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Violence against women is not a tenet of Islam

20 hours ago ago from Al-Darb Diya

by Naazish YarKhan 15 December 2009 Glendale Heights, Illinois - Listening to the radio one day, I was shocked to hear the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) report on widespread occurrence of rape in Afghanistan. As a Muslim who knows that the core of her religion is about justice and mercy, I asked myself how the perpetrators of these acts could have strayed so far from the Muslim faith and from basic humane ...

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Female polygamy article generates controversy

19 hours ago ago from Egypt Then and Now

A member of the Egyptian parliament has filed a lawsuit over an article questioning why polygamy is allowed for men in Islam but not for women. Published in the independent newspaper Al Masry Al Youm, the article My four husbands and I by Nadine al-Bedair suggests that polygamy should either be allowed for both men and women or else there should be a new concept of marriage where men are not allowed to take a new wife just because they ...

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Opportunity for the Muslim Ladies:

23 hours ago ago from PaleoCon Command Center

Good news, girls... You can now take part in jihad! As long as you don't get too 'out of your place', that is: Ayman al-Zawahiri, Osama bin Laden's second-in-command, has been a regular presence on Islamic web sites for years , releasing statements and videos via al-Qaeda's propaganda arm that blast the West and urge Muslims to wage holy war. Now his wife may have joined the family business. In what is thought to ...

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Al Qaeda Reaches Out To The Ladies

1 day ago ago from Advice Goddess Blog

Al Qaeda Reaches Out To The Ladies Mark Schone reports on ABC.com that Zawahiri's wife Omaima Hassan published a statement on Islamic websites encouraging women to mass murder in the name of Islam. Of course, she's just recommending what is commanded of Muslims in the Quran, in The Verse of the Sword . Also, while the actions of people written about in the Jewish and Christian Bible are not meant to be emulated by believers of those ...

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Female polygamy article sparks row in Egypt

18 hours ago ago from U.S. Copts Association

  By Sebastian Usher BBC News A member of the Egyptian parliament has filed a lawsuit over an article questioning why polygamy is allowed for men in Islam but not for women. The article in the newspaper Al Masry Al Youm was written by a female Saudi journalist, Nadine al-Bedair. It has been denounced by some Muslim clerics as inflammatory and anti-Islamic. But others have said it serves the purpose of highlighting how ...

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