The bodies of at least 87 migrants, predominantly women and children, have been found in the Sahara desert in Niger, close the Algerian border. They died earlier this month in a failed attempt to reach the Algerian border; 21 migrants of the same group survived and have all been returned to Niger. Complaints about anti-Islamic ads on […]

A female suicide bomber attacked a bus in southern Russia last Monday, killing six and injuring dozens. Naida Asiyalova, the alleged bomber, is from the region of Dagestan, and her husband, an ethnic Russian convert to Islam, is currently on the run. An online “halal” sex shop has opened in Turkey. While some welcome the concept, other […]

Last week Muslims worldwide celebrated the Feast of Sacrifice, or Eid-ul-Adha, which also is the last day of the annual Muslim pilgrimage or hajj to various sites in and surrounding Mekka and Medina, Saudi Arabia. In Himachal Pradesh, India, Muslim women were allowed to travel for free within the state on state buses for the holiday. Many Bangladeshi women turned […]

One year ago, Malala Yousufzai was shot in the head for speaking up for the education of girls and this week she received the prestigious Sakharov human rights prize, which is award by the EU, for her work. A spokesman from the Taliban stated that she has done “nothing” to deserve this prize, and once […]

Women battalions are fighting on both sides in the Syrian conflict and despite the fact that their numbers are relatively small, they serve an important purpose for both the opposition and the Assad regime. Sudanese police have fired teargas at hundreds of protesting female students at Ahfad university in Omdurman last Monday. On Tuesday, the students continued […]

Early this week, Samantha Lewthwaite was linked to the Kenyan mall massacre, but a post on Twitter by the organization behind the attack, Al Shabaab, which said that no women were involved in the attack. On Thursday, however, Interpol issued an arrest warrant for the “white widow.” According to Interpol, the warrant has been issued in connection with […]

Last week, much of the news items dealing with Muslim women was related to Britain and the debate and issues surrounding the (face) veil. First of all, a judge ruled that a Muslim woman wearing a face veil was allowed to wear her veil in court, but must remove it when testifying, though she would […]

Sudanese woman Amira Osman Hamed faces trial on September 19 for refusing to wear a headscarf. Indian diarist and women’s rights activist Sushmita Banerjee has been killed in Afghanistan. Sushmita Banerjee was married to an Afghan man and recently moved back to Afghanistan, where she was said to be filming the lives of local women. Her book […]

Child marriage is forbidden in Nigeria, but in the predominantly Muslim north, one in four rural girls are married off before they turn fifteen; that child marriage is in fact illegal is something that many people in northern Nigeria do not understand. Sex trade is flourishing in Afghanistan; it is unclear how many women are sold in sexual slavery, but […]

The hijab campaign after the attack of a woman in hijab has divided Sweden; some critics say that the campaign a symbol of oppression. Meanwhile, the pregnant Muslim woman has been attacked again, according to Stockholm police. A French teenager who was assaulted by skinheads earlier this month for wearing the hijab has attempted to commit […]