Marjan Kalhor’s green knit toque is pulled down low on her forehead. Her hair is neatly tucked beneath the toque, which is embroidered with a single word: IRAN. She’s wearing a white ski jacket with a high collar and green ski pants. On her slim wrist, there’s a yellow plastic bracelet that says: Believe. Last [...]
A Scottish law firm has become the first in the country to offer clients “conventional” legal representation alongside advice on sharia law. Hamilton Burns, based in Glasgow’s south side, has teamed up with an eminent Muslim scholar who will counsel clients on the Islamic aspect of civil law cases, while solicitors give advice under Scots [...]
If my women friends lived in Malaysia, and we happened to be Muslim, we’d – with a few exceptions – be badly battered and bruised. Our bodies would be red raw from constant thrashing. I wonder if we’d wear those lashing marks with pride. Or would the pain and humiliation of official caning eventually break [...]
Los Angeles, California – International Women’s Day on 8 March provides an opportunity to raise awareness of the work women are doing to combat gender inequality. Violence and inequality affect women around the world, including women in Muslims societies who, like their non-Muslim counterparts, are engaged on a day-to-day basis to improve their environments for [...]
Most Malaysians accept the caning of women under the country’s Shariah courts, Islamic Development Department (Jakim) director general Datuk Wan Mohamad Sheikh Abdul Aziz said on Wednesday.“Jakim held a seminar to discuss caning long before it became an issue among Malaysians. The outcome was encouraging because the participants understood the whys and hows of it,” [...]
Determined to fight for equality in prayer, a group of Muslim women risked arrest as they entered the room of the Islamic Centre of Washington, which is usually reserved for men on Sunday, Mar 7. “Wooden barriers have to be taken down and women have to be allowed to join, to pray behind the men [...]
