Seeking Allah in the Midlands

by: Hasan Suroor

Of the thousands of white Britons embracing Islam every year, most are thought to be professionally successful, independent-minded women, says a study

       Arguably, Islam has more than a mere perception problem over how it treats its women. Even after allowing for stereotyping (the image of a burqa-clad woman walking two paces behind her husband is a crude caricature of the modern Muslim woman), the fact is that Muslim women are more vulnerable to misogyny and cultural prejudices of their menfolk than women of any other faith. The more “Islamic” a society, the fewer individual freedoms its women enjoy.

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