Although Islam permits men taking more than one wife, the issue of polygamy remains a controversial one with many Saudi women dead set against sharing their husbands with others.
Women in polygamous marriages suffering psychological torture
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- Posting again - American girl, #forcedmarriage in Pakistan, campaign of #honorviolence. @StateDept to the rescue.
http://t.co/NOCDsBIsWY - Story of American girl forced to marry exemplifies how an entire family is often part of a campaign of #honorviolence
http://t.co/xrQ7RexUF9 - Ayaan is speaking with @IngrahamAngle now about the horrific attack in the UK yesterday. We'll post a link when/if available.
- RT @Tostan: #ChildMarriage is a major cause of many cases of #fistula. Find out why, and what we're doing about it: …
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- Posting again - American girl, #forcedmarriage in Pakistan, campaign of #honorviolence. @StateDept to the rescue.
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- In the Wall Street Journal, Ayaan Hirsi Ali discusses the meaning of becoming a U.S. citizen and offers her thoughts on immigration reform and political Islam.
- In a powerful statement for women's rights, a female Egyptian journalist chose to remove her veil during an interview with a fundamentalist cleric and entered into a discussion about women's rights.
- An American mother was able to successfully rescue her son from a kidnapping in Egypt.
- Girls in Saudi Arabia are to be allowed to take part in school sports for the first time in the latest sign that the Islamic kingdom is inching forward in the domain of women’s rights.
- A new Pew Forum survey reveals that large majorities in the Muslim world want the Islamic legal and moral code of sharia as the official law in their countries, a finding that is of significant concern to those who favor the equal treatment of women..
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