During such debate, any draft law is subject to discussion and amendment by the Shura Council.
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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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.
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.
However, a Hamas official said the party's governing Shura council re-elected him for another four years at a meeting in the Egyptian capital Cairo late on Monday.
"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.
The upper house, or Shura Council, holds legislative powers.
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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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.
The last elections saw the Muslim Brotherhood's political wing, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), win 43% of the seats in the lower house, the People's Assembly, and 59% of the seats in the Shura Council.
The first decree also stated that special seating would be allocated for women inside the Shura Council building, and that a special entrance and exit would be built to ensure segregation of male and female members.
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 attorney general added, "Al-Arian is not only the leader of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad in North America, but he also served as the Secretary of the 'Shura Council' -- the worldwide governing group of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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.
You also derided our attempts to combat the spread of extremism within our country and suggested that a draft counter-terrorism law, currently under discussion by the Shura Council (Consultative Council), could be used for purposes other than those for which it is being enacted.
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.
Among the radicals was Sami Al-Arian, the former University of South Florida professor whom the FBI arrested earlier this year under a 50-count terrorism and racketeering indictment alleging that he was Secretary of the "Shura Council" or worldwide governing body of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad.
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).
And when Brotherhood Shura governing council member and Physicians Union leader Abdel Moneim Aboul Fotouh announced last month that he is running for president, the Brotherhood quickly denied that he is the movement's candidate.
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.
He is also said to be a member of the Taliban's Quetta Shura, or leadership council, which is the movement's top decision-making body.
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