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Muslim feminists from around the world this week launched a campaign against sexist interpretations of the Koran. Meeting in Spain, the activists said their “gender jihad” movement would fight not only sexism in the Muslim world but also anti-Muslim bias among Western feminists. They acknowledged that their struggle to ban such practices as polygamy and the stoning to death of women for adultery will be difficult, even dangerous. “I already have a fatwa against me,” Raheel Raza, a Canadian of Pakistani origin, told the London Guardian. “I don’t want to be murdered on the street.”
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