American Muslim Women
Finding stylish yet decent garments for Muslim women in US is indeed a challenging job. They don’t have much of a choice in the clothing department. If they go for body-hugging and little bit revealing designs, that will be a religious fiasco, so...
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The episode in Venice’s Ca’ Rezzonico museum, which houses 18th-century Venetian art including those of Giandomenico Tiepolo
made popular Aug 28 2008
Morsal Obeidi was just 16, she wanted to live like the other girls in Germany. Free to make choices. But she paid dearly for aspiring to be free, her brother stabbed...
made popular Jul 26 2008
Women are beautiful and by instinct like to show their beauty. Like men they have right to do their activity in society freely and without any limitation. But why is...
made popular Jul 4 2008
Shimaa Abdelfadeel and Hebba Aref, the two Muslim women who were asked not to sit where they could be photographed behind Senator Barack Obama because they were wearing...
made popular Jun 20 2008
Senator Barack Obama’s presidential campaign has apologized for keeping Muslim women wearing headscarves out of a key shot at his Detroit event.According to...
made popular Jun 19 2008
A new study upends the prevailing belief that women in the Middle East are oppressed because of their societies’ adherence to hard-line Islamic teachings. Far...
made popular Apr 4 2008
The All India Muslim Women Personal Law Board (AIMWPLB) has released the “Shariat Nikahnama” that they claim would give equal rights to both Muslim men and...
made popular Mar 18 2008
Two Muslim women blocked from a Goteborg swimming pool for refusing to change their clothing won more than $3,100 each in damages
made popular Feb 8 2008
If women suicide bombers expect respect from their male counterparts, they are sorely mistaken. It appears that women are being inducted into terrorist ranks to mock...
made popular Jan 7 2008
Britain is one of the few countries known for possessing higher civilian ethics and supporting human rights in the best possible way. However, quite shocking it’s...
made popular Jan 5 2008
It is still a paradox as to what many religious leaders of the Islamic community preaches and practices. Some says that it is the duty of the Muslim women to draw the...
made popular Dec 21 2007
Qatar, an Emirate on the western shores of Persian Gulf has made headlines for the wrong reasons. A study on violence against women, ’surprisingly and...
made popular Nov 28 2007
Once again Pakistan has hit the headline and earned the bad repute, however, not for its increasing terrorist or political controversies this time, but for ever...
made popular Sep 27 2007
Women might be narcissist, yet they can be a venomous threat if circumstances call for it. This is the latest news that has shaken the powered task forces in many parts...
made popular Aug 11 2007
Cultures which are meant to protect women can land up endangering them - especially their health, keeping aside the ever-controversial question of suppression or...
made popular Jul 21 2007
The Muslim women victims of molestation, rape and domestic violence have no right to seek justice in the face of fatwa welding Mullahs and Imams, who are very eager to...
made popular Jul 14 2007
The veil is increasingly becoming a torment in Britain, not for those who wear it, but for the rest.
Even in a secularly tolerant society like Britain, the veil is...
made popular Jun 22 2007
Recent report by the Equal Opportunities Commission has revealed that Muslim women are amongst the most deprived group in Britain’s labor market. They experience...
made popular Mar 16 2007
India’s biggest Muslim body, Jamaat-e-Islami Hind, out for a campaign with thousands of scholars and volunteers for a good cause. Their mission is to engage...
made popular Jan 5 2007
In order, too seek advice on family planning and other related issues, Muslim women in huge numbers are gathering to India’s only all female hospital the Mission...
made popular Dec 23 2006
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To protect the rights of the Muslim women there is a certain legislation that has come to force these days in America. Under this legislation, a Muslim woman can make...
made popular Sep 5 2006
A young Muslim couple in U.S has come up with a very practical and unique way of agreement so that in case anything goes wrong in their relationship the wife can...
made popular Aug 28 2006
‘Muslim Women’ and ‘Veil’ today is considered as two sides of the same coin. However, it would be wrong to perceive that an identity of Muslim...
made popular Aug 16 2006
Wafa Sultan, the Syrian-born writer and a daring activist struck the right cord by shouting at the top of her voice, while she was having a fiery discussion on an Arab...
made popular Jul 18 2006
The Muslim women in America are much more flexible in comparison to women in rest of the world. The western media often gives a shady view of the Muslim women....
made popular May 12 2006
Terror strike the entire nation of America when the Al-Oaeda attacked the WTO on that fatal day of 9/11 and since then all the Muslim’s living out in US has had...
made popular Apr 26 2006
In his book ‘Muslim Women in America: The Challenge of Islamic Identity Today’, Professor Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad (Georgetown University) and the co-authors...
made popular Mar 16 2006
A group of around 50 people came together in Westbury to throw light on the discrimination that is generally made between the opposite sexes in the Muslim community....
made popular Feb 21 2006
wThere is innumerable number of Americans who were born into Muslim families and brought up as an Islam. But withstanding the religious doctrines laid down for them,...
made popular Feb 15 2006
The American Muslim women are discriminated against within their own community. This phenomenon of discrimination prevails among Muslims because of ignorance about the...
made popular Oct 6 2005
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