Muslim Women
latest news & developments
After Brexit vote, hate crimes are on the rise
Britain’s Home Office reports that after the EU referendum in June 2016, hate crimes against Britons of ethnic or religious minorities rose by 29%.
Letters to the editor: October 13 to 19 2017
Readers write in about the the DA’s unwillingness to march for Muslim women, the Kenyan elections and SAPS explains why they need the SANDF.
Muslim feminism beyond driving
The lifting of the Saudi driving ban is not motivated by concern for women’s rights, but rather strategic interest.
Queer Muslim women are making salaam with who they are
More and more women are accepting that they can be themselves and devout followers of Islam.
​Queer Muslim women are making salaam with who they are
More and more women are accepting that they can be themselves and devout followers of Islam.
Take solace in the divine
Believing that whatever’s happened, happened because there is a God carried this Muslim woman through 3 divorces and into an NGO that changes lives.
Who needs warrior women?
The willingness to accept spoon-fed versions of the truth has limited the role of women in Islam, writes Haji Mohamed Dawjee.
French woman to fight burka ban in court
European judges will hear the case of a French woman who claims the country’s highly contentious ban on full-face veils violates her rights.
Headscarves raise hackles
Rude and embarrassing treatment by passport officials over religious dress upsets local Muslims.
Ban thinly veiled Islamophobia
Can you imagine a law in South Africa prohibiting Muslim women from wearing the veil?
Compromise needed to protect Muslim women
The Muslim Marriages Bill, which seeks to regularise and regulate Muslim marriages, has been characterised by extensive consensus building.
Sharia must be preserved
The draft Muslim Marriages Bill has caused waves in the Muslim community and support for the legal process has not been unqualified.
Arab women: the powers that be
Saida Sadouni does not conform to the typical image of an Arab revolutionary.
Marriage Bill causes rift among Muslims
The split in South Africa’s Muslim community over the Muslim Marriages Bill is deepening.