Anyone who has worked in British Muslim communities will tell you the very notion of women's rights is still considered a taboo subject. Like many women who have spent years challenging gender-based discrimination, I know how much resistance there is to equality.
Recently, there has been talk about an explosion of grassroots feminist organisations – and there is also a new generation of confident, articulate Muslim women who are at the forefront of fighting inequality, which has become part and parcel of everyday life for many British Muslim women.
[A COMMENT] Muslim men who live in the West wear Western clothes, hoodies, trainers, jeans and the whole caboodle, whilst they prefer - and sometimes even go as far as to threaten - their women (sometimes girls as young as 8 or 10) to wear a hijab .... It's about time Muslim women see their religion and cultural norms as well as the general Islamic male attitudes towards women for what they are - deeply regressive, misogynistic and discriminatory. [Guardian Cif] Read more
