Month: March 2018

“Being a woman is an all-encompassing role. It demands that we uphold the correct tenets of Islam by our actions and in actions. We need to train ourselves to be unique individuals who do not conform to … absurd societal standards”: Nigeria: Muslim Women Decry Sex Doll, Say Feminists Play More Important Roles (AllAfrica) “Millennial…

Enlightenment scholars saw Islamic culture “as a holistic set of religious, intellectual, and literary traditions deserving respect and attention … that would yield intellectual, aesthetic, and even moral enrichment in a variety of fields”: When Islam Met the Enlightenment (Financial Times) Forced to expose themselves to strange men by Brooklyn police, the women felt “exposed,…