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June 28th, 2011
Salwa al-Mutairi, a Kuwaiti politican, gave a cold-blooded proposal for Muslim men to take female slaves, especially non-Muslim...
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February 1st, 2011
It is a scene that wouldn’t be unfamiliar in France or Belgium: a woman’s hijab is snatched away...
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October 28th, 2010
There may be 1,001 Muslim feminist critiques on the European burqa ban and its attendant jokes and jibes,...
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September 1st, 2010
I took the a brief moment from work to watch a 12-minute segment on BBC’s Newsnight about why...
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June 10th, 2010
Yesterday, we examined “the convert” and “the reformer,” two types of female characters in film religi. Today, we’ll...
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June 9th, 2010
Film religi is an Indonesian cultural phenomenon quite unlike any other in Southeast Asia. It is a film...
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May 11th, 2010
For those familiar with women’s “lifestyle” magazines, the call to be “sexy” in some way or another is...
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March 18th, 2010
British novelist Martin Amis has expressed regret that his late sister did not embrace Islam to save herself...
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February 22nd, 2010
In Malaysia, where we are swamped with mixed messages from religious authorities and pop song lyrics, those of...
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January 14th, 2010
Something decidedly medieval is in the air in Saudi Arabia. Fears of black magic and curses cast by...
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