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Some of these women died in captivity or committed suicide, while others moved from Bangladesh to India. [6] Imams and Muslim religious leaders declared the women "war booty". [7] [8] The activists and leaders of Islamic parties are also accused to be involved in the rapes and abduction of women. [8]
Islamic religious leaders have traditionally been people who, as part of the clerisy, mosque, or government, performed a prominent role within their community or nation.. However, in the modern contexts of Muslim minorities in non-Muslim countries as well as secularised Muslim states like Turkey, and Bangladesh, the religious leadership may take a variety of non-formal sha
Islamic precepts related to modesty are at the base of Islamic clothing.Adherents of Islam believe that it is the religious duty of adult Muslim men and women to dress modestly, as an obligatory ruling agreed upon by community consensus.
Fareena Alam – editor of British Muslim magazine Q News; [197] named Media Professional of the Year by Islamic Relief in 2005 and at the Asian Women of Achievement Awards in 2006 [198] Faris Kermani – film director based in the UK, now head of production company based in London, Crescent Films [ 199 ]
The governments of India and Pakistan later agreed to restore Hindu and Sikh women to India and Muslim women to Pakistan. [174] In Afghanistan, one of the atrocities committed by the Taliban was the enslavement of the Hazara women for use as concubines.
A different argument is that what constitutes "spoils of war" is a matter of custom which can change with time. As customs of war have changed, modern Islamic scholars can apply this verse differently than earlier scholars. [105] Some modern Muslim argue that the concubinage allowed by Islam bore no resemblance to American chattel slavery.
In Middle Eastern Muslim cultures, women are generally discouraged from participating in the funeral procession. The reason for this is that in pre-Islamic Arabia it was customary for grieving women to wail loudly. Wealthy families often even hired moirologists to attend the funerals of their deceased relative.
In Britain, around 6,000 people convert to Islam per year and, according to an article in the British Muslims Monthly Survey, the majority of new Muslim converts in Britain were women. [316] According to The Huffington Post , "observers estimate that as many as 20,000 Americans convert to Islam annually", most of them being women and African ...