The United Arab Emirates’ city of Dubai is set to appoint female muftis by the end of next year in an unprecedented step that allows women to issue fatwas, or religious edicts, press reports said on Tuesday.
Wan Ubaidah Omar, a cabinet minister from northern Kelantan, which the party controls, said the proposal aired in state parliament this week was needed to help single mothers and widows in the underdeveloped region.
Indonesia’s decision to stop sending domestic helpers to Kuwait citing concerns over abuse and exploitation stirred indignation among Kuwaitis, while an official at the Indonesian embassy said he was not aware of the reasons behind the decision.
While research on the prevalence of family violence among Muslims is just beginning, Imams, community leaders and social workers across North America confirm that Muslim women, children and men are being affected by this devastating social problem.
* Women in Lebanon are campaigning to take domestic violence cases out of religious courts.* Diana El-Jeiroudi discusses her film Dolls.* In Bahrain, a nationwide campaign is being launched to secure seats for women in parliament and all five municipal councils in next year’s elections.* Firedoglake covers Rana Hussein’s book Murder in the name of honor.* Amsterdam mayor Job Cohen says women who will not remove their burqas in order to get work should not receive welfare.* IslamOnline reports that female Muslim boxers will be allowed to wear headscarves in the 2012 Olympics. More from the TimesOnline.* An interesting slideshow on the economic underpinnings of honor killings in Jordan. Also, The Jordan Times examines the economics of honor killings.* On polygyny and legal loopholes in India.via Muslimah Media Watch » Friday Links — October 9, 2009.Possibly related posts: (automatically generated)YouTube – Honor Killings and Islam HQWomens Education: Violence Against WomenYouTube – Western Media Double Standard…the murders of two Muslim women…
London Muslim is very concerned at this worrying development for a number of reasons. First the irony of course is that the men asking for a certificate may themselves have already got their leg over so not happy on hypocrisy grounds.
It is in India and neighbouring countries like Pakistan and Bangladesh, alone, where Muslim women are oppressed, rest of the Muslim dominated nations give equal status and rights to women. This is how the Muslim minorities feel in this Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. These Muslim minorities also feel that the government schemes do not reach them.
When she was widowed two years ago, most people in the Javanese village of Babakan Ciwaringin expected Nyai Yu Masriyah Amva to marry again. They also assumed that the local pesantran, or traditional Indonesian Islamic boarding school, would close with the death of her husband, its head Islamic scholar. Neither happened. Bucking tradition, Amva decided that she would run the school. “If men can do it, then why can’t I?” the 48-year-old recalls praying. “If you, Allah, are the source of all power, then why do I have to find someone else to run it? Just give me the power. I know that I can do it.” After all, she reasoned Megawati Sukarnoputri, Indonesia’s ex-president, was a woman, joining the ranks of “Benazir [Bhutto], and Elizabeth, and the woman Madonna played in that movie” — Evita Peron.
Eid Mubarak (Congratulations on your Feast/Festival) my dear brothers and sisters in Islam. As reported by Abdullah Ibn Masood, radiallahu anha, the Prophet Muhammad (peace and blessings be upon him) made the following Du’a for both Eids’ translations in English follows after the Arabic in the below video:
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