1. Obama Continuing Bush Policies, Chomsky says
(Newsletter)

...a nationwide debate on national identity, that will see members of the public discussing issues such as whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear the burqa. CONTINUE... British banks set for...

2. Obama\'s Financial Reform Proposal
(Newsletter)

...; Monday, 22 June 2009 Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, has said that the burqa, a garment worn by many Muslim women, has no place in France as it was a sign of the subjugation of women. CONT...

3. France begins 'identity' debates
(News/Culture)

...a nationwide debate on national identity, that will see members of the public discussing issues such as whether Muslim women should be allowed to wear the burqa. Public meetings, which began on Monday...

4. Bonaparte Blair & Co
(Opinions/Society)

...er 1 Lord Cashpoint Levy. I would also like to know whether ‘Liberal’ Jack Straw, the man who insisted to strip Muslim women of their Veil, had any potential assignment in Blair’s presidential adminis...

5. School War Crimes Tribunals
(Editor/Editorial)

...ar on Women and Children and, more specifically, a cowardly and racist War on Arab Women and Children, a War on Muslim Women and Children, a War on Asian Women and Children and a War non-European Wome...

6. A Civil War: Obama’s Gift to Pakistan
(Opinions/op-ed)

...h to impose a barbaric version of Islam under which there is no concept of individual freedom, particularly for Muslim women.  To further distort the Pashtun resistance in Afghanistan, the Talib...

7. Counterfeit 'Persian Gulf' Or 'We Won't Come'!
(Opinions/op-ed)

...uth Korea, India and USA.  Following the successful experience of Iran's initiative to hold the games for Muslim women athletes, Saudi Arabia set to emulate its long-standing econo-political riv...

8. UN Special Rapporteur Asma Jahangir Report on Religious Discrimination in India
(Mamblog/Default Category)

...e. This judgement was not well-received by some Muslim groups and subsequently the Indian Parliament passed the Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act 1986, thus diluting the effect of th...

9. Veils and justice
(Opinions/Society)

... Obviously, both are important rights in a liberal democracy. The niqab – which a small fraction of orthodox Muslim women use to cover their faces, and not to be confused with the hijab or head cov...

10. Islam is not the Enemy
(Opinions/Society)

...efuse marriage (Surat Nur 23), and gives women freedom to become contributing members to society in every form. Muslim women in all Islamic countries, even the most economically impoverished, are invo...