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Uniform Civil Code will solve 'halala' and other issues affecting Muslim women

dailyexcelsior.com · July 21, 2026

Uniform Civil Code will benefit Muslim women by ending practices like halala (a highly controversial Islamic practice that involves a divorced woman marrying another man, consummating the marriage, and getting divorced so she can legally remarry her first husband after an irrevocable triple talaq) and polygamy.

VIRGINIA: Muslim State Senator pushing for bill that would classify “Islamophobia” as a physical assault crime

Bare Naked Islam · July 21, 2026

This bill is actually a “Blasphemy against Islam” law that would criminalize criticism of Islam as a hate crime, comparable to a physical assault on a Muslim. It would insert a formal definition of “Islamophobia” into Virginia’s existing “assault and battery” statute and require law enforcement to track any Americans who “disrespect Islam” in a […]