[fund] resisting fundamentalisms

Malaysia: Sisters take on scholars in battle for Islam

Zainah Anwar is a good Muslim. She is also an outspoken campaigner for women's rights. To many Muslim men in Malaysia and beyond, these two facts are barely compatible.

Mondial: La Marche mondiale des femmes fait halte à Marseille

Plusieurs milliers de femmes, venues de 35 pays, se sont retrouvées, 28 et 29 mai, à Marseille, étape française de la Marche mondiale des femmes qui, partie de Brésil, doit arriver à Burkina Faso en octobre, après un long périple en Europe et en Océanie.

International: Interview with Margot Badran on Islamic feminism

Margot Badran is a historian & a specialist of gender studies focused on the Middle East & Islamic world. She did her MA from Harvard University & DPhil from Oxford University. She acquired a diploma in Arabic and Islam from Al Azhar University, Cairo.

France: L'UOIF s'oppose à la parution d'un recueil de fatwas

Les éditions musulmanes Tawhid de Lyon s'apprêtaient à publier un Recueil de fatwas, c'est-à-dire d'avis juridiques, rédigés par le Conseil européen de la fatwa et de la recherche, principale autorité en matière de droit musulman pour l'Europe.

UK: Mayor of London, political Islam and us

Interview with Bahram Soroush and Fariborz Pooya.

Syria: THARA, a monthly review of women's issues

Based in Syria, its aim is to provide a reliable resource of international, regional and local documents (laws, conventions etc.) concerning women. It also has the goal of monitoring practices that violate women's rights and freedoms.

France: L'UOIF fait plier le ministère de l'intérieur sur l'aumonerie

Le ministère de l'intérieur en France renonce à nommer un aumônier modéré et anti-intégristes, du fait de la pression exercée par l'UOIF. Les progressistes dénoncent l'abandon du domaine carcéral aux intégristes issus des Frères musulmans.

International: On a Muslim woman leading the congregational prayer

Amina Wadud, an Islamic scholar of repute from US led the mixed congregational prayer on 18th March 2005 in New York and also delivered khutba' (i.e. sermon).

Morocco: Morocco king vows slums clean-up

Morocco's king has launched a programme to improve the country's slums, seen as recruiting grounds for radical Islam.

International: Women under oppressive regimes - women and religious fundamentalisms

A very relevant article from Catholics For A Free Choice 2001 newsletter 'Conscience' which discusses initiatives of faith-related feminist organizations to resist fundamentalisms & the importance of supporting, & networking with, these initiatives.