The three-day conference, which was attended by more than 100 Muslim women leaders held in New York over past weekend, has decided to form an International Shura Council of Muslim Women.
The representatives of the conference said that the council intends to become the voice for the rights of women.
The executive director of the New York-based American Society for Muslim Advancement (ASMA), Daisy Khan said,
‘Women’s rights often get debated in the press or they get debated among scholars who are not women. We feel there are many Muslim women who are coming of age who have the scholarly background to be able to step up to the plate to speak authoritatively about it.’
Many members in the group asserted that sharia laws are not divine since men have framed it so it requires change so that women’s right could also be integrated.
