3 lessons on starting a movement from a self-defense trailblazer | Rana Abdelhamid
At 16, Rana Abdelhamid started teaching self-defense to women and girls in her neighborhood. Almost 10 years later, these community classes have grown into Malikah: a global grassroots network creating safety, power and solidarity for all women. How did she do it? Abdelhamid shares three ingredients for building a movement from the ground up.
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A Muslim calling for the empowerment of women is a little odd. Granted, she can do that in the US, and more so in NYC. But try that in an Islamic country? She talked about hate crimes in the US against Muslims has increased but totally ignore that hate crimes against her own people are occurring minute by minute in Islamic countries…. and mostly against women. She would be dead if she spoke like this in many parts of the world, most likely at the hands of a male relative.
my father comes from the middle east, my mother from the "west" i have never felt like i been opressed by the west in my entire life. Why is it that everyone who is not "western" feels like they are worse or that the west is out to kill em/enslave/misstreat and so on? i don't think the west is to blame but for theese people to stop thinking themself as victims… we don't live in the 1800 or the early 1900.
Thank you so much for this. It was absolutely beautiful. I have never found myself so emotionally impacted by a video before. What you are doing is so inspirational and absolutely necessary. Thank you so much 🙂
Yasssss Rana. I had the pleasure of meeting this young lady in Colombia this pass March. Very wise and knowledgeable lady. Hope she see this comment. Oh and happy birthday day
Stop normalizing self-defeating women. Covering your hair is not an idea "worth spreading". We need to recognize Islam for what it is; an oppressive, male-dominated, dogmatic religion.
When you wear a symbol of any expansionist religion, you are not not merely saying "I am a moron", you are also making a political statement against democracy and secularism. If you provoke peaceful people long enough, some will eventually lash out. But you're a god-believing moron, so why would you even think about others?
Would you still work and strive for the same ideas & agendas when it comes to rights of women/girls who don't want to wear it?! Give them physical/Martial Arts training to defend from those who force them to wear it?
I don't think so. Hardly TED talk hijabi speakers or any famous Hijabi bloggers have been verbal about the atrocities & enforcement against majority of those girls who don't want to wear it. And that number is alarmingly greater than those attacked for wearing it. (Watch so many live filmed videos of little school girls being beaten up for not wearing it) So now a physical material symbol of faith has to be defended by even more harsh physical lessons. That's how flawed this belief is. I wore it voluntarily for 17yrs of my life with immersing myself into religion, but found that it only attached me more to the materialistic meaning of this command with little or no reflection inward & a fear of sin if I removed it. Thanks to my process of un-learning & relearning of Quran minus all the contradicting Hadiths, I'm a more inclusive & spiritual Muslim that can converge with any faiths around me. No competence with another belief, no guilt of being punished by the All-Merciful. Just moving forward in the search of truth as Quran mentions.
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Fact-The safest place for a Muslim woman to live is in a non-Muslim majority nation.
Fact-The most dangerous and oppressive place for a Muslim woman to live is in a Muslim majority nation.
Don’t let those misguided opinions and silly feelings get in the way of the pesky facts.
Return to Egypt please!
What a joke
If she really stood up for women and independence, she would take off the Hijab.
Please, stop coming to America.
The crusades happened for a reason people.
Just don't defend your religion with a bomb. Thank you.
How does she get to keep talking after allotted time is up?
A Muslim calling for the empowerment of women is a little odd. Granted, she can do that in the US, and more so in NYC. But try that in an Islamic country?
She talked about hate crimes in the US against Muslims has increased but totally ignore that hate crimes against her own people are occurring minute by minute in Islamic countries…. and mostly against women.
She would be dead if she spoke like this in many parts of the world, most likely at the hands of a male relative.
Muslim talking about self defense is really hilarious
Reformation and enlightenment are the best way to defend honor killing.
my father comes from the middle east, my mother from the "west" i have never felt like i been opressed by the west in my entire life. Why is it that everyone who is not "western" feels like they are worse or that the west is out to kill em/enslave/misstreat and so on? i don't think the west is to blame but for theese people to stop thinking themself as victims… we don't live in the 1800 or the early 1900.
What are her real thoughts on LGBTQ? Rooftop conversion anyone?
Her Self Defense Starter Kit is a joke.
Thank you so much for this. It was absolutely beautiful. I have never found myself so emotionally impacted by a video before. What you are doing is so inspirational and absolutely necessary. Thank you so much 🙂
Great speech. She should go back to Islam so she can help her Muslim sisters fight the inequality there. Gotta start with the root of the problem
Yasssss Rana. I had the pleasure of meeting this young lady in Colombia this pass March. Very wise and knowledgeable lady. Hope she see this comment. Oh and happy birthday day
Stop normalizing self-defeating women. Covering your hair is not an idea "worth spreading".
We need to recognize Islam for what it is; an oppressive, male-dominated, dogmatic religion.
When you wear a symbol of any expansionist religion, you are not not merely saying "I am a moron", you are also making a political statement against democracy and secularism. If you provoke peaceful people long enough, some will eventually lash out. But you're a god-believing moron, so why would you even think about others?
Would you still work and strive for the same ideas & agendas when it comes to rights of women/girls who don't want to wear it?! Give them physical/Martial Arts training to defend from those who force them to wear it?
I don't think so. Hardly TED talk hijabi speakers or any famous Hijabi bloggers have been verbal about the atrocities & enforcement against majority of those girls who don't want to wear it. And that number is alarmingly greater than those attacked for wearing it. (Watch so many live filmed videos of little school girls being beaten up for not wearing it)
So now a physical material symbol of faith has to be defended by even more harsh physical lessons.
That's how flawed this belief is.
I wore it voluntarily for 17yrs of my life with immersing myself into religion, but found that it only attached me more to the materialistic meaning of this command with little or no reflection inward & a fear of sin if I removed it.
Thanks to my process of un-learning & relearning of Quran minus all the contradicting Hadiths, I'm a more inclusive & spiritual Muslim that can converge with any faiths around me.
No competence with another belief, no guilt of being punished by the All-Merciful. Just moving forward in the search of truth as Quran mentions.
Live by the sword die by the sword. Say no to cultists
Interesting, Cheetah Print boots… somewhere the Taliban are shaking their heads.
Start with what you know, start with who you know, but just start. Shukran, Rana!
Intelligent pretty girl, but oppressed by the satanic death-loving cult of the paedophile from the desert.
God always is right
People are always wrong.
“Nature has made up her mind that what cannot defend itself shall not be defended.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
2nd amendment is your self defense.
Should you defend yourself from bearded Muslims with oversized backpacks entering your church during Easter service?
It all starts from us! Within us! Its not what most people look at.
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