by Lil Tuttle | Feb 8, 2018 | Culture, Feminism & Sexuality, News
by Lil Tuttle Following growing complaints that Islamic sharia councils in Britain were discriminating against women, the British Home Secretary ordered an independent review in May 2016 into the application of Islamic sharia law in England and Wales. The final report...
by Lil Tuttle | Oct 3, 2017 | Culture, Feminism & Sexuality, Policy Paper
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman, who governs the nation under very strict Islamic sharia law, issued a decree allowing women to drive for the first time in that country’s history beginning in June 2018. Driving is only one thing women weren’t permitted to do in that...
by Lil Tuttle | Sep 27, 2017 | Culture, Feminism & Sexuality, News
by Lil Tuttle “The king of Saudi Arabia has issued a decree allowing women to drive, bringing to an end the country’s dubious distinction as the only place on earth banning the practice,” the BBC reported this week. The royal order—to be put into effect by June 24,...
by cblpi_admn | Mar 12, 2008 | Culture, Feminism & Sexuality, Policy Paper
By Nonie Darwish Recently I spoke at Wellesley College and a large number of female members of the Muslim Student Association attended. As I described the plight of seven Iranian women awaiting death by stoning for sexual violations, I saw no compassion towards their...