Muslim women have endured too much violence, and they are speaking out against it, said Wilson Center Fellow Margot Badran, reporting from an international conference in Kuala Lumpur. The conference, held by the Women's Islamic Initiative in Spirituality and Equality (WISE), is centered on speaking out against violent extremism and domestic violence.
"Muslim women have seen enough, and they are fed up and fighting back," Badran said. "They are showing that religion cannot be bent to serve violent ends."
The movement, which includes WISE's Jihad against Violence campaign, condemns violence in all its forms--political and personal--and demonstrates that violence is anathema to the Qu'ran and the Sunna, Badran said.
"This is a part of a new 'hermeneutic activism' that Muslim women are engaged in to rid families, societies, and their own lives of the continuum of violence from violent extremism to domestic violence."
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