Category: Muslim

Double Standards Faced By Muslim Women Within Society And Community Issues of identity, independence, acceptance by society, and practice of faith are not new to women. Add faith to the mix and it becomes an even more complicated subject. This paper examines the main arguments by Jasmin Zine in ‘Honour and Identity: An Ethnographic Account…

Do Muslim Women Need Saving? Today in American culture it is apparent some people have antagonistic thoughts and view of Islam and Muslims. Hate crimes against Muslims have scaled in the United States, prompting the presentation of the term ‘Islamophobia’ into the ordinary vocabulary of Americans. Today in American society we can see that American…

Status Of Muslim Women In Kashmir In the present world Muslim women are facing a no of challnges twin challenges one of modernity and second empowerment, so the question of Muslim women is concerned not only with the principles of ‘womanhood’ in Islam, but also on social constructs of women surrounded by political divergence also.…

The Status Of Women In Islam Women are always defined as creatures with unique traits, soft and full of emotions. Strong but might still need help at one time; a woman. The culture of respecting women has been introduced a long time ago and still be practiced until today shows how humans acknowledge each other…

Double Standards For Men And Women Within Islam Muslim women can be involved in both Islam and hip-hop (McMurray, 2008). McMurray says that people often ignore the discourses surrounding Islam, which consequently ignores some Muslim groups such as the Black Muslim women. These women are used as agents of negotiating the relationship between Islamic faith…

Misinterpretation Of Islam: Islamism And The Real Value Of Women In This Religion Through the history different belief systems and religions have arisen in which genders social standing has varied in some degree. Among all these religions, Islam is one of the most worshipped ones; therefore, how women are socially active, and how they are…

Situation Of Women Before Islam In Arab, Iran, India And Rome INTRODUCTION Topic of my report is Situation of women before Islam in Arab, Iran, India and Rome related to the main topic Current Social, Moral and Political Challenges of Muslims as the situation of women before Islam was worse in these nations and relating…

How Were Women Treated In Islam In Past And Present? In the past men and women were never equal, even now sometimes there is still gender inequality. The Holy Quran has given the same status to men and women as it says that they are both from the same origin and due to this fact…

The Features Of Women In Modern Islam In Islam, people are good equivalents in God’s sight and are required to satisfy similar obligations of love, supplication, confidence, alms-giving, fasting, and Hajj. Islam, for the most part, has improved the status of women in contrast to the old Arab societies, restricting female child murder. Islamic law…

The Political Economy Of Womens Support For Fundamentalist Islam In the article The Political Economy of Womens Support for Fundamentalist Islam, the authors (Bladyes & Linzer, 2008) state that religion is the major contributor of fundamentalists in the political economy. Women in Islamic religion are forced to tolerate some beliefs to be considered religious and…