Sailan Muslimah

IDB Prize for Women’s Contribution to Development “Promoting Women in Science”

  IDB Prize for Women’s Contribution to Development “Promoting Women in Science”   Dear members of IDB Science Development Network   The Islamic Development Bank (IDB) established the IDB Prize for Women’s Contribution to Development in 2006 to enhance women’s participation in the socioeconomic development process.   The prize consists of a cash award of US$50,000 for an individual woman and …

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Heroic, Female and Muslim, By NICHOLAS D. KRISTOF

What’s the ugliest side of Islam? Maybe it’s the Somali Muslim militias that engage in atrocities like the execution of a 13-year-old girl named Aisha Ibrahim. Three men raped Aisha, and when she reported the crime she was charged with illicit sex, half-buried in the ground before a crowd of 1,000 and then stoned to death.   That’s the extremist side of …

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WHAT PREVENTS THE RULER FROM ISSUING A ROYAL DECREE AND DO AWAY WITH TRIBALISM.

Last week you would have read the story of Royal Brat… in UK. This news is more heart- breaking. Ya Allah! help these sisters in distress. Open the hearts and minds of these ignorant parents, and those so called judges and those in power.Our beloved came to do away with tribalism and he himself married women from different tribes. Al – Quran …

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Why Hijaab for Women?

Question: Why does Islam degrade women by keeping them behind the veil? Answer: The status of women in Islam is often the target of attacks in the secular media. The hijaab or the Islamic dress is cited by many as an example of the subjugation of women under Islamic law. Before we analyze the reasoning behind the religiously mandated hijaab, …

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