Joining millions of Muslim women worldwide, Indian women in Uttar Pradesh capital Lucknow marked World Hijab Day for the first time with a special celebration on Sunday, February 1.
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Belgian Far-Right Party Seeks Headscarf Ban on Drivers
January 18, 2015 - 4:29 PMThe far-right anti-Islam Flemish Interest Party in Belgium has forwarded a bill to Parliament forbidding women with headscarves from driving vehicles.
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Report: British women oversee Isil abuse, sexual slavery of girls
December 7, 2014 - 10:31 AMMore British women are Gathering to join ISIL Takfiri group in Iraq and Syria, with many apparently involved in torturing and even ordering the execution of Iraqi and Syrian girls captured as sex slaves, a report revealed.
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Islamic women’s groups welcome call for imams to denounce domestic violence
November 27, 2014 - 10:58 AMIslamic women’s groups have welcomed a call by the peak body for Australia’s Muslim clerics that imams around the country should use their sermons this Friday to denounce domestic violence.
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Muslim Countries Urged to Protest against Hijab Ban in Sports
October 1, 2014 - 9:49 PMA sports official in Oman has called on Muslim countries to protest collectively against the ban on Hijab in some sports events.
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School Hijab Ban Angers Kenya Muslims
September 29, 2014 - 12:41 AMA ruling by a Kenyan court to ban hijab in a church-sponsored school has outraged Muslim parents and scholars, who deemed the ruling a setback for the freedom of worship in the Eastern African country.
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Qatar Forfeit Basketball Game in Hijab Row
September 24, 2014 - 10:39 PMThe Qatar women's basketball team forfeited a game at the Asian Games on Wednesday after being refused permission to wear the hijab, saying they were taking a stand against what they say is a discriminatory policy against Muslim women.
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245 rape cases recorded in Afghanistan in past 6 months
September 24, 2014 - 10:16 PMAt least 245 women and children were raped across the country during the past six months, according to a latest survey report.
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UK female jihadists run ISIS sex-slave brothels
September 22, 2014 - 6:10 PMStartling details have surfaced of British female jihadists forcing captured Iraqi women into sexual slavery at brothels run by militants of the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), British media reported Thursday.
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West Virginia Students Try Muslims’ Hijab
September 21, 2014 - 9:04 PMOffering West Virginia students in Marshall University a chance to try the Islamic headscarf, a group of Muslim students held a hijab event to raise awareness about the Islamic headscarf and correct misconceptions surrounding it.
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Grand ayatollah Makarem Shirazi spotlights role of women in Islamic society
September 16, 2014 - 8:18 AMAyatollah Makarem-Shirazi has met with group of women employees of the municipal government of Tehran, where he discussed cultural activities in the Iranian capital.
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Muslim woman attacked on Vienna train
September 7, 2014 - 9:14 PMZeliha Cicek is the third Muslim to have been assaulted in Vienna in the last month.
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Hijab Maintains Women Positive Image
September 7, 2014 - 2:59 AMA recent survey has found that veiled British Muslim women have more positive body image, less affected by beauty standards depicted in media and place less importance on appearance than women who don't wear hijab.
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NGOs "force" Nepali Muslims to use contraceptives and abortion
September 2, 2014 - 2:12 AMNon-governmental organizations operating in Nepal "impose contraception, abortion and family planning on Muslim women from the poorest districts.
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Malaysia Airlines Urged to Allow Hijab
August 28, 2014 - 2:17 AMMembers of Malaysia's largest political party United Malays National Organization have called for allowing hijab for Malaysia Airlines stewardesses and an alcohol ban, calls that were endorsed by state officials and MAS managers.
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Major British Retailer to Sell School Hijab
August 19, 2014 - 1:57 AMA major British store department has signed a new agreement with two major Islamic schools for girls to sell their school uniform including a headscarf, or hijab, for the first time.
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In Photos: Children in ISIL Military Training Camps in Mosul
July 22, 2014 - 8:13 AMThe al-Qaeda-affiliated Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) released pictures from their military Camp in Mosul of Iraq, showing men and children posing and training with guns. ISIL terrorist group have targeted children for recruitment by providing military training in school settings through free schooling campaigns that include weapons training and giving them dangerous tasks, including suicide bombing missions.
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Three-day-old Nour, youngest victim of Israeli assault
July 18, 2014 - 7:05 PMAn Israeli airstrike targeted the house of the Issa family on Monday night, wounding Nada and her newly born infant Nour, only three days old.
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Report: 30% of Gazans killed by Israel are women, kids
July 16, 2014 - 7:58 AMThirty percent of the Gazans killed by Israeli offensive against the blockaded sliver are women and children, a report says.
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Belgian Woman Helps 1000 Reverts to Islam
July 13, 2014 - 7:37 PMA Belgian young Muslim revert to Islam has helped 1000 people to accepts Islam after turning her home into Islamic center for Belgian Muslims seeking to learn more about their religion.
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‘Coloured abayas’ campaign launched in Sri Lanka
July 9, 2014 - 12:29 AMA leading Muslim organisation in Sri Lanka is conducting a campaign to persuade Muslim women to give up black abaya and instead wear coloured ones.
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Egypt to ban violence against women: PM
July 9, 2014 - 12:17 AMEgyptian Prime Minister yesterday vowed to ban all kinds of violence against women with the help of a new and tougher law enforced in the country.
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Hazrat Fatima Zahra (SA)'s Birth Anniversary Celebrated as Women's Day
April 20, 2014 - 7:27 PMShiite Muslims throughout the world, including Iran, held ceremonies on Sunday to celebrate the birth anniversary of Hazart Fatima-Zahra (SA) and Women's or Mother's Day.
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'Women's rights, West's stalking horse'
March 10, 2011 - 12:00 AMIn honor of International Women's Day, leaders and rights activists around the world have been praising the role of women in toppling dictators in Tunisia and Egypt and in the ongoing protests in Libya.
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Ministry of prisoners: 10,000 women kidnapped by Israel since 1968
March 9, 2011 - 12:00 AMThe Palestinian ministry of prisoners' affairs said that Israel has kidnapped more than 10,000 Palestinian women since 1968, 850 of them during Al-Aqsa intifada, appealing to the international community and women's rights groups to pay attention to the issue of Palestinian female prisoners.
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'One third of US military women raped'
January 29, 2011 - 12:00 AMReports indicate that nearly one third of women serving in the US military have been raped, with over two thirds having been otherwise sexually assaulted.
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1337 Palestinian children killed since Aqsa intifada
January 15, 2011 - 12:00 AMIsraeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers have killed 1337 Palestinian children since the Aqsa intifada in late September 2000 until late 2010, the Ahrar center's research and media unit said in a documentary report.
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“gap between generations in the communities”
A survey of the chat room of Worldwide Islamic Network of Women (winow)
December 31, 2010 - 12:00 AMA survey of the chat room of Worldwide Islamic Network of Women (WINOW) “Gap between generations in the communities”
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Ahmadinejad calls for roadmap on role of women in mankind’s salvation
December 19, 2010 - 12:00 AMPresident Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for designing a roadmap on role of women in salvation of the mankind.
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Mujtaba Magazine – All a Shia Muslim child needs
October 19, 2010 - 12:00 AM