Muslim Woman, Murshida Khatoon, Donates Blood While Fasting In Nadia For Karunamayi Mandal A Cancer-Stricken Woman
New Age Islam News Bureau
01 April 2023
• First Egyptian Female, Rana Abdelhamid, Obtains
Permit To Raise Adhan For First Time In Astoria, Oregon, US
• Iran’s Judiciary Chief Threatens To Prosecute
‘Without Mercy’ Unveiled Woman
• Afghan Women Criticise Taliban’s Restrictions On
Employment
• Women Must Be Allowed To Work, Earn Living In
Afghanistan: USAID
• Muslim Women Perform Aarti Of Lord Ram On Occasion
Of Ram Navmi In Varanasi
• Monika Staab Hails Saudi Football League As ‘Hugely
Important’ For Women's Game In Kingdom
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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Muslim Woman, Murshida Khatoon, Donates Blood While
Fasting In Nadia For Karunamayi Mandal A Cancer-Stricken Woman
Mar 31, 2023
A Muslim nurse in West Bengal's Nadia district set an
example of humanity by donating blood while fasting during Ramzan. Murshida
Khatoon, a nurse at a non-governmental nursing home in Nadia district, gets the
news that an elderly named Karunamayi Mandal a cancer-stricken woman, needs
blood. Without delay, she donates blood to that woman by immediately reaching
at the district hospital.
Source: Times Of India
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First Egyptian Female, Rana Abdelhamid, Obtains Permit
To Raise Adhan For First Time In Astoria, Oregon, US
March 31, 2023
A young Egyptian woman residing in the US has
succeeded in obtaining a permit from authorities to allow the five Muslim calls
to prayer (Adhan) to be raised through mosque loudspeakers for the first time
in the city of Astoria, Oregon, US.
Egyptian woman, Rana Abdelhamid, who lives in the city
of Astoria with her mother has obtained these official permits to raise the
call to prayer.
Rana’s mother, Mona Elboghdady, posted on her Facebook
page announcing Abdelhamid’s achievement.
She wrote in the post, which was widely circulated, on
Facebook: “Praise be to God. O God, honor Islam and Muslims. After 31 years in
the US, wishing I could hear the call to prayer in the street. Rana has today a
permission to raise the call to prayer in loudspeakers in mosques for the first
time in Astoria during the month of Ramadan.”
“Of course, she will certainly not call to prayer with
her voice. It is the ‘muezzin’ of the mosque who will do,” she noted.
Elboghdady was showered with positive comments and
pride in what Abdelhamid has done. Abdelhamid is founder of Hijabis of New York
and the Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment.
Elboghdady documented raising the call for prayer in
the city in a videoclip she posted on her Facebook page.
Source: Egypt Independent
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Iran’s judiciary chief threatens to prosecute ‘without
mercy’ unveiled woman
April 01, 2023
A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching
their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of
the morality police last September. (File/AFP)
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TEHRAN: Faced with an increasing number of women
defying the compulsory dress code, Iran’s judiciary chief has threatened to
prosecute “without mercy” women who appear in public unveiled, Iranian media
reported on Saturday.
Gholamhossein Mohseni Ejei’s warning comes on the
heels of an Interior Ministry statement on Thursday that reinforced the
government’s mandatory hijab law.
“Unveiling is tantamount to enmity with (our) values,”
Ejei was quoted as saying by several news sites. Those “who commit such
anomalous acts will be punished” and will be “prosecuted without mercy,” he
said, without saying what the punishment entails.
Ejei, Iran’s chief justice, said law enforcement
officers were “obliged to refer obvious crimes and any kind of abnormality that
is against the religious law and occurs in public to judicial authorities”.
A growing number of Iranian women have been ditching
their veils since the death of a 22-year-old Kurdish woman in the custody of
the morality police last September. MahsaAmini had been detained for allegedly
violating the hijab rule.
Government forces violently put down months of
nationwide revolt unleashed by her death.
Still, risking arrest for defying the obligatory dress
code, women are widely seen unveiled in malls, restaurants, shops and streets
around the country. Videos of unveiled women resisting the morality police have
flooded social media.
Under Iran’s Islamic Sharia law, imposed after the
1979 revolution, women are obliged to cover their hair and wear long,
loose-fitting clothes to disguise their figures. Violators have faced public
rebuke, fines or arrest.
Describing the veil as “one of the civilizational
foundations of the Iranian nation” and “one of the practical principles of the
Islamic Republic,” the Interior Ministry statement on Thursday said there would
be no “retreat or tolerance” on the issue.
It urged ordinary citizens to confront unveiled women.
Such directives have in past decades emboldened hard-liners to attack women
without impunity.
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2279426/middle-east
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Afghan women criticise Taliban’s restrictions on
employment
30 March, 2023
Kabul [Afghanistan], March 30 (ANI): Afghan women have
criticised Taliban’s restrictions on female employment, saying their economic
difficulties are becoming increasingly dire, Afghanistan-based TOLO News
reported.
A former employee for the Administrative Reforms
Commission, Farzia said that since losing her job, she has been faced with both
financial and psychological problems.
Farzia, who is the sole breadwinner of her family,
said, “The women who have studied for years and gained expertise should be
allowed to contribute to the workforce.”
“When a woman is away from her duty, all that
experience and capacity for improvement will be lost over time,” Uqda, an
employee of the previous government, told TOLO News.
According to Kabul residents, both men and women must
work in order for the economy to thrive in the nation.
“We ask the Islamic Emirate to let women work side by
side with their brothers, which would cause the growth of our country’s
economy,” said Mudaser, a resident of Kabul.
“There is no problem with women working; it promotes
the advancement of society, and society advances,” Wasim Sarwari, another Kabul
resident, told TOLO News.
Bilal Karimi, the Islamic Emirate’s deputy spokesman,
noted that some women are employed in government institutions where there is a
need for them.
“Women work in all sectors where they are needed. In
the Ministries of the Interior, Finance, Health, and Education. They work in
every sector that needs them. It is also not necessary for women who work in
departments who do not need them,” Karimi said.
The development comes on the heels of the US State
Department’s deputy spokesperson Vedant Patel saying that denying women access
to employment and education prevents them from participating in the
distribution of humanitarian aid that helps all Afghan citizens.
Patel said, “We have seen this now time and time again
– denying them education, denying them the ability to work, denying them the
ability to participate in the provision of humanitarian assistance that
benefits all Afghans.”
The Taliban has, however, asserted that women’s rights
are completely protected in Afghanistan and has urged other countries to
refrain from meddling in its domestic affairs.
Since the Taliban-led government took control of power
in Afghanistan, the group has intensified its repression of women’s rights and
freedom.
National and international organisations have slammed
the Taliban suppression policy. They have asserted that it will promote
poverty, unemployment, and extremism, harbouring terrorists and threatening
global peace and security. (ANI)
Source: ThePrint
https://theprint.in/world/afghan-women-criticise-talibans-restrictions-on-employment/1485250/
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Women must be allowed to work, earn living in
Afghanistan: USAID
1 April, 2023
Kabul [Afghanistan], April 1 (ANI): The situation of
females in Afghanistan is already grim under the Taliban regime as they are not
allowed to work or have access to fundamental rights in the country.
Women must be permitted to work and make a living,
according to Sean Callahan, the country director for Afghanistan at the US
Agency for International Development, who lamented over the situation, TOLOnews
reported.
“We can’t move our development goals forward when more
than half the population is left behind,” Callahan wrote on Twitter.
“USAID (United States Agency for International
Development) is proud to partner with Roots of Peace (organization) to support
women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan with training and critical resources,” the
tweet read.
Time and again the females of the country have urged
international organizations to provide them with support. Humanitarian aid has
become the basis of the lives of Afghan people
According to TOLOnews, Iqra, an Afghan woman used to
work for a private corporation but lost her position after the Taliban forbade
women from working for NGOs in Afghanistan.
“Many women who are breadwinners for their families
want to go back to work and make ends meet for their children. So we call on
the Islamic Emirate to facilitate work for us,” she said.
Since the Taliban-led government took control of power
in Afghanistan, the group has intensified its repression of women’s rights and
freedom.
National and international organisations have slammed
the Taliban suppression policy. They have asserted that it will promote
poverty, unemployment, and extremism, harbouring terrorists and threatening
global peace and security. (ANI)
Source: ThePrint
https://theprint.in/world/women-must-be-allowed-to-work-earn-living-in-afghanistan-usaid/1488617/
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Muslim women perform aarti of Lord Ram on occasion of
Ram Navmi in Varanasi
Mar 31, 2023
Ramnavami festival being celebrated with religious
fervour and gaiety in Varanasi. Here, Muslim women giving a message of humanity
and communal harmony, performed the aarti of Lord Shri Ram. With the
"aarti thaal" in their hand the muslim women recite prayers on the
occasions of Ram Navami.
Source: Times Of India
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Monika Staab Hails Saudi Football League As ‘Hugely
Important’ For Women's Game In Kingdom
January 11, 2023
RIYADH: The head coach of Saudi Arabia's women's team
Monika Staab said on Tuesday an upcoming tournament in the Kingdom was hugely
important for developing the female game in the Kingdom.
Saudi Arabia's women are participating in a tournament
with Pakistan, Mauritius and Comoros.
The tournament starts on Wednesday (Jan. 11) and each
team will play with other once in the round-robin format.
“We had an eight day preparation camp to get the best
results out of this tournament, and the Saudi Women's Football League has added
a lot for us and to the players who kept in good shape,” Staab said about her
Saudi team.
Collet Marie, head coach of the Mauritius team, said:
“Our national team is ready for this tournament, participating in such matches
benefits the team a lot, we are back after two years of not playing a game, so
we will try our best to achieve positive results in this tournament.”
Pakistan coach Adeel Rizki thanked the Kingdom for its
hospitality and for hosting a women's tournament of a decent standing.
“Thank you to Saudi Arabia for the good hospitality,”
he said. “We had participated in the South Asian Championship, but haven't
played a match for eight years in any international tournament, so we have many
youth players in this tournament and this is a good thing.”
ChoudjayMahandhi, the head coach of the Comoros
national team, said: “The Saudi federation was very welcoming and we would like
to thank them for this tournament, we have a good team and our only goal is to
win the tournament and bring back the cup to our country.”
Source: Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2230206/sport
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