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 Christina Applegate says she has a clean bill of health after undergoing treatment for breast cancer. I am clear Applegate tells ABC News good Morning America in an interview airing Tuesday and absolutely 100 percent clear and clean. It did not spread. They got everything out so I am definitely not going to die from breast cancer.

 Applegates interview with GMA was taped Monday & the actress publicist Ame Van Iden announced earlier this month that Applegate was being treated for the disease after it was detected through a doctor-ordered MRI. I was so mad she says in the GMA interview when she 1^st heard the news. I was just shaking and then also immediately I had to go into take care of business mode which was I asked them what do I do now? What what is it that I do? I get a doctor I get a surgeon I get an oncologist? What do I do? Applegate 36 says she “immediately made those appointments and immediately called around for someone to start teaching me how to live macrobiotically. She was referring to following a healthy diet of fish grains beans and vegetables, and avoiding processed foods. The actress whose mother battled breast cancer, says she began getting mammograms at the age of 30 applegate is scheduled to appear on a 1 hour TV special stand Up to Cancer to be aired on ABC- CBS & NBC on September 5 to raise funds for cancer research and she has been nominated for an Emmy and a Golden Globe for the ABC show Samantha Who? in which she plays a woman who wakes from a coma with no memory of who she is.

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The status of women in the Arab world is a source of frequent criticism against Islam. Women in the West have fixed their gaze on the polygamy, veils, and other inequalities in Muslim countries and are concerned about the rapid spread of Islam. When Western critics charge that Islam teaches the inferiority of women, Muslims often argue that any disparity between men and women is the result of cultural differences, rather than of Islamic law: The Qur’an enshrined a new status for women and gave them rights that they could have only dreamed of before in Arabia, so why the seeming disparity between what once was and what now appears to be? The answer lies in the deterioration of basic Islamic education that occurred in the Muslim world after the disasters of the Mongol invasions and the Crusades in the eleventh through thirteenth centuries.  Cultures that arose since that time have been characterized by customs and local cultural leanings more than genuine Islamic values.^[1] The treatment of women in the Muslim world, then, is the result of the Crusades and the Mongol invasions. If it weren’t for the Christians and the Mongols, Muslim women would still be enjoying the prominent status given to them by Muhammad. Arab human rights were quite backward, even for the time. Women had precious few rights. A woman became the property of a man upon marriage, and no woman could refuse a match made by her father. Spousal abuse was rampant, with no recourse to any quarter for help. Upon the death of her husband, a woman could be inherited by her son and made her son’s wife. Female infanticide in which newborn baby girls were buried alive in the sand was quite common in a society that considered surplus females a burden. Women had no divorce or well-defined inheritance rights and certainly no political vote. A man could divorce without reason and leave a woman penniless, and there was no limit to the number of wives a man could have, nor rules for how each should be treated. Arabian custom had always dictated that women should take no public role in religious or political activity. The superiority of men over women in all respects was also a widely accepted notion. Muhammad changed that notion by asserting that men and women were equals before God in every sphere.  To examine the record of Muhammad and his mission is to gain a new respect for the improvements he made in the lives of both men and women.^[4] The Qur’an provided women with explicit rights to inheritance, to property, the obligation to testify in a court of law, and the right to divorce. It made explicit prohibitions on the use of violence against female children and women as well as on duress in marriage and community affairs.  Women were equally responsible for ensuring that all religious duties of the individual and society were fulfilled, in terms of punishment for social, criminal and moral infractions.

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