Sailan Muslimah

Compelling New Evidence About Aafia Siddiqui’s Detention by the ISI, and Her Rigged Trial in the US By Andy Worthington

  Regular readers will know that I have long been concerned by the case of Dr. Aafia Siddiqui, the Pakistani neuroscientist whose story is one of the murkiest in the whole of the “War on Terror.” Dr. Siddiqui disappeared with her three children in Karachi in March 2003, and for five years neither the US nor the Pakistani authorities acknowledged holding her, even …

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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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