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9/1/2006
USA: Latinos convert to Islam
Though precise statistics do not exist, the Council on American-Islamic Relations estimates there are more than 36,000 Hispanic Muslims in the nation today and it is becoming evident that the conversion rate among this minority group is increasing.
8/1/2006
India: Shia cleric advocates family planning
The Shia leader Maulana Kalbe Sadiq has advocated for family planning, and expressed dimay that people link it with religion.
7/1/2006
Malaysia: Comment - a setback for Muslim women
As a Muslim mother with a teenage daughter, I am chilled by the passage of the Islamic Family Law (Federal Territories) (Amendment) Bill 2005 on 22 December 2005.
6/1/2006
Bangladesh: Burqa and shalwar, jeans and sari
A photo essay of the changing fashions on the streets of Dhaka.
6/1/2006
Liberia: No impunity for rapists, vows president-elect
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Africa's first female president promised no rapist would go unpunished during her tenure.
5/1/2006
Pakistan: Our 'Jihadi image' in the quake-hit areas
According to reports, Western relief agencies, including those run by the United Nations and the United States government, have complained of “perceptible harassment by ‘Jihadi elements’ working in the quake hit-areas in Azad Kashmir and the NWFP”.
4/1/2006
Women and Muslim fundamentalists’ entryist policies in Europe and North America
Report back of the Muriel V. Roscoe Annual lecture given by Marieme Hélie-Lucas in November 2005.
4/1/2006
Malaysia: Family law bill unjust to Malaysian Muslim women
3/1/2006
USA: Muslim women activists in North America - speaking for ourselves
This publication includes the stories of 17 Muslim women who devote themselves to some kind of activism in addition to their other life activities - wife, mother, student, worker, and so on - and shows Muslim women are active in a myriad of ways.
3/1/2006
UPDATE: Bahrain: Court clears Ghada Jamsheer of defamation