[Joanna Lytton-Vasey]

Brother Cranky, that article in the Daily Mail goes further:

Another preacher from Sydney, Umm Jamaal ud-Din, criticised women who choose to pluck their eyebrows. She said it was sinful, or haram, for women to pluck their eyebrows, even if they believed it was hygienic.'What do the girls say? 'I'm just cleaning, I'm not plucking I'm cleaning.' That sounds great, doesn't it? Clean shaven. Sounds great but it's haram. Names of things don't change the reality.'

I always confuse the words haram and harem. All I know is that they are both bad. But it is unusual to see any woman, let alone a Muslim woman, express herself so clearly. And she raises a major problem there, so hats off (or possibly veils down) to her!