The Express Tribune: by Asad Rahim Khan — It’s not stoning to death. Not exactly, if we’re to follow the police’s line. A woman wasn’t stoned to death in broad daylight, by a mob of blood relations. She was beaten to death with bricks. In a sick society, the means […]
Epigraph: On account of this, We prescribed for the children of Israel that whosoever killed a person — unless it be for killing a person or for creating disorder in […]
A husband who strangled to death his pregnant wife two weeks after police arrested him for threatening to kill her with a hammer was sentenced to life imprisonment today. Mohammed Badiuzzaman, 34, pleaded guilty to murdering mother-of-three Sabeen Thandi at the Old Bailey earlier this month. Before the killing he […]
By Fozia Khawaja, Edmonton A unique Interfaith Symposium held by the Ahmadiyya Muslim Women’s Association Edmonton, Canada It is hard to believe that faith can provide solutions to the bullying […]
Epigraph: And say to the believing women that they restrain their eyes and guard their private parts, and that they disclose not their natural and artificial beauty except that which […]
Atmuslimah: by Amanullah De. Sondy — A recent Pew Research Center study indicated how “people” in various Muslim countries “prefer” Muslim women to dress. The results are varied from fully veiled dress to no veil at all. There seems to be no turning away from public interest in Muslim women and the […]
Dawn.com: by Murtaza Haider — We know them as al Qaeda, Boko Haram, and the Taliban. Their branding may differ, but their misogynist ideologies do not. These so-called Islamists have promoted discrimination against women for centuries. Now, they abduct young women and threaten to kill them. Permitting these militants to […]
Epigraph: And We (Allah) 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 and his weaning takes thirty months, till, when he attains his full maturity and reaches the age of forty years, […]
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 […]
Epigraph: And help one another in righteousness and piety; but help not one another in sin and transgression. And fear Allah; surely, Allah is severe in punishment. (Al Quran 5:3) […]
Source: Duluth News Tribune By M. Imran Hayee Part of the feedback to my April 6 Local View column, “Quran forbids men from hurting wives,” indicated a mistaken inference by some […]
راشد احمد بلوچ rashid_blouch@yahoo.com اس واقعہ کو تاریخ کی آنکھ نے آج سے چودہ سو سال قبل دیکھا اور آنی والی نسلوں کی بھلائی اور رہنمائی کے واسطے ہمیشہ ہمیشہ کے لئے اپنے دامن میں محفوظ کر لیا ۔رسول خداﷺ کا قافلہ صحرا ئے عرب کی بے کراں وسعتوں کو […]
Observer: by Rohi Sarbaz Khan — Friday, April 18, 2014 – Feminism is a collection of movements and ideologies aimed at defining, establishing, and defending equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women. This includes seeking to establish equal opportunities for women in educationand employment. Feminist advocates or supports the rights and equality of women.Whereas Islamic […]
St.LouisPublicRadio: by Camille Philips — In Western media, we hear reports that Muslim women are relegated to a second class, largely powerless status and are denied education, independence and employment. We hear stories of women brutalized and abused. But says, Professor Mehnza Afridi, that picture is painted with too wide a […]
Your MiddleEast: by Farppq Aftab — WOMEN’S RIGHTS: Earlier this week thousands of British Muslim men that make up the Ahmadiyya Muslim Youth Association, the UK’s largest and oldest Muslim youth association, issued a single statement denouncing female genital mutilation (FGM). The statement, published on the website ‘Muslims for Humanity‘, […]
Huff Post — A veil is just a piece of cloth, but it often takes on enormous political and social implications that can fail to take the agency of the wearer into account. “cloth,” a video art piece by London School of Economics students in the MSc. Gender, Media and Culture program, seeks to start […]
Written by Dr. Lutf U Rehman. Nashville, TN, USA Place of women in the religion of Islam has been the subject of much debate in recent years. There is a […]
Express Tribune: by Ayesha Ijaz Khan — The question has often been asked: does Islam give women rights or take them away? Surely, the concept of justice and equality for all are repeatedly mentioned in the Holy Quran and are fundamental to the spirit of Islam, with rights for women […]
the Northwestern.com: by Nathaniel Shuda — Women from all walks of life can make meaningful contributions and take on leadership roles no matter what their background or beliefs. That was the message Wisconsin’s first lady Tonette Walker shared Monday with about two dozen members of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community of […]
Source: The Guardian By Tracy McVeigh “The media portray Muslim women as oppressed and subjugated and Islam is often presented as misogynist and patriarchal,” she said, and her book was intended as an antidote to that. For many feminists the hijab is a glaring symbol of male oppression and the […]