The same ideas of putting marriage before career are honed into the heads of each new generation of women by women of earlier generations. As long as women don’t speak out, the problem will not stop, and women will continue to follow the path defined for them by society.
Read MoreThis week, the horrific murder of “hijab martyr” Marwa el-Sherbini and mass protests in China over ethnic tensions between Uighur Muslims and Han Chinese after 184 are left dead.
Read MoreDerek Brown is one of Altmuslimah’s first featured photographers. Check back soon to see some of his awesome photography from the Muslim world. In the meanwhile, Derek will be exhibiting at Gallery H this Thursday.
Read MoreThis week, an American Muslim woman takes over US outreach to Muslim communities, the rise of the influence of jilbabs in Indonesia’s elections, and the Neda effect on the perceptions of Iranian women worldwide.
Read MoreAltmuslimah has officially launched its photographic campaign – aimed at providing an alternative to the dominant media image of oppressed Muslim women and angry Muslim men.
Read MoreHigh Fashion, Oscar Wilde once said, “is a form of ugliness so unbearable that we are compelled to alter it every six months.” Western women are slaves of fashion. Muslims, meanwhile, answer first to God.
Read MoreThis week, insurgents in Thailand recruiting through football, couture abayas in a Paris fashion show (sorry, Sarkozy), and a Turkey court case over a football referee who outed himself on television.
Read MoreWe are citizens of this land and as a religious minority we need to figure out how the secular law accommodates our needs. If secular law fails to our religious requirements, then the effort should be focused towards modifying secular law to accommodate our needs and the needs of other religious minorities we are ethically, morally and socially aligned with.
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In a rare appearance, taqwacore band The Kominas will be playing a special instrumental set at altmuslimah’s The Painted Gala benefit this Sunday with a special guest performance from Omar Waqar on sitar.
Read MoreThis week, women on the front lines of Iran’s post-election protests, the French consider a burka ban, and a Muslim waitress in Britain who refused to wear a revealing dress for her job (and was awarded £3000) is caught wearing one on Facebook.
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