10 Muslim women that ruled 2015
By Maariyaah Shaheen It has certainly been one of the most difficult decisions to elect the top 10 Muslim Women of 2015: with success not far from revolutionary, Muslim women […]
What the holy Quran really says about women
What the Koran really says about women Source: The Telegraph By Carla Powers, Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Non-Fiction, 2016 When Middle East correspondent Carla Power began studying […]
If Women Can be Rocket Scientists, They Should be Priests As Well!
Why the Priesthood Needs Women Source: New York Times By Alice McDermott, who is a novelist and essayist. Far more than celibacy or sexual repression, barring one gender from the […]
Saudi Arabia announces princess as US ambassador
Source: BBC Saudi Arabia has announced that Princess Rima bint Bandar al-Saud will become its next ambassador to the US – the first woman ever to take on an envoy […]
I did it for my daughter, says woman arrested for headscarf protest in Iran
Source: Reuters BY Emily Wither (Reuters) – Azam Jangravi’s heart was pounding when she climbed atop an electricity transformer box on Tehran’s busy Revolution Street a year ago. She raised […]
BBC Video — Big Questions: Should gambling be socially unacceptable?
Epigraph: They ask you Muhammad concerning wine and the game of hazard (gambling). Say: ‘In both there is great sin and also some advantages for men; but their sin is […]
Iran revolution: ‘I wore a hijab and head-banged to Nirvana’
Source: BBC By Faranak Amidi; Women’s Affairs reporter, BBC World Service On my first day of school in Iran we walked down a poorly-lit corridor. I was holding my mother’s hand and crying. She was crying too. On my head I had a black hood, known as a maghnaeh, covering my […]
‘Muslim women are stuck between Islamophobes and Islamic fundamentalists’
Source: Open Democracy By Nandini Archer 7 From France to Malaysia, Muslim women’s rights activists are challenging those who ask them to ‘choose between being a Muslim and a feminist’. […]
Ted Radio Hour: Gender, Power, and Fairness
The Me Too movement has changed the way we think and talk about gender discrimination. This hour, TED speakers explore how the conversation has moved beyond a hashtag, and where […]
Nepal woman suffocates in banned ‘menstruation hut’
Source: BBC News A 21-year-old Nepali woman died of suffocation in a windowless “menstruation hut” after she lit a fire to keep warm, say police. Parwati Bogati was found when […]
Video: 15 Amazing Facts about the American Muslims
Suggested reading Thomas Jefferson and Islam as an American Religion We hold these Truths to be Self-Evident Also: Thomas Jefferson Memorial Inscriptions Book Review: Thomas Jefferson’s Qur’an: Islam and the Founders 5 Facts […]
It’s Hilarious That the Pope Called Mary the “First Influencer,” but It’s Also Totally Something He Would Do
Source: Slate By RUTH GRAHAM Photo illustration by Slate. Photos by Thom Masat / Unsplash, Grant Whitty/Unsplash, Thomas Quaritsch/Unsplash, and Peter Paul Rubens/Wikipedia. This past weekend, Pope Francis called the […]
Threatened with an end to Shariah divorce, Egypt’s imams work to save marriages
Source: Religion News Service By Jacob Wirtschafter and Amr El-Tohamy CAIRO (RNS) – Egypt’s skyrocketing divorce rate has spurred a debate among Muslim religious leaders and government officials about how […]
Head of Ahmadiyya Muslim Community addresses Ahmadiyya Board of Arbitration’s Centenary International Refresher Course
Epigraph: Indeed Allah enjoins justice, and the doing of good to others; and giving like kindred; and forbids indecency, and manifest evil, and wrongful transgression. He admonished you that you […]
Protests Erupt In India After Women Defy Menstruation Ban At Hindu Temple
Source: Huffington Post By Jose Devasia and Neha Dasgupta Two women defied a centuries-old ban this week and entered the Sabarimala temple in Kerala. Two women defied a centuries-old ban […]
Indian woman alleges assault by mother-in-law for defying temple ban
Source: Reuters BY Jose Devasia KOCHI, India (Reuters) – One of two Indian women who entered an ancient Hindu hill temple in southern India this month in defiance of a […]
Malala Yousafzai: What does a Nobel Peace Prize winner do for fun?
Source: BBC News Malala Yousafzai is a Nobel Peace Prize winner who was shot and nearly killed by the Taliban when she was just 15 years old. She’s also just […]
Saudi Arabia’s enduring male guardianship system
Source: BBC News Saudi Arabia drew international plaudits last year when it lifted a longstanding ban on women driving. However, restrictions on women remain – most notably, the “male guardianship […]
The holy Quran speaks more often to men than women
Written and collected by Zia H Shah MD, Chief Editor of the Muslim Times There is a commonly known verse of the Quran: “If you fear that you cannot treat orphans […]
Saudi Arabia’s grim discrimination against women is exposed by Rahaf Mohammed al-Qunun’s startling bravery
Freedom of religion is not legally protected in the Islamic kingdom, and people who convert to another religion risk being charged with apostasy By Aisha K. Gill; @DrAishaKGill Source: The […]