Category: Activism

Marriage as punishment: documentary about women’s rights in Morocco 1

Marriage as punishment: documentary about women’s rights in Morocco

The suicide of the 16-year-old Amina Filali from Larache, who presumably was forced to marry her rapist, gave Nadir Bouhmouch the idea to use her story as the main topic for a documentary about women’s rights in his country of birth: 475 – When Marriage Becomes Punishment.

The Jihad Struggle: #MyJihad Campaign 1

The Jihad Struggle: #MyJihad Campaign

MyJihad is an American campaign sponsored by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) trying to reclaim the word Jihad from radical (anti-) Muslims. It is response against Pamela Geller’s hate-campaign but also receives criticism from Muslim groups. How would be analyse such a spectacle when going beyond the binary of religion – secular?