Meet a Muslim Family
Source: Bradford Times Every year, the Ahmadiyya Muslim community in Canada – reaches out to their non-Muslim neighbours, to share a greater understanding of their faith and culture. The Ahmadiyya […]
Remarks on women wearing niqabs were ‘inappropriate,’ Tory MP says
The Globe & Mail: A Conservative MP has apologized after saying women who want to wear the face-covering niqab during citizenship ceremonies should “stay the hell where [they] came from.” […]
Suppression of Women, Culture or Faith?
Source: Huffington Post By Meliha Hayat; Freelance Writer and Religious Correspondent Growing up I read stories about inspirational women, who ruled over kingdoms, created legislation, established schools and universities and moulded the minds of the future, and there was one thing that they all had in common; they were Muslim […]
Religious Women Break Down Barriers
Huff Post: by Antonia Blumberg — March marks Women’s History Month, a time to celebrate and critically assess the ways in which women’s rights have and have not progressed around the world. In the realm of religion, there is still much work to be done, as many faith traditions continue to bar […]
African Women Turn Once-Devastating Floodwaters Into Gardens
Huff Post: Emilie Faye is no stranger to flooding. The walls in her home are discolored from rainwater and past floods in her community, a suburb of Dakar, Senegal, have driven water levels up to the seat of her couch, she told Reuters. But the Senegalese woman is now using […]
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 […]
Empowering women
Source: The Express Tribune By Shahid Khan: The writer is the vice-chairperson of a Glasgow-based human rights organisation, Global Minorities Alliance. He tweets @Shahidshabaz “A girl is far more responsible for […]
International Women’s Day 2015: Afghan men wear burqas to campaign for women’s rights
Epigraph: And when people are brought together; and when people question about the girl-child buried alive,’for what crime was she killed?’ (Al Quran 81:8-10) Source: The Independent A small group […]
International Women's Day 2015: Afghan men wear burqas to campaign for women's rights
Epigraph: And when people are brought together; and when people question about the girl-child buried alive,’for what crime was she killed?’ (Al Quran 81:8-10) Source: The Independent A small group […]
Councillor Nusrat Jahan Begum from Qadian wants to speak for brides waiting to come home
Courtesy: Amatul Wadood Cheema, UK Hailing from Pakistan, Nusrat Jahan Begum, who is now an elected municipal councillor from Qadian in Gurdaspur district, is all set to raise the issue […]
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
Delhi rapist says victim shouldn’t have fought back
BBC News — “A decent girl won’t roam around at nine o’clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy,” he said In 2012 an Indian student was violently raped on a moving bus in Delhi and died of horrific internal injuries. Leslee Udwin spoke […]
Delhi rapist says victim shouldn't have fought back
BBC News — “A decent girl won’t roam around at nine o’clock at night. A girl is far more responsible for rape than a boy,” he said In 2012 an Indian student was violently raped on a moving bus in Delhi and died of horrific internal injuries. Leslee Udwin spoke […]
Quebec judge wouldn’t hear case of woman wearing hijab (not Niqab)
A Quebec court judge has told a woman appearing in her Montreal courtroom she would not hear her case unless the woman removed her hijab. In an audio recording of […]
Muslims for Peace hand out roses in wake of negative news stories
CBC: Muslims for Peace will be handing out white roses in downtown Edmonton Don’t be surprised if a stranger hands you a white rose today. In the wake of a […]
US Supreme Court to Start Hearing Muslim Hijab and Discrimination Case Today
Epigraph: “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press.” — First Amendment to […]
Wearing a Niqab or a Veil- Is it a Requirement of Islam
Huffington Post: A federal Judge has turned down former Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s Niqab Ban in Citizenship Oath ceremony. …… If wearing the veil was a faith-oriented right, every Muslim […]
Feds shouldn’t appeal niqab ruling: Trudeau
Liberal Leader Justin Trudeau is taking issue with Stephen Harper’s rationale for the decision to defend a federal ban on the wearing of face coverings at citizenship ceremonies. Earlier this […]
Dementia hits women hardest – study
theguardian: by Robin McKie — Research finds disease now leading cause of death in British women; many are also carers before succumbing themselves An MRI scan of a human brain. Women over 60 are now twice as likely to get dementia as breast cancer. Women are bearing the brunt of the […]
Women Less Welcome Than Men in Fields Demanding Brilliance
Biosciencetechnology.com: by Cynthia Fox — Women are less welcome than men in fields—including philosophy, physics, math, and music composition—where brilliance is viewed as more important than effort, says a co-ed Princeton University/University of Illinois group in a recent Science. The team “noticed a pattern I had never heard of: that certain […]