Muslim women
- India
MLAs refuse to help Muslim women because ‘no vote came from them’
West Bengal: Muslim women of West Bengal’s Bankura have alleged they felt humiliated after visiting Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA Niladri Sekhar Dana on Friday, October 2, claiming he refused to help them as…
- India
AI can strip off hijabs with a prompt, raising safety concerns
On September 4, French politician Julien Odoul posted two images of a woman—one in a hijab and one without—captioned LIBERTÉ FRANÇAISE”, meaning French Liberty. One image was real, while the other was…
- India
Gujarat woman hammered to death by kin over viral video with man
Ahmedabad: A woman was allegedly murdered in an honour killing in Gujarat’s Sakhrej by her father and brother after a video of her with a man was widely circulated on social media.…
- Hate Crime
Man caught using AI to generate obscene images of woman in burqa
Mumbai: A man was caught while allegedly generating obscene images of a Muslim woman using artificial intelligence (AI) when his fellow passenger confronted him during a train ride. The incident is from…
- Hate Crime
Amarnath Yatra pilgrims chant ‘Har Har Mahadev’ at hijabi women
Jammu: As the fifteenth batch of pilgrims left Jammu for the twin bases of the annual Amarnath Yatra in Kashmir, some devotees were heard chanting religious slogans at women wearing a hijab…
- Opinions
Muslim women’s mosque access: Religion, rights and reform
The debate surrounding Muslim women’s entry into mosques is no longer confined to courtrooms or religious committees. It has become part of a larger conversation about faith, dignity and justice in contemporary…
- India
UP Police arrest 3 women for cooking beef at home in Kaushambi
Lucknow: Uttar Pradesh Police on Wednesday, June 24, arrested three Muslim women after raiding a house in Kaushambi district on suspicion that they were cooking beef. The arrests took place in Panara…
- India
SP to bring bill seeking quota for OBC, Muslim women: Dharmendra Yadav
Budaun: Samajwadi Party (SP) chief whip and Azamgarh MP Dharmendra Yadav on Monday, April 20, said his party will introduce a private member’s bill in Parliament demanding separate reservation for OBC and…
- India
Rajasthan: Ex-BJP MP refuses to give minority women blankets, triggers uproar
Tonk: Sukhbir Singh Jaunapuria, the former Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP from Rajasthan’s Tonk-Sawai Madhopur, refrained from giving blankets to Muslim women, saying those who insult Prime Minister Narendra Modi will not…
- India
Muslim women can reclaim wedding gifts, property post divorce: SC
New Delhi: The Supreme Court observed that a Muslim woman under the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986, is entitled to reclaim money and gold, among other gifts from…
- World
Angry women confront man over hijab insult in Moscow metro station
Two Muslim women stood up to a man who mocked their hijab in a metro station in the Republic of Dagestan, Russia. Visibly angry, they confronted and charged at the man. The…
- India
Kashmiri women face online Islamophobic abuse post Pahalgam attack
Kashmiri Muslim women have now under a surge of Islamophobic and sexual comments online by right-wing handlers on social media platforms post the deadly Pahalgam terror attacks that killed 26 people. The…
- World
Canadian attempts to set fire on hijab-wearing woman, arrested
A 25-year-old female attacked a Muslim woman and attempted to set the latter’s hijab on fire in a public library located near the Canadian city of Toronto. Fortunately, no serious injuries took…
- Hyderabad
Abaya-clad woman breaks barriers as construction worker
Hyderabad: Breaking all social barriers, a 40-year-old abaya-clad woman from Errakunta in the far southern side of Hyderabad city is now working as a construction worker. Parveen Begum, a resident of Noorinagar…
- India
Video: Right-wing group harasses women at fair in UP, sparks outrage
In a disturbing incident, a group of young Muslim women was targeted by right-wing Hindutva men at a fair in Uttar Pradesh’s Milikhan Jahanpur village of Firozabad city. The incident came to…
