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THE brilliant speech by Zainah Anwar at the 4th Raja Aziz Addrus Memorial Lecture is a very inspiring reminder of the hard struggle facing women in Malaysia and other Muslim countries in their desire for justice in Islam.

Despite decades of advocacy, Muslim women are still facing strong resistance from the religious authority for the changes that will give them the same

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