An Iraqi woman walks in a Baghdad street, in a yellow haze from a heavy dust storm which shut the capital’s airport
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BADASS Muslimahs
I've had enough of the sensationalist, exoticised, demeaning portrayals of Muslim women seen all throughout the media, and this is my way of countering all the nonsense.
This is not an attempt at 'breaking stereotypes' or trying to enlighten people, if you're ignorant enough to believe that Muslim women are oppressed and subjugated by Islam then that's your own problem.
This is my way of giving recognition to all the women who inspire me, and hopefully sending out some positive vibes.
Peace.
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March272012
Shaima Alawadi could have been my mother
a Hijab-wearing, Muslim covered mother
an Arab mother of 5
was she brown
was she brown enough for
her ‘terrorist’ features to explode fear
in her white-neighbors eyes
of colorful racism filling hate
in brutality to beat
a women so dangerous
her headscarf
her identity
her being
her Muslim-ness
posed a threat
a reason to despise
a reason to violate
a reason to take life
a reason to terrorize
a reason to murder
…
Shaima Alawadi could have been my mother
a mother of five
found helpless by fatima
fatima
fatima
17 years are not enough to give
strength to a witnessed murder
of an Iraqi mother
joining millions of Iraqi dead
children
also dead
killed
murdered
because life wasn’t granted to them
because their brown skin screamed
“terrorism” for American soldiers
high in the skies
as drone attacks fell down
on souls
too cheap to count
to name
now Shaima
the mother of five
Shaima
is gone
left to witness
as anger fills the hearts
of motherless children
left to witness
in heavens arms as
justice carries along
unaccounting the worthiness of
life
her life
because justice
speaks in white clarity
often becoming obscured
with brown skin, hijab-wearing, terrorist-bearing mothers ..
because justice awaits
to be served …
Shaima you could have been my mother!
may you rest in peace …
(via Shaima Alawadi could have been my mother « A Shift Towards Conscious Activism)
November22011
“Out with occupation, our country forever proud”; demonstrations in Baghdad on October 14th
Sign says: Yes, to the ouster of the American forces and restoring our independence.
Photograph: Rami Al-Hyali (via Support Iraqi protesters in the Great Iraqi Revolution)
April182011
Iraqi women sit and mourn the disappearance of their sons/husbands: Baghdad
(Source: subhanallah, via zuleikha-deactivated20121202)
March282011
Iraqi women get increasingly less power - Feministing
Iraqi and Afghani women are still waiting. It turns out that the status of women has actually gotten worse since 2003 when America declared itself oppressed women’s knights-in-shining-armor. On everything from maternity leave to workforce representation, women have suffered, and now political leadership is waning. According to the New York Times:
Iraqi women hoped that last year’s election would cement a larger role for them in the government. But they have less political influence today than at any time since the American invasion.
No women took part in the protracted negotiations to reach a compromise government. And despite holding a quarter of the seats in Parliament, only one woman runs a ministry: women’s affairs, a largely ceremonial department with a tiny budget and few employees.
In the previous government from 2006 to 2010, four women led ministries, and in the government from 2005 to 2006, six did, including the influential ones governing public works, refugees and communications.
March162011
For these Iraqi female police cadets, graduation from the Iraqi police academy on Jan. 8 was a reason to celebrate. They were among more than 2,000 cadets graduating at the Baghdad event. (Muhannad Fala’ah/Getty Images) #
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