World Hijab Day: Nothing to Celebrate
Here’s an irony: World Hijab Day—an initiative begun in the US in 2013 to promote cross-cultural solidarity by encouraging woman of all backgrounds to wear a hijab for a day—is…
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Khadija Khan
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Khadija Khan is a journalist and commentator based in the UK.
Double Standards for Nadia Murad and Shamima Begum
Nadia Murad, who won the 2018 Nobel Peace Prize, was only 19 in 2014, when Islamic State (ISIS) militants invaded her Yazidi village, Kocho, in northern Iraq. They killed all the…
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Hijab is Not a Symbol of Freedom
The Council of Europe’s Inclusion and Anti-Discrimination Division recently tweeted out posters containing images of women whose faces were partially veiled by a hijab. The tweets were presumably meant to…
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Why Islamophobia Is a Weasel Word
The term Islamophobia was coined to describe anti-Muslim bigotry in the 1997 Runnymede report. The objective of introducing such a term might seem obvious enough. Nonetheless, its ambiguity has made…
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Double Standards in Our Attitudes to Violence Against Women
Gender-based violence against women is a social menace that threatens all women in the UK, regardless of their backgrounds.
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The Women of Afghanistan
The fall of Kabul into the hands of Islamist insurgents will be long remembered as a horrifying tragedy for Afghan women. Perhaps even more terrifying is the way in which…
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Muslims Against Gay Rights: The Battle for Batley and Spen
From the overt intimidation of schoolteachers to the heckling and egg-pelting of politicians, the recent chaotic by-election campaign in the UK parliamentary constituency of Batley and Spen has laid bare…
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Child Marriage in the UK
Former Home Secretary Sajid Javid has recently introduced a private member’s bill that would raise the minimum age of marriage to 18 in England and Wales, with no exceptions. The…
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Multiculturalism Cannot Include Respect for Homophobia
Multiculturalism has been described as a melting pot and as the best alternative to assimilationist policies, which have been perceived as fraught, due to the fear that people from cultural…
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Rahaf Mohammad and the Need for Universal Human Rights
Rahaf Mohammed’s epic escape and rescue have once again demonstrated the pressing need for humanity to join together to protect human rights irrespective of caste, color or creed. The incident…
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Islamic Feminism is a Myth
The ousting of Moroccan scholar Asma Lamrabet lays bare the falsity of claims by mostly Western conservative Muslims that Islam is the most feminist religion once again.
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