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We are never done celebrating Muslimah athletes at altM. Let’s be honest with ourselves, how often are young Muslim girls encouraged to “go out and play!” Ages 3-10, maybe… But sooner or later, many (not all!) parents drag their girls inside for any of the following reasons: You should study/read instead Don’t…

In his 1966 debate with William Buckley about the “Playboy Philosophy,” Playboy magazine founder, Hugh Hefner, made clear that he opposes “religiously mandated, chastity-centered codes of sexual morality.” In fact, he opposes most any limit on public sexual expression, considering it fundamentally antithetical to freedom itself. It may come as…

The death of the writer Nahed Hattar, who was gunned down on Sunday outside a court where he faced a charge of insulting Islam, “is a huge loss” to Jordan, his cousin says. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS on September 25, 2016. Photo by Jamal Nasrallah/European Pressphoto Agency. THE NEW YORK TIMES — Writer,…

Women in Iran are uploading videos of themselves riding their bikes in defiance of new fatwa that bans female cycling for “contravening women’s chastity”. Days ago the supreme leader of Iran Ali Khamenei issued a fatwa — a legal ruling handed down by an Islamic religious leader — prohibiting women…

It wasn’t that long ago that the French government was crying over what women wear to the beach. Now that that disaster is over- let’s face another everyday one: body-shaming. To all those who say “you don’t have the body/figure for that”, we (and Meghan Trainor) say: #WearWhatYouWant! “Meghan Trainor is…

In a country where Muslim women have been fired and rejected from college for wearing a hijab, it’s refreshing to see New York Fashion Week embrace the religious article in a big way. Muslim Indonesian designer Anniesa Hasibuan made history on Monday with a dazzling show featuring hijabs accompanying all…