Throughout the Islamic world, many injustices committed against women horrify the Western conscience: Polygamy, child marriage, honor killings, female genital mutilation, niqabs, forced hijab, unequal rights codified for centuries under sharia, and so forth. So what do female Islamist activist-scholars dedicate their energies to opposing? “White liberal feminists.”
At the Ilmspiration Conference held by the Walnut, California-based Institute of Knowledge on September 21st, 2019 in Anaheim, Muslema Purmul was the stand-out female speaker in both substance and style. The moderator introduced her, noting she was a graduate of sharia from Al-Azhar University, that her husband Jamaal Diwaan was also a sheik, and that they both were “critical role models.”
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