Muriel Degauque, a Belgian convert and a suicide bomber, blew herself up in a suicide attack on US troops in Iraq last month. The single incident was enough to change the mindset and has triggered an ill-will against all women converts in...
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Muslim woman talks about the status of women in Islamic world.
Muslim Wakeup highlights the growing awareness among Muslim women regarding their rights.
Science Blog throws light on the impact of religion and culture on Muslim women, who seek to...
The status of women in Islamic world has always been in question. According to one of the Iranian dissident, “being born female is both a capital crime and a death sentence.” In most of the Muslim world women are not treated as human beings. Men on the...
Iraqi women on Monday warned the Iranian regime to not interfere in their country’s internal affairs. Women belonging to Diyala province urged the Iraqis to come forward and participate in the upcoming elections on Decenber15 so as to combat the...
Arafa Manchi released compilations of stories titled ‘Ondu Mettu Helida Kathe’, at the function organized by the Central Beary Sahitya Parishat in Manglore recently.
Also speaking on the occasion, Anupama monthly editor, Shahnaz M, opined that the...
A recent fatwa has been passed, demanding execution, against the editor of Afghan’s Women Rights magazine, Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, who has been charged for blasphemy and was sentenced two years imprisonment.
Nasab has been arrested and jailed for his...
Spiegel Online highlights the plight of Muslim women living in Berlin.
Islam For Today raises the voice against the ill treatment of Algeria’s women at the hands of Islamists.
Meta Filter point towards the changes in the meaning of the...
Banned Islamist military group, responsible for a series of bombings in Bangladesh, has threatened to kill women if they do not wear a veil. The statement was announced by the Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen after Thursday suicide bombing which killed around eight...
Turkey has recently hosted the two day Organization of the Muslim Conference (OIC) on women’s right, with a view to reform 57 nation organizations.
The members’ countries have given their full support to Turkey to host the conference, during the...
It was very strange that the National Assembly rejected a bill suggesting amendments, which requires a rape victim to present four “pious men” as witnesses otherwise she will be punished for the adultery or for lying. The Bill (Enforcement of Hudood),...
Murial Degauque, officially became the Iraq’s first European female suicide bomber, when the media finally revealed her identity last week.
It was really a shock for a Christian society, that how a rebellious young girl living in the small town of...
The Egyptian police caned the female Muslim voter when they tried to enter the opposition polling station in the Nile Delta on Wednesday. The violence was stopped only after the interference from the state.
There were around 25 women, who managed to...
The highest European court has issued a verdict this month that the Turkish ban on the headscarf of Muslim women is legal and in accordance to the human rights. This was the final verdict in the case brought by Layala Sahin, a medical student, who was...
After the incident of 9/11, many young Muslim women in Europe are turning back to radical Islam. They find the act of covering their head not as “self-erasure” but as the way to freedom.
But how do the Westerners and the other non- Muslims feel about...
In a recent campaign, the campaigners raised their voice against the European governments, who are permitting Islamic fundamentalists to crush the rights of Muslim women, under the semblance of respecting every culture.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the activist...
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Sharon Chadha has written for various publications, including RUSI Journal, the publication of the Royal United Services Institute, the world’s oldest security and defense think tank in London.
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