A section of poor Muslim women often face the brutality of a male-dominated society. Women and girls all over the world(of all religions and nationalities)are not safe from violence and exploitation in the so called 'age of globalization and...
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It is still a paradox as to what many religious leaders of the Islamic community preaches and practices. Some says that it is the duty of the Muslim women to draw the veil whether they are amidst the public forum or at home, but the unfortunate...
Do you aspire for a virgin? So, does everyone. However, when it comes to Muslim community this aspiration takes a new high. But what if this virginity is fake or artificial? As it happens in the case of Aisha Salim who is to marry a person from...
The time to raise the voice has come. Thats exactly what around a thousand Afghan women(one of the most secluded in international societies)called for across some of the most important and volatile provinces of Afghanistan. These are the women that have...
President Bush had made the claim after US forces overran Iraq in 2003 that Iraqi women were now free and had a bright future. But seeing their condition in the country today one is forced to say the opposite is true.
During Saddam Hussain's time...
Though women are cattle for some men, these latter are constantly disturbed and agitated by mere cows. So when I hear of Iraqi terrorists insisting on killing Christian women if they do not cover their faces in Basra University, I wonder about whom...
In the past five months more than 40 women have been killed in Iraq’s southern city of Basra after being accused of ‘un-Islamic’ behavior. Women have been threatened with dire punishment, should they wear make-up or step out without the Islamic...
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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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