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Islam, Women and Feminism

Gulf Women Drivers Reject the Idea of Removing Veil

Woman Arrested after Cutting Friend’s Genitals

Oman Mulls Ban on Niqab for Women Drivers

Pakistani Woman Officer Pays the Price of Resistance

Feminizing stores that sell women’s fashion has a price

Schoolgirls' Raise £8000 for Charity to Gaza and Syria

Saudi Debates Access to Stadiums for Women

Sabah agency to probe rapist’s marriage with child victim

South Sudan Initiative Aims to Keep Young Girls in Primary School

King Khalid University Hospital Focuses On Saudi Nursing Skills

Factory Setting Example to Employ Saudi Women in Farm Sector

Lahore High Court Demands Action over Woman’s Burning

More Allocation for Poor Expectant Mothers Sought in Bangladesh

Lebanese Designers Grace the Red Carpet at Cannes

Female Everest Climber Happy To Change Views on Saudi Women

Students in Afghanistan Protest Women's Rights Decree As Un-Islamic

Sanam Fakir Determined To Serve Despite Losing Elections in Pakistan

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

Amina Tyler, Tunisia’s ‘Topless Jihad’ Activist, Caught and under Arrest

Afghanistan: Surge in Women Jailed for ‘Moral Crimes’

Wife of Convicted Militant Accuses Govt of Fabricating Sinai Kidnapping

Indian Origin Girl PIO Invents Device That Charges Phones in 20 Seconds

Saudi Women Teachers Demand Full-Time Jobs in Demonstration

Vandals Target Western Wall Woman Activist

Police Ordered To Implement Court Verdict on Child Custody

Headscarves and Long Tunics Don’t Stop Iranian Women from Practising Parkour

12 IIIT Girls for NASA Space Settlement Contest

Pakistan Celebrates First Woman up Everest

Best Women’s Cricketer Humaira on a Mission

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

 
The Status of Women in World Religions
Suresh Chandra Pattanayak

Any religion can be compared to the attic of an old home. Unless the attic is regularly cleaned, it gathers dust and cobwebs and eventually becomes unusable. Similarly, if a religion cannot be updated or cleaned from time to time, it loses its usefulness and cannot relate anymore to changed times and people....

In the best circumstances, the Wali takes care of the affairs of the woman properly. He facilitates matters for her and stands by her though in doing so he faces many hardships and problems. But in most of the cases the Wali is not that caring, rather he takes advantage of the rule and blackmails the woman. Many wives hand over all her salary to the husband so that he escorts her to the office. Many fathers stop the education of their daughters to take revenge on their divorced wives. Many sisters have to bribe their brothers for getting their help in petty matters....

Now, 'Talaq' Takes a Skype Route
New Age Islam News Bureau

Now, 'Talaq' Takes a Skype Route

Pakistani Woman’s Suicide turns out to Be Honour Killing

Haryana, India, Gets NHRC Notice after 6 Villages Ban Girls from Attending School

Pak Elections: ‘Dir Women Disenfranchised For Security Reasons’

Seminar on Education of Muslim Girls Held At Imphal, India

Girls Need New Thoughts to Continue Women’s Gains

Kurdish Female Fighters Pick up Arms As Assad Pushes Forward Into Rebel-Held Land

Saudi Women Take the Wheel in Truck-Building Industry

Indonesian Marriage Law Outdated and Irrelevant: Academics

The Jewish Women Who Pioneered Modern Arab Music

Indian Women First Twins to Scale Everest

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

 

Women have adopted the method of ‘baring-it-all’ in public since ancient times to protest against all sorts of issues they felt important. Legend has it that an upright noble Lady Godiva in eleventh century England felt so strongly that she took up the challenge to ride naked on horseback through the streets of Coventry to protest against her husband’s oppressive taxes imposed on the poor. However the husband commanded all to remain indoors and shut windows and doors for the event........

In A Generation, Everything Has Changed For British Muslim Women

Attitudes towards divorce are changing among British Muslim women. My mother’s generation regarded divorce as immoral, so sustaining a marriage for them was a lifelong project. However, for British educated Muslim women like me, divorce is an entitlement, even within Islamic law. My mother and I married men from Pakistan.....

Saudi Women: Widows, Spinsters and Divorcees, To Look For Jobs

Turkey Tightens Blue Mosque Dress Code for Women Visitors

Only 6 of 150 Women Candidates Win NA Polls in Pakistan

PML-N Women Offer Thanks-Giving Prayers on Nawaz Appeal

First Saudi woman scales Mount Everest

Lebanese Women to Gain Political Ground

Walled City’s 300-year-old Anglo-Arabic Senior Secondary School, prepares for more change

‘Child Marriages Compromise Girl’s Development’ Says Pak Minister

Feminisation of Saudi Arabia to Spur Price Hikes, Traders Warn

Bosnian Serb Woman Sentenced For War Crimes

West Java Woman Allegedly Buries Mother Alive

Afghan Parliament Halts Debate on Women's Rights Law

Nigeria: 6, 966 Girls to Share N35.8 Million Grant in Katsina

Uganda: High School Dropout Worries Women Activists

Suspended Jammu jail official made undertrial write exam for her

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

 

Bid to Protect Women’s Rights ‘Is against Islamic Law,’ Afghan Lawmakers

In Jamia, underprivileged girls learn to teach a lesson to molesters

Courageous Women Can Change the World: Malala Yousafzai

Hijab Ban Troubles Nigeria Muslims

11 Ladies-Only Taxis Launched In Ajman

Samina Baig: First Pakistani Woman to Scale Mount Everest

Kingdom Becoming More Tolerant — Saudi Woman Filmmaker

Tension High as Imran Khan Party’s Senior Woman Leader Murdered

US Takes No Stand as Women Barred From Iran Elections

Girl-Child Education Grim In North Nigeria

Put a Spotlight on African Women’s Reproductive Rights

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

A Woman’s Voice at the Mosque

“I begin in the name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful. Salaam Alaikum. Peace upon all those who gather here. Let’s speak to the concept of compassion and mercy. If we want to ask God for compassion and mercy, then we must try and show the same compassion and mercy for all God’s creation, which includes people of all faith, the environment and animals.  We greet each other with the universal Muslim greeting of peace. Just saying “peace upon you” does not create peace....

Women Banned from Switching on 'Immoral' Air Conditioning by a Salafist-Wahhabist Cleric

Iran’s Educated, Middle-Class and Part-Time Prostitute

Women's Prison in Gaza Swells with 'Moral' Criminals

Madrassatul Banat Taking Girls’ Madrasa Education to a New Height in Assam

Can Canada Prevent Muslim Women From Wearing the Niqab in Court?

More Agreements Surface Barring Women from Voting In Pakistan

16 Women Elected On General Seats in Pakistan

France’s First Lady Visits Mali’s War-Torn North

Highest number of women elected on general seats belong to PML-N

Muslim Women Converts Tell Of Hijab Dilemmas, Family Rows and Negative Portrayal of Faith

Rochester Women Get 20 Years, 10 Years for Somali Terror Support

India, Brazil and South Africa Sign Resolution for Women Empowerment

Bana Gora Is New Chief Executive of Muslim Women's Council of UK

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

Academics, who have studied the status of Muslim women, feel that the increasing ghettoisation and alienation of the Muslim community has resulted in the further marginalisation of the women. Observes Haseena Khan, researcher and women's rights activist: "Women are depending more and more on their community for their sustenance. This is not a particularly favourable trend, given the high levels of discrimination that already exist."....

 

Hizb Ut-Tahrir Steps Up Recruitment of Kyrgyz Women

Muslim men 'wed teen converts by phone'

Nigeria police uncover second 'baby factor

Protect our children from rapists

Crackdown over Facebook, Google posts: SC of India to hear plea on content

Filipino Maids rush to rectify status

Daughter's Appeal to Young Gives Nawaz Sharif Power in His Own Right

Girl Sports in Afghanistan Stays Popular Among Motivated Athletes

Sonia lays foundation stone of girls’ hostel at Jamia campus

Children in limbo after Saudi father cons mother and flees

Nigeria Accounts for 10 Percent Global Maternal Mortality Rates

Tanzanian Legislator: Prostitution Shames the Nation, It Must Be Banned

Kazakh Woman Wins World Weight-Lifting Championship

Saudi Woman Tortured, Murdered In Jeddah

Arabic learning: Where have all the men gone?

Compiled by New Age Islam News Bureau

 

Dowry a Silent Killer: Let Us Fight It till the End

Dowry is a mental thing. It is psychological. And it is not individual but a social phenomenon. It has been in the custom for a very long period of time now. It has got in the veins and blood of us without any discrimination of religion, caste or creed. We all are equal here in this milieu.  To get rid of it we cannot just go for a simple surgery to cut off the portion which is harmful for the body because it is not a body thing....

Fuss and Fury over a Piece of Cloth
Hafsa M. Fathima Badsha

The Hijab, or the Muslim veil, has been getting attention circa forever. It is a source of oppression to some, liberation to others, of confused “Are they Arab nuns?” and really good cover-ups on bad hair days. But more than anything, the Hijab is one of the most misunderstood aspects of the Islamic faith.....

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