{"id":85891,"date":"2013-05-05T22:52:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:22:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=85891"},"modified":"2013-05-05T23:09:48","modified_gmt":"2013-05-05T17:39:48","slug":"what-muslims-around-the-world-think-about-womens-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/what-muslims-around-the-world-think-about-womens-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"What Muslims Around The World Think About Women&#8217;s Rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Insights from the massive <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?s=Pew&amp;x=9&amp;y=5\">Pew survey<\/a><\/span> of adherents of the world&#8217;s second-largest religion.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We often talk about &#8220;the Islamic world,&#8221; or the &#8220;Muslim community,&#8221; but sometimes it takes being smacked with an enormous, amazing data dump to remind us that Muslims are actually an incredibly diverse group &#8212; if you can call them a group &#8212; who adhere to views that are informed by their cultural and political context as much as their religion.<\/p>\n<p>For their mammoth new study about the world&#8217;s Muslims, the\u00a0<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewforum.org\/Muslim\/the-worlds-muslims-religion-politics-society-women-in-society.aspx\">Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>interviewed more than 38,000 Muslims in 39 countries on topics ranging from morality, to politics and justice, and the relationships between the sexes.<\/p>\n<p>Read <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/international\/archive\/2013\/05\/what-muslims-around-the-world-think-about-womens-rights-in-charts\/275450\/\">more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/what-muslims-around-the-world-think-about-womens-rights\/muslim-women-banner\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-85892\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-85892\" title=\"muslim-women-banner\" src=\"http:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/muslim-women-banner.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"650\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/muslim-women-banner.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/muslim-women-banner-300x153.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":85892,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,3402],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-editors-choice"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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