Revealing Democracy: A Conference on Bill 94 (Part I)
Quebec’s Bill 94, which would deny access to public services to women who wear niqab, is back in parliamentary hearings and, by all accounts, likely to pass. This past weekend, an international...
View ArticleWomen in Tunisia’s Revolution
On Friday, the President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia fled his homeland as it was engulfed by an uprising, sparked by the suicide of Mohamed Bouazizi, an unemployed university graduate who had...
View ArticleThe French “Niqab Ban,” One Year On
A year ago this week, a French law came into effect banning face veils for women. At the time, the law was subject to much derision for “only” affecting the very specific number of 367 niqab and...
View ArticleChange Is Now? No, Not Yet: Manuel Valls as France’s New Interior Minister
I was rather excited about Francois Hollande winning the French elections this month. I hoped that five years of hateful, fear mongering policy towards Muslims by Sarkozy and his minions would come to...
View ArticleAt the Centre of the Debate on Secularism, Faith, and Gender Equality
Last week, Christopher Majka posted an article on rabble.ca in response to Sheema Khan’s piece in the Globe and Mail entitled “Muslim men: Stop blaming women.” At the centre of the debate is: what is...
View ArticleBangladeshi Women, Media and the “Helpers of Allah”
This post is written by guest contributor, Sarabi N. Eventide (@SarabiNEventide) Ansarullah Bangla Team (ABT), the extremist group in Bangladesh responsible for the deaths of numerous secular and...
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