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**Posted by Phineas But don’t you dare say Islam doesn’t respect women: As of last week, Saudi women’s male guardians began receiving text messages on their phones informing them when women under their custody leave the country, even if they are travelling together. Saudi women’s rights activist Manal al-Sherif, who last year urged women to [...]
**Posted by Phineas And here I thought the judges on “Dancing with the Stars” were harsh: Insurgents beheaded 17 civilians in a Taliban-controlled area of southern Afghanistan, apparently because they attended a dance party that flouted the extreme brand of Islam embraced by the militants, officials said Monday. The killings, in a district where U.S. [...]
**Posted by Phineas Can’t have women getting an education; they might get uppity and think they’re men’s equals. In a move that has prompted a demand for a UN investigation by Iran’s most celebrated human rights campaigner, the Nobel laureate Shirin Ebadi, 36 universities have announced that 77 BA and BSc courses in the coming [...]
**Posted by Phineas Last year it was CBS’ Lara Logan, who was sexually assaulted by a gang of hundreds of Egyptian men while covering the anti-Mubarak demonstrations in Tahrir Square. This year, it’s independent journalist Natasha Smith, attacked while she was walking with friends across a bridge during celebrations of the Muslim Brotherhood’s electoral victory: [...]
**Posted by Phineas The Saudi muttawa are the kingdom’s religious police, there to promote virtue and prevent vice — as defined by totalitarian, repressive, misogynistic Sharia law. It’s such a wonderful organization that, in order to preserve the virtue of young girls not properly dressed, they prevented their escape from a burning building, letting them [...]
**Posted by Phineas The Arab Spring is turning into a horror movie: Egypt’s National Council for Women (NCW) has appealed to the Islamist-dominated parliament not to approve two controversial laws on the minimum age of marriage and allowing a husband to have sex with his dead wife within six hours of her death according to [...]
Epic FAIL: Yet another GOP bill forces vaginal penetration on women tiny.cc/rrb4awThey make Sharia law kind of look mild!#waronwomen#p2 #p21 — Kevin Cole (@kcole0) March 13, 2012 Ummmm … HELL NO. Sadly, the talking point about the GOP being “worse than sharia law” is gaining ground, if the #WarOnWomen hashtag at Twitter is any indication. [...]
**Posted by Phineas Bryan Preston, reacting to the Secretary of State’s comparison of Americans opposed to the new HHS contraceptive and abortifacient mandate to Islamic Salafists who force women to live under the tyranny of Sharia law: Wormtongue has nothing on Hillary Clinton.You can see in the video that Clinton knows exactly what she is [...]
**Posted by Phineas We approach the end of 2011 with perhaps the best news headline of the year, courtesy of the UK’s Daily Mail: Saudis fear there will be ‘no more virgins’ and people will turn gay if female drive ban is lifted Repealing a ban on women drivers in Saudi Arabia would result in [...]
**Posted by Phineas A troubled young Muslim woman has questions for her god, presented in the form of a poem: Good for her for using her mind and not accepting blindly what the clerics tell her must be so. Islam desperately needs more like her, if it’s ever to have any hope of reconciling with [...]