The Maharashtra State Animal Preservation (Amendment) Act came into force from March 4, 2015 with the President giving his sanction to it. It extends a previous ban on cow slaughter to bulls and bullocks too, those caught violating the law face a five-year jail term and a fine of Rs 10,000 ($160), if convicted. This ban has rendered thousands of Muslims jobless, loss of revenue to the tune of Rs.100…

News Look around at any of Afghanistan's large cities - Kabul, Herat, Mazar-e Sharif, and Kandahar and it is easy to see that Afghanistan is facing an internal displacement crisis. Camps and settlements for Afghanistan's 820,000 internally displaced people (IDPs); forced by conflict or natural disaster from their homes, sprawl out for miles on the city fringes, with thousands of new arrivals every week. A new report by the Norwegian…

My dearest sisters, we have gathered today at this unprecedented, momentous conference, from different corners of the world, speaking in different languages but united with ONE voice and united with ONE message... that as Muslim women we do not see the Shariah as the cause of our subjugation but the path to our salvation from oppression, and the means to gain the Pleasure of our Rabb (swt), Al-Alim, Al-Azim, the…

Dearest sisters, the complicated and miserable problems experienced by women today under the democratic-capitalist system and all other man-made systems will end by the implementation of laws based on the Shariah of Islam. The poverty, violence, exploitation, and lack of proper educational, legal and political rights suffered by tens of millions of women in Indonesia and hundreds of millions of women across the Muslim world can only be stopped by…