Muslim Women

WISE Muslim Women Standing Up

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 10.10.2009 | World

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Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Along with over 200 other Muslim women from 55 countries, I attended panels and seminars, all focused on educating and empowering Muslim women and promoting their rights from an Islamic perspective.

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What Do Muslim Women Want?

Naomi Wolf | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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Naomi Wolf

The Muslim women leaders I've spoken to do not say, "Please tell the West to save us." They are too busy making egalitarian, modernist new worlds of their own, with an Arab, and often Islamic, imprimatur.

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Egypt Plans To Ban Full Veils

BBC NEWS | Posted 10.05.2009 | World

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Egypt's highest Muslim authority has said he will issue a religious edict against the growing trend for full women's veils, known as the niqab....

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Ramadan and Captain Kirk

Sumbul Ali-Karamali | Posted 09.24.2009 | World

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Sumbul Ali-Karamali

Both Star Trek and Ramadan are all about universal values: compassion, discipline, and the struggle for self-improvement.

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What's Really Underneath the 'Burqini' Controversy?

Freedom House | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

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Freedom House

Verbally attacking women and banning them from public places is not the right path for France to choose. These actions only serve to further isolate Muslim women from society.

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Italy Burqini Ban: Controversial Swimwear Barred From Northern Town

The Huffington Post | Susan Ryan | Posted 09.19.2009 | World

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A town in northern Italy has banned women from wearing the "burqini" favored by conservative Muslim women, Al Arabiya reports. The anti-immigration ...

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Religious Enough for You? Women Light the Holiday Fires

Leora Tanenbaum | Posted 01.21.2009 | Living

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Leora Tanenbaum

When families light Hanukkah candles this evening, will the women light too? Jewish, Christian and Muslim women assume that that they're forbidden from leadership roles, when they are not.

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Female Al-Qaida Demand To Be Acknowledged

KansasCity.com | Lauren Frayer | Posted 06.10.2008 | Home

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Muslim extremist women are challenging al-Qaida's refusal to include - or at least acknowledge - women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives...

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