Local Attorney to Present “Declaration of Equalities for Muslim Women”
When the Iranian revolution of 1979 took place, Nadia Shahram was a student in Buffalo, New York, far away from her family in Iran. But her mother and sisters were […]
Another Factor Said to Sway Judges to Rule for Women’s Rights: A Daughter
NY Times: WASHINGTON — It was, Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg later said, “such a delightful surprise.” In a 2003 Supreme Court opinion, Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist suddenly turned into a feminist, denouncing “stereotypes about women’s domestic roles.” Justice Ginsburg said the chief justice’s “life experience” had played a part in the […]
India gang-rape: Victims’ relative calls for public hanging of attackers
http://www.cnn.com/video/api/embed.html#/video/world/2014/05/30/pkg-udas-india-gang-rape-hanging.cnn By Harmeet Shah Singh and Faith Karimi, CNN updated 6:29 AM EDT, Sat May 31, 2014 Katra village, India (CNN) — Mourners sat on mud floors at a village in […]
Fatwa Against Honor Killings Declared By Pakistan Ulema Council Of Muslim Leaders
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 […]
Controlling Muslim husband who forced wife to convert to Islam and wear a hijab before he killed her while she was pregnant is jailed for 17 years
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 […]
eDigest: Happy Mother’s Day to All the Mothers of the World
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, […]
Islam and Motherhood
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 […]
A follow-up: Islam embraces gender equality
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 […]
یہ شیشے ٹوٹنے نہ پائیں
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 […]
Book Review: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power
Epigraph: Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful women, […]
Book Review: A Call to Action: Women, Religion, Violence, and Power by Jimmy Carter
Epigraph: Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful women, […]
Malala: A Role Model for Young Girls
By Haadia from Lahore Tuesday 9th of October 2012, an ordinary day, at least for me. But the life of a girl from Swat was dangling in the midway of […]
Does Islam Condone Domestic Violence?
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 […]
The Islamic Solution to Stop Domestic Violence
Source: The Huffington Post By Qasim Rashid: Author, ‘The Wrong Kind of Muslim’ Critics incorrectly allege that Islam commands husbands to beat their wives, often citing the Quran verse 4:34. Unfortunately, like […]
Violence against women: One-third of EU women affected – survey
Source: BBC By Bethany Bell, BBC News, Vienna The study found that a majority of women did not report the most serious incidents of domestic violence Continue reading the main story Related Stories Mental abuse ‘should be made crime’ Alarm over scale of abuse of women Russia’s domestic violence nightmare […]
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Cherie Blair: ‘Muslim Women: Slow But Steady Progress’
Epigraph: Surely, men who submit themselves to God and women who submit themselves to Him, and believing men and believing women, and obedient men and obedient women and truthful men and truthful […]
Women Hold up Half the Sky
Additional Reading Gender Equality in the Holy Qur’an – In the Beginning Man and Woman Were Equal Cherie Blair: ‘Muslim Women: Slow But Steady Progress’
Study dispels stereotypes about Ontario women who wear niqabs
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No burqa required: Muslim world weighs in on women’s dress
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 […]