Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Shariah'
The Arab Spring Represents a Leap Backward for Women
by Hoda Badran, The Daily Star, Lebanon - This summer, as the dust of the Arab Spring revolutions begins to settle, women – who stood shoulder to shoulder with men in defying tyranny – are finding themselves marginalized and excluded...
Women’s Health Rights in Saudi Arabia
by Dr. Samia Al-Amoudi, Al Arabiya, Saudi Arabia - There is an assumption that women in Saudi Arabia do not have full rights to health care and can not provide consent for their own medical treatment or procedures. However, the...
Chechen Leaders Slam Proposed Creation Of Shari'a Courts
by Liz Fuller, Caucasus Report, Czech Republic - Chechen Republic head Ramzan Kadyrov and Chechen mufti Sultan-hadji Mirzayev have both harshly criticized the proposal by Chechen legal scholar Dagir Khasavov to establish Shari'a courts in Russia for the benefit of...
Egyptians Tread a Dangerous Path
by Linda Heard, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Moderates should not allow their voices to be drowned out by extremists....
Chechnya, Where Stability Comes at the Price of Secularism
by Christina Nagel, Deutsche Welle, Germany - In the Russian republic of Chechnya, the clock is being turned back as Islamic law creeps into public life. The state's leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, is pursuing policies that promote polygamy and headscarves for...
Are the Mideast Revolutions Bad for Women's Rights?
by Isobel Coleman, Washington Post, USA - On how democracy can threaten rights for Mideast women. On Friday, Egyptians again gathered in Cairo's Tahrir Square, this time in a victory celebration, one week after their revolution unseated President Hosni Mubarak....
Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood: Its Agenda
by Cecily Hilleary, Voice of America, USA - The Society of Muslim Brothers is Egypt’s largest and most well-organized group. Its activities are divided between social services, political advocacy and religious reform. The Society is admired by some, feared by...
Doctors Call for Changes to UAE Suicide Laws
by Ola Salem, The National, United Arab Emirates - Doctors are calling for the laws on suicide to be reconsidered to remove a catch-22 situation that forces them to choose between breaking the law or breaching patient confidentiality....
Muslim Grrrls
by Rafia Zakaria, Guernica, USA - After successfully employing Islamic law in the U.S. court system, Rafia Zakaria realizes that Sharia and feminism aren’t always mutually exclusive....
Islam is a Mosaic, Not Monolith
by Mirza Tirta Kusuma, Jakarta Post, Indonesia - Over last 10 years the international media and some academics have warned of rising Islamic radicalism and intolerance in Indonesia. Although Islam may appear to be monolithic, its form and expression vary...
Bid for Sharia Court in St. Petersburg Fails
by Galina Stolyarova, Moscow Times, Russia - Sharia courts were created in Chechnya in 1995, when the republic became a de facto independent republic, and the secular judicial system was only restored after the start of the second Chechen war...
The Legal Bias Against Women
by Erum Sajjad Gull, The International News, Pakistan - The Constitution makes it mandatory for all laws of Pakistan to be in conformity with Islamic laws. Therefore, in case any of them is not, it would be struck down...
Legal Support for Embattled Wives
by Basma Mohammed, Gulf Daily News, Bahrain - BAHRAINI women are losing battles in court due to a lack of awareness of their rights, according to a leading social worker. Their ignorance about Sharia law often allows cases to...
Al-Shabab Close Up
by Leila Kadoor-Boudadi Trans by Chigba Njokanma, Afrik-News, France- The attack on two restaurants showing the football World Cup final followed the militant extremist group’s declaration of war on Uganda and Burundi in light of the two Eastern African...
French Base in Abu Dhabi Seeks Exemption from Sharia law
by Leela JACINTO, France 24, France - The French military base in Abu Dhabi has been hailed as a historic first in a region of strategic importance. But the question of whether Sharia laws should apply on it has left...
Female Imam Stirs Controversy in the UK
by Horia El Hadad, Islam Channel News, UK - Amina Wadud, a university professor and so called female Imam from America comes to the United Kingdom to lead the country's first ever mixed gender congregation....
Sharia Law Would Harm Aussie Muslim Women
by Ida Lichter, The Australian, Australia - Arbitration courts for conferring an Islamic divorce or even settling disputes based in religion may appear innocuous and a useful option, but relevant experience outside Australia highlights some of the problems....
Legalised Paedophilia: Malaysian Child Marriages
by Mariam Mokhtar, Malaysian Mirror, Malaysia - Malaysia's syariah laws are inadequate and make a mockery of justice. Why are the rights of women sidelined?...
Caught out by the Sharia Police in Aceh
by Fediya Andina, Radio Netherlands, Netherlands - Why is wearing jeans and riding a moped without a headscarf now a problem for a woman in Banda Aceh, the Indonesiad city devastated by the tsunami of December 2004? RNW reporter Fediya...
Dr Amina Wadud: For a Progressive Islam
by Trisha Sertori, Jakarta Post, Indonesia - Dr. Wadud, a scholar and feminist, is well-known for her progressive position within Islam and seeking justice for women under sharia....
Religious Co-Operative an Ethical Alternative
by Katherine Jimenez, The Australian, Australia - It's known as the Muslim Community Co-operative (Australia). You may not have heard of the co-operative or what it does but in the coming years you will, possibly banking with it or even...
Women Backing Guardianship Law Create a Stir
by Walaa Hawari, Arab News, Saudi Arabia - Describing themselves as activists, a number of Saudi women have launched a campaign supporting the Kingdom's male guardianship system....
Trapped in Their Seclusion
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - We are still being told that the people of Swat wanted Nizam-i-Adl because they are pious and orthodox. The fact is they wanted the Sharia since they believed it promised them speedy and impartial...
Where Were You, Dear Sisters?
by Zubeida Mustafa , Dawn, Pakistan - Much has been said about the shameful performance of our parliament on April 13 when it approved the controversial Nizam-i-Adl Regulation without much of a murmur....
Patrolling Sexuality
by Sarah J Newman, Inside Indonesia, Australia - The authorities and the media promote vigilantism in Aceh....
Afghan Women Protest Against Discriminatory Law
by Golnaz Esfandiari, Radio Free Europe, Czech Republic - More than 200 women, mostly students, held a protest on April 15 in Kabul against a controversial Afghan law that imposes restrictions on Shi'ite women....
Is Afghanistan's Obligatory Sex Law Politically Motivated to Bolster Karzai's Standing?
by Aunohita Mojumdar, Eurasia Net, USA - While some international observers characterized the draft bill as an aberration in Afghanistan’s democratization process, critics insist Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s administration is willing to endorse discrimination in order to bolster its standing...
Zia's Children
by Ayesha Siddiqa , The News, Pakistan - As the entire Pakistani nation watches video footage of a 17-years-old girl screaming on their television screens during the process of her torture at the hands of the brutal Taliban in Swat,...
Lipstick Revolution: Iran's Women Are Taking on the Mullahs
by Katherine Butler, Independent, UK - It started with a switch from hijabs to Hermès headscarves. Now, after 30 years of Sharia law, the fight for women’s rights is gathering pace....
We Fled to Escape Sharia Law
by Maryam Namazie, Tolérance, Canada - Contrary to claims of promoting social cohesion and ‘minority rights,’ Sharia in Britain is actually a capitulation to political Islam....
Swat, Somalia and Sharia
by Rafia Zakaria, Daily Times, Pakistan - Reducing justice to a crude pantomime devoid of equity and education to an expression of un-Islamic elitism, these groups rely on the most decrepit aspects of human nature to assure their own ascendancy....
Britain Grapples with Role for Islamic Justice
by Elaine Sciolino, International Herald Tribune, France - The Church of England has its own ecclesiastical courts. British Jews have had their own "beth din" courts for more than a century. But ever since the archbishop of Canterbury, the Most...
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