News and Analysis on Islam in Europe and North America
January 21, 2014 “What dress is most appropriate for a Muslim woman in public?” Researchers at the Population Studies Center at the University of Michigan asked the same question to both men and women of various age groups and different religious faiths in seven countries with a Muslim majority. The real focus of the
Rosanna Sirignano June 3, 2013 Chained, reclusive, condemned lives, sufferers, slaves: these are some of the adjectives easily used in association with Muslim women. However, this is a broad stereotype and is predicated on the notion that there is one Islamic state or a holistic Islamic culture, the attempt to create some order to
Baroness Warsi of the Conservative Party was announced Britain’s most powerful Muslim Woman. She is the Shadow Minister for Community Cohesion and Social Action and now headed the first Muslim Women Power List. This list is an initiative by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, The Times and Muslim life style magazine Emel, which seeks