What is often forgotten is that resistance to this control began immediately. The fight against theocratic rule started the moment mandatory veiling was imposed.
As more Muslim women approach courts, the judiciary is expanding their rights. Contentious issues such as talaq-e-hasan, female genital mutilation & polygamy remain in line for scrutiny.
If insisting that women be treated with equal dignity is 'targeting a community', then perhaps every community ought to be 'targeted' until equality is universal.
Of 187 AI‑hate posts flagged across X, Facebook, and Instagram, none were removed, despite nearly 2.73cr engagements, showing platforms have failed to curb the trend.
Muslim women already face issues at home due to patriarchy and misogyny — much like women in any conservative household. Moral policing only makes their lives harder.
Jayanthi Rajan, a local leader from Kerala, Fathima Muzaffer, a councillor from Tamil Nadu, made national asst secys, the first female entrants in Indian Union Muslim League leadership.
Allah has permitted women to go everywhere, so why not the mosque,’ said 51-year-old Ameena Bano at the women’s section of Jamaat-e-Islami Hind Markaz.
At Delhi's IIC, Siobhan Lambert-Hurley talked about her book 'Three Centuries of Travel Writing by Muslim Women'. These accounts break the stereotype of female seclusion in Muslim societies.
Learning from the Second World War, the world seemed to move toward making war subject to law and reason. These ends were, however, almost immediately subverted.
West Asia war threatens to push already fragile industry deeper into crisis. Latest disruption is playing out differently for bigger and small-scale players in Surat’s diamond industry.
The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.
Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.
Well said, Amana Begum. Any call for introspection on the part of Muslims is called Islamophobia. And here, even the court says the film has no anti Muslim content. Am glad to see Amana continue the fight for Muslims to succeed on their own merit and not succeeding by claiming victimization.
To be honest, if I was the Censor Board, would disallow the title itself. Deeply offensive, hurtful. Subliminal message of Muslims producing more children, intent on reducing Hindus to a majority.
Well said, Amana Begum. Any call for introspection on the part of Muslims is called Islamophobia. And here, even the court says the film has no anti Muslim content. Am glad to see Amana continue the fight for Muslims to succeed on their own merit and not succeeding by claiming victimization.
To be honest, if I was the Censor Board, would disallow the title itself. Deeply offensive, hurtful. Subliminal message of Muslims producing more children, intent on reducing Hindus to a majority.
Gave me different perspective.