Big, fat, phoney NOW beyotches...

And look who's got their camel toe under the tent. Listen to this sh^%.

A long-legged woman posing playfully in a martini glass. A bikini-clad bottom gyrating for smirking men. A woman in a hijab looking forlorn and oppressed. (ed.note: That's because she IS forlorn and oppressed)

Those images are all too common in American media, according to the National Organization for Women. And it's time they change. How women are portrayed in the media was the focus of several forums at the NOW national convention Friday at the Hyatt Regency in Dearborn.

"It's important to identify our similarities instead of our differences," said Rana Abbas, who helped lead a forum on issues facing Arab-American women.

A Muslim of Lebanese descent, Abbas said that many people assume that reactions in this country to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks mostly affected Arab men. "It's the women who truly have suffered," said Abbas, noting that it is the women who must stay behind and raise the family when husbands are targeted by ethnic profiling and deported.


Like I said - sh^&.

CAIR Helps OH hijab wearing women to get license.

Ooh boy, this got my blood boiling. CAIR Helps OH Muslims Obtain Driver Photos with Hijab

The Cincinnati office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations Ohio chapter (CAIR-Ohio) announced today that two Muslim women in that city were able to have driver's license photographs retaken with their Islamic headscarves, or hijab, after initially being asked to remove the scarves.

CAIR says Ohio Bureau of Motor Vehicles (BMV) employees had insisted that the women remove their headscarves for their driver's license photographs despite regulations requiring an exemption for religious head coverings.

According to a 2004 CAIR study of such policies nationwide, Ohio grants exemptions for 1) wigs or hairpieces if customarily worn by the applicant, 2) a head covering worn for recognized religious purposes, or 3) a head covering worn in conjunction with recognized medical treatments.

Most States Allow Muslim Scarves in Driver Photos

CAIR-Ohio's Cincinnati office contacted the BMV and arranged for the photographs of the two women to be retaken free of charge. BMV authorities also sent a reminder to all deputy registrar offices about the exemption for religious head coverings.

"We thank BMV officials for handling this issue in a timely and professional manner," said Karen Dabdoub, executive director of CAIR-Ohio's Cincinnati office.

CAIR, America's largest Islamic civil liberties and advocacy group, has 33 offices and chapters nationwide and in Canada. Its mission is to enhance the understanding of Islam, encourage dialogue, protect civil liberties, empower American Muslims, and build coalitions that promote justice and mutual understanding.

We are doomed.

Italy: Hitting women is a 'Sicilian-Pakistani" tradition.

No God authorizes a man to hit a woman. Them's fighting words, pardner.

Italy's interior minister Giuliano Amato, a renowned jurist and experienced politician, stunned colleagues across the political spectrum on Wednesday after saying that violence against women is a "Sicilian-Pakistani tradition.""No God authorizes a man to hit a woman," Amato, a leading member of the centre-left government coalition, told a conference on 'Islam and integration' in Rome.

"It is rather a Sicilian-Pakistani tradition which wants us to believe otherwise."In his speech at the conference, the minister - a native of the northern city of Turin, which attracted economic migrant workers from the island of Sicily in the south throughout the last century - stressed that traditions rather than religions are to be blamed on many occasions

.Amato said that up until the 1970s Sicily had traditions that were not very different from the ones imported in Italy by some Muslim immigrants today. "We must avoid blaming on God - the God of Christians and Muslims, who in reality is the same - what should instead be blamed on men," Amato said.

His words however drew the ire of lawmakers, particularly members of the conservative opposition and Sicilian natives."Amato talks carelessly. He should immediately apologize to Sicilians or I will sue him," said ex equal opportunities minister Stefania Prestigiano, a member of the largest opposition party Forza Italia and a Sicilian.

The Pakistanis couldn't be reached. They were too busy building a car bomb with the Minister's name on it.

Khamenei speaks: Women - don't play with sharia law

you'll get lashed.

Activists should not try to change Islamic laws relating to women's rights, Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday, two days after one campaigner was reportedly sentenced to 34 months in jail and ten lashes.

Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, also lambasted the West for using women as a tool to advertise products, make money and to satisfy "disorderly and unlawful sexual needs," state television said.

He was addressing a group of women, most dressed conservatively in head-to-toe black chadors, in Tehran ahead of Thursday's anniversary of the birth of Prophet Mohammad's daughter, Fatima, when Iran honors mothers and women.

The Islamic Republic rejects allegations it is discriminating against women, saying it follows sharia law.

(Sharia law = The official handbook of the 'He-man-woman-hater's-club also known as Islam'.)

More on Delaram Ali, the protestor who is going to feel Khamenei's lash.

India: Baby girl survives being buried alive...

"Oh, poor thing," I'm sure you're thinking. "It must have occurred in a natural catastrophe or accident of some kind. .."

Wrong.

She was buried by her grandfather, Abdul Rahman, who said he "couldn't afford to marry off his four daughters, much less another granddaughter." There was no word on the role of the mother.

Think he's Muslim? We'll never know from the article which goes on to cite the "rural nature' of female infanticide and foeticide.

The hijab is the 'flag of Islam", represents Muslim life, scorn of Western Civ

Iran: Majlis Speaker says Iran defies West on women rights

Oh God. Just read it all - it's making my head spin but this neatly sums up why the hijab should be banned IMO:

"... the hijab (Islamic dress) is the “flag of Islam” and represents “Muslim life” and any woman who wears hijab it means that she has scorned Western way of life."

Just more women's rights Iranian style.

UK: Another honor killing?

Sana Ali: Before

Sana Ali: After

Saudi Arabia: Young Men Not Allowed

"And it's the young women who are to blame"

This is a sign that proudly hangs at the entrances of supermarkets and shopping malls across Riyadh, and is directed at all men above the age of 16. It is an annoying sign for many, especially since in some parts of the Kingdom this rule is not adhered to.

Many youngsters are fed up and are calling on security guards and the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice to give them a break. One high school student told Arab News: “This is something we see wherever we go. Is this rule only applied to Riyadh? In Jeddah and the whole of the Eastern Province the situation is quite different.”

Speaking about the situation in Jeddah, he said: “Youngsters in Jeddah are free to go anywhere. Why is that? Are we all bad in Riyadh? Why is it that all Saudi young men in Riyadh are punished because of the wrongdoings of a few?”

The youngster, who did not want to be named, said the situation was unfair. “We feel wronged because women are the source of problems and can go anywhere they want wearing fashionable clothes under their abayas. They wear provocative clothes and the only people who are punished are the ones who bother them. Young women are to blame,” he said.

More emasculated, frustrated, complaining Sons of Allah at the link.

Saudi Arabia: No more Hanky Panky in the Bank

Saudi Arabia to separate men and women in Bank HQs

Saudi authorities have ordered banks to separate female and male workers at their headquarters in a new setback for women's rights in the conservative kingdom. Banks are one of the main employers of women in Saudi Arabia. Though women are already separated from male employees in branches, they have up to now worked together in bank headquarters. Under the new system, women employees in bank headquarters could now be obliged to work on separate floors and use different lifts, entrances and canteens from men.

Meanwhile a law has been passed in Kuwait that restricts women from working between the hours of 10 pm and 7 am and bars them from 'arduous and dangerous' jobs. Oh, and jobs where they provide services to men only.

Ridiculous.

Why I hate the hijab and all it symbolizes.

The reason? Just read the words of this so called American Muslima in:

Stars, stripes and the crescent: the foundations

In her university which has tens of thousands of students enrolled, Naiyerah Kolkailah is the only girl one can see wearing a hijab. A very distinctive trait, one can easily point her out in the crowd. When I was interviewing Naiyerah for this article, I asked her, how does it feel to be the only person in hijab on the university campus? She replied "Its constant dawah".

(Dawah = the call, or the summons. Often used in the context of preaching.)

Let's start here: Hijab defines her as a Muslim. Period. End of story. America? Feh. She pretty much spits on her.

Everything else, whether it’s being of Egyptian decent, an American, or Californian, is all secondary to her. She doesn't associate herself with any culture or tradition, her association is only to Islam and her loyalty only to the Almighty. She thinks of herself as an activist, an activist in hijab. When she is involved in community work, whether it’s feeding the homeless or volunteering in a health fair, her hijab is a constant reminder to people around her that she is a Muslim. She says it’s a non-stop representation of Islam.

Hijab: Putting yourself out there for Allah.
They put themselves out there even though the reaction to a girl in hijab is not the best in the world. Even after facing problems because of their decision to wear their hijab, both girls, keep it on, not because it makes a political or social statement, but because it is an order from Allah. The socio-political statement is just a healthy by product of following the commandment of Allah.

She knows her rights and feels she is breaking "the cultural chain"
She knows her rights, and unlike the rest of the women in society, she does not have to demand them. Her rights have already been given to her by Islam. She understands the boundaries of her religion, and at the same time is not scared to break down the taboos created by cultures. Breaking cultural chains is one of the biggest boons of the American Society. With the assimilation of different cultures, education and the search for a Muslim identity, she has discovered herself to be just a Muslim.

And therein lies the first problem. She pledges no allegiance to America.

Here is the second problem. She is also the sixth pillar of Islam:

It is no exaggeration to call the Muslimah “the foundation” of Islam in America. She is the one who teaches her children to become the pillars who will support this mighty cause. She is the leader, she is the scholar, she is the teacher, she is the mother, and she is the foundation. A foundation that is based on the Quran and Sunnah alone, and is not corrupted to a harmful extent by the clout of culture. She is brave, strong, has a clear vision and is not scared to take the leap for the cause of Allah.

They are the American Muslimahs, the foundation of Islam in Modern America. I salute them! Would you not?

No, I would deport them. Serious.

Philadelphia: Police can ban hijab

Although the Inquirer refers to it as "religious garb" in its headline. (FYI- the hijabettes are thick on the ground down in Philly.)

A Philadelphia police officer has no right to wear a head covering as required by her Muslim faith when she is in uniform, a federal judge ruled yesterday. The Police Department's uniform code "has a compelling public purpose," Judge Harvey Bartle III wrote in deciding against Kimberlie Webb, an officer since 1995.

In writing the opinion on the case the judge cited the department's uniform code, known as Directive 78, which maintains "religious neutrality" and the ruling overturns a 2003 EEOC finding that the department had "violated Webb's rights in barring her from wearing a hijab/khimar.

The police cited safety concerns, arguing that Webb could have been hurt or restrained by someone grabbing at her hijab. (I think that's one of the reason Muslim men are all for their wimmen folk wearing the things!)

It is not known if Webb will appeal the ruling. I'm betting she will...

Afghan woman radio boss shot dead.

Where's the outrage? From the Beeb.

Zakia Zaki was shot seven times, including in the chest and head, as she slept with her 20-month-old son at her home north of Kabul, officials say. The governor of Parvan province, where the attack took place, told the BBC he did not know who killed her. No one has admitted carrying out the attack.

Her murder came just days after a woman newsreader was killed for reasons which were described as "family-related". (see below for details of her HONOR KILLING)

The Parvan governor, Abdul Jabbar Taqwa, visited the scene of the killing in the town of Jabal as Siraj, about 70km (40 miles) north of the capital. He said the attackers were three men armed with pistols and rifles, who broke into Ms Zaki's house and got into the bedroom.

The killing comes six days after the shooting dead of another Afghan woman working in journalism, a 22-year-old newsreader from a private television station, Shokiba Sanga Amaaj. According to senior police sources in Kabul, her father has blamed two male relatives and one person has been arrested.

There's more about this brave woman's career at the link.

Latest Islamic Whinefest - airbrushed hijabs

Teachers 'lack understanding' and 'demoralising' practice. Wah-wah-wah! I love this!

Muslim hijab 'airbrushed out of school photo'

A VICTORIAN Muslim schoolgirl had her traditional headscarf airbrushed from a class photograph in just one example of the discrimination Islamic students face, a parliamentary inquiry has heard.

While the majority of Victorian schools support students who wear the headwear, some teachers needed more understanding of Islam, the inquiry into Dress Codes and School Uniforms heard today.

The Islamic Council of Victoria is urging the inquiry to continue to allow Muslim students to wear traditional religious items as a "fundamental right" to freedom of religious observance.

More at the link here.

Hillary Clinton refused to divorce Bill when he wanted out

Stand by your man.
There are worse things than infidelity.

The pain of being Hillary

Clintons planned for Eight Years Each.
Clinton campaign braces for two books.

Questions in Iowa?

Clinton marriage threatened by one woman

Unflattering books cause hardly a ripple

Hah-hah! That last one was from WaPo.

We report, you decide.

Update: Is this the real reason Hillary is standing by her man?

The most expensive ex-president ever!

Iran: Media told not to criticize Fashion Police

or show pics or videos...

As controversial pictures and video clips of the police’s treatment of "inappropriately dressed" women are circulating on the worldwide web, the National Security Office forwarded a letter to newspapers asking them to refrain from criticizing any aspects of the so-called plan to increase public security.

From now on, newspapers and publications will be unable to criticize the various aspects of a plan that has already generated much controversy by pitting police officers against women in crowded streets of Tehran.

In the past few days, several video clips taken by mobile phones have been circulating around the web: one is depicting a women being dragged on the ground by the police, another is of a woman getting kicked by officers, and a third shows a woman with a bloody face, following clashes with police officers at Haft Tir Square in Tehran.

Such pictures and videos have been circulating widely on the web, and are available at popular website such as YouTube and highly-visited personal blogs. The BBC reporter in Tehran, Francess Harisson, began one of his latest reports by showing one such clip.

More detail on the attacks at the Rooz link.

The Mullahs speak about the female condition

Iranian Mullah Hot-to-trot Hassani: If his wife's a donkey, I guess that makes him an ass.

From Gateway Pundit: What do women and mass transit have in common?

Quite a lot, according to Iranian Mullah Hojatolislam Hassani. In last Friday's sermon about the crackdown on Iranian Fashion Victims, the Islamic hardliner divided women into three groups--

The first group... he said are the women who are badly veiled who are like buses who everyone and anyone can ride.

The second group... are women who are wearing scarves without the Islamic overcoats; they are like taxis who only pick up certain passengers.

And finally, in the third group... there are women like my wife who are like donkeys who let only one person ride them!

Bonus fatwa: Breast feeding among adult co-workers okay.

Ezzat Attiya had issued a fatwa, or religious edict, saying adult men could breast-feed from female work colleagues as a way to avoid breaking Islamic rules that forbid men and women from being alone together.

In Islamic tradition, breast-feeding establishes a degree of maternal relation, even if a woman nurses a child who is not biologically hers. It means the child could not marry the nursing woman’s biological children.

Attiya - the head of Al-Azhar’s Department of Hadith, or teachings of the Prophet Muhammad - insisted the same would apply with adults. He argued that if a man nursed from a co-worker, it would establish a family bond between them and allow the two to work side-by-side without raising suspicion of an illicit sexual relation.

Sorry, boys. Before you go rushing off to the break room - he has since recanted.

Driving Miss Fatimah

Parents to blame for girls getting involved with drivers

In households where menfolk are often too busy to drive the women of the house around, having drivers is a necessity and also a luxury. However, many women, including young girls, are increasingly becoming sexually involved with their drivers.

Some people blame women for the problem, others blame drivers who are usually low-paid workers living single in the Kingdom for long periods at a time. However, the fault really lies with husbands and parents who put their wives and daughters in situations that are sure to lead to illicit sexual relationship.

According to social scientist Nura Abdullah Al-Hawshan, there is an increasing number of such women who are living in care centers. “There are many such women. I feel sorry for them and we try providing them with support in whichever way we can. Al-Hawshan believes that the majority of girls who fall into such relationships are naive and very young. “They are not properly supervised by their parents. The parents trust them too much and this is what leads to these problems,” she said.

“It is time to reconsider whether it would be a good idea to allow women to drive in the Kingdom and stop the need for drivers. People are looking at this issue from a narrow perspective,” said Al-Hawshan, adding that women can drive with their veils as is the case with many Muslim women in the West.

More Saudi Girls Gone Bad at the link.

Iranian Fashion Victims: 150,000 arrested. 100 to stand trial.

IRAN: 100 WOMEN TO STAND TRIAL OVER NEW DRESS RULES
An Iranian judiciary spokesman said Wednesday that 100 women have been ordered to stand trial after the first week of a moralisation campaign imposing stricter Islamic dress code rules. Alireza Jamshidi said the women were charged with breaking the law on the veil and instigating prostitution with their dress style. Jamshidi added that thousands of others stopped by police on the street over the past week for failing to respect the Islamic dress code would not be tried because "they were not covered by the veil properly, but not in an evident matter and not intentionally."

Iranian authorities said last Friday they had arrested 150,000 women for breaking dress codes in the first week since the new rules were implemented.Under the new regulations, women found guilty of infringing Islamic dress rules can be sentenced to jail.

More local color on the situation from Persian Journal. It states that 13 are being held for trial not 100 - but is dated a few days ago:
Iran president manages to connect gooz-be-shaqiqe, "again"


P.S. I'm still trying to find out what gooz-be-shaqiqe means.

Divorce: Arabian Style

High Divorce Rates Alarm Gulf States.

Yet to attain the heights of industrialized countries, divorce rates have been climbing in every Arab Gulf state. In Saudi Arabia, a divorce rate of some 20 percent was reported in the last couple of years. Translated into real numbers, this means that 33 Saudi women get divorced daily. The high court in Jeddah reported last year divorce rates in the Red Sea city had jumped by 60 percent over the previous two years while it reached 39 percent in the capital Riyadh. In a symposium held late last year in Kuwait, a study presented by Dr. Abdulaziz Alahmed estimates the divorce rate in Kuwait at over 25% while in Qatar at 38%. In the UAE, the rate amounted to 46%. The statistics have created intense debates over the issue with experts cite many reasons for the staggering figures which alarmed local government officials and religious leaders.

Those newfangled career gals...
The rapid technological development the GCC states witnessed in the past decades is one of the major reasons for the rise in divorce rates, according to social experts. The "oil boom" gave a boost to women's education, but this has not been accompanied by a parallel change in traditions and attitudes. Thus, many men, experts claim, don't know how to cope with educated women.

The most telling paragraph at all...
Experts also claim that the strict rules segregating the sexes are blocking the couples from creating "normal" relations after they get married. In a conservative country like Saudi Arabia couples simply can't go out before they get married, and some don't see their spouses until their wedding night. Even after they get married, it is difficult for couples to go out together.

I wonder if they get my favorite soap, The Young and The Restless?
In a recent seminar held in Riyadh, many specialists claimed the proliferation of TV shows which do not reflect traditional and local values as a principle culprit. One study even indicated that 78 percent of Saudi youth rely on mass media for their sex education.

The second most telling paragraph. New fatwas from the He-Man-Woman-Haters-Club.:
Other types of marriages with less economic responsibilities for the husbands also damaged the tradition. Among these are “summer marriages” and “Mesyar marriage” whereby they relieve men of financial responsibilities and other obligations, including having to reveal them to family or other wives. The popularity of these arrangments have grown in the Gulf after new fatwas (Islamic edicts) supported them.

As things seem at this stage, it is likely to assume that divorce rate in the Gulf region will continue to rise unless authorities take serious steps to curb it.

Look for a rash of honor killings, stonings, floggings and hangings.

What DOES give with Western Feminists?

Dymphna of The Gates of Vienna has a new piece up at The Global Politician today and boy oh boy, she packs a wallop with it.

What gives with Western feminism? Families of Muslim women rape, torture, behead, crucify, and hang them in public squares - all because they have committted the truly mortal sin of being female - yet the silence here on the behalf of these victims is deafening.

Compared to the suffering of their Islamic sisters, the indignant chatter about 'oppression' emanating from women in the West is obscene.

Feminists in the U.S. claim that girls in school do less well than boys, and this happens because "America today is a girl-destroying place. Everywhere girls are encouraged to sacrifice their true selves...girls come of age in a misogynistic culture in which men have most of the political and economic power, and girls sense their lack of power." Misogynistic? Girl-destroying? Is America, the destroying place for girls, a recognizable country?

For contrast, try these cautionary tales:
In Sudan women who refuse to convert to Islam from Christianity are gang-raped, their breasts are cut off. Then they are left to die.

In Pakistan laws are structurally biased against women, especially since the advent of the Hadood Ordinances in 1979. Now when coerced sexual assaults cannot be proved, the victim becomes an offender, one who enjoyed illicit sexual activity. She is therefore liable to punishment. Safia Bibi, a blind eighteen year old was raped, subsequently becoming pregnant. Since there was insufficient evidence to prove rape ("sufficient" evidence being eye-witness testimony of four adult Muslim men), the pregnancy itself was evidence of her immoral behavior. Thus she was sentenced to three years in jail and fifteen lashes for having sex outside marriage.

In Yemen on learning that his daughter had eloped with a man from another clan, a father gathered sons, brothers, uncles and cousins, and headed a convoy of twenty cars to storm the bride's new home. Upon retrieving her, she was thrown into one of the cars. As the convoy returned, and reached the edge of her village, her father hurled her to the asphalt and had every car drive over her.

In Jordan, a man received a six-month prison term for stabbing his younger divorced sister thirty times. The murder, termed a misdemeanor by the tribunal, was minimized because the father of both brother and sister dropped charges against his son. The defendant was also sentenced to one week for intoxication and to two months for carrying a knife.

In Palestine a sixteen year-old was raped by her younger brother. Once her pregnant condition became known in the wider community it fell to her older brother to kill her in order to avenge the family honor. "She made a mistake," said one of her male cousins. "She had to pay for it."

Ah, the absolute power of Muslim women, holding Islamic men by the short hairs; indeed the old Arab saying is true: "a man's honor lies between a woman's legs."