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Four Thought: Huda Jawad

Huda Jawad

20/05/2015

BBC Radio 4 - Four Thought, Huda Jawad

Huda Jawad describes reconciling her deeply held Islamic faith with her feminism.

Huda Jawad describes reconciling her deeply held Islamic faith with her feminism, arguing that the Qur'an does not sanction the oppression of women.

Huda Jawad describes reconciling her deeply-held Islamic faith with her feminism, arguing that the Qur'an does not sanction the oppression of women. 

"I was enraged to hear that Islam was used in the most perverse ways," she says, "to maintain women's vulnerability and persecution and enable the perpetrators, who are usually men, to coerce and control them."

Producer: Sheila Cook.

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