Scandinavia’s first women-only mosque opens in Denmark
For our posts promoting women rights, please click here Source: The Local The female imam at Mariam Mosque, which is opening at an undisclosed location in Copenhagen this week, hopes […]
Australia: Fourteen Year-Old Australian Muslim Girl Dreams to Be the First Hijabi Ballet Dancer
Photo: Kurlow wants to be the first professional ballerina to dance in a hijab. Fourteen Year-Old Australian Muslim Girl Dreams to Be the First Hijabi Ballet Dancer A young Muslim ballerina wants other girls like her to know they can make a change — no matter their beliefs or the […]
Indian Muslim Women Seek Supreme Court for Entry in All Mosques
Women at SC door for mosque gate-pass Source: Telegraph India New Delhi, Jan. 30: A group of Muslim women has decided to move the Supreme Court demanding entry into all […]
Fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad Qualifies For Olympics, Will Become First U.S. Athlete To Compete In A Hijab
By Brandon Penny | Feb. 02, 2016, 4:57 a.m. (ET) Before even scoring a point, Ibtihaj Muhammad will make history this summer in Rio de Janeiro by being the first […]
Please continue calling me different and trying to deport me. That will help integration
Seventy-seven per cent of Brits support deporting migrants on spousal visas if they fail to learn English withinin two and a half years. Blimey Yasmin Choudhury @yasminisyasmin 26 comments British Muslims leave an East London mosque following prayers Getty Muslims this morning woke to the news that Trevor Phillips, the ex-chairman […]
David Cameron needs to look beyond the veil
Source: The Guardian By Remona Aly For a man with an in-tray that never empties, David Cameron has strange priorities. This week, with the world economy shaking perilously and the EU […]
Women in Sheraniland: A Case for Secularism
Source: ET About five years ago, when the PPP wasn’t the sick man we’re used to today, a public post fell vacant. The Council of Islamic Ideology (CII) — i.e., […]
US Muslim Group Launches Campaign to Reclaim the Meaning of ‘True Islam’ from Extremists
Source: Newsweek BY LUCY WESTCOTT ON 12/30/15 AT 9:04 PM The “True Islam” campaign, created by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community USA, aims to correct misconceptions about the religion and unite […]
Divorced and widowed Saudi women to get greater legal powers: newspaper
Source: Reuters Saudi Arabia will let divorced women and widows manage family affairs without approval from a man or a court order, a state-aligned newspaper said on Wednesday, a […]
Indian Mulla ‘Women only fit to deliver children’ and a list of female Nobel Prize Laureates
Gender equality against Islam, says Kerala Sunni leader Source: Indian Express A prominent Indian Muslim leader said on Saturday that women could never equal men as “they are only fit to […]
Feminism in Islam and Sikhism at SOAS university, UK
Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Student Association, UK (AMWSA) Meet the world at SOAS SOAS is a truly global university, with an influence way beyond its London home. With unique and unrivalled […]
Book Review : Women in Islam: Exploring New Paradigms
Book Review, Moin Qazi’s – revolutionary approach to women’s empowerment Women in Islam: Exploring New Paradigms By Moin Qazi Published by Notion Press, Chennai, India, Year (2015), Pages: 141, ISBN: 978-93-84878-03-0, Price: 199 Reviewed […]
How Did the Muslim Times Celebrate International Women’s Day 2015
Epigraph: And We have enjoined on man to be good to his parents. His mother bears him with pain, and brings him forth with pain. And the bearing of him […]
Muslim women’s bodies – the hottest property in 2014
Source: telegraph.co.uk Dated-Sunday, 4th January, 2015 When it comes to Muslim women, it’s still all about what we wear – and the last 12 months only serves to confirm this sad state of affairs. What we say, our achievements, opinions and self-determination continue to be brushed aside. Even as women’s […]
Ahmadiyya women state gender equality present in their faith – Morden
Read another wonderful article: Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal By Sabiha Hamid Female delegates at the Pan-African Ahmadiyya Muslim Association conference […]
Australian women wear headscarves in solidarity with Muslim community
For one week, Kate Leaney – a Christian woman – has donned a scarf on her head in the Islamic tradition. It’s not because she’s trying stay warm – rather, […]
Canberra Muslim woman stopped wearing hijab for fear of being attacked
Canberra Muslim woman Nurcan Baran says she has stopped wearing her hijab for fear of being attacked. On Thursday Speaker Bronwyn Bishop and Senate President Stephen Parry approved new interim rules to force Muslim women who cover their faces to sit in a separate glass-enclosed public gallery in Federal Parliament. […]
Africa Union troops ‘raped’ girls in Mogadishu, Somalia
African Union (AU) troops raped women and girls seeking medical aid or water from their bases in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a rights group says. The troops had “misused” their power over women fleeing violence and poverty, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. One Muslim girl, aged 15, reportedly had her headscarf […]
Africa Union troops 'raped' girls in Mogadishu, Somalia
African Union (AU) troops raped women and girls seeking medical aid or water from their bases in Somalia’s capital, Mogadishu, a rights group says. The troops had “misused” their power over women fleeing violence and poverty, Human Rights Watch (HRW) said. One Muslim girl, aged 15, reportedly had her headscarf […]
Man tore off woman’s hijab in Long Beach hate crime; suspect sought
he Long Beach Police Department is seeking the public’s help in identifying the man who committed a hate crime against a Muslim woman in the Bixby Knolls area. Authorities said the incident occurred around 4:30 p.m. July 2 in the parking lot of a shopping center in the 4000 block […]