Women who run or appear prominently on social media platforms, including Mariam, administrator of a 400,000-member Facebook group for women in the UAE, report receiving a surge of unsolicited messages from men policing their dress, behavior and visibility online. These messages, often framed in religious terms, range from demands to cover up to outright sexual harassment, prompting some women to disable messaging features entirely. The pattern is linked to a subset of the broader online 'manosphere' that recasts antifeminist, male-grievance ideology in Islamic religious language.
wired.com
· 2026-10-11
The brother of a Muslim police officer who died in the September 11 attacks has spoken out against demands that New York mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani skip the city's memorial ceremony. He said he was disappointed by the push to exclude Mamdani, defending the officer's memory as one that should not be used to justify exclusion.
bbc.co.uk
· 2026-09-11
The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission determined in June that there is reasonable cause to believe Cisco subjected Muslim and Middle Eastern employees, as well as other workers who voiced pro-Palestinian views, to a hostile work environment. The finding stems from a complaint alleging that advocacy related to Palestine led to workplace mistreatment at the tech giant.
fastcompany.com
· 2026-08-31
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