Indeed, it is miserable knowing what the government has done in protecting women's dignity! Though there are statements and actions of rejection from various components of society, Indonesian government still allow and even support the beauty pageants as 2015 Putri Indonesia to take place. The government's support can be seen from the contribution of several Ministers of Working Cabinet who are involved in giving speeches to the pageant's participants. However,…

Kenya has been ranked the sixth poorest country on the continent. These stark findings are contained in the authoritative report of Institute for Security Studies (ISS). The ISS has found that 18.4 million Kenyans live in extreme poverty. With this regard, we Hizb ut Tahrir East Africa wish to expound the following This is not the exact figure rather a conservative one, the fact is that more than half of…

On 11/2/2015 CE the Russian Federal Supreme Court approved the ban on wearing headscarves (Khimar) in schools; thus it would have upheld the decision of the District Court of the Republic of Mordovia, which banned in May 2014 "wearing of headscarves or any religious manifestations in schools." The court did not take into account the argument of the lawyers that the government has no right to such a decision...

On the 29th January 2015, Bangladesh's Social Welfare Minister, Mohsin Ali, speaking as the chief guest at the opening ceremony of a girl's hostel in Moulovibazar, Sylhet, said, "No one can be a college student wearing the burka...Today, Europe looks at those who wear the burqa with disgust and thinks them to be Islamic terrorists....Tomorrow will let us taste where we have brought Islam to in society today".