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How Facebook fails Muslim Women


Posted by Guest Contributor on 29 Oct 2015 / 1 Comment
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This article was written by guest contributor Stéphanie Renée Roy (@LGD_Stephy). She blogs at Love God Diversity.  For better or for worse, many of us now spend much of our time interacting online on social media. In fact, in June 2015, Facebook estimated 968 million daily users. Facebook has prided itself on reaching out to […]

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The Crimes and Punishment of Apostasy and Adultery


Posted by tasnim on 22 May 2014 / 3 Comments
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Meriam Ibrahim, a Sudanese doctor who married a Christian man in 2011, was convicted last week on charges of apostasy.  While Ibrahim has a Muslim father, she appears to have been raised Christian. Apostasy implies conversion, but as Ibrahim reportedly told the judge, “I am a Christian and I never committed apostasy.” By her account, […]

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Jamaat-i-Islami in Pakistan and the rape/adultery fallacy


Posted by Guest Contributor on 13 Jul 2011 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by Aziz Poonawalla and originally appeared at City of Brass. I found this argument by Munawar Hassan of the political party Jamaat-i-Islami to be unbelievably disgusting and fundamentally blasphemous in the way he invokes the Qur’an to justify blatant misogyny: Here is the most disturbing part of Hassan’s comments: Anchor: The […]

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Malaysia’s Newest Cane Campaign


Posted by alicia on 22 Feb 2010 / 0 Comments
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In Malaysia, where we are swamped with mixed messages from religious authorities and pop song lyrics, those of us lucky enough to find love are bound to run into trouble. Just a week short of Valentine’s day, three women and three men were caned under Shariah law for committing “illicit sex.” This marks the materialization […]

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