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Silence or Intervention?


Posted by Shereen Malherbe on 03 Dec 2015 / 3 Comments
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A recent report in The Independent highlighted that there has been a spike in Islamophobic hate crime of more than 300 per cent since the Paris attacks. Most victims of the UK hate crimes were Muslim girls and women aged from 14 to 45 in “traditional Islamic dress.” Even before the attacks, the recent high […]

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Why British MP’s statements defending Muslim women do more harm than good


Posted by Guest Contributor on 02 Nov 2015 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by guest contributor Shereen Malherbe (@malherbegirl). Headline grabbing assertions made by British MP Baroness Cox regarding Muslim men having up to 20 children each have been condemned by the Muslim community. In search of the representation of women in the UK media, it didn’t take me long to come across the Telegraph article […]

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Tabloid Dawah, Make Me A Muslim!


Posted by woodturtle on 19 Feb 2013 / 0 Comments
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When I think of Britain, I don’t think of a society so “rife” with promiscuity and drunkenness that its very moral fibre is in need of repair. Call me naive, but I usually imagine red telephone boxes, Mister Darcy, imperialism, fish & chips, curry houses, and Doctor Who. But according to a mini-series from 2007 called “Make Me a Muslim,” Britain […]

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The Wardrobe Wars: Bikinis and Garbage Bags


Posted by sana on 17 Aug 2010 / 0 Comments
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About a week ago, a British woman in a Dubai shopping mall, allegedly wearing a shirt which seemed to reveal too much in relation to boobage and leggage, was scolded by a passing Emirati woman who felt the Brit’s clothing violated the modesty dress code put up by mall authorities in respect of the country’s Islamic identity and ethos (which, fortunately, do not effect the emirate’s use of slave labour for its self-glorification).

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Ramadhan Book Club: Our Stories, Our Lives


Posted by alicia on 15 Sep 2009 / 0 Comments
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Our Stories, Our Lives is an anthology of a diverse group of women in Bradford, England, offering a glimpse into their lives and their issues with reconciling their Muslim identities with being British. With the media’s daily onslaught on the image of Muslims and assumptions about so-called conflicting alliances (Islam and the West), a “proud […]

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Burqas and the British Police Farce


Posted by alicia on 04 Aug 2009 / 0 Comments
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Oh, this is just hilarious. Three female police officers were ordered to dress up as Muslim women for the day just to see what it felt like. They wore traditional burkhas as part of a scheme designed to help police interact better with the Islamic community. It’s like going to a fancy dress party, because, […]

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The Sound of a Broken Record: Alibhai-Brown’s Essay for The Independent


Posted by faith on 13 May 2009 / 0 Comments
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Reading Yasmin Alibhai-Brown’s commentary in The Independent reminded me a bit of a group of people that Khaled Abou El Fadl mentioned in his introduction to Amina Wadud’s Inside the Gender Jihad. The group of people I refer to are “self-hating Muslims” with “tormented soul(s)” who seem all too eager to assuage the bigoted view […]

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Mixing up the message on Islamic law


Posted by Krista Riley on 27 Oct 2008 / 0 Comments
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You know that game called “broken telephone” (it goes by other names too, I think), where one person whispers a message in someone’s ear, who whispers it to someone else, and so on, and by the time it reaches the last person, it gets a bit warped? That’s probably a pretty good analogy for what […]

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