Three Muslim Women Stripped, Paraded In Uttar Pradesh Over Accusations Of ‘Muslim Boy Eloping With Dalit Girl’
New Age Islam News Bureau
8 January 2025
· Three Muslim Women Stripped, Paraded In Uttar Pradesh Over Accusations Of ‘Muslim Boy Eloping With Dalit Girl’
· Ban Muslim Women From Wearing Hijabs On School Trips in France, Urges Minister
· Pakistani Women Require Guardian's Permission For Hajj 2025
· UK-Based Islamist Refugee, DzhamilyaTimaeva, Found Guilty Of Possessing ISIS Propaganda
· Dignity And Humanity Of Afghan Women Must Be Worth More Than Game Of Cricket
· Women's Consultation Workshop In HesekêCalls For Unity For A Free, Equal And Democratic Syria
· Saudi Women Embrace Natural Beauty: A Fresh Take On Changing Standards
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
URL: https://newageislam.com/islam-women-feminism/muslim-women-dalit-girl-paraded/d/134278
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Three Muslim Women Stripped, Paraded In Up Over Accusations Of ‘Muslim Boy Eloping With Dalit Girl’
January 7, 2025
In Uttar Pradesh’s Kushinagar district, in the village of NebuaNaurangia, three Muslim women were allegedly beaten and paraded naked over accusations that a Muslim youth from their family had eloped with a Dalit girl.
The incident reportedly took place on January 2.
According to the victims, members of the Dalit girl’s maternal family barged into their home, assaulted the youth’s mother and two aunts, stripped them of their clothes, dragged them through the village, and burnt their clothes.
The Dalit girl, who is married and resides in the Gulriha police station area in Gorakhpur, had gone missing a few days prior. The Muslim youth was accused of eloping with her.
“They barged into our home, assaulted us, forcibly removed our clothes, dragged us out, and paraded us all around the village,” one of the women told reporters.
Another victim, an aunt of the boy, stated, “Nine women and four men beat us and burnt all our clothes.”
However, the Station House Officer (SHO) of the area has claimed that the allegations of the women being assaulted and paraded naked have not been proven yet.
A case of assault and rioting has been registered from both sides, he said in the video posted on X. A separate case has also been filed by the girl’s in-laws at Gulriha police station in Gorakhpur.
Source:maktoobmedia.com
https://maktoobmedia.com/india/muslim-women-stripped-paraded-in-up-over-accusations-of-muslim-boy-eloping-with-dalit-girl/
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Ban Muslim Women From Wearing Hijabs On School Trips in France, Urges Minister
7 Jan 2025
Bruno Retailleau said: “The veil is a banner for Islamism, a marker of the subordination of women”
LUDOVIC MARIN//REUTERS
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Muslim women should be barred from wearing hijabs when they accompany children on school outings to help stem an Islamist drive to impose sharia law in France, the interior minister has said.
Bruno Retailleau, a conservative, called for the measure as France marked the tenth anniversary of the 2015 terrorist assault at Charlie Hebdo magazine. The attack by two Islamic terrorists over cartoons depicting the Prophet Muhammad killed 12 people, and was followed in November that year by the Paris massacres that killed 130.
For the past decade there have been demands for a ban on Muslim dress worn by mothers who volunteer to accompany children on class outings from state schools.
Source:thetimes.com
https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/france-muslim-veil-ban-charlie-hebdo-anniversary-s2xgf9mj2
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Pakistani women require guardian's permission for Hajj 2025
January 07, 2025
Pilgrims pray as sprinklers spray water to cool them down amid extremely hot weather, during the annual haj pilgrimage, in Mina, Saudi Arabia, June 16, 2024. — Reuters
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The Ministry of Religious Affairs has said that the registration of Pakistani women for Hajj 2025 pilgrimage will be subject to spousal or parental consent after getting a conditional nod from the the Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) for travelling to Saudi Arabia without a male guardian (mahram).
A document of Hajj Policy 2025 obtained by Geo News read: "No mahram shall be required for women for Hajj 2025, as per the decision of the CII 2023, subject to the submission of an affidavit to the effect: i) their parents or husbands allow them, ii) they are in the group of reliable females and, iii) there is no threat to their dignity."
The CII had given conditional permission to Pakistani women to perform Hajj without a mahram in November 2023.
In response to a query from the Religious Affairs Ministry, the CII previously said there was a provision in sharia for a woman to perform Hajj or Umrah without a mahram, according to the Jafria, Maliki and Shafi’i schools of thought.
A woman whose parents or husband allow her, could go for Hajj without a mahram, as per the Jafria, Maliki and Shafi’i schools of thought, the council responded to a query from the Religious Affairs Ministry regarding the women's pilgrimage, adding that the female pilgrims should travel with the company of trustworthy women in a group.
It may be pointed out here that the Saudi government in 2021 had allowed women from across the world to perform Hajj and Umrah without a mahram.
Regarding children, Pakistan's Hajj Policy 2025 stated that minors under the age of 12 years would not be permitted to participate in the pilgrimage as per the directions issued by the Saudi government.
Source:thenews.com.pk
https://www.thenews.com.pk/latest/1269701-pakistani-women-require-guardians-permission-for-hajj-2025
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UK-Based Islamist Refugee, DzhamilyaTimaeva, Found Guilty Of Possessing ISIS Propaganda
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF
JANUARY 8, 2025
A woman from Windsor, UK, who applied to be a teacher at an Islamic Sunday school, has been found guilty of possessing a terrorist document, according to Tuesday British media reports.
DzhamilyaTimaeva, 20, was convicted of possessing footage encouraging viewers to carry out arson attacks, namely a video believed to be produced by the Islamic State, titled "Incite the Believers," which encouraged viewers to carry out arson attacks on buildings, forests, and agricultural land if they were unable to gain access to a gun or a knife.
Timaeva was arrested at London's Heathrow Airport in October 2022, attempting to board a flight to Turkey, which is when police recovered the aforementioned video.
Timaeva had been cleared of three other charges of disseminating terrorist publications between October 2022 and March 2023, according to the reports.
Timaeva was bailed ahead of her sentencing scheduled for March 7.
During her trial at the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, commonly referred to as the Old Bailey, she reportedly denied supporting Islamic State or any of its affiliates, claiming her actions were in defense of Chechnya and the Chechen people.
Prosecutor Gareth Weetman reportedly claimed she printed a cartoon-style children's booklet in order to "indoctrinate young minds" in her classes.
The court also reportedly heard that she kept videos with voiceovers encouraging a holy war in the name of Islam. Timaeva stated that these clips related to "Chechen freedom fighters" rather than Islamic State propagandists.
Timaeva had a total of 5370 videos on her phone, many of which reportedly contained extremist content calling for violence against non-believers and Jewish people. At least 2800 of these had been accessed via Telegram. Timaeva reportedly insisted much of the content had been downloaded automatically.
Timaeva in Britain
Timaeva arrived in Britain with her family in 2013 to seek asylum from Chechnya after being previously denied asylum in Switzerland and Luxembourg.
According to the reports, the jury was told that she had applied to teach at the Al-Tawheed Islamic Education Centre in Maidenhead and was listed as a teacher for the Windsor Muslim Association.
Timaeva also reportedly told jurors that Islam was central to her life and that she had memorized the Quran by the age of 12.
According to the BBC, citing prosecutors, she previously stated that it is a "duty" of her Islamic faith to "wage war against non-believers."
Source:jpost.com
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-836565
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Dignity and humanity of Afghan women must be worth more than game of cricket
7 Jan 2025
“There’s all types of lines you can draw. We’ve drawn a line.” So explained Mike Baird, the chair of Cricket Australia, last month in explaining the governing body’s stance on playing against Afghanistan, the country that has just banned women from looking out of windows.
According to a new decree from the Taliban government, new buildings must not be constructed with windows through which women can be seen. Existing buildings with windows must be walled up or covered. “Seeing women working in kitchens, in courtyards or collecting water from wells can lead to obscene acts,” said Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesperson for the government.
At present Cricket Australia – in common with the England and Wales Cricket Board – is refusing to schedule bilateral series against Afghanistan out of concern for “the deterioration of basic human rights for women in Afghanistan”. But, confusingly, both countries are perfectly happy to play them in global competitions – Australia at last year’s Twenty20 World Cup, England at next month’s Champions Trophy.
Which, however you square it, is a weirdly precise place to draw your moral line. Our concern for the women and girls of Afghanistan apparently kicks in at 1.5 cricket matches. Two or more games in a single sitting: an unconscionable act of collusion in a murderous, misogynist, medieval death cult. Fewer than two: all right lads, crack on.
At which point, we run into the equivocation and realpolitik of the cricketing establishment, arguing against a sporting boycott of Afghanistan on the grounds that it would extinguish the hope and joy generated by the men’s team over the past two decades, while achieving little tangible benefit.
“I don’t think it would make a jot of difference to the ruling party there to kick them out,” the outgoing International Cricket Council chair, Greg Barclay, said last month. Which, you have to say, is a pretty high bar to set for sporting activism. Fair enough, wave your banners. But until you’re actually capable of literally overthrowing the Taliban, then stop wasting our time.
We are warned not to punish the richly gifted men’s team for the sins of their government, as if the dignity and humanity of 20 million Afghan women were simply acceptable collateral damage against the wider backdrop of Rashid Khan’s availability for the next T20 World Cup. We are reminded that Afghanistan had little culture of women’s cricket before 2021 in any case, with the implication that – basically – the erasure of an entire international team is no great loss in the grander scheme of things.
To be blessed with this kind of benign adult wisdom! And yet, even to address this argument on its own terms is to subject it to greater strain than it can remotely handle. The very existence of the men’s team – pretty much the only representative side given official blessing – is evidence enough of its propaganda value.
High-ranking Taliban officials have posted photos with the team at official functions, called senior players to congratulate them after wins, allowed games to be shown on big screens in public parks to a grateful male-only audience. This is politics: how could it not be? Cricket is uniquely popular among the young Pashtun men who form the backbone of the Taliban’s appeal. This is the only reason the fun police have allowed it to continue: this team is now essentially a client outfit, a PR offensive, a form of cricketing diplomacy.
And of course the easy targets here are the empty shirts at the ECB, Cricket Australia and the ICC, trapped between two forms of countervailing cowardice. Cancelling a loss-making bilateral tour costs nothing. Boycotting a big tournament game has significant implications for broadcasters, sponsors and future commercial value.
But of course the ICC is basically an events management company now, a governing body that has largely given up on governance. The ECB and Cricket Australia are peripheral figures here, merely underlined by the response from the former’s chief executive, Richard Gould, to calls for a full boycott. The centre of gravity in this issue, as with pretty much everything in cricket these days, is India. And so the relevant question here is less what “should” happen than: what is the realistic range of possibilities that Jay Shah, the new ICC chair and acolyte of Narendra Modi, will allow to happen?
Officially, the Modi government does not recognise the new Afghan regime. In reality, the past couple of years have seen a pragmatic rapprochement, in defiance of the cultural and religious divides between the two countries. Diplomatic ties were restored in June 2022. Meanwhile, the Afghan embassy in Delhi and its two consulates in Mumbai and Hyderabad are said to have passed quietly into the control of pro-Taliban officials.
Driven by an ever-present fear of Chinese influence, and encouraged by a slight frosting of relations with Pakistan, the Modi government has spotted an opportunity to build bridges. Naturally, cricket has played a prominent role in diplomatic ties: Afghanistan play their home matches in Greater Noida just outside Delhi, India invited them to play a white-ball series in January, and when Afghanistan reached the T20 World Cup semi-finals last summer they issued a statement thanking India for their “continuous help in capacity-building of the Afghan cricket team”.
And so, if India are overly perturbed by the disappearance of women’s rights under the Taliban, let’s just say it’s not immediately apparent. Afghan players continue to staff the Indian Premier League. Afghan men’s teams continue to be welcome to tour India, to use Indian facilities and draw on Indian expertise. The Afghan economy has collapsed since 2021 and is in desperate need of new trade partnerships. Anyone want to connect the dots here?
None of which is to argue against the power of the sporting boycott. But to focus on unilateral gesture at the expense of collective action is essentially to acquiesce to the status quo. To oppose the iron age misogyny of the Taliban must also be to oppose the structures of capitalist power that keep it in place, from the commercial cowardice of sporting administrators to the cynical collaboration of the Modi government. Too much? Too hard? Too radical? Then, like the factotums who run the game, you’ve also chosen to draw your line in an entirely pragmatic place.
Source:theguardian.com
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/jan/07/afghanistan-women-cricket-icc-taliban
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Saudi Women Embrace Natural Beauty: A Fresh Take On Changing Standards
WAAD HUSSAIN
January 07, 2025
RIYADH: Women in Saudi Arabia have been embracing a more natural approach to their beauty routines in recent years, focusing on sustainability, health and authenticity over heavy makeup and curated perfection.
Arab News spoke to several women who described how this trend reflects a deep alignment with personal and societal values — prioritizing routines that enhance their natural features while promoting overall well-being and environmental sustainability.
For Laila Al-Ghamdi, this change is personal. “A few years ago, I would say natural beauty was everything to me. As a young teenager, my whole world used to revolve around the epitome of beauty,” she said. “Nowadays, healthier choices are influencing my decisions, and ironically, they’re the ones that make me prettier.”
This shift is supported by local brands that cater to these changing standards. One standout is LOCA Beauty, a Saudi brand with a focus on sustainability that was founded in 2018.
“LOCA Beauty was born out of a desire to provide innovative solutions that align with the Saudi lifestyle,” said Mai Al-Mohaimeed, marketing director of LOCA. “We focus on natural ingredients and sustainable packaging, which resonates deeply with our customers.”
Similarly, Asteri, another brand, empowers women with vegan products that withstand harsh weather conditions while celebrating the region’s natural beauty.
Sustainability is central to the natural beauty movement in Saudi Arabia. Consumers are increasingly conscious of the environmental and health effects of their purchases. Local brands are rising to meet this demand with eco-friendly materials and safe ingredients.
Glossig, inspired by Saudi Arabia’s desert landscapes, combines cultural storytelling with artistic innovation to enhance individuality. Meanwhile, Mai Ward and Jayla emphasize sustainability and luxury — Mai Ward celebrates Saudi heritage through handcrafted, sustainable products, while Ladeena focuses on organic solutions, delivering skin-friendly products infused with natural oils and butters.
For women like Rawan Al-Zahrani and Munira Al-Ahmad, these brands have become trusted choices.
“I love how LOCA products feel luxurious yet sustainable. Their makeup products are my go-to because they offer such an amazing glow to my skin,” Al-Zahrani said.
Al-Ahmad, meanwhile, praised Asteri for its innovative solutions. “Asteri’s products feel like they’re made for me — lightweight but effective, perfect for our environment,” she said.
Social media has also played a transformative role in this cultural shift. Platforms such as Instagram have become spaces for clean beauty enthusiasts to share tips and inspire others. Influencers highlight natural products and promote mindful consumerism.
“I follow several Saudi influencers who promote natural beauty and share tips on skincare and makeup,” Al-Zahrani said. “Their advice has helped me simplify my routine and focus on products that work for me.”
While local brands are thriving, they face significant challenges in competing with international giants. In a market saturated with global names it is difficult for smaller brands to stand out.
“Being a local beauty brand presents both opportunities and challenges,” Al-Mohaimeed said. “This also provides us with an opportunity to emphasize what sets us apart — our deep understanding of the Saudi market and the cultural nuances that shape our consumers’ needs.”
Changing beauty standards also reflect a generational change. Younger Saudis are more open to challenging traditional norms and exploring new ideas, driving innovation in the beauty industry. Natural beauty is becoming more about celebrating individuality and authenticity.
“Beauty is no longer about fitting into a mold,” Al-Ahmad said. “It’s about feeling good in your own skin and celebrating who you are.”
By choosing products and routines that align with their values, Saudi women are redefining the beauty industry, shaping a more sustainable future one natural step at a time.
Source:arabnews.com
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2585605/saudi-arabia
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