Hakimah Appointed First Female DG of Department of Islamic Development Malaysia
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March 2022
• Hakimah Appointed
First Female DG of Department of Islamic Development Malaysia
• Ilhan Omar Commends Marvel Studios For Creating
First-Ever Muslim Superhero, Ms. Marvel
Breanna Robinson
• Saudi Security Guard Holds Umbrella For Little Girl
Praying Under The Sun At Grand Mosque
• 'So Disturbing': Hijab Ban In India Province
Confuses, Angers Muslim Women In Manitoba, Canada
• Oscar Spotlight On Marginalised Female Journalists
From India
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Hakimah Appointed
First Female DG of Department of Islamic Development Malaysia
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18 Mar 2022
PUTRAJAYA, March 18 — Datuk Hakimah Mohd Yusoff has
created history by becoming the first woman to be appointed as Director-General
of the Department of Islamic Development Malaysia (Jakim).
Chief Secretary to the Government Tan Sri Mohd Zuki
Ali said the appointment of the former Jakim Deputy Director-General of Policy,
which takes effect on March 21, was based on her 30 years of service,
especially with Jakim.
Mohd Zuki hoped that the appointment of Hakimah would
lead Jakim towards strengthening its role as a competitive Islamic affairs
agency at the federal level and globally.
Hakimah, who graduated from Universiti Malaya with a
Bachelor’s Degree in Syariah in 1990 and a Master’s degree in Human Resource
Development from Universiti Putra Malaysia in 2001, joined the civil service in
1992 as an assistant director at the Jakim Halal Hub Division.
Source: Malay Mail
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Ilhan Omar Commends Marvel Studios For Creating
First-Ever Muslim Superhero, Ms. Marvel
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Breanna Robinson
18-03-2022
Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) commended Marvel Studios for
its first-ever Muslim superhero as the focus of a new Disney+ series, Ms.
Marvel.
In an exclusive report from TMZ, Omar, who is one of
the first two Muslim women to serve in Congress, explained that she found it
exciting that light is being shed on the diverse world we live in, but it's
also amazing to see, but Marvel play a part in that.
"It is incredibly exciting. We're seeing not just
our world to diversify, but representation of our world be diverse," she
told the outlet.
Omar continued: "We're going to see not just
diversity and gender but diversity in culture, and religion, ethnicity – I
think that's just going to be really important."
Actress Iman Vellani is portraying the leading
character Kamala Khan, a Pakistani-American teenager with a burst of
imagination who lives in Jersey City, New Jersey.
The future is in her hands.\n \nMs. Marvel, an
Original series from Marvel Studios, starts streaming June 8 on @DisneyPlus.
#MsMarvelpic.twitter.com/1ZPllR1ktr— Marvel Entertainment (@Marvel
Entertainment) 1647352830
Just like Omar's appreciation for what Marvel has
done, others took to social media to express their joy for the representation
and how much they are looking forward to watching the series.
"I'm excited for this on multiple levels.
Bringing cultural, age, and gender diversity into superhero TV could set great
examples for a new generation of viewers. Also, the number of troll-boy
commenters bemoaning the entire series based on the trailer… Le sigh,"
another added.
A third wrote: "I love this. Looks great. Iman
Vellani is already super charming as Kamala, and it seems like they've really
focused in on that coming-of-age tone (like they've done with Spidey & Kate
Bishop's stories). Very excited. Love those comic-style visuals too.
#MsMarvel."
Source: Indy100
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https://www.indy100.com/viral/ilhan-omar-marvel-disney
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Saudi security guard holds umbrella for little girl
praying under the sun at Grand Mosque
18-03-2022
A humane gesture by a security guard for a little girl
praying at the Grand Mosque in Makkah has won the hearts of millions of people
on social media platforms.
The security guard saw the child praying under the
sun, so he did his best to hold an umbrella to block the sun’s rays giving her
some shade and relief from the heat.
The girl was seen greeting the guard after completing
her prayers.
The girl’s identity is not known, but netizens have
appealed to the authority to honour the man for his noble deeds.
Source: Gulf Today
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'So Disturbing': Hijab Ban In India Province Confuses,
Angers Muslim Women In Manitoba, Canada
Peggy Lam ·
Mar 17, 2022
The next time Tasneem Vali takes her daughters to
India, she will go to even greater lengths to protect them.
"Having to tell my daughters, 'you can't walk
alone outside' … now having to tell them, 'please make sure you take somebody
with you,'" Vali said. "This is something that I have never thought
about."
Vali was reacting to a court decision announced
Tuesday by the Karnataka High Court in South India that upheld a ban of hijabs
in classrooms. Her daughters, Isra Cheema, 15, and Haadia Cheema, 17, wear the
traditional Muslim head-covering for women.
The judges ruled it is reasonable for schools to
enforce uniforms, and said wearing the hijab is not essential to the practice
of Islam.
"I don't understand why a woman's piece of
clothing has become a debate topic that has polarized the entire world,"
Vali said.
"It has become politicized and it is no longer a
woman's expression of her devotion, of her faith," she said. "It has
become a tool and to me, that's upsetting because it is targeting younger
women."
Both Vali and Jaleel say they've been having
conversations with their daughters about what the events would mean if they
were to visit the country.
"To be mobbed or be physically assaulted for
that, I would have to make sure to take all the precautions that they were
not," she said. "So, unfortunately, that is the reality."
"I told my eldest daughter about what happened
and how the high court of Karnataka upheld this decision. She could not
understand why," Jaleel said.
Jaleel still wants to take her daughters to India so
they can know their roots and community, but unfortunately the divide between
religious groups there is increasing, she said.
"It's really exhausting that it's 2022 and still
we have to discuss what women are wearing and what we should not be
wearing," she said.
"These students should be in school getting
education, but they are protesting, going to court and using their time to
justify and fight for their human rights."
Hussain says she worries the ruling will set a
precedent for other states in India, where
Muslims make up 14 per cent of the country's population of 1.4 billion.
"Those young girls, they are not just sitting down
and taking it. They are standing up. They're raising their voices … It makes me
really proud."
Source: Cbc.ca
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/india-hijab-ban-muslim-women-manitoba-1.6389118
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Oscar spotlight on marginalised female journalists
from India
18 Mar 2022
An all-women team of smartphone-toting reporters from
marginalised communities who chronicle India’s hardscrabble heartland may give
the cinema-mad country its first Oscar-winning film, after their own story
became a critically lauded documentary.
The journalists of Khabar Lahariya (Waves of News)
have built a huge following across Uttar Pradesh, a northern state with more
people than Brazil, covering a beat that runs from cow thefts to sexual
violence and corruption.
They have earned the respect of their village
communities by covering local stories often overlooked by India’s established
media outlets, but only after a relentless battle to be taken seriously by
authorities – and even their own families.
Formal discrimination against Dalits was abolished a
long time ago, but they are still often barred from entering temples or houses
belonging to privileged castes, and remain targets of discrimination and
violence.
In Banda, a riverside town a few hours’ drive from the
Taj Mahal, Devi interviewed a woman rendered destitute after she was abandoned
by her husband.
But as word got around that a Khabar Lahariya reporter
was nearby, others approached her to implore coverage of their own woes –
municipal neglect leading to a lack of clean drinking water and dirty,
overflowing drains.
Some women took her aside to privately share their
stories as victims of sexual harassment and violence – issues often hushed up
under the weight of small-town stigma.
Their endeavours are the subject of Writing With Fire,
an Oscar-nominated documentary that has taken the film festival circuit by
storm and already won the Special Jury Award at Sundance.
The fly-on-the-wall narrative shows dedicated
journalists preparing to transition from their legacy newspaper operations to
digital production, unbowed by their encounters with dismissive police and
fearsome local strongmen.
“It’s a very inspiring story. It’s a story about women
who give hope,” Rintu Thomas, the film’s director, said at an Academy Awards
preview event in Los Angeles.
“I think that is very strong and powerful, especially
in the world that we are in right now where there is so much mistrust of the
media,” she added.
India is home to the world’s most prolific film
industry and cinema holds a rarefied place in national culture, with stars
enjoying the almost divine status and people often queueing to watch the same
movie multiple times.
But no Indian-produced film or documentary has ever
won an Academy Award, despite locally shot foreign productions Gandhi and
Slumdog Millionaire each winning Best Picture in years past.
Parts of India have prospered in the three decades
since market reforms brought a jolting end to decades of sclerotic,
socialist-inspired central planning.
Khabar Lahariya works in areas left behind by the
economic boom, where life has barely changed even as new wealth transforms the
country’s urban landscape and culture.
Meera Devi, the outlet’s managing editor, says her
work is driven by a passion for giving a voice to those left out of India’s
success story.
“When I fight for the rights of the minorities,
tribals and other marginalised sections of society – when these people get
heard and get justice, I feel very good,” she said.
The 35-year-old joined the media house in 2006, soon
after it began publishing, initially working on stories of cattle theft and
tragic family disputes before moving on to local politics.
Her work has sent crooks to jail and shamed officials
into ordering the repair of rundown roads, as well as charting the rising tide
of Hindu nationalism in the country’s rural hinterlands.
“The men here are not used to seeing powerful women,
especially in a field like journalism. But we are changing that outlook,” she
said.
“We have proved that if women are given the right
opportunities, we can achieve anything. Once you give women the freedom they
deserve, you simply cannot stop them.”
Source: Aljazeera
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