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A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye.
Sheikh [...]
Woman beat, threatened by ‘modesty squad’
Jerusalem woman who left ultra-Orthodox life after her divorce gagged, beaten by group of self-proclaimed ‘chastity guards’
Aviad Glickman
A 31-year-old Jerusalem woman was cruelly beaten and threatened with death by members of the ‘modesty squad’ who took it upon themselves to interrogate her about her relationships with men, an indictment filed [...]
In last week’s New York Times there is a great article about the movement gaining momentum in Egypt to end the brutal and senseless practice of female genital mutilation (a.k.a. circumcision). However, it is important to say that circumcision is an inaccurate term for it. Female genital mutilation is the preferred and more accurate [...]
One more brain fart by Saudi Mutaween:
Saudi Arabian religious police call for sex-segregated sidewalks - Saudi Arabia’s religious police are insisting that authorities of Medina, one of Islam’s holiest cities, should build separate sidewalks for women, the Kuwaiti Al-Qabas newspaper said Friday.
The country’s Committee for the Propagation of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (CPVPV), [...]
I’m not going to compare religions here, everyone has his own sh*t.
Have you heard of “Israel’s modesty buses”? In case you didn’t, this is not a good story for those who care about women’s right.
When on the bus, I tried to buck the system, moving my way towards the driver but was pushed back towards [...]
[Cross posted at Daily Kos]
[Image by Carlos Latuff]
In a not-so-surprising newsreport, the Palestinian Independent Commission for Citizens Rights (PICCR) reported that Israeli occupation soldiers forced 68 pregnant women to give birth on road blocks after barring them from crossing as they were being transferred to hospitals and medical centers.
Quoting Saed Bannoura’s report on IMEMC:
http://imemc.org/article/47767
Also, the [...]
The following is an abbreviated translation from some of the Arabic-language blogs. It was initially published at Global Voices…
Summer holidays, women rights, war in Iraq and war in Palestine. These are some of the permanent scene in the Arabic language blogsphere these days. Here is some of what few bloggers said:
The daily life of a [...]
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