http://www.abigmessage.com/washington-dc-mosque-muslim-women-demand-end-to-sex-segregation-again.htmlRead more... )

Comment on this post. I will choose seven interests from your profile and you will explain what they mean and why you are interested in them. Post this along with your answers in your own journal so others can play along.

elenia28 asked me about these seven ( Read more... )

Comments: I support the sisters in my mother country (that's not a mixed metaphor, is it?) for doing this, I see it as part of the wave of Muslim sisters doing it for themselves that has been building in the past couple of years, from the women's council on Islamic law begun in New York in 2006 to the current Muslim women's organizing in TorontoBut ( Read more... )

Mother, return us to your breast: Toward a thealogy of Islam
Johanna-Hypatia Cybeleia

What happened in the encounter between Islam and Goddess religion?
( long essay )

Women in Islam: Damsels in Distress?
by Soumaya Ghannoushi
from Alternet

( The west should stop using the liberation of Muslim women to justify its strategy of global dominance )

1. I looked into trans feminism and found that some voices associated with it are advocating that feminists ought to be concerned with transgender issues. When I read it just now, this was new to me ( Read more... )

The Arisen Woman ( Read more... )

Call to end female circumcision ( Read more... )

From the Christian Science Monitor - November 21, 2006 ( Read more... )

Muslim women find their voice ( Read more... )