It's all become so clear now ( Read more... )

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

By fatima - Mirrored from Feministing
(I am thrilled to see someone speaking out about this, so brilliantly... right on, fatima)

http://community.feministing.com/2009/04/the-truth-about-femmesor-we-fu.html

the truth about femmes...or we ( Read more... )

Dear sister ( Read more... )

http://www.afterellen.com/movies/2008/7/ajihadforloveRead 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... )

Today I was in Safeway and saw a Middle Eastern sister with two small kids and a husband, wearing a long faded-denim skirt and a white leather jacket. Her basic hijab was a black scarf wrapped around her head and shoulders and worn under her jacket. But she had added a second and smaller scarf, in gray with a black and white pattern, which was ( 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 )

Requiem for Benazir Bhutto ( Read more... )