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., […]
Accosted for her hijab, woman now teaches Muslim empowerment
Source: Associated Press When she was 16, Rana Abdelhamid was accosted on the streets of New York by a man who tried to pull off the head scarf she wears […]
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 […]
What I Have Learned from Muslim Women
Source: Huffington Post By Gail Stearns Dean of Wallace All Faiths Chapel, Chapman University, Mindfulness facilitator I am privileged to work in a context where I meet amazing and very […]
How muslim headscarves became a fashion empire
Source: BBC She’s a Malaysian celebrity with millions of fans. Every time she appears on screen, her adoring fans immediately rush to buy whatever she might have chosen to wear […]
Amid Rising Fear, Muslim Women Arm Themselves With Self-Defense
Huff Post: by Yasmin Nouh — “We want to show that Muslim women are not afraid.” A steady stream of Muslim women filled a large studio in Manhattan on Saturday evening, awaiting an introductory lesson in self-defense. Most of them wore colorful headscarves and long skirts or loose, […]
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 […]
For the Silenced Girls
Huff Post: by Zeena Mubarak — “And when the baby girl buried alive is asked For what sin was she killed” (81:8-9) These verses, which stop me hard every time I get to them and dance uneasily in my stomach, are part of a gorgeous eschatological passage in the 30th […]
This Muslim Woman Is Donating $1 For Every Hate Tweet She Receives
Huff Post: A Muslim woman is turning the hostility of Internet trolls into a “force for good” — one hate-filled tweet at a time. Dr. Susan Carland, an Australian academic and well-known figure in the country’s Muslim community, said she’s become all too accustomed to the “stream of toxicity” that […]
A new Taliban breakaway group claims support for peace and women’s rights
Source: The Washington Post KABUL — A new Taliban splinter faction claimed Sunday that it was ready to engage in peace talks with the government and that it would allow […]
Video: First Pakistani woman to summit Everest encourages women to ‘climb their own mountains’
LA Times: red, cold, hungry and roughly 800 feet from Mt. Everest’s summit, Samina Baig had only one thought in mind: “I have to reach the top,” Baig said. “I […]
No, Islam Is Not Inherently Misogynistic. Here’s Why.
Posted by Falak Rahman 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 in the back of a date-stone.” (Al Qur’an 4:125) Source: Huffington Post By Bina Shah; She is […]
Canada: Growing up Muslim: an individual story, a universal tale
Source: The Globe and Mail By Zarqa Nawaz; who is is the creator of Little Mosque on the Prairie and author ofLaughing All the Way to the Mosque. I asked […]
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 […]
Paradise beneath her feet: Why Muslim Women Matter? Microfinancing
Paradise beneath her feet: Why Muslim Women Matter By Dr. Moin Qazi, Nagpur, India A mother is a school. Empower her and you empower a great nation. —Hafez Ibrahim, Egyptian […]
India: Muslim Women to Mullahs- reform personal law or else
By Hasan Suroor Aug 19, 2015 A progressive Mumbai-based Muslim women’s group has published a survey whose findings are so stark that they should, finally, put an end to any […]
India’s Muslim women fight to end triple talaq law that yields instant divorce
Epigraph: Divorce may be pronounced twice; then, either retain them in a becoming manner or send them away with kindness. And it is not lawful for you that you take […]
Women Rights: One of the Muslim Times’ Core Values
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 in the […]