The News-Times

For women, Islam means empowerment, not oppression

I see myself as a strong, empowered young Muslim-American woman who has overcome bigotry, ignorance, and racism that attempted to make me feel ashamed of my Islamic beliefs and values. It’s common for ...
Time

Islam: The Women Of Islam

For his day, the Prophet Muhammad was a feminist. The doctrine he laid out as the revealed word of God considerably improved the status of women in 7th century Arabia. In local pagan society, it was ...

Aqsa School in Bridgeview, first all-girls Muslim school in the U.S., celebrates 40 years

Aqsa School shares its name with the third-holiest site in the Muslim world, which includes this famous gold-domed mosque in ...

‘I’m Muslim and wore a face veil for the first time. Then a man tried to hit me on the Tube’

More than one in three Muslim women have experienced racist abuse on public transport, according to a new report ...
Newsweek

Islam Isn’t Holding Back Muslim Women’s Education—Here’s the Bigger Problem

Researchers at Pew have said their analysis of data on the educational attainment of Muslim women across the world shows that religion plays a much less significant role in limiting their achievements ...
Los Angeles Times

Islamic State wives want to come home. But what were they doing while they were away?

Reporting from Beirut — Thousands of foreign-born women left their homes and lives to join Islamic State and marry its fighters. But now that the militant group’s so-called caliphate is reduced to ...
USA Today

I'm Muslim but don't wear a headscarf. Stop using hijabs as a tool for ‘solidarity.’

When non-Muslim women across New Zealand draped scarves on their heads last month to show their solidarity with Muslims a week after the horrific massacres at two mosques in Christchurch, it was ...
Religion News Service

Women seek diverse paths to leadership in Islamic spaces

This story is part of a series by The Associated Press, Religion News Service and The Conversation on women’s roles in male-led religions. CAIRO (AP/RNS) — Shortly after Kholoud al-Faqeeh was ...
Minnesota Daily

Speaker addresses misconceptions of Islamic women

At a time when the western world is curious about Muslim women in Islam, Imani Jaafar-Mohammed spoke Thursday to people at Coffman Union about the issue. This is a very important issue to bring to the ...
City Journal

Women Under Islam

Islamic Gender Apartheid: Exposing a Veiled War Against Women, by Phyllis Chesler (New English Review Press, 462 pp., $29.99) Phyllis Chesler’s crucial early encounter with the reality of Muslim ...
The Diplomat

Bold Women of Islam

We know that women need to be given higher social status in struggling nations in order to build liveable societies for all citizens. But do you find it frustrating to deal with those who can’t or ...