Sailan Muslimah

  AMAZING response by Yemeni Nobel Peace prize winner in 2011 Tawakkul Karman* when asked about her Hijab By Journalists and how it is not proportionate with her level of intellect and education, she replied: “Man in The early times was almost naked, and as his intellect evolved he started wearing clothes. What I am today and what I’m wearing represents the highest level of …

Yes, Islam does allow a man to marry more than one woman, but this opportunity given by our religion has been misinterpreted leaving hundreds and thousands of women and children being abandoned by their husbands and fathers. This situation becomes a grave problem for women without basic education and too many children to take care of. I was fortunate to …

Striving for Peace & Justice by Lauren Booth ICNA-CSJ Annual Banquet and Fundraiser ICNA Council for Social Justice, a social justice advocacy organization is holding its Annual Banquet and Fundraiser on December 17, 2011. Well known British journalist, sister in-law of former British prime minister Tony Blair, and a revert Muslimah, Sr. Lauren Booth will be the key note speaker. …

  An Egyptian physics student has successfully created a new propulsion device that could accelerate space probes and artificial satellites through quantum physics and chemical reactions instead of the current radioactive-based jets and ordinary rocket engines. Aisha Mustafa, who has entered the active research area of spacecraft propulsion by her newly invented device, told the governmental EGYNews agency that she …

Stillbirths, disabilities, deformities too distressing to describe – what lies behind the torments in Fallujah General Hospital? The pictures flash up on a screen on an upper floor of the Fallujah General Hospital. And all at once, Nadhem Shokr al-Hadidi's administration office becomes a little chamber of horrors. A baby with a hugely deformed mouth. A child with a defect …

Many sisters in our community have taken the names of their husbands without realizing that they should have kept their father’s name. Should they change their name back to the father’s name or is it allowed to keep the husband’s name? It is a common custom in the west and also among muslims that after marriage, women drop their father’s …