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Muslim Feminism Back with a Vengeance
Oct 25 2005, Bhawana Negi

Barbaric Taliban era of Afghanistan presents a horrible picture of the Muslim world, where the women were abused mentally and physically, they didn’t have access to education, were stoned, caged, brutally beaten to death and executed publicly. In fact,...

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