In an expected development, Muslim youth parties in the Sub-Saharan part of Africa are urging Muslim women not to be distracted by the ongoing campaigns that the westerners are carrying on in the name of gender equality.
The plea came up during a...
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The poll for the Presidential election and two other posts of local government - Governorate and District in Yemen is all set to kick off from Wednesday, but unfortunately, the number of women voters exceeds the number of women candidates running for...
Finding stylish yet decent garments for Muslim women in US is indeed a challenging job. They don't have much of a choice in the clothing department. If they go for body-hugging and little bit revealing designs, that will be a religious fiasco, so...
Just a few days back, a survey was made among the ethnic minorities in UK, which states that the Muslim women from Pakistan and Bangladesh are suffering from job discrimination because of their religious attire. A lot of outcry was heard from many...
Until date, no Pakistani woman has ever come forward to tell her story of rape to the whole world. Despite being criticized a lot by the President Pervez Musharraf for her daring act, rape victim Mukhtaran Mai is determined to take everything on her...
Iraqi men and women praying (Reuters)
In a move to spread the ‘message of peace’, a number of Iraqi men and women gathered at a Roman Catholic Church for a Sunday mass in Baghdad.
The gathering was organized to convey to all across the world...
You and me will definitely tag it as 'speed dating' when a boy and girl meet up for a seven minute chit-chat, but for the growing American Muslim community, they prefer to label it in a more respectable term called 'Matrimonial Banquet'.
This...
Nearly 50 women in Uzbekistan were detained from studying the Qur'an when all of them gathered at Tashkent clothes factory worker's home for an assembly meeting.
According to reports at DEMAZ, all these detainees had come together for an...
In a recently held Indo-Pak Punjab Psychiatric Society, a group of Pakistani psychiatrists said that women in the rural areas of Pakistan are developing an inferiority complex due to the Indian TV soaps depicting 'glam dolls' on the small screen...
A three-day dialogue has started today in Quezon City, where nearly 50 revered religious leaders from the Muslim community will get engaged in a brain-storming session with people from several fields such as the women's rights activists, lawyers, Sharia...
Supporters of Jamiat-e-Ulema Islam party protesting against the repeal of Hudood Law
Lot many liberal women right groups in Pakistan is disappointed by the setback faced in the reform of the rape laws. President Musharraf did his part of job by...
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Mariyah Moten, a 22-year-old woman has kicked off wide spread rage in the Muslim nations due to a recent comment that she has made regarding her identity and of her main projection in life.
Moten is of Pakistani origin: she grew up...
A new set of rules are making it mandatory for Muslim women to show their 'id-ka-chand' (covered face), which is always guarded be the nikab.
In a move to identify that, it is a woman who is taking the driving test and not anyone else, the Driving...
Life for women in Iran has really gone haywire with the hold of the tyrannical reign of the Islamic clerics are getting stronger day by day.
After the fall of the Shah Empire in the year 1979, Iranian women are facing too many restrictions...
A lot many changes are happening these days. Off late, it is the UN committee on Elimination of Discrimination Against women who is appealing the Philippine government to make changes in the Islamic laws so that the rights of the Muslim women in the...
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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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