…as al-Hasan al-Basri, Ibn Jarir al-Tabari, Ibn al-Qasim al-Maliki, Ibn Hazm, and al– Kassani argued convincingly that women have equal rights to those of men in the judiciary. “ Download…
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…from the start. Wife appealed the trial court’s decision. On appeal, the court found that Mr. T was qualified to solemnize marriages. The court stated a Tennessee statute that provides…
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…and she was alone. Fast forward some 4000 years, women in general and Muslim women in particular find themselves in a proverbial desert of isolation. Our headlines are saturated with…
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…years KARAMAH has also worked diligently to raise the legal consciousness of the Muslim community, especially with respect to constitutional and civil rights through educational programs. On Friday January 22,…
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…rights and equal opportunity. The visitors also sought to understand the influence of human and civil rights activists on policy at the national, state and local levels through lobbying, media,…
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…screening of the PBS documentary “Gender Equality in Islam” followed by a panel discussion titled “Islam, Culture and Sexism: What Needs to Change?” The panel featured: Aisha Rahman, Lynn Kunkle, Manal Omar and Susan Hayward and…
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…of Islam and/or the law. Through our quest for education, we talked to and learned from communities all over the world. Among the many things that we have learned along…
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…civil and human rights and brought significant experience to the panel. Ms. Waheed spoke on federal programs like 287(g) and Secure Communities, as well as local programs like the NYPD’s…
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Last night featured a packed room and many questions during a special event discussing the U.S. government’s engagement in torture against detainees suspected of terrorism. Cosponsored by the National Religious…
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…U.S. citizen should be held accountable under a free speech model for inciting violence and causing harm elsewhere in the world. Rashid entertained this question with an appeal to the…
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