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• Progress: Saudi TV presenters now in niqab

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  How lovely Oprah and Katie will look. Sharia Alert from the Kingdom of the Two Holy Places: "Saudi TV presenters break new ground by wearing niqab," by Amani Fikri for the BBC Arabic Service , December 9 Until recently you would never have seen women presenting television programmes dressed from head to toe ...
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• Activists: Harassment Across Arab World Drives Women to Seek Cover

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab World is driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes, said activists at the first-ever regional conference addressing the once taboo topic. Activists from 17 countries across the region met in Cairo for a ...
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• U.K.: Sharia tribunal proposed for Wales

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  Only Islamophobes oppose this sort of thing, right? Wrong. As one Muslim woman who opposes the plan said, "Its being advertised as this opt-in system when it actually isnt." Thats true not only on an individual level, but for the broader process of creeping Sharia in the West. "Sharia law tribunal is proposed," ...
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• Makeup is against Islam

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  There Is No Fun In Islam* Alert: "Makeup? Its against Islam, Iran women told," from AFP , December 3 TEHRAN: Women appearing in television programmes will not be allowed to wear make-up because it is against Islamic law, or sharia, media today Twitter Facebook Share Email Print Save Comment quoted the head of ...
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• Men sought to kill woman for adultery

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  Spanish police have arrested nine men suspected of seeking to have a woman killed after they accused her of adultery, claiming they were following Islamic law, authorities said on Sunday. The men were arrested on November 14 and seven have been held in jail, a police spokesman said. According to police, the ...
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• UK: Social workers hampered by political correctness

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  Women and young girls at risk of being taken abroad and forced into marriage are being failed because local officials fear offending minority communities, according to a Government report. Social workers are being slow to use new court orders aimed at stopping potential victims being spirited overseas to be ...
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• Afghan women writing for change

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  "The man sitting in front of me was my countrys president, but the only thing I could feel towards him was anger," writes Meena, describing a meeting with Hamid Karzai, the Afghan president. "I lost respect for him because of his policies towards womens rights, his stance on negotiating with the Taliban, and his ...
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• Women In Egypt Taking Self Defense Classes to Defend Themselves from Harassment by Muslim Men

  
  Answering Muslims — Authority: 127
  As Muslims in the West strive to spread Islam, more and more facts about the Muslim world make this unappealing. CAIRO --The grunts and groans of women stop several men in their tracks and send them jostling for a better glimpse at the window. Inside is a group of people who could not be less pleased to see them: a ...
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• Arson Fire Started as Nonie Darwish Set to Speak at Boston University

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  An arson fire was set only fifteen minutes before Nonie Darwish was set to speak at Boston University . Frightful and getting worse. It was not two weeks ago that Nonie Darwish was canceled at the last minute at Colmubia and Princeton two weeks ago as student groups caved to muslim pressure. This ...
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• What’s Liberating about Islam?

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  “What’s liberating about Islam is that one is spared from having to think.” This, essentially, is how a woman explained to me the change that had taken place in her life since her conversion to Islam. Since then, I’ve thought about her many times, especially because at that time I didn’t know very ...
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• Wafa Sultan in NYC: Part I

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  The great and heroic ex-Muslim freedom fighter Wafa Sultan, author of the essential book A God Who Hates , spoke in New York this morning. Pamela was there and has video -- parts 2, 3, and 4 are linked here . Watch it all! With thanks to JihadWatch
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• Abused Afghan women opt for suicide

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  For many women trapped in abusive marriages in Afghanistan, death can seem like the only way out. In the northwestern province of Herat, doctors this year have treated at least seventy women who attempted to take their own lives by setting themselves on fire. More than 40 of them died, in what doctors ...
  2 weeks ago

• Teenage Christian Girl Given 50 Lashes by Muslims for Wearing a Knee-Length Skirt in Sudan

  
  Answering Muslims — Authority: 127
  Anyone want Muslims to start making laws for us here in the West? Anyone? Anyone? KHARTOUM, Sudan - A 16-year-old south Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a judge ruled her knee-length skirt was indecent, her lawyer and family said in the latest case to push Sudans Islamic law into the spotlight. The mother ...
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• Phyllis Chesler: Why is America Still Allied with Saudi Arabia?

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  Pajamas Media The Saudi mutawas (“morality police”) are terrifying. Like vultures, they swoop down on their vulnerable prey, especially women, and then send them straight to Hell. The “long beards” curse and beat their female prisoner, totally terrify her; then, they throw her into a dark, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Why Do Muslims Tell Us That the Veil Protects Women?

  
  Answering Muslims — Authority: 127
  Wherever Islam goes, massive human rights violations are sure to follow. Muslims can make all the excuses they want, but the pattern is indisputable. Saira Liaqat--Burned with acid for refusing to live with her husband before finishing school (holding a picture of what she looked like before she was attacked) ...
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• Phyllis Chesler: Muslim Women Disfigured By Acid

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  These photos show what happens to real women who wear the Islamic Veil. The photos depict horrifying hate and the unbearable suffering it inflicts upon female innocents. The photos were taken by Emilio Morenatti of the Associated Press. The text is based on work done by Nicholas Kristof—one of the few people ...
  3 weeks ago

• France: Report denounces destructive polygamy

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  According to a survey of French Muslims , 70% think polygamy should be banned in France. 22% think it should be permitted for those people whose religion allows it. Sonia Imloul, the author of the report, estimates there are 40,000-50,000 polygamous families in France today, totaling at least 400,000 ...
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• Nonie Darwish at the Rally for Rifqa

  
  Answering Muslims — Authority: 127
  Nonie Darwish, a former Muslim, gives her perspective on Rifqas current state of affairs at the rally in Columbus.
  3 weeks ago

• The plight of Muslim women and dangers of Islam

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 571
  by Nonie Darwish In the Muslim faith a Muslim man can marry a child as young as one year old and have sexual intimacy with this child, consummating the marriage by age nine. The dowry is given to the family in exchange for the woman (who becomes his slave) and for the purchase of the private parts of the ...
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• Gendered doctrine in Islam. It was taug…

  
  Talk Islam — Authority: 491
  Gendered doctrine in Islam. It was taught to me when I married that on Judgement Day, I as a man will be held responsible for the sins of my wife – that it is not she that will burn in the hellfire for her sins, but I. Likewise for children. Is this or is this not orthodox Islamic teaching? If so, how can we ...
  4 weeks ago

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