Women in Islam

Bosnia's High Judicial and Prosecutorial Council, which oversees the judiciary, on Wednesday confirmed its previous decision to prohibit employees in judicial institutions from wearing religious symbols, including the hijab - the headscarf used by Muslim women.

The question in the headline above might sound like a matter of abstract theology rather than current events. It turned out to be quite a newsy matter, however, with a recent decision taken by the administration of Wheaton College, a small Christian university in Illinois.

A German company producing fake hymens increased its profits after the massive influx of refugees mainly from Muslim countries.

The product targets Muslim women who want their future husbands to believe they are virgin.

Female divorcees and widows in Saudi Arabia are set to get their own ID cards allowing them to act independently from men, local media reported on Dec. 3.

The 20th year of the Gender and Women?s Studies Graduate Program is now being celebrated with a three-day event, the International Conference on Knowledge and Politics in Gender and Women?s Studies, between Oct 9 and 11 at ODTÜAnkara?s Middle East Technical University (ODTÜ) institutionalized feminism and began its quest to give master?s diplomas to people from different generations of feminist

Germany's top court said Friday that Muslim teachers can wear the Islamic headscarf in class as long as it doesn't disrupt school activities, in a ruling likely to revive emotional debate.
      

Lebanese laws and courts governing marriage and child custody "discriminate against women" from all religious groups, often trapping them in abusive unions, a Human Rights Watch report published Jan. 19 said.
      

When it is the first time that one comes across a massacre committed on behalf of Islam, one could look for a conspiracy behind it saying, "Is it really Muslims who have committed this?"