Bye Bye Catholic Church
Source: Spiegel Translated in to English by Nirmal Adeel and Zubair Khalil Khan, Germany Note: Madam Doris Bauer, 52 years old, was engaged in priest department of Catholic Church Cologne […]
Burkini ban brings fine to condo administration in Turkey
BY DAILY SABAH WITH AA The state-run Turkish Human Rights and Equality Agency (TIHEK) slapped a TL 5,000 ($729) fine on the administration of a condominium that banned women from […]
Muslim woman becomes first hijab-wearing judge in UK
Source: The National Aaffia Arshad, 40, says her promotion is great news for diversity in the UK legal system A woman in Britain who has become the first judge in […]
Coronavirus face masks can’t hide France’s Islamophobia
Source: TRT World By Nabila Ramdani French laws against Muslim women with face-coverings stand in marked contrast to its pandemic policy. Is this a double standard? Division and hate are the usual results when allegedly civilised societies get involved in debates about face coverings. Whether it is Boris Johnson describing […]
Outspoken Saudi princess reveals that she is in prison
Princess Basmah, a human rights advocate, demands that her uncle the king frees her Martin Chulov Middle East correspondent Fri 17 Apr 2020 Princess Basmah had called for Saudi Arabia […]
MuslimGirl founder Amani Al-Khatahtbeh announces congressional run in New Jersey
Source: Religion News Service (RNS) — Amani Al-Khatahtbeh, founder of MuslimGirl.com, has become the first Muslim woman to run for Congress in New Jersey. On Saturday (April 4), Al-Khatahtbeh announced […]
Islam and Women: International Women’s Day
Epigraph: But whoso does good works, whether male or female, and is a believer, such shall enter Heaven, and shall not be wronged even as much as the little hollow […]
Building Bridges in Morinville AB
Morinville Community Library to hold International Women’s Day on March 8th, 2020 from 12-4 PM Hosts: Ahmadiyya Muslim Women Association (AMWA) Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation Info Booths Fact learning games […]
International Women’s Day Event by AMWA Brings Five Faiths Together to Discuss Liberation
Religion’s contribution to women’s rights By Maria Iqbal In a blossoming pocket of the Greater Toronto Area, women of diverse faiths came together to discuss an apparently irreconcilable duo: faith […]
Weinstein found guilty of criminal sex act and rape
The Muslim Times’ Chief Editor’s comment: Islam should also be about just society and absolute justice, rather than an obsession with whether Fajr Salat has two, four or six rakats. […]
Women and Islam: Segregation of Women in Islam: Separate Venue, not Value
Source: Review of Religions By Munavara Ghauri Recently Daniel Gee of the Farnham Herald interviewed the Worldwide Head of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community, His Holiness, Hazrat Mirza Masroor Ahmad (aba).[1]Concerning the rights of Muslim women and the reason why men and women are segregated at Ahmadiyya Muslim events, His Holiness […]
Non-Muslim teachers wear Islamic veil in protest of local ‘burqa ban’ in Sweden
Source: Islam City21 After the Sweden Democrats proposed a bill in 2018 to go “against the full-covering Muslim veil in all public places”, the local council in southern Sweden, Skurup, […]
Debate: The Sexual Misery of the Arab World / The Sexual Misery of the Western World
The Sexual Misery of the Arab World Source: New York Times By Kamel Daoud ORAN, Algeria — AFTER Tahrir came Cologne. After the square came sex. The Arab revolutions of […]
Muslim woman paid $120K in suit alleging Ramsey County jail forced her to remove hijab, strip
Source: Star Tribune By Paul Walsh A six-figure settlement and sweeping changes in how female Muslim inmates are treated in Minnesota are among the results of a lawsuit after Ramsey […]
SC to hear pleas against polygamy, nikah halala among Muslim ..
Source: Times of India The Supreme Court Monday said it will hear after the winter break the pleas challenging practices of polygamy and ‘nikah halala’ among Muslims. The issue was […]
German Catholic Church Debates Sexuality, Celibacy and Women’s Roles
With the German church’s global influence, a meeting of bishops and laypeople to take up hot-button topics has led to warnings of a new schism, originating in the home of […]
In Egypt, polygamy has its apologists and nemeses
Source: Arab weekly By Hassan Abdel Zaher is a Cairo-based contributor to The Arab Weekly. Cairo – Rania Hashem is seen as an enemy to many of Egypt’s married women. […]
Egypt court sides with woman against unequal inheritance law
CAIRO (AP) — An Egyptian woman says she’s scored an important legal victory against her country’s inheritance laws, which grant female heirs half of what they grant men. Huda Nasrallah, […]
Video: The Real and Compassionate Face of Islam
Epigraph We have not sent you Muhammad, but as mercy for the whole of mankind! (Al Quran 21:107/108) Suggested reading by Zia H Shah MD Nobel Prize for a noble woman […]
BBC Big Questions – Are Religions Unfair To Women?
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal British women ‘being forced into polygamous relationships’ because law lets them down, campaigners say […]
