Islam versus Women

What’s missing from this picture? Egypt’s first “democratic” election. The Muslim Brotherhood Party candidate is the winner. No matter which party won, women are still the losers. By the way: Islam Sucks. “Until you do right by women, everything you even think about is gonna fail” — with apologies to Celie, The Color Purple, Alice [...]

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Afghan women leave the country in fear of Taliban return Tracy McVeigh, The Observer, Sat 26 May 2012 A brain drain of bright young women is already taking place in Afghanistan before the 2014 handover that many fear will mean a reversal of advances in women’s rights. The lack of commitment by the Afghan government [...]

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As much as I dislike Kansas, and hate to quote anything from FOX, I have to agree here. The liberal spinmeisters are insisting that using US laws will mess with Muslim wills, loans, and business deals. Not surprisingly, they fail to mention the status and treatment of women under Sharia Law, because, well, you know, [...]

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The attack was captured on video. Warning: it is VERY disturbing. From the Atlantic: “there is something especially barbaric about this photo. The taboo of violence against unarmed women is unusually strong in the Arab world. But to watch three soldiers beat a defenseless woman with batons, their fists, and for one extraordinarily cruel soldier [...]

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Coming to a neighborhood near you?? “Islamic extremists have launched a poster campaign across the UK proclaiming areas where Sharia law enforcement zones have been set up. Communities have been bombarded with the posters, which read: ‘You are entering a Sharia-controlled zone – Islamic rules enforced.’ The bright yellow messages daubed on bus stops and [...]

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Saudi women defy ban to take driver’s seat Several women drive around in kingdom in open defiance of rule that prohibits them from driving. A number of Saudi women have defied a ban on driving by getting behind the wheel in the conservative kingdom. Friday’s show of defiance came in response to calls on social [...]

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From Nicholas Kristof, who has been in Cairo for the last week: “Today President Mubarak seems to have decided to crack down on the democracy movement, using not police or army troops but rather mobs of hoodlums and thugs. I’ve been spending hours on Tahrir today, and it is absurd to think of this as [...]

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Two pieces of news today remind us all of the true AWESOMENESS of the “religion of peace.” First, of course, is the arrest of the alleged Times Square car bomber ,Pakistani-American Fasial Shahzad, just seconds before his getaway plane to Pakistan was about to take off. Shahzad apparently was a mild-mannered and quiet neighbor in [...]

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“PARIS—A French parliamentary panel will recommend a ban on face-covering Muslim veils in public areas from hospitals to schools but will stop short of pressing for the garb to be outlawed in the street, the panel’s president says. The 32-member panel’s report due Tuesday culminates a six-month inquiry into the wearing of all-encompassing veils that [...]

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