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21/8/2006
USA: Religious Left gears up to face Right counterpart
With a faith-based agenda of their own, liberal and progressive clergy from various denominations are lobbying lawmakers, holding rallies and publicizing their positions.
20/8/2006
USA: Fighting religious fundamentalisms in the US
An interview with Frances Kissling, President of Catholics for a Free Choice.
19/8/2006
Tunisia: Tunisia marks 50th anniversary of women's law
By abolishing polygamy and changing the laws that governed marriage and separation, the Code of Personal Status is widely credited with advancing Tunisian women's status and making them among the most liberated in the Muslim world.
18/8/2006
Canada: Good morning Mrs. Hashmi
A controversial Pakistani scholar is illegally living in Canada who, critics charge, teaches her female students a fundamentalist brand of Islam promoting polygamy and subservience to men.
16/8/2006
UK: "Let us adopt Islamic family law to curb extremists"
Some 'Muslim leaders' have urged Ruth Kelly, the Secretary of State for Communities, to support Islamic family law in Britain to stop youths joining Islamic extremists.
15/8/2006
Saudi Arabia: Saudis turn to ‘Misyar’ marriage to beat inflation
After years of study, the influential Makkah-based Islamic Jurisprudence Assembly in April this year declared that Misyar marriage was legal, angering many women’s rights’ activists in the Gulf.
14/8/2006
UK/India: Non resident Indian (NRI) marriages: dreams to nightmares
The Ministry for Overseas Indian Affairs fully recognises the urgent need to safeguard unsuspecting brides and their parents seeking marriage alliances with overseas Indians.
13/8/2006
Sri Lanka: Why is Sri Lanka lagging behind?
There is a silent revolution taking place in the most disparate and unlikely places around the world. It is changing the structures, and the very texture of democracy and governance in those countries.
12/8/2006
India: Hindutva lobby launches anti-Muslim tirade
Even as scores of Indian Muslim organizations have denounced the Mumbai train blasts and called for an impartial investigation into the carnage, the Hindutva lobby has launched an anti-Muslim tirade.
12/8/2006
Kuwait: Kuwait's shifting tides
The arrival of women on Kuwait's political stage is matched in significance by the quiet rise of Islamists, says Raymond Barrett.