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Pooja | Jul 21 2007
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No doubt, the monster of terrorism is engulfing the world day by day but along with this, there is a creeping predicament that too is swallowing up human race but there's a difference in this case. Here the victims are women, from 'crimes of passion' to...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 18 2005
The Fourth Women Islamic Games held recently in Tehran gave women the chance to stand hand in hand with the preaching of Islam. The Muslim women should be given the right to decide whether she wants to follow her passion for sports or her religion. The...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 9 2005
Honor killing has become the part of Syrian society. Most of these crimes are committed when a daughter marries outside the community. The laws in such cases are not very harsh, which further add to the increasing statistics of honor...
Bhawana Negi | Oct 29 2005
Muslim women appears to be highly concerned about their equal status in the Islamic society. Spanish Conference of Muslim Women has called for a 'gender jihad' all over the world. Abdennur Prado Pavon told that Muslim teachings have been wrongly...
AP | Oct 27 2005
Engaged Surrender: African American Women and Islam is an ethnographic study of Afro-American women. In this book, Carolyn Moxley Rouse has tried to tell the readers the reason that inspired the women converts to embrace Islam. Rouse has also tried...
Pooja | Mar 26 2007
Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality, or WISE has come into being, aim of which would be to construe Koran in the feminist point of view and to shed the conventional belief about their religion, which states that Muslims are terrorists...
Pooja | Mar 22 2007
The English Department of Education and Skills in Great Britain has decided to give teachers the right to be able to ban Muslims from wearing their religious veils to school. The authorities in favor of the ban asserted that the veil puts hindrance...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 30 2005
Imam Labadia was surprised by a FBI visit in her home. It was because Labadia's co-worker was suspicious that her family was making bombs in their house. The fear was just because she is a Muslim woman and wears traditional hijab. The incident...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 26 2005
 swimming
To avoid swimming just to protect from the gaze of men may not be a good option. I do not know how these Muslim women clad fully in clothes, sitting by the sides of the beaches, can enjoy the water. So, the only way out is to either enjoy the water...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 25 2005
From last 30 years the Muslim are living in their own world, away from modernity. May be the West, humiliation, dictators, religious leader are to be blame for it. There is a strong need of some voices which may stand up and say 'Enough! There is a...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 25 2005
I read one news article in Advocate titled ' Muslim Women Dispels Myth', in which it was pointed out that the American stereotype believe that Muslim women live under oppressive laws of Islam, though the status of women has changed from what it was...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 23 2005
 stop fgm
This was for the first time when the religious leaders from the 50 Islamic countries joined hand to fight against the horrible tradition of female genital mutilation, practiced in many parts of the Muslim world on the pretext of religion. Rabat...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 10 2005
Why always Islam is targeted when it comes to women beating. In fact domestic violence against women is a common phenomenon in every society. According to the report of FBI a woman in America is beaten in every 15 seconds by her partner and around 4,000...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 9 2005
Non- Muslims regard Islam as anti- women. It is viewed as a religion which is a man dominating, with women having no identity of their own. Women are just the slave of men and are treated as sexual objects. But these charges against Islam are not...
Bhawana Negi | Nov 8 2005
Just spell the word Islam and the very first thing which pops in the head of a guy is a woman wearing a veil and compelled to stay at home, man with many wife, women chained to the kitchen sinks... This is very true that some Islamic countries do have...

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Interview

sharon chadha

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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