information over the confinement of the
women, the Ambassador of Bangladesh to Saudi Arabia Dr Mohammad Javed Patwary
asked the Labour Welfare Wing of the embassy to take necessary steps to rescue
them without delay.
The ambassador also directed the Labour Welfare Wing
to send them back to Bangladesh as soon as possible.
According to the Labour Welfare Wing, a Saudi
recruiting agency named 'Maqtab Taowasul Alsari' took the women there illegally
through a Bangladesh recruiting agency named 'Messrs . Anwar overseas' and held
them captive instead of sending them to the workplaces of Saudi employers.
Later, all the connections between the women from
their native homes were disconnected. Even, if any woman fell sick due to
insufficient food and safe water, they were not provided treatment.
The concerned Saudi agency also obstructed the
officials of the embassy while they wanted to visit the spot and inspect the
condition of the women.
Currently, 24 women are undergoing treatment at the Saudi
Female Deportation Centre.
The Saudi recruiting agency was shut down after filing
a case.
The Saudi authority concerned is continuing its
sincere efforts to send those women to Bangladesh quickly.
Source: Dhaka Tribune
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Rep.
Rashida Tlaib Refuses To Back Dearborn Muslim Parents Outraged Over 'Sexually
Explicit' School Books
October
25, 2022
Rep.
Rashida Tlaib is opposed to Muslim parents in her new district who, in an
alliance with conservatives, are furious about school materials protestors say
are sexually explicit.
On
Oct. 13, hundreds of people filed into a Dearborn School Board meeting, most to
object to some books in schools that parents said contained inappropriate
sexual material, according to FOX 2 Detroit. That meeting followed another
earlier in the week that was suspended because the sheer number of attendees
present broke fire code.
The
Democrat, a member of the leftist "Squad" of House lawmakers, did not
respond to a request from Fox News Digital asking about the incident and
Muslims objecting to various sexual and gender materials in schools. She has
previously condemned the protestors.
Many
of the people in the meeting objecting to the books were Arab American Muslims
from the heavily Muslim Dearborn community, FOX 2 reported. They formed an
alliance in the contentious meeting with high-profile Republicans also opposed
to the books.
Many
in the audience also slammed Tlaib herself, according to FOX 2.
Tlaib
previously addressed the school board meeting in a statement to FOX 2 Detroit,
in which she attacked those objecting to the books.
"It
is unfortunate that extremists on the right have been able to set their ugly,
bigoted, and well-funded hate machine on the Dearborn community like they have
on many communities across the country," she said, according to the
outlet. "They are promoting lies, fear, and outrage while chanting Trump's
name."
Tlaib
seemingly also responded to the incident in a tweet on Oct. 14, the day after
the contentious Dearborn School Board meeting, though the post did not
explicitly mention it.
"LGBTQ+
rights are human rights, which is why I am proud to earn a 100% on @HRC’s Congressional
Scorecard for the 117th Congress," Tlaib said the morning after the
contentious meeting. "Everyone deserves to love who they love and live
freely. This is only the beginning of the fight for equality."
Tlaib
currently represents a congressional district that closely borders Dearborn.
After redistricting, Tlaib is moving to a neighboring district that represents
Dearborn itself and where she is now running for another term in the House.
Michigan
is not the only place in the U.S. where Muslims have teamed with Republicans
over shared socially conservative views to oppose the inclusion of gender and
sexual ideology in schools.
In
Wilmer, Minn., nearly a dozen Somali American parents showed up to protest
reports of LGBTQ pride flags in schools. A local school district denied such
flags were being flown, but the presence of the parents appeared to show a
newly-developing coalition.
"Muslim
Americans want the same thing as any parent in this country," Shukri
Abdirahman, a Somali American who ran for Congress as a Republican in
Minnesota, said. "The right for their children to get a quality education
without being indoctrinated. This shouldn't be political, but it seems only
like conservatives and Republicans agree."
In
Missouri, meanwhile, Bosnian American Muslims have been vocal in opposing the
inclusion of sexually explicit material in school libraries. Muslim parents
have also been active in protests in Virginia schools, where the curriculum has
been a hot topic issue for more than year.
Source:
Fox News
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Turkish
NGO KADEM’s summit highlights cultural codes and women
OCT
25, 2022
The
fifth edition of the Women and Justice Summit is scheduled to commence in
Istanbul on Nov. 4. The two-day event will be hosted by the Women and Democracy
Association (KADEM), a leading nongovernmental organization focusing on women’s
rights.
This
year’s event will be held under the theme “Cultural Codes and Women” and will
bring together experts on the issue from around Türkiye and the world.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is also expected to make a keynote speech at the
summit, along with Minister of Family and Social Policies Derya Yanık.
KADEM
said in a statement on its website that participants will discuss the norms
associated with womanhood established by various cultures in modern times and
share the life experiences of women who were included or excluded in the
process of establishing these norms. The NGO highlighted that the summit will
discuss three main questions: How are the norms that negatively affect the
present and future of women built and disseminated? What types of life skills
do women develop against such norms and what methods do they use to survive?
What can be done for women to lead a productive and satisfactory life that is
free from all kinds of oppression?
“Many
cultures around the world produce perceptions around womanhood with some deemed
appropriate and others inappropriate. Standards of judgment, codes of conduct
and expectations are born out of such perceptions. How are these formed and
which purposes do they serve? What type of interactions can be seen between
similar definitions of womanhood in different geographies or different ideals
of womanhood in the same geography? To what extent have women’s rights
movements been able to produce solutions for problems related to these?” the
statement added.
At
an event on Monday to promote the summit, KADEM officials said they were hoping
to start a debate on certain basic questions, including the perception of
womanhood, what purpose it serves and the "woman" models globalized
culture presents. "The ideal womanhood concept changes at times and sets
out standards women are expected to achieve. In traditional societies, urban
women 'belong' to the home and modern urban women are expected to be
well-groomed wives, a mother sacrificing for her children and a woman with a
successful career at the same time. The question here is how women's lives and
preferences are shaped by those expectations and whether local cultures'
contribution to the identity of individuals is disappearing in the face of
those uniform appreciation (of globalized culture)."
Ministers
from Libya, Palestine, Azerbaijan, Algeria, Germany, Hungary and Singapore are
expected to attend the summit.
Among
the participants of the summit are professor Merve Safa Kavakçı, Afghan women’s
rights activist Fatima Gailani and Dr. Tesnim Khriji Chirchi from Ibn Haldun
University. Dr. Sharifa Noaman Al-Emadi who serves as executive director of
Doha International Family Institute, biotechnologist Dr. Hayat Sindi, founder
and CEO of the Ledby Foundation Dr. Ruha Shadab, Gürmen Group board member
Yasemin Gür Solmaz, Valeurs Ajoutees Publishing Director Marlyse R. Ndjenga,
King’s Counsel Sultana Tafadar, World Hijab Day Organization CEO Nazma Khan and
social entrepreneur Ebru Baybara Demir. Other participants include
award-winning journalist Rowaida Abdelaziz, motivational speaker Bilqis
Abdul-Qaadir, journalist and filmmaker Rizwana Hamid, filmmaker Waad El-Kateab,
actor Reshad Strik, Istanbul University-Cerrahpaşa professor Ayşe Taşkent,
presidential advisor Hümeyra Şahin, director-producer Samah Safi Bayazid and
designer Ayşe Akova.
The
Women and Justice Summit is a biannual event that was first held in 2014, using
its title as the theme of its first summit. The last edition in 2020 focused on
"Staying Human in the Digital Age."
Source:
Daily Sabah
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkish-ngo-kadems-summit-highlights-cultural-codes-and-women/news
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Left-wing
feminists are missing in action on Iran
ZOE
STRIMPEL
23
October 2022
As
recently as the 1970s, women were prevented from taking out a mortgage or a
credit card without the signature of a husband. In the early 1990s, rape in
marriage remained legal. Feminism had its work cut out. And as the continued
scourge of sexual assault and domestic violence attests, not to mention the
overturning of the federal right to abortion in the US, the battle is not over
yet.
But
instead of focusing with laser-like intensity on such issues, too many
Left-wing feminists have gone down a performative, narcissistic spiral. They
bang on about imaginary things like “intersectionality” (a web of oppressions)
or “microaggressions” rather than addressing the real-life problems facing
women today.
They
remain conspicuously quiet about some of the worst attacks on women’s rights,
autonomy and dignity around the world. Just as the right-on brigade seem barely
to remember the girls abandoned to the Taliban after our ignominious
withdrawal, they haven’t appeared particularly concerned by events in Iran.
After
a young woman was murdered by Iran’s vice police for the “crime” of letting her
hijab slip, brave women across the country have risked their lives protesting.
Up to 400 activists and bystanders have been killed, in scenes of remarkable
bravery. What have the feminists of the progressive Left got to say about the
fate of their sisters? Where are the protests and public statements? Missing in
action, it seems.
In
the US, some of the highest profile Left-wing feminists – woke heroines all –
are notably quiet too, such as Linda Sarsour, an organiser of the
hundreds-of-thousands-strong Women’s March, and congresswomen Ilhan Omar and
Rashida Tlaib. At various points they have declaimed on Twitter about the right
to wear, or not wear, the hijab, with Tlaib retweeting a “solidarity statement”
from representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez that “the right to choose belongs
to us all, from hijabs to reproductive care”.
Compared
with the urgent and courageous activism of Iranian women in the streets, this
is watery at best.
Source:
Telegraph UK
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/23/left-wing-feminists-missing-action-iran/
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