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Please note that the following are my (Amad’s) views on the debate and don’t reflect MM or Hebah’s views. MuslimMatters blogger, Hebah Ahmed, went head to...
To Veil or Not to Veil?: Hijab and Muslim Women’s Rights in Afghanistan and France Part I Part II: France In 2004, a law passed in...
Part I. Afghanistan For decades, the concept of female protectionism in Islam has garnered much attention from the Western media. As a symbol of the “clash...
A French pensioner chased a Muslim woman around a shop and ripped her niqab from her face claiming they should be banned in France, a court...
On the eve of tomorrow’s Bastille Day celebrations, there is more revolution in the air in France and this time the ringleader is a flamboyant Muslim...
Innalhamdolillah. The Bastille was a French prison that so symbolized the oppression and irresponsibility of France’s monarchy that France’s equivalent of the 4th of July is...
Associated Press Writer= PARIS (AP) — A Muslim Frenchman at the center of a firestorm over polygamy said Monday that keeping mistresses is the French way...
(Reuters) – A firm believer in women’s rights, the only thing Afghan lawmaker Shinkai Karokhail finds as appalling as being forced to wear a burqa is...
It’s Sunday already and what a week it has been for media-houses, rights activists and parties on both sides of the Burqa/face veil ban divide! Let’s...