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Satisfying a Man’s “Needs”: Enhancements and Halal Sex


Posted by eren on 28 Jul 2016 / 0 Comments
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Over the past few years MMW has often covered issues of sexuality and women’s pleasure, particularly because the ways in which Muslim female sexuality and pleasure are framed not only in the media, but also among Muslims themselves, tend to be quite problematic. Muslim women’s sexuality has made it to the headlines on a number […]

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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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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 Polygamist is Political”: Muslim Women and the Issue of Polygamy in the West


Posted by eren on 14 Jun 2012 / 0 Comments
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A few months ago, while reviewing one of my friend’s profiles on Facebook, I was surprised to see the amount of discussion that Shari’ah rulings regarding marriage provoke in the West. My friend, an orthodox Sunni Muslim and avid follower of the Hanbali school, had commented in a picture from 2010 that depicted Malaysian women […]

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Revelations As A Result Of Hidden Cameras in Sweden’s Mosques


Posted by Guest Contributor on 11 Jun 2012 / 0 Comments
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The post was written by guest contributor Maheen Nusrat. In the latest episode of Swedish television channel SVT’s investigative news programme Uppdrag granskning, ten Swedish mosques were visited, and in six of them, imams were caught on camera giving advice harmful to women and contrary to Swedish law.  (An unofficial subtitled version of the episode, […]

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The Libyan Woman’s New Libya


Posted by Guest Contributor on 15 Nov 2011 / 0 Comments
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This piece was written by a Guest Contributor, Summar Shammakhi. The interim Libyan leader, Mustapha Abdul Jalil declared Libya liberated on the 23rd October. The content of his twenty or so minute speech was a tribute to the February 17 revolution. He thanked all the brave men and women, all the martyrs, all the injured […]

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Nothing is worse for a Saudi man than imagining himself a woman


Posted by Guest Contributor on 16 Aug 2010 / 0 Comments
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This post was written by Eman Al Nafjan and originally appeared at her blog Saudiwoman’s Weblog. Every Ramadan for the past sixteen years a show called Tash Ma Tash, which means something in the literal lines of “splash what may,” is closely watched by almost every Saudi household. The show is a satire of Saudi […]

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Big Love: Appropriating Feminism in Advocating Polygamy


Posted by alicia on 30 Sep 2009 / 0 Comments
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Stories about polygamy tend to surge and ebb in the media, but they never fail to intrigue people. Recently in South Africa, a Zulu man married four women–all at once–making the most popular story on the BBC news website (you can watch the clip here). In the video, a male wedding guest gives a thumbs-up […]

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Life Lost: the Tragic Case of Sahar Daftary


Posted by sobia on 30 Dec 2008 / 0 Comments
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On December 20th, 23-year-old model Sahar Daftary died as a result of a fall from the 12th story of an apartment building in Greater Manchester (inna lillahi wa inna illaihi raji’un). May Allah have mercy on her soul. The death of this former Face of Asia has spurred many speculations in British media as to […]

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Iranian women continue to fight the system…


Posted by fatima on 09 Sep 2008 / 0 Comments
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…but somehow the news article that covers it decides to completely change the subject to whether or not Islam condones/accepts polygamy. Yeah…I don’t quite understand the flow either. I was super excited to see the headline (“Iranian women battle the system”). It was like a “Yeah! Finally, Muslim women are being portrayed as really strong […]

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