women

It is often assumed that domestic violence is permissible in Islam. While it may be a problem in the Muslim community as much as it is in other faiths, it is by no means allowed in Islam.

Here are a series of disturbing statistics from various sources about the plague of domestic violence that continues to make millions of women, children and men suffer in America.

"Domestic violence does not affect many people" or "Battering is only a momentary loss of temper". These are myths that need to be cleared. Here is a list of  facts that we may be unaware of.

Rape was a war crime long before the United Nations ever declared it to be so in December 1993. The horrifying reports from Bosnia war were the impetus for the call to declare rape a war crime.

I walked down the street in my long white dress and inch-long, black hair one afternoon, and truck drivers whistled and shouted obscenities at me.

I felt defeated. I had just stepped out of a hair salon. I had cut my hair short, telling the hairdresser to trim it as she would a guy's.

A speech by Debra Dirks given in Salt Lake City, Utah, on March 1, 2003 to a group of women converts to Islam and their non Muslim mothers.

The harrowing health statistics don't factor in the psychological and emotional difficulties of just trying to survive in Iraq. Women have dealt with the fallout with strength and perseverance.