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The Muslim Women's League is a non-profit Muslim American organization working to implement the values of Islam and thereby reclaim the status of women as free, equal and vital contributors to society.

PBS program on perceptions of Muslim women.

An international solidarity network that provides information, support and a collective space for women whose lives are shaped, conditioned or governed by laws and customs said to derive from Islam.

Steal this Hijab.com is an evolving idea-experiment and affirmation of emancipatory models of communication and organizing. Steal this Hijab.com, inspired by the forms of (eminent) criticism from Abbie Hoffman to Audre Lorde and Shirin Neshat, affirms Herbet Marcuse’s wisdom that “the great refusal takes many forms."

More than a year after the first stirrings of the Arab Spring, there continues to be a strong desire for democracy in Arab and other predominantly Muslim nations. Solid majorities in Lebanon, Turkey, Egypt, Tunisia and Jordan believe democracy is the best form of government, as do a plurality of Pakistanis

Stereotypes of Muslim women as uniquely oppressed bear little resemblance to reality. Yet the attempt to define “women’s status in Islam” persists.

American’s remember the 1960s as a decade of social change and assertion of the rights and strengths of women. True to American style, the women’s movement was fought and won boldly and bluntly in the public square. In the decades since, the western world has shifted its eyes to the Middle East and issues of gender rights in the Arab world.

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