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...July 2009 in Ali’s native Minnesota, will be anything but basic. “It’s been an interesting process to figure out how we’re going to do things,” Ali said of the nuptials. A second-generation Bangladeshi Muslim, she will be stirring her religious and cultural heritage into a marital melting pot with McNeer’s Massachusetts Protestant background. For example, McNeer’s childhood pastor will be presiding over the wedding, but the day before, there will be a traditional Bengali “gaye...
When French Justice Minister Rachida Dati on Monday ordered an appeal to a court decision annulling a Muslim couple's marriage on the grounds that the wife had lied about being a virgin before the wedding, the acclaim was almost universal. The ruling's logic - essentially creating the legal concept of chastity fraud - was widely seen as an attack on women's rights that undermined decades of progress on sexual attitudes. The lower court's ruling seemed as well to have put Muslim religious concerns above France's strictly secular laws. But for the woman whose public repudiation sparked...
...Asani ’77, professor of the practice of Indo-Muslim languages and cultures, said that the Aga Khan has demonstrated that Muslim values and Western ideas are not incompatible...
...Khan shows that you can be Western, and you can be transnational, and you can still be Muslim,” said Asani, who is an Ismaili...
...documentary, the Aga Khan explains his idea of a “clash of ignorances”—a reworking of the much-hyped “clash of civilizations.” He said he blames much of the friction between the West and the Muslim world on a shallow understanding of Islam in the West...