Women's rights

A Muslim woman who worked as a model was today sentenced to be whipped six times and pay a fine of RM5,000 for consuming alcohol last year.

Difficult to watch and just as difficult to believe - although it's based on a true story - The Stoning of Soraya M. is a powerful film about the horrors of a society where women are regarded as the property of their

Yet another despicable beating and rape by an "Asian" man of a lone British woman. A young woman who was minding her own business and returning home from what sounds like a fun fancy dress (costume)

TEHRAN. An Iranian singer and composer who has been likened to Bob Dylan has received a five-year jail sentence in absentia for disrespecting religious sanctities, according to Iranian television.

Under pressure from some of President Hamid Karzai's biggest international backers, the Afghan government has rewritten a law that gave Shiite men carte blanche to demand sex from their wives, even against the woman's will. The move followed widespread outrage

To deny face-to-face interaction is to deny our shared humanity

I am a Shia Muslim and I abhor the burqa. I am offended by the unchallenged presumption that women covering their heads and bodies and now faces are more pious and true than am I.

They have no problem stating their aims of implementing the dark age practices of stonings, and cutting peoples limbs off within our enlightened society.