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A non-Muslim is objecting to a Muslim student who does not enjoy himself with them in night clubs!
I have a muslim student in my class at university and he never comes and sits with us nor does he come out to the night club/leisure with us. My question is why does islam teach people not to enjoy them selves and be miserable all the time. cheers.
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Michigan's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that lower state courts can 'exercise reasonable control' over the appearance of witnesses - meaning a court could order a Muslim woman to remove her veil.Michigan's Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that lower state courts can 'exercise... more
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According to Egyptian newspapers, the woman was Marwa al-Sherbini, a 32-year-old Egyptian national who was suing her attacker after he insulted her for wearing the Islamic headscarf. The attacker, identified only as Alex W., was appealing the €780 fine he was ordered to pay in the libel suit.
Al-Sherbini was the wife of Egyptian academic Elwi Ali-Okaz. He was also hurt in the incident after he tried to help his wife and is in critical condition in hospital. Police are now investigating Alex W. for manslaughter.
“The investigation into this bloody crime is bound to show there are some indications the suspect was hostile toward foreigners – the signs are there,” said Saxony police chief Bernd Merbitz told Bild...According to Egyptian newspapers, the woman was Marwa al-Sherbini, a 32-year-old... more
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The body of a Muslim woman, killed in a German courtroom by a man convicted of insulting her religion, has been taken back to her native Egypt for burial.
Marwa Sherbini, 31, was stabbed 18 times by Axel W, who is now under arrest in Dresden for suspected murder.
Husband Elwi Okaz is also in a critical condition in hospital, after being injured as he tried to save his wife.
Ms Sherbini had sued her killer after he called her a "terrorist" because of her headscarf.
The case has attracted much attention in Egypt and the Muslim world.
German prosecutors have said the 28-year-old attacker, identified only as Axel W, was driven by a deep hatred of foreigners and Muslims.
'Martyr'
Medics were unable to save Ms Sherbini who was three months pregnant with her second child. Her three-year-old son was with the family in court when she was killed.
Axel W and Ms Sherbini and family were in court for his appeal against a fine of 750 euros ($1,050) for insulting her in 2008, apparently because she was wearing the Muslim headscarf or Hijab.
Newspapers in Egypt have expressed outrage at the case, asking how it was allowed to happen and dubbing Ms Sherbini "the martyr of the Hijab".
Senior Egyptian officials and German diplomatic staff attended the funeral in Alexandria along with hundreds of mourners.
Media reports say Mr Okaz was injured both by the attacker and when a policeman opened fire in the courtroom.The body of a Muslim woman, killed in a German courtroom by a man convicted of... more
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Vitamin D is the vitamin du jour these days, with many doctors urging more sun exposure following years of campaigns advising us to cover up and use sunscreen to prevent skin cancer. Many of us, especially in cloudier areas, don’t get enough of the sunshine vitamin. The elderly and post-menopausal women are more at risk for deficiency, as are those who live in northern climes.
But today comes news that one group seems to be at particular risk, doctors report in the journal Endocrine Practice. Arab-American women who wore the hijab (a Koran-derived dress code that includes a scarf or veil over their hair and modest dress) and didn’t get enough vitamin D through their diet had half the levels of the vitamin of those who didn’t adhere as closely to the dress code. There was no difference in rates of health problems linked to vitamin D deficiency, such as bone or joint pain or breaks, or muscle weakness. The study involved 87 women in Dearborn, Mich., which has a large Arab population.
The more conservatively the women dressed, the lower their vitamin D; those who wore the hijab but ate vitamin D-rich foods such as milk or oily fish had higher levels, though not as high as the women who didn’t adhere to hijab. A measure of 30 nanograms per milliliter of blood is considered sufficient; the most conservatively dressed women in the study had levels as low as 4.5, but even those who didn’t wear the hijab and got some vitamin D in their diets had an average level of 8.5 — "and that's still low," says co-author Raymond Hobbs, a senior staff physician Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.
"We're not trying to get anyone to take off their hijab," Hobbs tells ScientificAmerican.com, but "to do things to prevent problems that might arise" from the tradition. The vitamin was once thought to be necessary only to prevent rickets (soft bones) in childhood and osteoporosis later on, but now, vitamin D deficiency is associated with diabetes, cancer, Crohn's disease, multiple sclerosis, heart disease and infections.Vitamin D is the vitamin du jour these days, with many doctors urging more sun... more
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Egyptian women are angry that blame has not been placed on men for sexual attacks and ask what more a fully veiled woman can do to be dressed modestly.
CAIRO -- The eid, or holiday, celebrations marking the end of the fasting month of Ramadan is a time of joy and coming together across the Islamic world. But eid turned into a holiday of fear in Cairo on Oct. 2 when a mob of about 100 youths sexually attacked women strolling through the streets of a middle-class neighborhood.
Details are still emerging from the incident in the Mohandiseen district, but already they are eerily reminiscent of another mob-style attack in Egypt's capital city that occurred almost two years to the day.
According to eyewitness accounts, around 100 boys and young men attacked women on the streets, ripping at their clothes in the country's worst sexual harassment incident since the Oct. 24, 2006, downtown Cairo attacks.
Women reported being violently molested and groped. Some women wearing the hijab headscarf had their clothes torn off by gangs of attackers. One woman who wore the conservative niqab veil, that covers the entire head and face, reported that men grabbed at it in an attempt to tear it off her face.
Mohsen Reda, an Egyptian member of parliament, argued that women should be dressed more modestly as "a lot our youth can't afford marriage, so it is only normal for some harassment to take place."
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What is life like from within the hooded veil worn by some Muslim women? Journalist Zaiba Malik dons the most extreme 'robe of piety' for a sweaty day to find out, encountering questioning tourists asking to take her picture, stares from fellow Muslims, and her perceived gaping loss of identity along the way.What is life like from within the hooded veil worn by some Muslim women? Journalist... more
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A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive.
The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies.
The niqab is more common in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but women in much of the Muslim Middle East wear a headscarf which covers only their hair.
Sheikh Habadan, an ultra-conservative cleric who is said to have wide influence among religious Saudis, was answering questions on the Muslim satellite channel al-Majd. A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab,... more
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Increasing complaints of workplace bias against Muslims are saddening and disheartening, a former board member of Dallas Peace Center said Wednesday after the release of a report by the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"Muslims are in the cross hairs," said Hadi Jawad of Dallas, chairman of the center’s End the Occupation of Iraq committee.
The national report, called Without Fear of Discrimination, outlines 2,652 incidents and experiences of anti-Muslim violence, discrimination and harassment in 2007. That is the highest number of civil rights cases ever recorded in the Washington-based group’s report, the only annual study of its kind, council officials said.
The increase is partly due to the inclusion of a new category of cases of mailed, faxed and e-mailed hate messages, according to the results. However, the study did detect a decrease in categories such as physical violence and verbal harassment, which allows "a note of cautious optimism," said the report by CAIR, America’s largest Islamic civil-liberties group.
The findings were not startling to officials in the Muslim community or with the Austin-based ACLU of Texas.
Lisa Graybill, the legal director of the state’s ACLU office, said it receives about 200 to 250 complaints a month, with many of those related to "folks who are or are perceived to be Muslim."
"I’m really sorry to say these results [from CAIR] are not totally surprising," she said.
Jawad, 56, who emigrated from Pakistan when he was 19, called harassment a "collective punishment" of Muslims after 9-11. "There’s been a drastic change since then," he said. "I’m stunned how neighbors turned against neighbors, against people who have absolutely nothing to do with that violence."
He mentioned incidents of individuals ripping hijabs, or head coverings, of Muslim women shopping in malls.
The hecklers "yelled obscenities and tell them to go home — and some of these girls were born here," he said.
"I find this totally un-American. I love the country and the ideals of equality, opportunity and justice. . . . I find these elements [bias and harassment] are hurting Americans more than anything."Increasing complaints of workplace bias against Muslims are saddening and... more
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A woman swathed in black to her ankles, wearing a headscarf or a full chador, walks down a European or North American street, surrounded by other women in halter tops, miniskirts and short shorts. She passes under immense billboards on which other women swoon in sexual ecstasy, cavort in lingerie or simply stretch out languorously, almost fully naked. Could this image be any more iconic of the discomfort the West has with the social mores of Islam, and vice versa?
Ideological battles are often waged with women's bodies as their emblems, and Western Islamophobia is no exception. When France banned headscarves in schools, it used the hijab as a proxy for Western values in general, including the appropriate status of women. When Americans were being prepared for the invasion of Afghanistan, the Taliban were demonised for denying cosmetics and hair colour to women; when the Taliban were overthrown, Western writers often noted that women had taken off their scarves.
But are we in the West radically misinterpreting Muslim sexual mores, particularly the meaning to many Muslim women of being veiled or wearing the chador? And are we blind to our own markers of the oppression and control of women?
The West interprets veiling as repression of women and suppression of their sexuality. But when I travelled in Muslim countries and was invited to join a discussion in women-only settings within Muslim homes, I learned that Muslim attitudes toward women's appearance and sexuality are not rooted in repression, but in a strong sense of public versus private, of what is due to God and what is due to one's husband. It is not that Islam suppresses sexuality, but that it embodies a strongly developed sense of its appropriate channelling - toward marriage, the bonds that sustain family life, and the attachment that secures a home.
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It is a really nice article. A woman swathed in black to her ankles, wearing a headscarf or a full chador, walks... more
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BEIJING (Reuters) - The women in Roqaya Al Ghasara's home town in Bahrain are so proud of their pioneering Olympic sprinter that some of them got together to design and sew a set of tailor-made aerodynamic veils for her to run in.
Egyptian fencer Shaimaa El Gammal, a third-timer at the Olympics, will don Islamic headgear in Beijing for the first time. She says it is a sign she is come of age and she feels more empowered than ever.
This year's Games will see a sizable sprinkling of veiled athletes who are determined to avoid offending devout Muslims back home while showing skimpily dressed rivals there is nothing constricting about wearing "hijab".
http://www.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUSPEK28709020080811
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Faiza Silmi, 32, moved to France from Morocco in 2000 after marrying her French husband Karim, who is of Moroccan descent. French law allows non-native spouses of French nationals to acquire citizenship two years after marriage and in 2004, Faiza petitioned for nationality. She didn’t give it a second thought; it seemed only natural that her request would be granted. After all, she was married to a Frenchman, spoke perfect French and had already given birth to French children. Besides, her brothers and sister, who also lived in France, had obtained French nationality with no problem.
However in 2005, the government denied her petition. In disbelief, the family appealed to the Conseil d’Etat (the Council of State – a judicial body that has final say on disputes between individuals and the public administration), which three years and many interviews later confirmed the ruling on June 27, which was then disclosed by a report in French daily Le Monde. According to the report, Silmi had “adopted a radical practice of her religion, incompatible with the essential values of the French community, and particularly with the principle of sexual equality”.
Faiza says that had she known her petition would create such uproar she would never have appealed.
“I mean, it’s just a bit of paper. We live our lives and we are very peaceful people. We didn’t want this fuss.”
But what was most upsetting to the couple were the lies printed about them in the French press.
“We don’t know where the lies originated – whether they were in the original report or whether it’s all been manipulated in the press. They made so many errors – they said I had three children. I have four. They said I was treated by a male gynecologist – as if that had any importance. I wasn’t. I was treated by a female gynecologist. Like lots of women, I prefer to consult a woman. But the last time I went into hospital to give birth I was attended to by a male doctor. I didn’t care. I’m not going to put my baby’s life at risk.”
More damaging for Silmi, however, were what she claims to be the inaccuracies compiled in the formal report by Emmanuelle Prada-Bordenave, based on interviews carried out with Faiza by the social services and submitted to the Conseil d’Etat.
“She has no idea about the secular state or the right to vote. She lives in total submission to her male relatives. She seems to find this normal and the idea of challenging it has never crossed her mind,” stated the report. It added that Faiza did not wear the burqa when she lived in Morocco, but adopted it at her husband’s request. She wore the veil out of habit, rather than conviction.
“She lives virtually as a recluse, disconnected from French society,” continued the report. “She has no concept of laïcité (the secular state) nor the right to vote. She lives in total subservience to the men in her family.”
Her husband says she was very depressed after she learned about the decision and realized the consequences it held. But today she is indignant.
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You may not have heard of Rabia Z yet, but that is about to change. Meet Dubai Fahion Week's "Emerging Talent Winner" and the winner of the British Council's "Young Entrepreneur of the Gulf" award. This young woman has burst onto the fashion stage and she is aiming high. What makes her unique is that she is designing for the modern Muslim woman, and she isn't including burkas in her Fall line. She is taking traditional Muslim fashion and making it fun, fabulous, and "modern."
Rabia would like to thank:
Kristian Ranker and Nicole Means
www.kristianranker.comYou may not have heard of Rabia Z yet, but that is about to change. Meet Dubai Fahion... more
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The latest fashion trends emerging from the streets of Dubai brought to you in this installment of Street Styles.The latest fashion trends emerging from the streets of Dubai brought to you in this... more
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The hijab has the potential to be empowering or oppressive in varying degrees, like any religious practice. The hijab has the potential to be empowering or oppressive in varying degrees, like... more
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After a judge hears tinny noises, a Muslim juror faces a possible prison sentence after listening to an MP3 player under her headscarf during a high-profile murder trial.After a judge hears tinny noises, a Muslim juror faces a possible prison sentence... more
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