By Taha Ghayyur / Sound Vision While divorce is not something encouraged by Islam, especially when all the means of reconciliation have not been exhausted, it is not something to be kept hidden from the community. The fact that about a third of the respondents decided to keep their divorce hidden, shows how much stigma divorce still carries in our community.

Categories: Divorce  American Muslims  Family  Islam  Lifestyle  Survey  

Added: July 30, 2010

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By Arsalan Iftikar / altmuslim.com Texas native Mohamed Elibiary has found himself caught in between radicalized Muslim youth and their families, finding a way to minimize the impact on wider American Muslim society while helping prevent others from going down the same road.

Categories: American Muslims  Radicalization  Family  

Added: April 22, 2010

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By Jennifer Campbell / The Ottawa Citizen Nazia Quazi has a Canadian passport. But for the past three years she's been stuck in Saudi Arabia with neither piece of identification. Her passports and other travel documents have been confiscated by a most unlikely authority: Her father. 

Categories: Saudia  Violence  Lifestyle  Family  Canadian Muslims  

Added: April 09, 2010

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By Yaser Birjas & Megan Wyatt /muslimmatters.com By knowing how to speak about yourself in a way that attracts the kind of brother you are searching for, allows you to keep at bay the brothers you do not want knocking on your father's door, and prevents you from turning off the very kind of person you are seeking.

Categories: Marraige  Family  Islam  Gender  Muslim Westerners  

Added: February 15, 2010

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By Wajahat Ali / The Gaurdian A year on from the tragic death of Aasiya Zubair, American Muslims have mobilised to confront domestic violence

Categories: American Muslims  Domestic Voilence  Family  

Added: February 13, 2010

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By Eileen Flynn / THE AMERICAN-STATESMAN "What the mainstream Muslim community-based groups ... can do is strengthen family-based programs, so that the marketplace of potentially vulnerable at-risk youth who could be pulled by a recruiter's message would shrink and therefore limit the growth of the violent extremism movement".

Categories: Radicalization  American Muslims  Mosque  Family  

Added: February 12, 2010

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By Na'ima B. Robert /Times Online A true Muslim marriage is about husband and wife helping each other attain paradise says Na'ima B. Roberts

Categories: British Muslims  Family  Faith  Islam  Marraige  

Added: September 09, 2009

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By Rabea Chaudhry / Altmuslimah Wajahat Ali's play, The Domestic Crusaders, is an incredible contribution to American Muslim literature, and one that our communities will benefit from for years to come. Set to premiere in New York on September 11th, Ali's play appeals to a mass audience while staying true to its goal of providing a groundbreaking, honest, and beautifully human portrayal of what it means to be an American Muslim.

Categories: Family  Lifestyle  Immigrants  Gender  American Muslims  

Added: September 02, 2009

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By Noor Saadeh In Islamic traditions, Khadijah, along with Mary the Mother of Jesus, is counted among the most righteous of all women in history. Her story dispels stereotypes not only of Muslim women, but of women everywhere and serves as an inspiration to us all.

Categories: History  Islam  Marraige  People  Family  

Added: September 02, 2009

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By Ziauddin Sardar / New Statesman The desis are into tradition in a big way. So a desi wedding has to be an "arranged marriage", but with a postmodern twist.

Categories: Marraige  Family  British Muslims  Desi  

Added: August 23, 2009

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