Mariam Khan

Because women in such unregistered marriages cannot get a legal divorce, if the husband refuses to give an Islamic divorce, they are referred to as ‘chained women’.

The deplorable campaign by FEMEN, a group that called for an ‘International Topless Jihad’ day by bearing their breasts outside mosques across Europe in 2013 to supposedly ‘free’ Muslim women, was an example of women’s rights and demands being mobilized as part of the sustained attack against the Muslim community.