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July 27, 2006

Event in London: Islam & The Free Market

Mustafa Akyol will give a talk titled "Is Islam compatible with the market economy?" on July 31, Monday, at London's International Policy Network (IPN). Those who wish to attend this lunch seminar can contact the IPN here.

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July 19, 2006

A Feminist Islamic Reform in Turkey

[Originally published in The Washington Post]

"Women are imperfect in intellect and religion."
"The best of women are those who are like sheep."
"If a woman doesn't satisfy her husband's desires, she should choose herself a place in hell."
"If a husband's body is covered with pus and his wife licks it clean, she still wouldn't have paid her dues."
"Your prayer will be invalid if a donkey, black dog or a woman passes in front of you."

In a bold but little-noticed step toward reforming Islamic tradition, Turkey's religious authorities recently declared that they will remove these statements, and more like them, from the hadiths — the non-Koranic commentary on the words and deeds of the prophet Muhammad.

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