Incident 1: “…To see resistance from a woman [in fascist Saudi Arabia] means a lot… This is just the beginning and there will be more.’ ” Here.
Incident 2: … 60-year-old female lawyer rips off Muslim woman’s Islamic veil during a row in what French police are describing as the first known case of ‘burqa rage’. Here
“…Squatting next to me is my burka. It looks so innocuous: just a few yards of black fabric. But, my goodness, how oppressive it is, how suffocating, how transforming. Moved by the plight of Lubna Hussein, a Sudanese woman who faces 40 lashes for wearing trousers in public, I decided to spend a week enveloped in what she should have been wearing. Out shopping one day, I caught sight of myself in a … store window. Instead of me staring back, I saw a dark, depressed alien. A smudge. A nothing.” Read article here.
