Abused Muslim Women in U.S. Gain Advocates
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A small but growing movement seeks to help Muslim American women who are affected by domestic violence.
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A woman was sexually abused, beaten and humiliated while being held captive in a home for at least a week, sheriff's officials said Monday after making six arrests and calling the FBI to investigate it as a possible hate crime.
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How will a stand against violence play in the Muslim world?.
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A domestic violence case involving a television evangelist has left some questioning her credibility.
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A leading human rights group has issued a global call to action to challenge violence against women and the failure of governments to prevent it.
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Girls at a Mississippi detention center were sometimes shackled for 12 hours a day and subjected to "horrendous physical and sexual abuse," a youth advocacy group claims in a federal lawsuit.
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More women than ever are reporting instances of domestic abuse to a special Scottish Executive helpline.
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While some in Congress made gaffes, police, businesses, and others are boning up on Muslim culture.
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When Mohamed Ghabour heard that a Muslim candidate, Keith Ellison, was running for Congress in Minneapolis, Ghabour turned to a sister-in-law who lives in Minnesota for a scouting report. "She said he's a good man," recalled Ghabour, a Muslim pediatrician from the Tampa, Fla., area. "That's all I needed to hear."
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Cases like this embolden extremists and provide them an opportunity to advocate for their worldview.
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How a hostage crisis in Iraq moved Muslims to rally around the republic
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Pakistan's lower house of Parliament on Tuesday strengthened a law against traditional honor killings, a practice human rights activists say claims hundreds of victims a year, mostly women.
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About a quarter of U.S. women suffer domestic violence, U.S. health officials reported on Thursday, with ongoing health problems that one activist likened to the effects of living in a war zone.
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EVERY two minutes, a vic tim is sexually assaulted in America. Every six min utes, a woman is raped. In other words, somewhere in the United States there are 30 women
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Leaders of the U.S. Islamic community are fearful that sectarian slaughter tearing Shi'ite and Sunni communities apart in Iraq is testing unity among Muslim immigrants in the United States.
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Domestic abuse may originate in the home but some prominent U.S. business leaders are backing a campaign to raise awareness about its toll in the workplace, which some estimate runs to billions of dollars.
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Homeland Security and the FBI are reaching out to Muslim-Americans to heal wounds caused by post-9/11 security.