Twenty-two Years old Muslim Woman Abused, Manhandled for Wearing Jeans And Not Burqa, in Assam
New
Age Islam News Bureau
01
November 2021
• Mona
Al-Khurais , Saudi Weapons Trainer Breaks Mould In Male-Dominated Field
• Iran
Football Body Proposes Bill to Allow Women into Stadiums
• UK
Barrister Rescues Afghan Female Judges in Airlift Operation
• For
Woman Artist Sana Muhsin, Painting Is About More Than Just Art
• Bangladesh
152nd Out Of 170 Countries In Terms Of Women's Safety
• Kuwait
Ranks Last In GCC On Women, Peace And Security
• Afghan
Girl Sent Water From Kabul River For PM Modi, Will Offer It At Ayodhya, Says
Adityanath
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Twenty-two
Years old Muslim Woman Abused, Manhandled for Wearing Jeans And Not Burqa, in
Assam
NOVEMBER
01, 2021
Women
in India have marched over their right to choose what kind of clothes they
wear. (Representational Phot)
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A
shopkeeper in Assam allegedly hurled verbal abuses at a 22-year-old woman and
also manhandled her for wearing jeans instead of a burqa. The man allegedly
told her that she should be wearing “decent" clothes as she was a Muslim.
Police have detained the man and his son, who allegedly beat up the woman’s
father for questioning the shop owner for abusing his daughter.
The
incident took place on October 25, when the woman went to buy headphones in
Assam’s Biswanath Charali. The accused, identified as Nurul Amin, runs an
electronic accessories shop in Biswanath and kept a stock of items stored at
his residence as well.
According
to police, the woman went to buy a pair of headphones from him at his
residence, where Amin verbally abused and manhandled her for wearing jeans and
not a burqa. He told her that she should be wearing “decent" clothes as
she a Muslim, police added.
Police
said the woman went home in tears and related the incident to her father.
Infuriated, her father questioned Amin about his conduct towards his daughter,
police added.
Later,
however, Amin’s son Rafikul beat up the woman’s father in public for
questioning his father, police said.
Following
this, the woman’s family lodged a complaint at Biswanath Charali police
station. An FIR was registered on the basis of the complaint, under IPC
sections pertaining to punishment for wrongful restraint, obscene acts and
voluntarily causing hurt.
Police
said the woman was a computer science graduate from Biswanath college. Other
women have also complained of similar encounters with the accused, where he has
harassed them for not wearing burqa, police added.
Source:
News18
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Mona
Al-Khurais , Saudi Weapons Trainer Breaks Mould In Male-Dominated Field
November
1, 2021
Saudi
female firearm trainer Mona Al Khurais teaches a Saudi woman on safe usage of
weapons at the Top-Gun shooting range in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, October 28,
2021. REUTERS/Ahmed Yosri
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RIYADH,
Nov 1 (Reuters) - Mona Al-Khurais has loved guns ever since as a young girl her
father took her on hunting trips in Saudi Arabia and taught her how to shoot.
Five
years ago, she turned that passion into her profession, receiving coaching in
Saudi and abroad to become a licensed firearms trainer.
The
36-year-old now teaches shooting at Top Gun firing range in Riyadh, with more
and more women joining her classes.
"I
am so happy to practise my passion and my hobby as a coach and a range safety
officer," Khurais said.
"Hopefully,
I can share my experience with Saudi girls, to encourage them to enter this
difficult field that was previously reserved for men."
Khurais
was one of the exhibitors at the Saudi Falconry and Hunting show, an annual
exhibition in Riyadh showcasing manufacturers specialising in hunting weapons.
Exhibitors
displayed pistols, sniper rifles, hunting rifles and semi-automatic weapons as
well as hunting paraphernalia. Visitors with gun licences can buy the weapons
on show.
Attitudes
towards women have been changing in the conservative kingdom, with women making
steady gains in the work force by taking up jobs in a range of professions.
Khurais,
however, initially faced problems working in a male-dominated environment.
"The
difficulties that I faced were the criticisms from women, which was surprising
to me as I was expecting it from men," she said.
As
more girls and women learn to handle guns, Khurais hopes their attitudes will
change and that she can inspire them.
"My
goal is one day to participate in the Olympics," she said.
Source:
Reuters
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Iran
Football Body Proposes Bill To Allow Women Into Stadiums
October
29, 2021
Women
were refused access to stadiums after the 1979 revolution in Iran. (Reuters)
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The
Iranian football federation has requested parliament adopt a law that would
overturn a ban on women attending matches in stadiums, according to the body's
secretary general. "A bill has been proposed to the Islamic national
assembly by the Iranian football federation. Once it has been approved, the
presence of women will be allowed," Hassan Kamrani Far said late Thursday,
quoted by the Tasnim news agency.
Iran's
parliament is largely dominated by ultraconservatives and religious dignitaries
who remain opposed to women attending matches.
Women
were refused access to stadiums after Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution,
officially to protect them from inappropriate male behaviour, but exceptions
have been made in recent times for international games.
World
football's governing body FIFA has exerted pressure to allow women into
international qualifiers.
Women
were able to watch a game at the 80,000-seat Azadi stadium in October 2019,
when Iran thrashed Cambodia 14-0.
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Iranian
women were then to be allowed to watch the national team in a World Cup 2022
qualifier against South Korea earlier this month, the state television-linked
Young Journalists Club reported before that game.
The
match went ahead behind closed doors.
Source: ND TV
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UK
barrister rescues Afghan female judges in airlift operation
October
31, 2021
LONDON:
A veteran UK barrister has raised more than $1.3 million to help hundreds of
at-risk female judges in Afghanistan flee to Europe with their families.
Baroness
Kennedy is working with a team of pro-bono lawyers, and has booked and
organized evacuation flights from Kabul to Athens, where many of the evacuees
are residing in temporary accommodation.
The
first plane chartered by Kennedy three weeks ago transported 26 female judges
and their family members, with the next two flights carrying 375 people,
including 77 women judges.
Katerina
Sakellaropoulou, the Greek president and a former judge, was persuaded by
Kennedy to accept the families. The Georgian government also permitted their
transit.
“These
women were in mortal danger. They were running courts on things like domestic
violence and child marriage, and many of them locked up Taliban,” said Kennedy.
“As
soon as the Taliban came back, they had to flee. We had encouraged these women
(to pursue law) and now they were in danger. If every country with a conscience
could take 10 families that would be great.”
Monasa
Naseri, 33, who arrived with her husband, also a judge, and other family
members, said: “There wasn’t a person on the plane who wasn’t crying. We had
been moving from place to place for two months and were in terror. My father
was so depressed that I thought he would die.”
Two
orphaned brothers, Wali, 18, and Wahab, 19, were also on the flight. Their mother
Qadria Yasini, one of Afghanistan’s first female Supreme Court judges, was
murdered in January.
Kennedy
is the director of human rights for the International Bar Association, which
trained female lawyers and judges in Afghanistan.
As
part of the evacuation process, she also oversaw the creation of safe houses in
Kabul and the city of Mazar-i-Sharif.
Kennedy
warned that another 100 female judges remain trapped in Afghanistan, and due to
insurance costs it will take a further $1.3 million to evacuate them safely.
Source:
Arab News
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1958576/world
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For
woman artist Sana Muhsin, painting is about more than just art
30/10/2021
MOGADISHU,
Somalia— Among the once-taboo professions emerging from Somalia’s decades of
conflict and Islamic extremism is the world of arts, and a 21-year-old female
painter has faced more opposition than most.
A
rare woman artist in the highly conservative Horn of Africa nation, Sana Ashraf
Sharif Muhsin lives and works amid the rubble of her uncle’s building that was
partially destroyed in Mogadishu’s years of war.
Despite
the challenges that include the belief by some ultraorthodox Muslims that Islam
bars all representations of people, and the search for brushes and other
materials for her work, she is optimistic.
“I
love my work and believe that I can contribute to the rebuilding and pacifying
of my country,” she said.
Sana
stands out for breaking the gender barrier to enter a male-dominated profession,
according to Abdi Mohamed Shu’ayb, a professor of arts at Somali National
University. She is just one of two female artists he knows of in Somalia, with
the other in the breakaway region of Somaliland.
And
yet Sana is unique “because her artworks capture contemporary life in a
positive way and seek to build reconciliation,” he said, calling her a national
hero.
Sana,
a civil engineering student, began drawing at the age of 8, following in the
footsteps of her maternal uncle, Abdikarim Osman Addow, a well-known artist.
“I
would use charcoal on all the walls of the house, drawing my vision of the
world,” Sana said, laughing. More formal instruction followed, and she
eventually assembled a book from her sketches of household items like a shoe or
a jug of water.
But
as her work brought her more public attention over the years, some tensions
followed.
“I
fear for myself sometimes,” she said, and recalled a confrontation during a
recent exhibition at the City University of Mogadishu. A male student began
shouting “This is wrong!” and professors tried to calm him, explaining that art
is an important part of the world.
Many
people in Somalia don’t understand the arts, Sana said, and some even criticise
them as disgusting. At exhibitions, she tries to make people understand that
art is useful and “a weapon that can be used for many things.”
A
teacher once challenged her skills by asking questions and requiring answers in
the form of a drawing, she said.
“Everything
that’s made is first drawn, and what we’re making is not the dress but
something that changes your internal emotions,” Sana said. “Our paintings talk
to the people.”
Her
work at times explores the social issues roiling Somalia, including a painting
of a soldier looking at the ruins of the country’s first parliament building.
It reflects the current political clash between the federal government and
opposition, she said, as national elections are delayed.
Another
painting reflects abuses against vulnerable young women “which they cannot even
express.” A third shows a woman in the bare-shouldered dress popular in Somalia
decades ago before a stricter interpretation of Islam took hold and scholars
urged women to wear the hijab.
But
Sana also strives for beauty in her work, aware that “we have passed through 30
years of destruction, and the people only see bad things, having in their mind
blood and destruction and explosions. … If you Google Somalia, we don’t have
beautiful pictures there, but ugly ones, so I’d like to change all that using
my paintings.”
Sana
said she hopes to gain further confidence in her work by exhibiting it more
widely, beyond events in Somalia and neighboring Kenya.
But
finding role models at home for her profession doesn’t come easily.
Sana
named several Somali artists whose work she admires, but she knows of no other
female ones like herself.
Source:
The Arab Weekly
https://thearabweekly.com/woman-artist-sana-muhsin-painting-about-more-just-art
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Bangladesh
152nd out of 170 countries in terms of women's safety
Oct
31, 2021
Bangladesh
has ranked 152 out of 170 (with an index value of 0.594) on the Women, Peace,
and Security Index 2021.
The
report on women's safety was published by the Georgetown Institute for Women,
Peace and Security (GIWPS).
In
terms of women's employment, Bangladesh scored 35.2 out of 100; for mean years
of schooling 6 out of 15; and 35.8 out of 100 on women's financial inclusion,
according to the index.
The
index also included the following parameters: percentage of women's cellphone
use, the share of parliament seats, discriminatory norms, bias towards the male
child, perception of community safety, current intimate partner violence and
organised violence.
In
South Asia, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Bhutan ranked above Bangladesh at
148th, 95th, 105th and 129th positions, respectively.
Pakistan
and Afghanistan fared worst on the index in the region -- at 167th and 170th
positions, respectively.
Afghanistan
scored worst globally, falling in relative and absolute terms since 2017. The
collapse of the Afghan government and the rise of the Taliban in August 2021
seemingly jeopardised past progress for the Afghan women and threatened
reversals in access to rights and justice, said the study.
Between
2017 and 2021, Pakistan regressed on two measures of inclusion -- women's mean
years of schooling and rates of paid employment.
The
bottom five countries on the index include Pakistan, Afghanistan and Iraq,
Yemen, Syria -- at 166th, 168th and 169th positions respectively.
The
highest-ranked counties on this year's index are: Norway, Finland, Iceland,
Denmark and Luxembourg at first, second, third, fourth and fifth positions,
respectively.
Source:
The Daily Star
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Kuwait
ranks last in GCC on Women, Peace and Security
31
OCTOBER 2021
KUWAIT
CITY, Oct 31: Kuwait ranked 123 in the world and last among the Gulf
Cooperation Council countries on the ‘Women, Peace and Security’ index,
prepared by Georgetown University, based on changing patterns around women’s
empowerment around the world, reports Al-Qabas daily. The UAE ranked first in
the Gulf region (24 globally) on the index, Bahrain and Qatar shared the third
place in the Gulf (97 globally), then Saudi Arabia (102 globally), followed by Oman
(110 globally). Saudi Arabia jumped 18 places to 102 in 2021. Researchers
attributed this to improved access to female education and legal reforms that
eased restrictions on hiring women.
Source:
Arab Times
https://www.arabtimesonline.com/news/kuwait-ranks-last-in-gcc-on-women-peace-and-security/
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Afghan
girl sent water from Kabul river for PM Modi, will offer it at Ayodhya, says
Adityanath
October
31, 2021
Uttar
Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said that a girl from
Afghanistan has sent water from Kabul river to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, to
be offered at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi site in Ayodhya. Adityanath further added
that he will go to Ayodhya and offer the water to Lord Ram.
In
a video shared by news agency ANI, the UP CM, while addressing the gathering,
showed a small bottle and said, “This is the water from a river in Kabul that
was sent to PM Modi by a girl from Afghanistan to be offered at Shri Ram
Janmabhoomi in Ayodhya. Today I am taking the initiative of going and offering
this water along with the emotions of the girl, her family and all women over
there, to Lord Ram”.
Adityanath
further said that despite Taliban rule in Afghanistan, the girl’s respect for
India, Indianness and Indian soil are intact within her.
“It
is matter of pride for all of us that, removing the hurdles and struggles of
the past, the works at Shri Ram Janmabhoomi are going on at a good pace. Along
with Ganga jal, this water will also be offered there. This is about the
emotions of the country and the world. Given the situation in Afghanistan, not
worrying about oneself, a girl from Kabul sends water from a river there to be
offered at the Ram Janmabhoomi, I respect those emotions and I will pray to
Lord Rama for their happy lives,” Adityanath added.
Source:
Indian Express
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