HomeNews Don’t ignore women’s struggles in the Muslim world These are tough times for women in Afghanistan. As people head to the polls to choose their next leader, there are widespread fears that women’s hard-won gains may not survive the new regime. Forget those inspiring stories of little girls finally going to school. Many of the candidates vying for office want to send them back home so their fathers can marry them off at will.“Women are n >>>   Feminism In Faith: Quest To Reinterpret The Quran’s Most Controversial Verse Zainah Anwar:By one common reading of the Holy Qur’an, a Muslim woman must choose between rejecting her faith and rejecting the notion of equality. This Kuala Lumpur-based journalist and activist has been working to find a third option. If a Muslim woman opens up the text of the Holy Qur’an and leafs through its pages until she reaches chapter 4, which is titled “The Verse of Wom >>>   Two Saudis among top 20 Muslim women scientists Muslim Science, a UK-based online magazine, has named two Saudis in its top 20 list of most influential Muslim women in the scientific field.   The two women are Samera Ibrahim Islam and Hayat Sindi. Samera Islam, the drug safety advocate, is a board member of the Arab Science and Technology Foundation and head of the medicine unit at King Fahd Center for Medical Research at King Abdul A >>>   Muslim views on how women should dress in public, majority favour hijab that completely covers a woman hair and ears but not her face  A significant number of people in seven Muslim-majority nations favour public attire that completely covers a woman’s hair and ears but not her face, according to a survey by the University of Michigan.Conducted by the university’s Middle Eastern Values Study in 2011 and 2013, the survey found that of six possible styles of dress for women offered to respondents, the mo >>>   The Rise of the Islamic Feminists , Muslim women are fighting for their rights from within Islamic tradition, rather than against it Muslim women are fighting for their rights from within Islamic tradition, rather than against it.Throughout the Muslim world, a groundswell of feminist sentiment is growing among women who are seeking to reclaim Islam and the Koran for themselves. For decades, many women believed they had to choose between their Muslim identity and their belief in gender equality. It was an impossible choice&mdash >>>   Syrian Women The Missing Player in Syria Peace Efforts A more gender-inclusive analysis of the situation would lead to better solutionsAnyone who claims there’s no way out in Syria hasn’t met someone like Farah Nasif, who spent the past spring in Washington as a fellow at the New America Foundation’s Middle East task force. The enterprising 27-year-old stringer for Western news outlets and Damascus University graduate hails from De >>>   US Muslim Man Attack His Sister with Crowbar for Beinng Lesbian A 20-year-old man in Nebraska is facing assault, terrorism, and hate crime charges after allegedly attacking his own sister with a crowbar because he doesn’t approve that she is a lesbian based on their family’s Muslim beliefs.Ahmed Mohammed Tuma was arrested on November 8th, along with an accomplice, 20-year-old Nathan Marks, who himself faces charges of aiding and abetting terroristi >>>   Muslim women like sex too. Who'd have thought it?! After the launch of a Halal sex shop, one which is proving popular with women, Shelina Janmohamed implores society to stop just seeing female Muslims through the prism of a veil.   Image 1 of 3Last week Downing Street said the PM would support schools that wanted to impose dress codes that banned the niqab. Photo: REUTERS Image 1 of 3Wedad Loo >>>   84% Muslim women are totally against under-18 marriage The Times of India-Ipsos Survey shows that most Muslims in Kerala are categorically against underage marriage. The majority of respondents in the survey consider it nothing less than sacrilegious to insist, as the clergy and a conservative minority within the community do, that attaining puberty is the main criterion for a girl's marriage. They also inextricably link the extent of a girl's >>>   Support Saudi Women to Drive, October 26, is a date for Saudi women’s attempts to drive, However the Saudi government warn of punishment for women drivers Saudi Women need your support: October 26, is a date for Saudi women’s attempts to drive. However the Saudi government warn of punishment for women drivers. To support them please share this photo on the social media, and use it as your profile picture for the next 24 hours if you can. Thank you very much >>>   Female teachers must cover face says Grand Mufti The Grand Mufti, Sheikh Sadik Al-Ghariani, has issued a fatwa saying that female teachers in schools and colleges must cover their faces if they are teaching males who have reached puberty.He made the ruling following a request for advice from the Ministry of Education on the issue. It had said that some female teachers were veiling their faces while giving lessons but it felt that this was ha >>>   A Muslim woman in Israel seeks the courage to wear a headscarf What if I cover my hair and someone comes up to me and speaks Arabic and, not knowing how to answer him, I respond in Hebrew?From the age of six, I wanted to put on a head covering and cover all my hair, just as Islam requires of every female believer. The scarf was a symbol of maturity for me; I wanted to be an adult. After all, I was already going to school and I had a teacher, diary and my own >>>   More and more women finding their true calling. As suicide bombers The long and winding journey from her terror-torn hometown in Pakistan’s North Waziristan tribal agency to Peshawar, capital of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province, has drained Durdana. She sits, clad in a pale yellow burqa, in a soulless and rundown, tube-lit room anxiously awaiting her turn to see a counselor for her insomnia and depression. “I am an ill-fated woman,” she tells Newswee >>>   Muslim women's fashion exhibition held in Sydney >>>   Egypt’s president orders investigation after spike in sexual harassment during Muslim holiday >>>   Tunisia: Women's rights and the new constitution >>>   The Truth Is, Muslims Are Guilty! >>>   Wording on women sparks protest in Tunisia, Constitution clause detailing women's roles ignites anger >>>   How Iranians view the Olympics >>>   Why Arab women still have no voice >>>   Some Politicians See Women as Intruders, Interview with Morocco Minister Bassima Hakkaoui >>>   Using the Legacy of Muslim Women Leaders to Empower >>>   11 year old Muslim girl attacked for wearing headscarf, kicked, pushed to the ground >>>   Clinton says women being sidelined in Egypt’s transition process >>>   Equality for women a distant goal >>>   1/1