Monday, February 15, 2010

Hijab-wearing women rock!

Why hijab-wearing Muslim women have a real affinity for hard rock.
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  1. vzaFebruary 15, 2010 at 9:57 AM

    Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: The closed minds that deny a civilisation's glories



    <span>http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/yasmin-alibhai-brown/yasmin-alibhaibrown-the-closed-minds-that-deny--a-civilisations-glories-1899560.html
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  2. VAAFebruary 15, 2010 at 12:25 PM

    Hijab can be lethal
    <span>On 1 July, Marwa al-Sherbini, an Egyptian woman who wore the headscarf and was three months pregnant, was brutally murdered in a Dresden courtroom by a German man of Russian descent who declared 'you have no right to live'.



    <span>MARWA </span>al-Sherbini was stabbed eighteen times in the space of thirty seconds. It was a frenzied attack, clearly motivated by racism and Islamophobia. Yet the German state and media, have been in a state of denial. The press reported it as a neighbourhood dispute, with headlines such as 'Murder over quarrel over swing'. Amidst widespread anger in Egypt, the press officer at the German embassy in Cairo declared the murder an isolated case and a 'criminal act. It has nothing to do with.
    persecution against Muslims'.


    Marwa al-Sherbini was married to an Egyptian academic Elwi Ali Okaz who is a pharmacist studying at the internationally renowned Max Planck Institute. Al-Sherbini, also a pharmacist, was suing the man who went on to attack her (formally identified only as Alexandre W) after he insulted and threatened her in a local playground, calling her an 'Islamist', a 'terrorist' and an 'Islamist whore'. Marwa al-Sherbini, who wore a headscarf, was part of a legal challenge to this insulting behaviour. In the first instance, a district court convicted Alexandre W for his actions and ordered him to pay a fine of 780 Euros. However the behaviour of Alexandre W towards Marwa al-Sherbini during the course of this trial was so threatening and insulting that the prosecuting attorney deemed that he had learnt nothing from the conviction and ordered a second prosecution which would probably have resulted in a prison sentence.
    At the second trial, and as al-Sherbini was finishing her testimony, Alexandre W leapt up and, in a frenzied attack, stabbed her repeatedly while shouting 'You have no right to live'. Marwa al-Sherbini's 3-year-old son was in court and witnessed his mother's brutal murder. In the bedlam that followed, several bystanders were injured, including al-Sherbini's husband, Elwi Ali Okaz, who was shot and seriously wounded by a police officer who has now been placed under investigation pending a possible criminal prosecution. Elwi Ali Okaz was initially taken to hospital in a coma but his condition is now said to be stable.
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Marwa_El-Sherbini


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