Muskaan Sheikh, Trained By Her Father Muhammad, Won Four Gold Medals in New Zealand Commonwealth Power Lifting Championship
New
Age Islam News Bureau
29
November 2022
•Don’t
Forget Us, Afghan Women Tell Pakistan Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar
• Iranian
Actors Soheila Golestani, Taraneh Alidoosti and Taraneh Alidoosti Stage Silent
Protest Without Headscarves
• Nobel
Laureate Malala Yousafzai Joins Campaign for Freedom of Oppressed Afghan Women
• ‘Respect
for Iranian Women’ Protester Invades Pitch At World Cup Match
• The
Downfall of Quebec’s Bill 21 Could Come Thanks To Women
• India
Hijab Row Sparks Rise in Sale of Islamic Clothing
• Women's
Economic Participation in Saudi Arabia Surge By 35.6%: Al-Rajhi
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Muskaan
Sheikh, Trained By Her Father Muhammad, Won Four Gold Medals in New Zealand
Commonwealth Power Lifting Championship
Photo:
Zee News Madhya Pradesh
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Nov
28, 2022,
Translated
from Hindi
Deepak
Agarwal/Shivpuri:
Shivpuri's
daughter Muskaan Sheikh has made India proud in New Zealand. Let us tell you
that Muskaan has brought laurels to the country and the state by winning 4 gold
medals in the Commonwealth Power Lifting Championship held in New Zealand. India's
team of 22 players left for New Zealand on 25 November for the competition.
Muskaan was selected for this championship only last month.
18-year-old
Muskaan participated in the 65 kg category in the competition where she
captured 4 gold medals.
Muskaan
Sheikh is a resident of Mazhaira, a small village in Shivpuri. Muskaan will
return to India on 2nd December. Muskan's father Mohammad runs a poultry farm
in the village and has been working hard for Muskan for the past several years.
It
was Mohammad who trained Muskaan. Now that Muskaan has won 4 gold medals in
Commonwealth Power Lifting, Muskaan's father is not happy and is feeling proud.
Muskaan's
father Mohammad has thanked all the officials of the District and his
colleagues, including the Sports Minister of the Madhya Pradesh Government,
Yashodhara Raje Scindia, for this achievement of his daughter.
Muskaan
had earlier won two gold and one silver medal in the All India Power Lifting
Competition in Kasaragod, Kerala in August 2022.
https://zeenews.india.com/hindi/india/madhya-pradesh-chhattisgarh/mp/shivpuri-muskan-sheikh-won-4-gold-in-commonwealth-power-lifting-championship-new-zealand-ngmp/1461203
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Don’t
Forget Us, Afghan Women Tell Pakistan Minister, Hina Rabbani Khar
FILE
- Hina Rabbani Khar takes part in a panel discussion during the Doha Forum, in
Qatar's capital, March 27, 2022. Khar currently serves as Pakistan's minister
of state for foreign affairs, a position distinct from her previous.
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29
November, 2022
A
leading Afghan women's group urged a Pakistan minister not to forget their
plight as she visited Kabul Tuesday to discuss relations with the country's
Taliban rulers.
The
trip by Hina Rabbani Khar, Islamabad's first woman foreign minister in 2011 but
now a minister of state, comes weeks after the Taliban imposed new restrictions
on Afghan women, barring them from parks, fun fairs, gyms and public baths.
The
UN special rapporteur on human rights in Afghanistan said Friday that Taliban
restrictions on women and girls could amount to a “crime against humanity”.
“You
serve as an example of the status of women in our neighboring country,” the
Afghan Women's Network, representing several activist groups, said in an open
letter to Khar.
“We
call on you to use your visit not only as minister but as a woman and as a
Muslim woman leader to support the women of Afghanistan and strengthen our
solidarity.”
Pakistan
has complicated relations with the Taliban, with Islamabad long accused of
supporting the hardline Islamists even while backing the US-led invasion of
Afghanistan that toppled them following the 9/11 attacks.
Pakistan
is home to over a million Afghan refugees, and the porous border they share is
frequently the scene of clashes.
On
Monday, Pakistan's separate but home-grown Taliban -- whose leaders and
fighters have long operated from Afghanistan -- said they were ending a shaky
ceasefire with Islamabad.
Since
returning to power in August last year, the Afghan Taliban have insisted they
would not allow foreign militant groups to operate from home soil.
No
country has recognized the Taliban government and visits by foreign diplomats
-- let alone high-profile women -- are rare.
Source:
Al Arabiya
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Iranian
Actors Soheila Golestani, Taraneh Alidoosti and Taraneh Alidoosti Stage Silent
Protest Without Headscarves
This
screengrab shows several Iranian actors staging a silent protest without
headscarves. — Photo courtesy Omid Memarian's Twitter
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November
29, 2022
PARIS:
A group of Iranian actors have staged a silent protest without their
headscarves in a gesture of solidarity with demonstrations sparked by the death
of Mahsa Amini, a video posted on social media showed.
The
death of Amini, 22, who had been arrested by the Tehran morality police, has
triggered more than two months of protests which pose the biggest challenge to
the clerical regime since the 1979 Islamic revolution.
In
the video, the actor and director Soheila Golestani, wearing black, walks into
the shot, and turns around to reveal she is wearing no headscarf. She stares
into the camera.
Nine
other women then join Golestani to make the same gesture, as do five men.
Golestani
posted the video on her Instagram account late on Sunday, writing: “The
performance is over and the truth has been revealed. Our real heroes are the
unnamed people.”
A
constant presence in the shot is Iranian director Hamid Pourazari, who also
posted the video on his Instagram account.
The
Iran Wire website said all those in the video were Iranian actors. It appeared
to have been shot in a park but AFP could not immediately verify the time and
the place.
Several
Iranian actors have during the protest movement made taboo-breaking gestures of
removing their headscarves, with have been mandatory for women in public since
four years after the 1979 revolution.
Earlier
this month Taraneh Alidoosti, one of Iran’s best-known actors remaining in the
country, posted an image of herself on social media without the mandatory
headscarf.
Alidoosti
vowed to stay in her homeland at “any price”, saying she planned to stop
working and instead support the families of those killed or arrested in the
protest crackdown.
Iran
also arrested two prominent actors, Hengameh Ghaziani and Katayoun Riahi, who
expressed solidarity with the protest movement and removed their headscarves in
public in an apparent act of defiance.
Ghaziani
has now been released on bail, state news agency IRNA reported late on Sunday.
Iranian
cinema figures were under pressure even before the start of the protest
movement sparked by Amini’s death. Prize-winning directors Mohammad Rasoulof
and Jafar Panahi remain in detention after their arrests earlier this year.
Militia
member shot dead
A
member of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards militia was shot dead on Monday, the
Guards said, as the Islamic republic has been gripped by more than two months
of protest.
An
investigation is underway to identify the perpetrators of the attack in the
central city of Isfahan, said deputy local governor Mohammad-Reza Jannessari,
the IRNA news agency reported.
The
Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps said in a statement the man was killed in “a
terrorist action carried out by mercenaries of the global arrogance”, a term
used for the United States and its allies. It said the man was a member of the
IRGC Basij militia.
Source:
Dawn
https://www.dawn.com/news/1723750/iranian-actors-stage-silent-protest-without-headscarves
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Nobel
Laureate Malala Yousafzai Joins Campaign for Freedom of Oppressed Afghan Women
Noor
Fatima
28
Nov, 2022
The
youngest Nobel laureate and activist, Malala Yousafzai, is working hard for the
freedom of women and their empowerment. She joined a march to fight for the
freedom of the oppressed Afghan women under the Taliban regime.
Yousafzai
became a part of the march, organised by a campaign group called 'Action for
Afghanistan', which witnessed thousands of people taking to London streets and
demanding the UK government to create a safe haven for Afghan women and girls
at risk.
The
march followed members of Parliament (MPs) urging the foreign secretary, James
Cleverly, to pay attention to women at risk after Britain’s 20-year campaign in
the country.
Taking
to Instagram, Yousafzai wrote, "We must stand against the Taliban’s
oppression — and against any government or leader who refuses to step up and
confront gender persecution while women and girls fight alone. Today I joined
Action for Afghanistan in London to march for Afghan women and girls — and to
call on the U.K. and other powerful countries to do more to help them."
The
march included a global summit for Afghan women where the UK will negotiate
with the Taliban on the fundamental human rights of Afghan women.
For
the unversed, Yousafzai has always been vocal against the Taliban's oppression,
especially of women, and used her platform to educate, empower and emancipate
women all around the world from the shackles of social injustice.
Source:
Daily Pakistan
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‘Respect
For Iranian Women’ protester invades pitch at World Cup match
28
Nov 2022
A
protester holding a rainbow flag and with a shirt saying “Respect For Iranian
Women” on the back ran on to the pitch during Monday’s game between Portugal
and Uruguay at the World Cup in Qatar.
Security
staff quickly intervened and moved away the protester, who also had “Save
Ukraine” on the front of his shirt.
The
tournament has been surrounded by controversy over hosts Qatar’s treatment of
the LGBT community as well as anti-government demonstrations in Iran. The head
of the organising committee, Hassan al-Thawadi, described the rainbow flag as
divisive in an interview on Monday.
Portugal’s
Rúben Neves said: “We know what has happened around this World Cup. It’s a
normal thing to happen. Of course, we are all with them as well. Iran as well,
because I saw his shirt. I hope nothing happens to the boy because we
understand his message and I think all the world understood it as well.”
Portugal
went on to win the match 2-0 thanks to a Bruno Fernandes double to secure their
place in the knockout stages.
Source:
The Guardian
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The
downfall of Quebec’s Bill 21 could come thanks to women
SHEEMA
KHAN
Nov
29, 2022
The
notwithstanding clause of the Canadian Charter is no longer an obscure legal
term. Thanks to Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s recent use of Section 33 to prevent
job action by education workers – he has invoked the clause, or threatened to
do so, three times in four years – ordinary Canadians now know that their basic
human rights can be suspended at any time. We aren’t talking about emergency
measures here, nor are we discussing reasonable limits through democratic
mechanisms; ours is the only constitutional democracy that potentially allows
for the gutting of basic rights in the name of what a parliamentary majority
deems a matter of governance.
Who
could have foreseen the consequences of this clause?
Well,
Canadian women, for one.
When
the Charter was being drafted, women demanded equality rights – but they were
derided at committee hearings for doing so. In 1980, Senator Harry Hays
derisively countered by suggesting special rights for babies and children,
since “all you girls will be out working and we’re not going to have anybody to
look after them.” A year later, more than 1,300 women descended on Parliament
Hill to assert equality rights in the Constitution, by affirming Section 15 on
general equality and proposing Section 28, on gender equality rights.
Initially,
the notwithstanding clause could have been used on Section 28, too. But women
fought for its exclusion, having had the foresight to ensure that gender
equality rights could not be denied by the potential whims of future
governments. We owe them a great deal.
And
yet, today, we see the Constitution’s notwithstanding clause leading to
disproportionate damage to Muslim women in Quebec.
François
Legault’s government has pre-emptively used the notwithstanding clause twice
since 2019, to ensure the passage of two bills. One of them, Bill 21, bans some
public-sector workers from wearing religious symbols, but lawyers have provided
evidence at the Quebec Court of Appeal – which heard a legal challenge to the
bill this month – that only Muslim women who wear the hijab have lost their
jobs as a result of it.
Indeed,
Quebec’s religious minorities have felt increased alienation and despair in
recent years, according to the Association for Canadian Studies. Its survey
found that the situation is particularly dire for Muslim women: 73 per cent of
them said they’ve felt less safe in public since 2019, while 83 per cent said
their confidence in their children’s future has worsened.
The
Quebec government touted Bill 21 as a “feminist” law, but it has only reinforced
prejudices, and given license to bigots. I know this firsthand: During a visit
to Montreal, I was berated by a middle-aged francophone Uber driver for wearing
the hijab. At the end of the ride, he asked me not to file a complaint. (Of
course, I did the opposite.)
This
all illustrates Bill 21′s egregious violation of Section 28 of the Charter –
namely, that the law disproportionately affects women, and thus violates gender
equality. Since the notwithstanding clause cannot override Section 28, Bill 21
could be seen by the courts as invalid – an argument that University of New
Brunswick law professor Kerri Froc raised years ago, and is now gaining
traction.
Quebec
Muslim women are not wilting. They have protested alongside allies who believe
in a Quebec where all individuals can thrive. Take, for example, Institut F, a
Montreal-based organization that seeks to ensure Muslim women’s personal
agency. Its programs provide resources so that each woman knows that she
belongs, her voice matters and she is a valued member of society – even if the
Quebec government thinks otherwise. At a recent Institut event, I met talented
Muslim women in STEM fields such as artificial intelligence, biotechnology and
data science – talent that Quebec needs to remain economically competitive.
Yet, many of those women expressed doubts about thriving in a society that
overtly discriminates against religious minorities.
Something
may have to give on this front, too. The labour shortage is so acute in Quebec
that the town of Hérouxville – infamous for issuing a code of conduct for
immigrants warning them not to stone or burn women alive – is now actively
courting newcomers. Today, neighbouring towns are helping migrants find halal
food. Economic reality will force the realization that attracting workers means
making all feel welcome – not just a select few.
Bill
21’s damage has been done – abetted by the notwithstanding clause. The women
who fought to exclude Section 28 from the clause knew its dangers. As
Canadians, we must continue that fight to guarantee basic rights for all, be
they religious and linguistic minorities in Quebec, education workers in
Ontario, or anyone threatened by the notwithstanding clause.
Source:
The Globe And Mail
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India
hijab row sparks rise in sale of Islamic clothing
29 November
2022
Munawar
Zaman
In
the crowded and bustling lane of the south Delhi suburbs, it’s a carnival here
every day. People flock to this market every evening to buy everything a
central market can offer. With lanes and by-lanes across the street, this is a
shopping heaven among local Muslims. Zaid a local shopkeeper says this market
is very popular, especially among women and in demand these days are Islamic
outfits of the latest designs.
Outfits
such as abayas and hijabs, prayer outfits, burkha and naqaab, thobes and jubbas
and sportswear are rending.
Shagufta,
a student, says it’s not all about hijab, but it’s about my choice to wear
hijab. She says rather than politicians indulging in matters of Muslims that
fetches vote, why don’t they stop hate crimes, lynching and bulldozing Muslim
homes. Anti-Islamic elements want to show to the world that Islam is about
oppressing women, but in reality it’s about protecting women, safeguarding
women and treating them with utmost dignity.
Based
on reports and market evaluations, Islamic clothing market will see a massive growth
by 2028. Many brands are in line for manufacturing the latest trending Islamic
clothing.
Many
women I spoke with believe that the hijab row is nothing more than a political
stunt ahead of the incoming elections. They say political parties are now looking
to exploit such issues to galvanize people into voting for them.
In
recent months, a ban on Islamic headscarves or hijab in southern India has
outraged the Muslim community, saying it’s an outright attack on their faith or
choice, which the constitution has guaranteed to safeguard. Observers say
anti-Muslim rhetoric has flared more aggressively since the ruling BJP grabbed
power in 2014. They say most elections in India since 2014 have been overly
polarized and the religious divide has been the trump card used to garner votes
and win elections.
Source:
Press TV
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2022/11/29/693571/India-hijab-row
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Women's
economic participation in Saudi Arabia surge by 35.6%: Al-Rajhi
November
29, 2022
RIYADH
— Minister of Human Resource and Social Development Eng. Ahmed Bin Sulaiman
Al-Rajhi confirmed that women's economic participation has witnessed an
increase by 35.6%.
Eng.
Al-Rajhi noted that the increase of the women's economic participation has come
as a result from the national efforts that have been provided by the private
sector to employ Saudis.
This
is addition to the partnership with the men and women, which has also
contributed in offering jobs opportunities for more than 2.2 million Saudi in
private sector.
He
also praised the projects and programs that have been accomplished in
partnership with the private sector in supporting and empowering the Saudi
youth to be able to work in the sector and the several professions and
activities.
Eng.
Al-Rajhi made these statements while meeting with businessmen and women in
Najran Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
He
reviewed the most notable initiatives and projects, and followed up the
performance reports and the achievement' percentages, in addition to the
services that are provided to the beneficiaries.
He
stressed the importance of working to qualify men and women and enable them
with training and job opportunities that are available in the labor market.
Source:
Zawya
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