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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 >>>   |
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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 >>> |
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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 >>> |
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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 >>> |
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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 >>> |
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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 >>> |
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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 >>> |
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