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 […]
Do women have an unfair share in inheritance?
Source: Alislam. The BBC video has been inserted by the Muslim Times By Farhan Iqbal, Missionary, Ahmadiyya Muslim Community Canada It is quite commonly assumed that men and women have […]
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. […]
Doctors in Egypt launch anti-genital cutting campaign after girl dies
Source: Reuters By Menna A. Farouk Doctors in Egypt have taken time out of their surgeries for a campaign to raise awareness of the dangers of female genital mutilation (FGM) […]
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 […]
Pakistan court rules men can marry underage girls
Source: ICN By Fionn Shiner and Marta Petrosillo Underage girls can be married as long as they have had their first menstrual cycle, a High Court in Pakistan has ruled, […]
Egypt court backs niqab ban on Cairo University staff
Source: New Straits Times A top Egyptian court has ruled in favour of banning female academic staff at Cairo University from wearing the Muslim face veil, known as the niqab, […]
Bangladesh: Lajna Ima’illah organizes a free Medical Camp for the people of Mirpur in Dhaka – A Report
Service to mankind is service to God. Islam totally believes in it because second half of Islamic Shariah is ‘Serving Makind’, the first half being ‘Worship of God’. *Lajna Ima’illah refers to the Women’s Auxiliary Organization of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community. Accordingly on 20 January 2019 a free medical camp […]
Canadian solo traveller Rosie Gabrielle converts to Islam after spending time in Pakistan
Source: Dawn Canadian solo traveller Rosie Gabrielle, who spent a notable amount of time in Pakistan last year has announced that she has converted to Islam. Taking to Instagram, Gabrielle […]
IN: Shimoga’s Lajna Imaillah in association with Humanity First India organize a Ladies Led Medical Camp at Rayanhalli, Karnataka
Report by Incharge Humanity First, South Karnataka Humanity First India’s Shimoga Branch In Association with Zilla Lajna Imaillah Shimoga Had a Successful Ladies Led Medical Camp at a Remote Village called ‘Rayanhalli’ of District Chitradurga. 2 Doctors and a team of 14 Voulenteers all Ladies, started early Morning to Rayanhalli […]
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 […]
Record number of Muslims enter British parliament
Source: TRT World In spite of rising Islamophobia, a record number of Muslims were elected to the House of Commons in the UK’s recent election. Muslim candidates won 19 seats […]
The extreme PMS blamed for murders
Source: BBC It affects the health of up to 8% of women and has even been linked to outbursts of violence, but premenstrual dysphoric disorder, or PMDD, is still poorly […]
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 […]
British women ‘being forced into polygamous relationships’ because law lets them down, campaigners say
Source: Independent ‘The government is always perfectly happy to relegate minority women to kangaroo courts and faith-based parallel legal systems’ By Maya Oppenheim, @mayaoppenheim Women are being left to go […]