New Age
Islam News Bureau
24 October 2023
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New York
City Muslim Teen Girl Called ‘Terrorist,' Attacked Pulling On Her Hijab: Police
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Afghanistan
Women’s Rights Activist Manijeh Seddiqi Detained 15 Days Ago
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Leading
Arab Israeli Actor Maisa Abd Elhadi Detained For Supporting Hamas Assault
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Forced And
Underage Marriages Surge In Afghanistan
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Arab
Parliament: Women’s Political Contributions Strengthen Democratic Process,
Serve In Achieving Inclusive Development
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Afghan
Women Call for Access to Schools, Universities
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Gaza’s
Pregnant Women Endure Misery Amidst Bombing
Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau
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New York City Muslim Teen Girl Called
‘Terrorist,' Attacked Pulling On Her Hijab: Police
Yasmin
Seweid, Muslim teen, verbally attacked on NYC subway - CBS News
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October 23, 2023
Marc Santia
A Muslim teen girl was attacked while
riding the New York City subway to school in what police are investigating as
another possible hate crime attack based on the victim's faith.
The 16-year-old was aboard a southbound
5 train approaching Union Square around 9 a.m. Wednesday when a man sat down
next to her, according to police. The man told the girl "you’re a
terrorist, you don’t belong here," before pulling on her hijab she was
wearing.
Another female passenger intervened to
help the girl, a police source with direct knowledge of the investigation said.
The man ran off and police are still searching for him. No arrests have yet
been made, and police are investigating it as a possible hate crime.
"I’m very sorry for her and her
family and everyone in the city. We are going through a challenging time right
now," said Detective Mohamed Amen. "But I want to assure her and
everyone that the police department is really looking after everyone in the
city.”
The NYPD has seen a number of hate
crimes since the deadly Hamas terror attacks on Israel earlier in the month. A
Jewish woman was attacked on the subway in midtown on Oct. 14. In that
incident, the 29-year-old victim was randomly hit in the face by a man in the
passageway for the 7 train at the Grand Central-42nd Street station.
When she asked the attacker why he
punched her in the face, the suspect said simply it was because "you are
Jewish." The man then took off from the station, while the victim suffered
minor injuries.
Prior to the Oct. 8 assault on Israelis
by Hamas, the NYPD had logged 161 anti-Jewish motivated complaints in 2023.
Since the attack, there have been an additional 35 complaints.
There are growing concerns about
hate-fuelled violence against both the Muslim and Jewish communities here in
our area. Lynda Baquero reports.
Anti-Muslim motivated complaints have
also seen an uptick since the attacks, with seven prior to Oct. 8 throughout
the year, and five more over the least three weeks.
Burhan Carroll, of the Council on
American–Islamic Relations (CAIR) in New York, said the organization has been
"flooded with calls lately, requests for assistance." The group said
it has several first hand accounts of the uptick in Islamophobia.
"People are scared. They’re very
frightened just to go about their daily business," said Carroll.
The NYPD says many hate crimes go
unreported, but Det. Amen said it is crucial for members of the community to speak
up.
"Reporting your crime it’s very
important so that we stop these bad people from doing this to someone
else," said Amen. "You cross the line, you break the law, it’s on
you. Regardless who you are. We will not tolerate that."
The NYPD said it has officers who speak
dozens of languages from different backgrounds, adding that anyone with an
issue to report can request to speak with someone they may identify with.
Source: nbcnewyork.com
https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/crime-and-courts/muslim-teen-girl-called-terrorist-attacked-while-riding-subway-to-school-police/4794415/
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Afghanistan Women’s Rights Activist
Manijeh Seddiqi Detained 15 Days Ago
Manijeh
Seddiqi
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Fidel Rahmati
October 24, 2023
Sources report that Manijeh Seddiqi, a
women’s rights activist and one of the protesting women, was arrested by the de
facto administration 15 days ago.
On Monday afternoon, Leila Basim, a
member of the leadership of the grassroots women’s protest movement in
Afghanistan, announced in a message to Khaama Press News Agency that the
Taliban forces had detained Manijeh Sediqi from the Kart-e-Naw area of Kabul
last month.
According to Ms Basim, “Manijeh Seddiqi’s
family tried to keep her detention a secret for these 15 days to resolve the
matter through tribal elders, but their efforts have been unsuccessful.”
The reason for Ms Seddiqi’s detention is
unclear, and the Taliban government has not provided any information.
Manijeh Seddiqi is the third grassroots
women’s protest member to be held in custody for some time.
Previously, the Taliban administration
detained Neda Parwani, her child, husband, and Julia Parsi in the capital,
Kabul, Afghanistan.
Women’s protest movements and civil
society activists in Afghanistan have launched a campaign on social media in
response to the news of Manijeh Seddiqi’s detention, calling on the current
Taliban regime to release the detained activists.
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/womens-rights-activist-manijeh-seddiqi-detained-15-days-ago/
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Leading Arab Israeli Actor Maisa Abd
Elhadi Detained For Supporting Hamas Assault
Oct 24, 2023
Prominent Arab Israeli actor Maisa Abd
Elhadi was detained by police after allegedly expressing support for the Hamas
terror group’s devastating shock onslaught in Israel, Hebrew media reported
Tuesday.
Police confirmed the arrest of “an
actress and network influencer, resident of the city of Nazareth, on suspicion
of expressions of praise [for terror] and hate speech,” but did not name her.
“The police fight against incitement and
support for terrorism continues all the time,” the statement said.
Police will seek to extend her custody
at the Nazareth Magistrate’s Court later Tuesday.
Abd Elhadi shared images of Yaffa Adar,
85, being taken hostage by Hamas with laughing emojis and another image of
Hamas forces breaching Israel’s security barrier with the caption in English
“Let’s go, Berlin style,” in an apparent reference to the fall of the Berlin
Wall in 1989.
Adar was one of over 200 captives of all
ages seized by terrorists on October 7 as they rampaged murderously through
southern Israel, killing, torturing and mutilating some 1,400 people, mostly
civilians.
Abd Elhadi’s posts on social media were
slammed by her Israeli co-star OferShechter on “Temporarily Dead,” who wrote,
“I’m ashamed of you. You should be ashamed of yourself. You live in Nazareth,
act and star in our TV shows and films, and then stab us in the back.”
Abd Elhadi has appeared in several
Israeli shows, the Hollywood film “World War Z,” and most recently the British
series “Baghdad Central.”
Israel Police Commissioner KobiShabtai
has praised the Arab Israeli community for refraining from “incidents” since
the start of the war with Hamas amid repeated fearmongering by far-right
politicians of Jewish-Arab violence in Israel’s mixed cities of the kind that
took place two years ago.
“We have to say a good word about their
exemplary behavior, with zero incidents,” Shabtai said Sunday at a meeting of
the National Security Committee of the Knesset on the subject of “preparedness
for a Guardian of the Walls scenario,” a
reference to the violent intercommunal riots in mixed Jewish-Arab cities that
accompanied a previous conflict with Hamas in 2021.
Source: timesofisrael.com
https://www.timesofisrael.com/leading-arab-israeli-actor-maisa-abd-elhadi-detained-for-supporting-hamas-assault/
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Forced and underage marriages surge in
Afghanistan
Fidel Rahmati
October 23, 2023
A recent report by the United States
Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction (SIGAR) has
highlighted a significant rise in forced and underage marriages in Afghanistan
in recent months.
After 2021, 35% of Afghan girls were
married before turning 18, and 17% were married before they were 15, according
to this organization’s statistics.
The organization SIGAR has reported that
between December 2022 and February 2023, there were 578 documented cases of
forced marriages in Afghanistan, with 361 involving underage brides.
Afsana Sakhi, a medical student, had to
stop her studies because of the ban on girls’ education. She explained to Khama
Press News Agency that this ban made her give up her dream of becoming a doctor
and think about marriage instead. Afsana had invested a lot of money in her
education to help her family, but now, she feels like a “burden” due to the
education restrictions on girls.
According to Afsana, her family
constantly tells her that it is better to get married. They say that her dream
of continuing her education will never become a reality unless money is spent.
Her family repeatedly insists that she should marry a man.
Meanwhile, Taranum Saeedi, a women’s
rights activist, points out that with the closure of schools, more than one million
adolescent girls have been left without education, prompting families to see
marriage as an alternative to schooling. Ms. Saeedi adds that child marriage
has a long-standing tradition in Afghanistan and many Islamic countries, with
the primary reason being to complete the nine years of a girl’s life, which is
considered the legal age.
According to this women’s rights
activist, factors such as lack of awareness among families, incorrect
traditions, the influence of religious leaders and fatwas, poverty, and the
desperation of families – even selling their daughters – contribute to girls
being forced into underage and forced marriages.
Ms. Saeedi considers solutions such as
raising awareness among families, especially men, that “a girl is a human being
and has the right to decide her own life” and implementing and enforcing
“stringent” laws as fundamental steps to reducing forced marriages of underage
girls.
Meanwhile, underage and forced marriages
have been a serious concern in Afghanistan in recent years, taking root due to
the prevalence of harmful practices. The phenomenon has increased significantly
since the rise of the Taliban administration, primarily due to the ban on
girls’ education.
Previously, UNICEF had also emphasized
in its report that forced marriages in South Asia, including Afghanistan, had
increased due to economic hardships and the ban on education, with many
families viewing their daughters as a “burden.”
Source: khaama.com
https://www.khaama.com/forced-and-underage-marriages-surge-in-afghanistan/
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ARAB PARLIAMENT: WOMEN’S POLITICAL
CONTRIBUTIONS STRENGTHEN DEMOCRATIC PROCESS, SERVE IN ACHIEVING INCLUSIVE
DEVELOPMENT
October 23, 2023
NNA - The Arab Parliament emphasized
that women’s political empowerment, which enhances the roles they can play in
the political sphere, contributes significantly to consolidating the process of
democratisation and achieving inclusive development, notably in light of
women’s assumption of high-ranking positions reaching the presidency of governments
in various countries across the world. The Arab Parliament added that
strengthening Arab women's political contributions is among the priorities of
its work, stressing that there are honorable models of the growing role of Arab
women in the political sphere demonstrating that women in Arab societies are
capable of giving if they possess the co-factors in this area primarily
qualification and equal opportunities.
This came during the Arab Parliament’s
speech at the 36th Session of the Forum of Women Parliamentarians of the
Inter-Parliamentary Union, in the Angolan capital Luanda, which is hosting the
147th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly and Related Meetings from 23 to 27
October 2023, in which the Forum of Women Parliamentarians discussed a major theme
entitled: “Women in politics: To stay or not to stay”.
In its intervention, the Arab Parliament
underlined the importance of reviewing and updating the legislative system in
the Arab States thereby contributing to the promotion of women’s participation in
political life, and stressing the need to raise community awareness of the
importance of women’s role in the political sphere, especially after they have
already established their presence in this sphere through their participation
in many political institutions and assumption of leadership positions in the
executive organs in a large number of Arab States, and highlighting the
necessity of addressing the masculine societal culture and ideas against women
holding leadership offices, through several mechanisms including the
development of educational curricula that enshrine the notion of citizenship
and non-discrimination, and promote women's political participation, and
enhance the role of civil society organizations in supporting women's political
empowerment.
Source: nna-leb.gov.lb
https://www.nna-leb.gov.lb/en/miscellaneous/649527/arab-parliament-women-s-political-contributions-st
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Afghan Women Call for Access to Schools,
Universities
October 23, 2023
A number of female students have
reiterated the need to allow their access to schools.
They say that even though schools have
been closed for more than two years, they still do not know of any future plans
to reopen them.
Meanwhile, the Deputy Foreign Minister
of the Islamic Emirate on X said education in the country is important.
More than two years have passed since
girls were banned from education in the country, but there is no sign of
reopening of schools to girls above sixth grade in the country.
Sixteen-year-old Mursal says life has
faded over the past two years and her dreams have been ruined.
“I've lost my spirit because I have no
hope for the future, and the color of my life has actually changed when they
closed schools. My worries grow every day as to whether or not schools will
open,” said Mursal, a student.
Meanwhile, some other students are
calling on the Islamic Emirate not to take away women's opportunity to train
and work in the country.
"I want the islamic government to
provide work and education opportunities for all girls so the girls are
educated and not discouraged,” said Maryam, a student.
"I want the Islamic Emirate to open
the doors of schools and universities in the framework of sharia,” said
Marhaba, a student.
But the Deputy Foreign Minister on X
published two images emphasizing the need to continue educating women in the
country.
"Education is something that no one
can take away from you. A good education can change anyone, and a good teacher
can change everything," said Sher Mohammad Abbas Stanikzai, Deputy
Minister of Foreign Affairs.
"When this restriction is imposed
on girls, and schools and universities are closed, girls' depression, despair
and demotivation continue to rise, and it causes further harm," said
Firoza Amini, women rights activist.
The Deputy Foreign Minister of the
Islamic Emirate has spoken of the education of women in the country as it has
been more than 760 days since the closure of schools to girls above sixth grade
in the country, which has caused internal and external reactions, but the
Islamic Emirate has always said that the issue of banning the education of
women in the country is not permanent.
Source: tolonews.com
https://tolonews.com/afghanistan-185692
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Gaza’s pregnant women endure misery
amidst bombing
October 24, 2023
With Israel cutting access to clean
water, food, and essential medical supplies, 120,000 pregnant women in Gaza are
enduring a heart-breaking situation.
According to a report by United Nations
Population Fund (UNFPA), around 160 women give birth every day amid the chaos
and fighting, while an estimated 45 women are said to have died with babies
still living in their wombs.
“Every time there is bombing, I am
terrified. My legs are paralysed, I can’t walk, I can’t move, especially since
I have children and I need to get up to run so that they stay safe. I fear for
them and my unborn child,” a Gazan woman on condition of anonymity told UNFPA.
“I am due this month, and I sleep on
streets. My chest hurts, I have a runny nose and cough. There is no water at
all. We try to wash our food, but the water is not clean. The most pressing
issue right now is to clean the toilets,” she added.
Additionally, the difficulties with
menstrual hygiene are worsening, pushing women to resort to chemical solutions
to delay their periods due to the unavailability of sanitary products.
According to midwives, mothers in the
region are at risk of not receiving treatment for the “big five” factors that
contribute to stillbirths, newborn deaths, and maternal mortality: haemorrhage,
infection, ruptured ectopic pregnancies, and untreated pre-eclampsia and
eclampsia, reported by CBC News.
In several videos released by
international media and people exclusively covering crisis in Gaza, pregnant
women in hospitals can conceive a child only through normal delivery since
there are no resources available for an operation. In a video made by
MotazAzaiza which was later taken down by Meta, women are also dying due to
blood loss post-birth. Most women are also experiencing episodes of seizures
during pregnancy due to continued trauma of war.
“It’s critical that every birthing
person is attended to by a health-care or provider who’s skilled in emergency
obstetric and newborn care and who has access to those basic life-saving
medications,” said Alixandra Bacon, a registered midwife and co-leader of
global and international health at the University of British Columbia.
“In all of those cases, you need not
only a health-care provider, but you might need electricity, you need clean
running water — and access to all of those things is been stripped away at this
time.”
The International Federation of Midwives
has also pointed out that Gazan women face a higher likelihood of experiencing
sexual violence, unintended pregnancies, and exposure to sexually transmitted
diseases in times of conflict.
According to the federation, midwives
are among the healthcare workers who have made the decision to delay their
evacuation and remain in Gaza. They are putting themselves in danger to assist
mothers during pregnancy and childbirth. International law, including the
fourth Geneva Convention, mandates that healthcare facilities and personnel
striving to save civilian lives should be safeguarded and left unharmed during
times of war.
Dr Yara M Asi, an assistant professor at
the University of Central Florida’s School of Global Health Management, who has
collaborated with Amnesty International on policy reform and outreach, has
dedicated years to documenting the healthcare challenges in the occupied
Palestinian territory. She has gathered information through focus groups and
on-site interviews. Dr Asi revealed that she has been receiving distressing
updates from colleagues and students in Gaza in recent days in an interview
with The Cut.
“The updates are harrowing. Hospitals
are getting a thousand new patients per day, many with traumatic injuries.
They’re running out of basic dressing and gauze, using cloths and rags and
blankets to tourniquet people’s wounds. I’ve heard from physicians that they’re
performing emergency surgeries without anaesthetics because they don’t have
any,” she said. “They’re starting to worry about potential infection rates
because their sterilisation machines don’t have power. The conditions are
unsanitary because people are splayed everywhere,” she added.
Source: dawn.com
https://www.dawn.com/news/1783258/gazas-pregnant-women-endure-misery-amidst-bombing
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