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...About the Future Barber Abdalhadi works late and without a bodyguard. When the militias held sway, he employed security and had to close up shop at 4 p.m. "If I had stayed later, they would have come to kill me," he says. The militias declared that shaving was un-Muslim. Gangs took advantage of the pervasive fear to run protection rackets. In 2007, Abdalhadi's friend and colleague Shareef was murdered with a drill, but Abdalhadi continued to ply his trade. "I'm the breadwinner," he says...
...into the Strip, has become so sensitive to criticism of its role that it is jailing Egyptian anti-Israel protesters. Mauritania withdrew its ambassador to Israel. Jordan's King Abdullah summoned and rebuked the Israeli ambassador in the midst of the crisis. And Turkey - a non-Arab but predominantly Muslim state with close ties to Israel - withdrew its sponsorship of indirect peace talks between Israel and Syria...
While Western governments have been worrying about bearded men with bombs in caves, a new jihad has quietly gained strength in the Muslim world: Islamic feminism. Earlier this week, 350 women and men gathered in Malaysia to launch Musawah - "Equality" in Arabic - a movement for justice in the Muslim family. Organized by the Malaysian Muslim feminist group Sisters in Islam, the conference, two years in the planning, is a kick-off to a campaign to enshrine Muslim women's rights within an Islamic framework. "We are here because we believe that Islam upholds the principles of equality and justice," said...
...Musawah's key struggle is achieving reform of the heart of Muslim society: the family. Among the gravest oppressors of Muslim women today are Family Laws, the legal frameworks governing marriage and divorce, inheritance, and custody...
...wishes of her husband can be judged 'disobedient', and lose her right to maintenance. It is Family Law that an unmarried woman in Jordan is legally under the control of a male guardian until the age of 40. It is under Family Law, as practiced in India, that a Muslim woman can find herself divorced, unilaterally, by text message...