Joys of Muslim Women by Nonie Darwish In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as ... agree that those who criticize Islam or choose to stop being Muslim should be executed. Sadly, while talk of an Islamic reformation ... Islam in her native Egypt and elsewhere. In twenty years there will be enough Muslim voters in the U.S. to elect the President by themselves! I think everyone in the U. ...

... of interest to some here, fyi. Karim, Jamillah. American Muslim women: negotiating race, class, and gender within ... racially divided society. In other words, does the notion of a universal Muslim community, the ummah, with its ideals of sisterhood and brotherhood and ... cultural differences? Drawing on her own life and the lives of the many women she interviewed, Karim reveals the subtle and uneasy ...

Dress code for Muslim women - Independent Online Jakarta, Indonesia - Muslim women would be banned from wearing tight pants in a devoutly Islamic district of Indonesia's Aceh province under proposed regulations to take effect in January 1, an official said on Wednesday. It is the latest effort to Source: www.iol.co. ...

After reading the comments in the last post, I wondered if Muslim women are less happy than the men.  I put together the table shown above from World Values Survey data. Looking at the six surveyed countries, women are just as happy. (The surveys were conducted at some point in the past 5 years which helps explain ...

... by stoning for adulterers. The blame for this rise in extremist Muslim law, according to the Times, is to be found in the administration of Indonesian ... a pair of jeans is more palatable punishment than subjecting women to public lashings, but it has to be asked: Why are sartorial choices ... the world's third largest democracy and its most populous Muslim nation." In my mind, the words " ...

... the MWSF, Rimla Akhtar said: "The fact is that there are many Muslim women in this country who love to play sport and ... a foundation on which future generations of minority ethnic women can grow and succeed when it comes to sport. It is only the beginning of a much larger effort ... in supporting the sporting development of this unique group of women and girls." (more) Source: Asian News