News: ‘World Hijab Day' takes place on February the 1st. Founded by New Yorker Nazma Khan, the movement urges Muslim women across the globe seeking to explain to wider society why they wear the hijab, to try to promote a better understanding about it. Styles include getting people to try on hijabs. The question is - will such activities deal with the attack on the hijab?   Comment: Why do…

Tunisia's new constitution, approved on the 26th January by its National Assembly enshrines absolute gender equality within its text, consequently forcing the Muslim-majority population to re-shape their lives and family structure away from the sublime Islamic social laws to that based upon flawed Western secular ideals. Article 20 of the new constitution states, "All male and female citizens have the same rights and duties. They are equal before the law…

Radio Free Asia reported on 30th of December 2013 about a horrific story of China's authorities forcing four Uyghur women in the region of Xinjiang, a Muslim populated province to abort their babies for violating the one-child policy implemented in China since the 1970s. One of the women was nine months into her pregnancy. They were injected with unspecified abortion-inducing drugs to induce miscarriage. Memettursun Kawul, the depressed husband of…

In the 18th century Mary Wollstonecraft wrote on the liberation of women, demanding the rights of women contained in the promises of the French Revolution that had been obtained by men but not by women. The term "feminism" was suggested for the first time in 1880 by French Hubertine Auclert, who demanded women's liberation and giving them their rights as promised by the French Revolution in her magazine La Citoyenne.…