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Noor Almaleki, 20-year-old Iraqi American woman murdered by father's vehicle in Phoenix, Arizona, United States in 2009 for repeatedly refusing an arranged marriage. Banaz Mahmod , 20-year-old Kurdish woman molested and strangled to death by her family in Mitcham , South London , United Kingdom for ending an abusive forced marriage and having ...
Majeed was the first Black woman and first Muslim to be tenured in the history of the college. [1] [4] She held the title of Edwin F. Wilde Jr. Distinguished Service Professor. She retired from teaching in 2020 and became Beloit's first Black and Muslim professor to achieve Emeritus status. [1] [4] [3]
In response to the genocidal rape against Muslims in the Bosnian genocide, Al-Adawiya founded Women in Islam in 1992, [8] which was the "first national women’s organization founded by and on behalf of Muslim women". al-Adawiya formed a national campaign to advocate for the creation of women-friendly mosques, urging mosques to welcome women ...
Ava Muhammad (November 9,1951 – 25 August 2022) [1] was an American Black Muslim. In 1998 she became the first female Minister to preside over a mosque and region in the history of the Nation of Islam (NOI).
Ibtihaj Muhammad (born December 4, 1985) is an American sabre fencer, author, entrepreneur and Olympic medalist.At the 2016 Summer Olympics, she became the first American woman to compete in the Olympics in hijab, the first American Muslim woman to win an Olympic medal, [1] and the first Black woman to win an Olympic medal in the sabre event, when she won bronze in the women’s saber team event.
On 12 May 2022, Deborah Samuel Yakubu, a second-year Christian college student, was stoned to death by a mob of Muslim students in Sokoto, Nigeria, after being accused of blasphemy against Islam. [3] The muslim suspects arrested were charged with "Criminal conspiracy and incitement of public disturbance", bailable offences with a maximum 2 year ...
Samantha Louise Lewthwaite (/ ˈ l uː θ w eɪ t /; born 5 December 1983), also known as Sherafiyah Lewthwaite or the White Widow, is a British terrorist who is one of the Western world's most wanted terrorism suspects.
This is a list of people who died in the last 3 days without an article at the English Wikipedia. For women without an English Wikipedia page of the last 30 days see Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Missing articles by time period/Recent deaths For people with an English Wikipedia page see: Wikipedia:Database reports/Recent deaths.