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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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Undermining the Justice of Sharia, from Granting Divorce to Female Breadwinners


Posted by yasmeen on 15 May 2013 / 0 Comments
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A couple of weeks ago I came across this BBC Panorama  story on “Women at risk” which warns that “some Sharia councils in Britain may be putting Muslim women “at risk” by pressuring them to stay in abusive marriages.” The story presents a case of a couple going to one of the Sharia councils for […]

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Sisterhood of the Hot Pants: the Media’s Coverage of Lubna al-Hussein


Posted by faith on 20 Aug 2009 / 0 Comments
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Lubna al-Hussein’s recent trial for wearing pants has received a lot of attention in the media. Most of the attention has been focused on the “backwardness” of indecency law that apparently prevents women in Sudan from wearing pants in public. The law itself doesn’t actually describe what is “indecent” but it seems to be understood […]

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The Mother of All Sins: Kartika Sari Dewi Shukarno’S Caning


Posted by alicia on 29 Jul 2009 / 0 Comments
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They say that money is the root of all evil. At times, I couldn’t agree more. But now I hear that alcohol consumption is the “mother of all sins”. I’m not going into detail about which sins are worse, but more on the earthly consequences of such sins as defined by the male religious elite. […]

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Asifa Quraishi on Women and Shari’a


Posted by Krista Riley on 05 Jan 2009 / 0 Comments
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Dr. Asifa Quraishi, a specialist in Islamic law at the University of Wisconsin, was recently profiled as part of a series called Inside Islam: Dialogues and Debates, created by the University of Wisconsin-Madison and Wisconsin Public Radio and described as “a new media initiative that seeks to challenge misconceptions and stereotypical perceptions about Islam and […]

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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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