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21. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Zenab
(News & Blog)
... to describe you? Islamic feminist and human rights activist   What are your hobbies?   Reading, writing and cooking   What is your profession or what career would you like to be in? I was a university ...
Created on 09 December 2020
22. More Than A Survivor: An interview with Aarefa
(News & Blog)
... I had the opportunity to visit Islamabad, Pakistan. It was a lovely, emotional experience because of the long history between our two countries that are really just like sisters who have been separated ...
Created on 08 December 2020
23. SEVEN, the first novel of its kind to address female genital cutting in the Bohra community, releases this month
(News & Blog)
... and healing sexual trauma within the context of the Dawoodi Bohra (sub-sect of Shia Islam) community. This is the first novel of its kind to address female genital cutting in the Bohra community. Farzana ...
Created on 13 September 2020
24. Why human rights education, including FGC, is crucial for American classrooms
(News & Blog)
... so we should not condemn it.  FGC is often justified with religion, but it is not technically a religious practice. It pre-dates Islam and Christianity. Medicalization does not remove many of the physical ...
Created on 13 July 2020
25. When Thaal Pe Charcha participants met Mumbai's Veteran Activist
(News & Blog)
... and her team of two women Qazis (Islamic jurists) from BMMA. The three of them spoke about their struggle to get the practice of unilateral instantaneous divorce or triple talaq to be recognised as unconstitutional ...
Created on 12 January 2020
26. On the path to healing: My journey after experiencing female genital cutting
(News & Blog)
... the oppressive practice that they assumed was justified by Islam and patriarchal oppression. They also questioned the reasons that parents would allow for such a thing to happen to their little girl. This ...
Created on 31 December 2019
27. The complexities of female genital cutting in Singapore: Part IV
(News & Blog)
... misconceptions about FGC’s necessity and its health and religious implications.  I would urge the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) to replace the fatwa it removed with a new one, so that ...
Created on 18 July 2019
28. My mother thought she was saving me with khafz
(News & Blog)
... is no hope, there is no life.” I hope to see a law banning FGM/C in India. There is no mention of this practice in the Quran and it actually predates Islam. I hope to see the practice of female khatna/FGM/C ...
Created on 20 June 2019
29. Here’s what a new study says about female genital cutting in Malaysia
(News & Blog)
... in the country insist that female genital cutting is not an Islamic requirement at all. These are some of the major findings of a new research study on FGC in Malaysia, conducted by Abdul Rashid and ...
Created on 30 May 2019
30. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore: Part II
(News & Blog)
... traditions or sayings of the Prophet Muhammad), but there have been various interpretations of this hadith. Institutionally, the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (MUIS) has avoided releasing any ...
Created on 30 April 2019
31. My experience at the Sahiyo U.S. Activist Retreat made me reflect on my khatna
(News & Blog)
... my sister would automatically be against it. But I was wrong. Next day, I recapped the story to my husband, who does not share my religion. While he was sympathetic, his anger turned into islamophobic ...
Created on 06 April 2019
32. The complexities of female genital cutting (FGC) in Singapore
(News & Blog)
... as part of Islamic traditions linked to the Shafi’i school of thought, but the spread of the practice to other parts of Southeast Asia is ambiguous. FGC in Singapore involves female Malays, who make up ...
Created on 19 March 2019
33. Why female genital cutting still continues: Exploring the reasons behind its sustenance
(News & Blog)
... guide of the community. As Da’i considers Daim-ul-Islam as the binding religious text for the Bohras, diktats of the text are taken as truth by the community members. It is a text written by Al-Qadi al-Nu’man ...
Created on 05 February 2019
34. Reflections on Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting & Intergenerational Trauma
(News & Blog)
... enraged that the perpetrators of FGM/C were not held accountable for committing a human rights violation. I just can’t fathom how my community would eagerly rally against islamophobia, but turn a blind ...
Created on 15 January 2019
35. Sahiyo U.S. Advisory Board Spotlight: Maryum Saifee
(News & Blog)
... civil society convenings like the Islamic Society of North America’s annual convening. Sahiyo was (and continues to be) a powerful force for social change. Prior to Sahiyo’s existence, FGM was framed as ...
Created on 14 January 2019
36. Examining Female Genital Cutting and Intersectionality
(News & Blog)
... Muslims could almost forget the carnage inflicted in Gujarat in 2002, and Modi’s rampant Islamophobia since. The Bohra community has probably been shielded from Islamophobic violence because of the clergy’s ...
Created on 27 November 2018
37. To ban or medicalise? Sri Lanka grapples with debates on Female Genital Cutting
(News & Blog)
... Noor Hazeema Haris has reportedly said that although Muslims wholeheartedly have supported the abolition of traditional practices harmful to women and children such as Female Genital Mutilation, the Islamic ...
Created on 17 October 2018
38. Female Genital Cutting (FGC): Is it an Islamic Practice? (Part 2)
(News & Blog)
By Debangana Chatterjee  Though often being referred to as an Islamic practice, Female Genital Cutting (FGC) precedes both Islam and Christianity. It is believed to have originated in the Pharaonic era ...
Created on 13 October 2018
39. Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting: Work of the devil?
(News & Blog)
... which predated Islam and may have been initiated in the distant past to subdue the sexual urges of female slaves. My discussions with members of the Suleimani community had made it clear that the Daim-ul-Islam ...
Created on 11 October 2018
40. What Islam says about Female Genital Cutting and how far are these texts invincible? (Part 1)
(News & Blog)
... to the claims that Female Genital Cutting (FGC) is an Islamic practice. The Holy Quran and the hadiths, evolving from the deeds of the Prophet Muhammad, form the basis of Sharia or the Islamic law. ...
Created on 06 October 2018