By Western standards, the subjugation of women by Muslim fanatics, and the sometimes pathological Islamist obsession with female sexuality, are unthinkable. Time and again they lead to shocking acts of violence and depravity:Follow the link to read about more women who have experienced the glorious ways of the "Religion of Peace".
In Pakistan, a tribal council ordered a woman to be gang-raped as punishment for her brother's supposed liaison with a woman from another tribe.
In San Francisco, a young Muslim woman was shot dead after she uncovered her hair and put on makeup in order to be a maid of honor at a friend's wedding.
In Tehran, a father beheaded his 7-year-old daughter because he suspected that she had been raped; he said he acted "to defend my honor, fame, and dignity."
In Saudi Arabia, the Islamic police prevented schoolgirls from leaving a burning building because they were not wearing headscarves and abayas; 15 of the girls died in the inferno.
The president of Cairo's Al-Azhar University, a renowned center of Islamic learning, described the proper method of wife-beating in a television interview: "It's not really beating," Sheikh Ahmad Al-Tayyeb explained on Egyptian television. "It's more like punching."
When the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan in 1996, the repression of women was among their first priorities. They issued a decree forbidding women to leave their homes, with the result that work and schooling for women came to a halt, destroying the country's healthcare system, civil service, and elementary education.
"Forty percent of the doctors, half of the government workers, and seven out of 10 teachers were women," Lawrence Wright observed in "The Looming Tower," his Pulitzer Prize-winning history of Al Qaeda. "Under the Taliban, many of them would become beggars."
The author of the article suggests a solution:
All these are only examples - the tip of a dreadful iceberg that will never be demolished until Muslims by the millions rise up against it. As for the rest of us, we too have an obligation to raise our voices. It took a worldwide outcry to spare "Qatif girl" and Nazanin. But there are countless others like them, and our silence may seal their fate.Indeed.
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EVERY NATION WHICH PERMITS THESE BEHAVIORS SHOULD BE SHUNNED BY THE FREE WORLD.
ReplyDeleteWE ENDED SLAVERY; WE CAN END ISLAMO-MISOGYNY, TOO.
AND IT WOULDN'T TAKE A SINGLE BULLET: JUST KICK THEM OUT OF EVERY MULTILATERAL GROUP UNTIL THEY CLEAN UP THEIR ACTS.
THE UN, THE WTO, THE WB, THE IMF, ETC.
I HAVE POSTED ON THIS NUMEROUS TIMES: TAGGED THEM ISLAMO-MISOGYNY