Six years later, Wevill gassed herself and their daughter Shura in an apparent copycat suicide.
He then served on the Shura Council for the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
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Meanwhile, in Cairo, clashes extended to areas around the Shura Council, the upper house of parliament.
It'll be interesting to see how they'll react to having women on the Shura Council.
We'll have representatives on the Shura Council who can't even go there without a driver.
Some Saudi clerics have criticised allowing women onto the Shura Council, saying it was against Sharia (Islamic law).
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"He just praised Saudi Arabia for appointing 30 women to the unelected Shura council, " she says of Mr. Kerry.
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While women have served in the Majlis al Shura in 2002 and 2005, there are no women presently represented.
As I sat in the Governor's office for a shura, a mini-conference of tribal elders, I heard a distant thump.
Last year, the Shura Council pushed through similar legislation the foundation helped pen protecting the rights of children in abusive situations.
No women are represented in any of the movement's two main power structures -- the Shura Council and the Guidance Bureau.
Without adequate preparation, says Abdel-Mohsin al-Akkas, a member of the majlis al-shura, the country's embryonic parliament, elections would be a leap in the dark.
The upper house, or Shura Council, has been granted temporary legislative powers, until elections for the lower house of parliament are held in two months' time.
"I'm not just talking about the Shura Council, I'm talking about the empowerment of women and their participation in the general affairs of the country, " she said.
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Women's issues can become more salient in Shura Council discussions.
Each unit about to deploy trains its own "guardian angels" - soldiers who stand watch over their comrades, even when they are with their Afghan allies at a meeting, or "shura".
The upper house, or Shura Council, holds legislative powers.
Wankel had attended a shura, or council of local elders, a few days before, to explain the mission, and a small group of local Pashtun policemen were on hand, but the A.E.
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has sworn in 30 women to the previously all-male Shura Council, seen by many as a major step in female participation in public life in the conservative kingdom.
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The elections had been billed as the start of a process leading eventually to the partial election of the majlis al-shura, the advisory council whose 150 members are currently appointed by the king.
She told the BBC that the women on the Shura Council would be "under pressure from conservative elements" within the kingdom, but she was confident they would be more than able to defend themselves.
Its Global Muslim Women's Shura Council of scholars and activists were so compelled by the level of violence against women that they published " Jihad Against Violence, " (PDF) a report that condemns both violent extremism and domestic violence.
So far, women have been accepted into the government's advisory Shura Council, given the right to vote, gained entry into a range of new professions (including engineering and law) and granted permission to have their own IDs without guardian permission.
The administrative court said it had ordered the elections to be suspended because the Islamist-dominated upper house of parliament, the Shura Council, had not returned the electoral law to the Supreme Constitutional Court for final review after amending it in February.
The elder Khan also served as member of Majlis a'Shura (the governing council) of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), which was created by the Muslim Student Association (MSA) in 1977 to promote the Islamist agenda among Muslims and the general population.
The new Sukuk law will be approved on Wednesday by the cabinet before being referred to the Shura Council on the same day, said Ahmed El-Najjar, member of the economic committee at the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP) and advisor to the minister of finance.
The step forward of putting women on the Shura Council, and King Abdullah's promise that women can vote in the 2015 municipal elections, raises the prospect of women holding ministerial posts (Currently, one woman is the deputy minister of education, unlike many other Arab Gulf countries where women now hold ministerial positions).
It strikes me as a bit strange in that until recently the concern about Pakistan from the Pentagon was the exact opposite, in that too much focus has gone to South Waziristan, too much focus has been on TTP, and none of it is the enemies that you have focused -- which is on the Haqqani network and the Quetta Shura Taliban.
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