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The religious order banning women from dressing like tomboys was bad enough. But the fatwa by Malaysia’s leading clerics against yoga was the last straw. “They have never even done yoga!” said Zainah Anwar, head of a Malaysian women’s rights group called Sisters in Islam. Anwar argues that the edict, issued late last year by Malaysia’s National Fatwa Council, was pure patriarchy. Islam, she said, was only a cover. It was frustrations like these that drew several hundred Muslim women to a c
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The NY Times recently ran an article that is, if not exactly news (because it’s about something that has been going on for some time), nonetheless interesting and important. On the issue of Muslim women using Islam to make feminist arguments , they write: Ms. Anwar argues that the edict, issued late last year by the National Fatwa Council of Malaysia, is pure patriarchy. Islam, she says, is only a cover. It was frustrations like those that drew several hundred Muslim women to a conference
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Frustrations with religious edicts, such as bans on yoga and styles of dress, drew several hundred Muslim women to a conference in Malaysia over the weekend.
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Frustrations with religious edicts, such as bans on yoga and styles of dress, drew several hundred Muslim women to a conference in Malaysia over the weekend.
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Solitary Confinement Muslim women are reduced to a pair of eyes, like a prisoner in solitary confinement, by their burkhas. And why? Religious reasons? Nope, says a Canadian Muslim. Tarek Fatah lifts the veil on the veil in the Calgary Herald: Barely a week goes by when my religion Islam does not face a fresh round of scrutiny. If it is not a suicide bomber blowing himself up in an Iraqi mosque screaming “Allahu akbar,” it is news that an Imam in Malaysia has declared the practice of Yoga sin
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