‘Religious Leaders Can Be Allies for Women’s Rights’
New Age Islam News Bureau
20
Feb 2015
Students across Pakistan are receiving anti-terrorism training, such as here in Karachi, Sindh where police is providing arms training at a local facility
• After
Peshawar School Attack, Students Receive Counter-Terrorist Training
• Female
Circumcision on the Rise in Malaysia
• Child
Protection in Pak: Employer Arrested For Child’s Maid Torture
• Indonesia’s
Ban on Maids Threatens 2,000 Saudi Jobs
• Vigil
Remembers Girls Taken By Boko Haram
• Prince
Sultan Orders Girl Rewarded For Surrendering Antiquities
• Men,
Women Found Working Together In Saudi Female Shops
• Malaysia
Detains Teen Girl Trying To Join Islamic State
• Muslim
Women, Children Celebrate Birthday of RSS Functionary Indresh Kumar
• Isis
Raqqa Wives Subjected To 'Brutal' Sexual Assaults after Marrying Militants
• Indonesian
Women Host Muslim Fashion Show
Compiled
by New Age Islam News Bureau
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‘Religious
Leaders Can Be Allies for Women’s Rights’
Syeda
Shehrbano Kazim
February
20, 2015
ISLAMABAD:
The Norwegian Church Aid (NCA) launched a 3-year project that aims to end
violence against women and girls in 150 villages in Mansehra District in Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa and Mirpurkhas and Shaheed Benazirabad districts in Sindh.
The
project is funded by the European Union and the implementing partners are
Khwendo Kor (KK) and South Asia Partnership Pakistan (SAP-PK). In addition to
addressing domestic violence, the project will also tackle women’s right to
inheritance and consent in marriage.
“Violence
against women and girls is a global problem, cutting across countries and
classes, said Hanna Mollan, Country Representative, NCA. As a faith-based
organization, NCA works with religious leaders from all sects and faiths in
Pakistan and religious leaders who are important allies in improving safety and
respect of women.
Ms
Mollan said antagonism between religious leaders and organisations working for
women’s empowerment, is counterproductive. An important aspect is mapping of
the duty bearers in positions of power, such as religious leaders, who are paid
salaries by the state.
New
3-year project aims to utilise position of imams in rural communities
A
Muslim religious leader from Mansehra, Sadiq Sherazi, shared his experience of
promoting women’s rights in his community. He said he received threats from
individuals and organizations. “Early marriages, forced marriages and denial of
women’s rights of inheritance are endemic problems in my Union Council. But since
Khwendo Kor began working in the area, things are slowly improving,” he said.
Narrating
an incident, he said “There was a religious leader in my village who had not
given his sisters their rightful share in the family property. We repeatedly
spoke to him on the issue until he transferred ownership of some land to his
sisters and in the next Friday sermon he said that he had obeyed God’s law.”
He
said community action and persistently challenging harmful traditional values
and practices are key to gradual changing the mindset of communities.
Shabana
(full name withheld), a survivor of violence, was forced into marriage at the
age of 16. Her husband was a drug addict and Shabana was forced to put up with
his abuse. For 18 years she provided her children and herself for before she
was able to leave her husband and move back to her parents. She said, “When
these organizations started working in my area, I could not even speak to the
workers. Today, with their support, I am able to speak at this forum. I have found
my voice as a result of the wonderful work they do.”
Maryam
Bibi, Executive Director of Khwendo Kor, said, “Empowerment comes from within,
individually and collectively. The issues of violence against women are very
sensitive and addressing them becomes much harder in conservative communities.
We need experience, commitment and the faith. Successes such as Shabana give us
the courage to carry on.”
She
added, “It is worrying that development discourse avoids religious leaders and
organizations when they often pivotal power holders in communities. This
project is truly inclusive. We acknowledge the power of the imams and convince
them to use their forums and spaces to support women’s rights.”
Zoë
Leffler, European Union Development Advisor on Human Rights and Gender said,
“Domestic violence is a global issue with 12 to 35 percent of women in Europe
experiencing domestic violence. However, the difference lies in whether there
are consequences for the perpetrators and whether the survivor has a place to
go to for support. In many places in Pakistan, domestic violence is still
considered a private matter and women are trapped in violent situations. We are
determined to help bring about a change in attitudes, facilitate implementation
of laws and foster the affirmation that women have rights.”
She
added, “Globally, the realization has taken root that societies cannot develop
while leaving half their population behind. Smart economics include women.”
The
ceremony ended with an address by Zubaida Khatoon, former Chairperson of the KP
Provincial Commission on the Status of Women and a member of the Board of
Directors of Khwendo Kor. She said that the prevalence of gender based violence
in Pakistan is unfortunate but there is a growing recognition that it is a
crime. She added that the government is beginning to realize the importance of
this work and also shared news that the KP government has approved a policy
that aims to empower women of the province.
http://www.dawn.com/news/1164811/religious-leaders-can-be-allies-for-womens-rights
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After
Peshawar school attack, students receive counter-terrorist training
February
20, 2015
Pakistani
students are undergoing training to prepare them for potential terrorist
attacks in wake of the barbaric Taliban attack on an Army Public School in
Peshawar at the end of last year, Mail Online reported.
Police
and bomb disposal squads (BDS) have visited school children, teaching them how
to handle firearms, defuse explosives and provide emergency care in the event
of a terrorist attack occurring.
A
BDS instructed classes of girls in Multan and Punjab how to locate and defuse
an explosive device as they underwent the training programme. The drill also
trained the schoolgirls to give assistance to ‘injured’ people and how to safely
evacuate the school.
In
Sindh province, teachers and students at the Mama Parsi school were trained by
police at a centre in Karachi. Provincial police demonstrated self defence and
also gave the students weapons training.
In
a nationwide campaign to prepare students and school staff in potential
attacks, several measures have been taken. Female teachers in Peshawar are
receiving combat training to ‘engage’ terrorists, with the first group
finishing training last month.
Officials
have said that trained teachers would be able to fight off terrorists for an
initial ten minutes before back-up arrived.
Following
the December attack which claimed the lives of students, 35,000 educational
institutions across Khyber Pakhtunkhwa have been ordered to beef up security
and take measures.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/841375/after-peshawar-school-attack-students-receive-counter-terrorist-training/
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Female
circumcision on the rise in Malaysia
February
20, 2015
Syahiera
Atika, a 19-year-old Malaysian girl has
happily embraced western-style capitalism but in contrast strictly follows the
local interpretation of Islam as she informed the Vice of her circumcision.
Female
circumcision involves the surgical removal of all or part of a woman’s
clitoris. The World Health Organisation (WHO) has classed this procedure as
Female Genital Mutilation (FMG).
WHO
also defines it as an operation that “involves partial or total removal of the
external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for
non-medical reasons.”
Syahiera
however, rejects the notion that it is inhumane and says that ”I’m circumcised
because it is required by Islam.” She refers to it as ‘wajib’, which means any
religious duty commanded by Allah.
“I
don’t think the way we do it here is harmful,” she said, adding that “it
protects young girls from pre-marital sex as it is supposed to lower their sex
drive. But I am not sure it always works.”
According
to a 2012 study conducted by Dr Maznah Dahlui, over 93 per cent of Muslim women
surveyed had been circumcised. This made Syahiera among the majority of Muslim
women in Malaysia.
Dr
Dahlui also noted that the procedure was increasingly performed by trained
medical professionals in private clinics, instead of by traditional
circumcision practitioners.
Shocking
to Western sensibilities, Dr Maznah insisted that Malaysia’s version of the
procedure in less invasive than in other parts of the world.
Obstetrician
and gynaecologist, Dr Mighilia of the Global Ikhwan private clinic located in
Rawang, north of Kuala Lumpur, admitted that she performs a more drastic
version with a needle or scissors. “I just take a needle and slit off the top
of the clitoris, but it is very little,” she said. “Just one millimetre.”
WHO
has declared FMG to provide no medical benefits whatsoever. It simply reflects
the deep-rooted inequality between the sexes. For this reason, the United Nations
General Assembly in 2012 unanimously passed a resolution calling it a “human
rights violation” and urged states to ban the practice.
Some
Malaysian medical practitioners also defend the practice by passing judgment
onto other countries. “We are very much against what is going on in other
countries like Sudan,”says Dr Ariza Mohamed, a Consultant Obstetrician and
Gynecologist at KPJ Ampang Puteri Specialist Hospital in Kuala Lumpur.
“That
is very different from what we practice in Malaysia,” she said adding “and
there is a big difference between circumcision and female genital mutilation.”
All
Malaysians however, do not support the practice. Syarifatul Adibah, who is the
Senior Programme Officer at Sisters in Islam, a local women’s rights group,
insists that female circumcision isn’t once mentioned in the Quran.
Instead
she points to its popularity as a stemming from an increasingly conservative
interpretation of Islam. “Previously it was a cultural practice but now because
of Islamisation, people just relate everything to Islam. And when you link
something to religion, people here follow it blindly, they don’t enquire,” she
explained.
The
practice is not banned in Malaysia, although public hospitals are prevented
from performing the surgery. More concerning however is that in 2009 the Fatwa
Committee of Malaysia’s National Council of Islamic Religious Affairs ruled
that female circumcision was obligatory for all Muslim women, unless it was
harmful.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/841392/female-circumcision-on-the-rise-in-malaysia/
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Child
protection in Pak: Employer arrested for child’s maid torture
February
20, 2015
LAHORE:
Johar Town police on Thursday arrested a man after his wife was accused of
torturing a 12-year-old maid. Police said they were unable to arrest the woman
because the raiding team did not include a policewoman.
The
child servant told The Express Tribune the woman had beaten her on Wednesday
after her son complained that she had snatched a book from him. “She beat me
with steel hangers. I am hurting all over my body,” she said.
TV
footage showed her speaking to the media with swollen eyes. She said she had
come to work in Lahore from a village in Sargodha six months ago and was paid
Rs5,000 a month. She said she had seven sisters and two brothers. The Child
Protection Bureau has taken the girl into its custody.
News
of the incident sparked outrage across the country, especially in Punjab.
People took to their Twitter accounts to comment on the incident and expressed
their concerns.
Separately,
Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif took notice of the TV reports and sought a report
from police in this regard. He ordered
that the girl be provided proper medical care.
http://tribune.com.pk/story/841205/child-protection-employer-arrested-for-childs-maid-torture/
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Indonesia’s
Ban on Maids Threatens 2,000 Saudi Jobs
20
Feb, 2015
Some
600 recruitment offices are being threatened with bankruptcy as approximately
2,000 Saudi employees working in their offices are expected to lose their jobs
due to a new Indonesian ban on maids working abroad, local media quoted office
owners as saying.
The
Indonesian Manpower Services Association (APJATI) has reportedly agreed to send
its house maids to some companies as “janitors” with an agreed salary,
Al-Riyadh daily said. This situation will deprive citizens and recruitment
offices their rights to recruit manpower from Indonesia under the profession of
“house maids,” the daily said quoting office owners.
Meanwhile,
one of the companies said it is offering an Indonesian “janitor” for four days
(on a five-hour basis) per month at a salary of SR750.
The
owner of another recruitment office said that this attitude by such companies
that agreed to hire manpower from Indonesia will lead recruitment offices to
lay off more than 2,000 Saudi employees.
The
representative urged the Ministry of Labor to intervene and ban the activities
of companies working in this manner which deprives citizens of being able to
recruit house workers under their names.
Another
office owner, who requested anonymity, said that opening the door to the
recruitment companies to practice this type of activity draws skepticism and is
possibly meant to impede recruitment offices which have been working for tens
of years.
Indonesian
manpower exporting companies are set to stop sending house maids to the
Kingdom. The recruitment offices are normally obliged to sign contracts with
house workers and receive not less than 20 percent of the value of the contracts
through applying in the names of citizens.
http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/706566
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Vigil
remembers girls taken by Boko Haram
February
20, 2015
A
vigil Thursday evening sought to reinsert #bringbackourgirls into the public
mind.
Texas
A&M Amnesty International, a student organization, held the vigil at Rudder
Fountain to remember the 300 girls taken by the Muslim militant group Boko
Haram on April 14, 2014, from Chibok
Government Secondary School in Nigeria.
Derin
Oduye, political science senior and president of Amnesty, said the vigil was
held to bring awareness to Bryan-College Station.
“These
people need to know that people are still thinking about them, after the ‘bring
back our girls’ stuff, people forgot and people stopped caring,” Oduye said.
Boko
Haram is based in Nigeria and is growing slowly across the continent of Africa,
now occupying countries including Niger, Chad and part of Cameroon, Oduye said.
“Boko”
means western education is a sin, Oduye said.
“Like
you’re [Boko Haram] against people, Africans, getting education, basically
women getting education,” Oduye said. “They’re against western ideals and
values.”
James
Spencer, nuclear engineering senior and secretary of Amnesty, said after the
kidnapping in April, the #bringbackourgirls campaign was widely spread by
political leaders and celebrities,
including First Lady Michelle Obama. However, Spencer said the movement was
short lived.
“It
kind of seemed to die away or kind of got to a point where we thought it was
settled well enough,” Spencer said. “My whole hope with [the vigil] is to bring
awareness with it on the first level, so people know it’s still ongoing, even
if it’s not those girls there’s going to be other girls that could kidnapped as
well.”
Spencer
said he hopes spreading awareness on campus will remind people that the issue
is still ongoing.
More
than 200 of the girls are estimated to still be missing, Oduye said.
Oduye
said Amnesty members have written letters to the family members of the girls as
well as congressional leaders, specifically U.S. Rep. Bill Flores and Secretary
of State John Kerry.
“It
basically says we’re students … I’m really passionate about educating people
about what is going on in Nigeria as well as I want you to take action as a
congressional leader to shed light and take this to Congress and tell our
congressional leaders that we’re passionate about it and people do care,” Oduye
said.
http://www.thebatt.com/news/view.php/861185/Vigil-remembers-girls-taken-by-Boko-Hara
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Prince
Sultan orders girl rewarded for surrendering antiquities
20
Feb, 2015
Prince
Sultan bin Salman, president of the Saudi Commission for Tourism and
Antiquities (SCTA), has ordered double compensation and a letter of thanks to
Zabyah Al-Shaharani, aged 15. She handed over a number of priceless
archaeological stone tools dating back to the Stone Age to the Asir branch of
the SCTA.
The
prince wants to show his appreciation of the Saudi girl’s strong desire to
preserve the archaeological wealth of the Kingdom for posterity and also for
her trust in the SCTA as the entity to preserve the country’s historical
heritage, to conduct research studies and support its museums.
Zabyah,
a shepherd girl, came across the valuable antiques while looking for grass for
her sheep on the Al-Hafayer mountain. She collected 705 of the beautiful
artifacts in a large sack. She later heard about the SCTA’s drive for the
return of antiques on a radio broadcast and contacted the SCTA on a tourist telephone
in January 2013.
Then
she took her finds to the office in Asir and let experts examine them. They
selected 19 of the stones, including eight circular ones, six perforated stones
used for spinning, seven stones used as multipurpose blades, an awl and some
stones that were probably arrow heads.
Muhammad
Al-Umrah, director general of SCTA’s Asir branch, said the prince was deeply
impressed by the girl’s service to the Kingdom’s heritage. He also called on
all citizens who possess antiquities to call the nearest SCTA office.
http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/706526
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Men,
women found working together in Saudi female shops
20
Feb, 2015
The
joint inspection campaigns which were carried out by the Ministries of Labor,
Interior and Commerce and Industry in a number of shops in Riyadh recorded 77
cases of violation, with men and women working together at female-only shops
being the most prominent of them. The offending shops did not separate the
departments of male and female shop assistants, according to the Ministry of
Labor.
These
campaigns were carried out last weekend with the participation of 20 inspectors
from the Labor Office in Riyadh, 15 policemen and a number of inspectors of the
Ministry of Trade and Industry. Sixty-six violations were detected following
the inspection of several stores selling products for use by women which
violated the requirements of the women's work environment. The rest of the
violations came as result of employers' ignorance to transfer their expat
workers' sponsorship according to the labor laws in the Kingdom.
The
spokesman of the Ministry of Labor, Tayseer Al-Mufrej, said that all female
shops must separate the work area between male and female shop assistants as
the labor regulations ban the presence of men at female areas at stores. He
confirmed that ongoing inspection campaigns will be conducted weekly covering
all cosmetic units without exception, according to a local daily.
The
Ministry of Labor said earlier that it will take punitive actions against offenders
of the female shops' requirements. The punitive procedures would be gradual,
from advice to written warnings to fines. However, the Ministry of Labor will
halt all its services to offenders who ignore these gradual punitive steps,
while the authorities may shut down these stores as the last stage of warnings.
The authorities have to date shut down 27 women's stores in the Eastern
Province for these kinds of violations.
During
the most recent inspection rounds, labor inspectors have used a new database mechanism
to monitor employers and shop owners, and which shows any former violations of
the shop to the concerned authorities at the time of the inspection.
The
smart inspection system can monitor irregularities automatically and
immediately through special tablets.
http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/706511
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Malaysia
detains teen girl trying to join Islamic State
20
Feb, 2015
Kuala
Lumpur: Police have detained a 14-year-old girl suspected of trying to join the
Islamic State (IS) terror group, the authorities said.
The
girl, who is from Muar, was arrested before she could board a Cairo-bound
flight at Kuala Lumpur International Airport, The Malaysian Star reported.
A
police official said the girl was planning to marry a 22-year-old Malaysian
student in Cairo.
Both
of them would then go to Istanbul before securing passage to Syria.
"We
discovered that she had been in contact with two Malaysian militants based in
Syria. We will investigate further to uncover the mastermind behind the
recruitment of Malaysian girls for the IS," the official said.
"We
will not allow Malaysia to be used as a training ground or hideout for
terrorists and militants. Anyone in support or in league with any terrorist
will be detained."
Intelligence
sources said the girl`s would-be husband is a student at Cairo`s Al-Azhar
University.
The
girl had attempted to go to Cairo without her family`s consent. She had even
threatened to kill herself if her parents did not let her go.
The
latest arrest brings the number of people linked to terrorism arrested in
Malaysia to 68 since February 2013.
Among
those arrested were navy and air force personnel and civil servants.
Last
month, a young Malaysian couple, with their infant son, managed to elude the
authorities to go to Syria to join the terror group.
"They
went to Bangkok before taking a flight to Istanbul. They then entered Syria via
a land route," a source said.
http://zeenews.india.com/news/world/malaysia-detains-teen-girl-trying-to-join-islamic-state_1549068.html
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Muslim
women, children celebrate birthday of RSS functionary Indresh Kumar
20
Feb, 2015
VARANASI:
While Muslim clerics led by the Sunni Ulema Council general secretary Haji
Mohammed Salees recently posed questions to senior RSS functionary Indresh
Kumar about Sangh parivar, a group of local Muslim women and children
celebrated his birthday.
"We
have no doubt in ideology of Indresh Kumar. We have great respect to him, and
we pray for his wellbeing," said Nazneen Ansar, president of Muslim Mahila
Foundation. According to her, Muslim women also offered namaz wishing wellbeing
of Kumar. Besides, a feast was held for about 200 Muslim children by an NGO
Vishal Bharat Sansthan in Hukulganj area on the occasion.
Nazneen
said that Indresh Kumar always advocated for communal harmony and unity of
Hindu and Muslim. "But, fingers are raised by some people just to fulfill
vested interests," she said adding that people should not be misguided by
false propaganda.
It
may be recalled here that Muslim clerics met RSS functionary Indresh Kumar at
Kanpur on Monday night and posed six questions to the Sangh including whether
it has prepared a format to turn India into a Hindu rashtra (nation). The
Muslim delegation reportedly claimed that Kumar refused to answer their
questions and instead said that a conference of Muslim organisations should be
called where he would give the answers.
Its
worth mentioning here that these Muslim women associated with Bharatiya Awam
Party, an all women political outfit, had openly supported Prime Minister
Narendra Modi and campaigned in his favour during Lok Sabha election.
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/varanasi/Muslim-women-children-celebrate-birthday-of-RSS-functionary-Indresh-Kumar/articleshow/46288254.cms
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Isis
Raqqa wives subjected to 'brutal' sexual assaults after marrying militants
20
Feb, 2015
Women
living under Isis’s self-declared ‘caliphate’ are being subjected to 'brutal,
abnormal sex acts' and are becoming too scared to leave their homes, a local
activist group has claimed.
Many
women and young girls are being forced to marry Isis militants in the group’s
defacto capital of Raqqa, in Syria, and are then reportedly beaten and abused
by their husbands.
The
Syrian activist group Raqqa is Being Slaughtered Silently (RBSS) says
universities have been closed by Isis and women are banned from travelling to
other areas to study. In a report on its
website, the group said Isis fighters began searching for wives after taking
over a swathe of the city. It says militants introduced a series of
"crackdowns" designed to coerce women into marriage, such as
prohibiting them from travelling or working without a male relative.
Abu
Mohammed Hussam, one of the RBSS activists living outside of Raqqa, said women
who walk around without male guardians are constantly harassed.
He
said girls and women between the ages of nine and 50 are sent to special
‘education centres’ to learn the Koran and given lessons on how to be good
wives.
The
RBSS report claimed Isis members took advantage of poverty-stricken families by
offering high dowries in exchange for marrying their daughters.
Mr
Hussam said he spoke with three women between the ages of 19 and 29 who have
allegedly been abused by Isis members. One woman told him she was hospitalised
after a fighter she was forced to marry sexually assaulted her.
He
told The Independent: “Some women say that foreign fighters are the worst, like
monsters. Some of them say they're asking for strange things. They are also
looking to marry young girls”.
He
said fighters will often take more than one wife and search for 'sabaya' –
women who have been kidnapped and sold into sexual slavery.
A
report on the RBSS website states that fear of being attacked and sexually
assaulted are making women scared to leave their homes.
“All
of these factors and circumstances mentioned above have formed a panic and fear
to the girls and women of Raqqa, which the houses became their current
tombs," it reads.
The
report come a month after a 10,000 word manifesto detailing the role of women
in the jihadist group and emphasising their role as wives, mothers and
homemakers was uploaded by the all-female Al-Khanssaa Brigade’s media wing.
The
revealing document is being treated as a more accurate representation of what
is expected of women under the group’s Iraqi and Syrian strongholds.
The
manifesto advocated fighters marrying children as young as nine and women being
allowed to work no more than three days a week.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-in-raqqa-women-subjected-to-brutal-sexual-assaults-after-marrying-militants-10053020.html
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Indonesian
women host Muslim fashion show
20
Feb, 2015
A
fashion show, titled "Muslima Fashion Show and Hijab Tutorial," was
organized by one of well known Indonesian fashion designer Irna Mutiara and
members of Indonesian Women Association to highlight new trends and fashion to
Muslim females.
The
event took place on Sunday at the Gathering Hall of the Indonesian Consul
General’s residence here.
“Hijab
is not merely about fashion, it is more about a reflection of our faith. The
design and styles of Islamic clothing have mushroomed in last few years with
the increasing awareness among the young generation to put on hijab as
obligated by our religion,” said the wife of Indonesian Consul General, Lies
Tresnowati Dharmakirty in her brief welcoming remark.
Comprising
88 percent of the total population, Indonesia is set to become the trendsetter
of the world’s Muslim Wear with fast growing styles.
"Islamic
and modest clothing that is trendy and fashionable has inspired a lot of young
generation in Indonesia. This brings a very lucrative business especially for
those who are interested to pursue a career in Muslim wear business," said
Mutiara.
She
added: "I’ve been consistently striving to come up with modest design but
still look fashionable and trendy, as well as easy and comfortable to wear
according to a particular occasion. I constantly take a journey and explore the
Islamic clothing world to shed some light on the latest trend in Islamic
fashion for Muslim women."
Wives
of the consulate’s staff and female of Indonesian community living here
attended the function.
Elly
Warta Malik, founder of Dar ul Ilm institute of Al-Qur'an and Arabic language
in Jeddah and a member of Indonesian Women Association, highly appreciated the
them of event.
She
said: "Indonesian females in Jeddah have a golden chance to get more
acquainted with the latest trend of Islamic fashion clothing. Whenever people
talk about fashion, their mind jumps to Paris. So my wish is that whenever
people talk about Muslima fashion, their eyes must turn toward Indonesia."
Malik
also said that people wear hijab for many reasons — the call of faith or it may
be because they look more elegant.
"This
event brings DawaH and economic mission, with the mushrooming business of Hijab
fashion, women can explore business opportunities by becoming
entrepreneurs," she said.
The
colorful event showcased a vibrant variety of clothing suitable for Muslim
females.
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