Halal Dating Advice

13 October 2018 19:41 Filed in: Matchmaking | Sex and Sexuality

Halal dating advice on YouTube explained … Discover More…

Tags: Relationships, Gender

Yes, I'm Hot in This.

11 October 2018 14:52 Filed in: Gender

ImamsOnline, One Muslim Woman’s Mission For Better Representation "One of the best ways that we as Muslims can improve our status in the media is to support people who present a more positive outlook of Islam in the West. One such person is a Muslim artist named Huda Fahmy, aka “Yes, I’m Hot in This“. The name is a play on the question that plagues many a hijabi, where non-Muslims will constantly ask us “Aren’t you hot in that?” and I love the way she takes ownership of who she is, and how she’s feeling."
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Tags: Gender , dress-codes

Gender specific propaganda

28 September 2018 12:32 Filed in: Gender | 'Islamic State' | Tehreek-e-Taliban | Pakistan

Nikita Malik, Forbes.com, Why Do We Underestimate The Role Of Women In Terrorist Organizations?, 26 Sep 2018 "It is important to remember, moreover, that Islamic State was the first terrorist organization to spearhead a systematic campaign to reach out to women – using gender specific propaganda to do so. The group later inspired others, including the Pakistani Taliban (Tehreek-e-Taliban, or TTP) to follow suit and produce content tailored specifically for its ‘jihadi sisters’, and elaborate on their role in promoting the mujahideen (fighters)."

Tags: Gender , jihad, Radicalisation

Contesting identities within cultural insecurity

14 September 2018 12:32 Filed in: Research | Gender

Currently taking a look at this interesting thesis, which draws on a number of elements associated with the study of cyber Islamic Environments. Kathleen Woodhouse-Ledermann, Contesting identities within cultural insecurity: The case of Muslim women in contemporary France (Rutgers, 2018) [PDF download]

Tags: French Muslims, Gender , Research

Man arrested after breakfast with woman in Saudi Arabia

11 September 2018 10:28 Filed in: Social Media

BBC News, Man arrested after breakfast with woman in Saudi Arabia, 10 Sep 2018 "In the 30-second video, the man and woman briefly joke about eating their breakfast together, with nobody else invited."

Contrasting views were expressed on social media from Egypt and Saudi Arabia in relation to this incident.

Tags: Saudi Internet, Egyptian Internet, Gender

Gary R. Bunt

'Hashtag Islam: How Cyber-Islamic Environments Are Transforming Religious Authority'

Editions

Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2018

New Delhi: Pentagon Press, 2019

Pentagon Press edition - Hashtag Islam

Oxford University Press: Oxford Index Edition (Subscription)

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