On ballots this Nov: More Muslim American women

Many things have changed for Muslim Americans in the seven years since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks: Interrogations from FBI and immigration officials. Additional screenings from airport security. The feeling of being targeted by the contentious Patriot Act.

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Muslim Women Want Single-Sex Workouts

About 200 Muslim women who have memberships to the Fitness USA chain of athletic clubs have signed a petition asking the gyms to honor what they say was a promise to provide separate exercise times for women and men.

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There is a movement underway to ban wearing burkas, in Canada by The Muslim Canadian Congress.

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How do big ideas spread on the Internet, and how are they changed in the process?

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I confess, I find it hard to come to Afghanistan and not ask: Why are we here? Who cares about the Taliban? Al Qaeda is gone. And if its leaders come back, well, that's why God created cruise missiles.

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The first news agency reports on the murder of Marwa al-Sherbini informed the German public that a defendant had murdered a witness in the district court of Dresden. The reason was a quarrel in a children's playground.

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Barack Obama discriminates against two Muslim women and has to counter his own brother's assertion that he is in fact a Muslim.

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There's nothing wrong with it. It's no real threat to Quebec values. And most women here wear it by choice, not because of coercion. That's what the Bouchard-Taylor commission has concluded after a year of study costing $5 million.

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Happy women's month! I would like to pay tribute to the millions of Muslim women in the Philippines who work against great odds to keep their families safe and are praying that peace will come.

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When a girl is taken — usually by her mother — to a free circumcision event held each spring in Bandung, Indonesia, she is handed over to a small group of women who, swiftly and yet with apparent affection, cut off a small piece of her genitals.

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Here's a particularly egregious example of ACLU-radical Islamic collaboration, as a 29-year old Muslim woman files a civil rights lawsuit against San Bernardino police because she was forced to remove her head scarf—when she was arrested and booked for possession of an invali …

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Naghibi suggests that the visibility of Muslim women—whether veiled or unveiled—has caused a great deal of anxiety for Western feminists, who have largely ignored the indigenous presence of Muslim women's activism.

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From the article: NEW YORK – For centuries, devout Muslims have looked to the fatwa - an opinion based on religious reasoning of a learned individual or committee - for direction on how to resolve moral dilemmas ranging from the mundane to the sublime.

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A Quaker cannot join the Army and then state that his religion prohibits him from fighting. By the same token, a Muslim woman who wants to cover her face has no absolute right to work in a school or an office where face-to-face conversations are part of the job.

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From the page:

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No scarfs mean trouble.

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