Malaysia
Muslim woman sits on a bench at a mosque in Kuala Lumpur. REUTERS/Bazuki Muhammad (MALAYSIA)
Turkey
A university student wearing a headscarf walks past a poster which reads, “We dont want AKP” during a demonstration in Ankara, February 21, 2008, against Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the constitutional amendment allowing women students to wear the Muslim headscarf at university. REUTERS/Umit Bektas (TURKEY)
Dakar, Senegal
A Muslim girl runs along a street lined with buildings from the French colonial era on Goree Island in Dakar May 1, 2009. Senegal’s President Abdoulaye Wade named a new government on Friday, with his son Karim a notable inclusion in the team despite losses in local government elections, which dealt a serious blow to the Wade family. REUTERS/Finbarr O’Reilly (SENEGAL SOCIETY)
Bosnia
A Muslim woman cries as she arrives for a funeral of 34 Bosnian Muslims in the town of Vlasenica in the Serb part of Bosnia April 25, 2009. Those buried were killed by Serb forces during the country’s 1992-95 war and exhumed from mass graves in the area but many more are expected to be found. REUTERS/Damir Sagolj (BOSNIA AND HERZEGOVINA POLITICS CONFLICT IMAGES OF THE DAY)
Morocco
Moroccan women pray on the esplanade of the Hassan II Mosque (ABDELHAK SENNA/AFP/Getty Images)
Michigan, USA
Zainab Theresia Huber (L), a 51-year-old Muslim convert, talks with 21-year-old Sofia Latif, as they wear their Muslim hijabs while at work at a social services agency that services a mostly immigrant clientele in Dearborn, Michigan. Women who cover up for their faith may encounter problems getting some kinds of work outside the Muslim world, particularly jobs requiring them to interact with the public. REUTERS/Rebecca Cook (UNITED STATES)
South Africa
Fagmieda Miller, 34, is from Cape Town, South Africa. The first Muslim in South Africa to reveal her HIV-positive status. An AIDS activist, she is a winner of the Femina Women of Courage award and gives weekly radio advice on HIV/AIDS. I was the first Muslim in South Africa to declare that I was HIV-positive. I am 34 years old. Eight years ago, when I first learnt that I was HIV-positive, I thought I had brought shame upon my family and God had punished me. I prepared myself for death by giving away my stuff.I was referred to a counselor and I learnt that I could live a long time if I took care of myself. Eventually I told my parents. I couldn’t talk because I was crying so much. My father said, This disease comes from God. You shouldn’t think of it as a sin. Don’t turn your back on God. You need him more than ever. It was difficult because there was no support — Image by © Gideon Mendel/CORBIS
Malaysia
A Muslim woman sits in front of the handicraft batik during the National Craft Day at the Craft Complex in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Thursday, March 19, 2009. (AP Photo/Lai Seng Sin)
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