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• Little Green Footballs: Why I Parted Ways With The Right

  
  Newsvine - Killfile's Column - Articles and Seeds — Authority: 485
  1. Support for fascists, both in America (see: Pat Buchanan, Robert Stacy McCain, etc.) and in Europe (see: Vlaams Belang, BNP, SIOE, Pat Buchanan, etc.)
  6 days ago

• Ohio judge says forced Islamic marriage for convert to Christianity is invalid

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  Her father tried to assault her after he learned that she had converted to Christianity. One may hope that Ohio authorities handling the Rifqa Bary case are taking careful note of this case. "Judge: Christians arranged Islamic marriage invalid: Muslim father allegedly assaulted daughter after learning of her ...
  1 week ago

• Sudan: Christian girl gets 50 lashes for wearing "indecent" knee-length skirt

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  The learned analysts have repeatedly assured us that Sharia provisions do not apply to non-Muslims. Sharia Alert: "Christian girl, 16, gets 50 lashes for wearing indecent knee-length skirt in Sudan," from the Daily Mail , November 27 (thanks to Alexandre): A 16-year-old Sudanese girl was lashed 50 times after a ...
  1 week ago

• At least 90% of women in Lebanon have been victims of physical or psychological abuse

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  Christian women in Lebanon ought to have advocates to defend them. Muslim women ought to as well, but it is more difficult for them because of the divine sanction given to wife-beating (Koran 4:34). "Violence Against Women: Lebanon; 90% Victim Of Abuse," from ANSAmed , November 25 (thanks to Insubria): (ANSAmed) - ...
  1 week ago

• Modern, moderate, secular Turkey: 42% of women targets of violence

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  "Men shall take full care of women with the bounties which God has bestowed more abundantly on the former than on the latter, and with what they may spend out of their possessions. And the righteous women are the truly devout ones, who guard the intimacy which God has guarded. And as for those women whose ill-will you ...
  1 week ago

• Hear us roar! Help me find information on womens rights around the world

  
  Ask MetaFilter — Authority: 632
  Where can I find detailed information on how womens rights & access to services vary from nation to nation? Im looking for a compendium or index of the status of women around the world, organized by nation. This database would describe womens rights, status, and access to various services in all the nations of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Joya: End the occupation of my country Afghanistan

  
  Nasir Khan blog — Authority: 142
  By Malalai Joya, CommonDreams.org , Nov 12, 2009 As an Afghan woman who was elected to Parliament, I am in the United States to ask President Barack Obama to immediately end the occupation of my country. Eight years ago, women’s rights were used as one of the excuses to start this war. But today, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Dems to go

  
  Doug's Dynamic Drivel — Authority: 141
  The following Democratic reprehensibles representatives voted in favor of the Stupak-Pitts amendment to the House Affordable Health Care for America Act (H.R. 3962). That amendment threw 52% of the US population under the bus and then ran that bus back and forth over them That is to say, it is a thoroughly ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kansas City: Muslim charged with statutory rape in marriage to 14-year-old girl

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  Speaking of child marriage : "Man charged with statutory rape in marriage to 14-year-old girl," by Christine Vendel for The Kansas City Star , November 8 (thanks to Axel): Vincent Mosby signed a marriage contract and paid a dowry in a religious ceremony in August, police said. Mosby, 23, of Kansas City didnt ...
  3 weeks ago

• Kuwait: Court rules hijab optional for female members of parliament

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  An update on this story . The court decided to uphold the constitution, despite pressure to ignore it in favor of Sharia (which sure seems to be happening in a lot of places lately). Not that this will stop Islamist legislators from harping on the issue in the future. "Court rules hijab optional for MPs," by James ...
  4 weeks ago

• A woman is not a pre-existing condition

  
  Solo Mother — Authority: 127
  The National Women’s Law Center has a powerful campaign to stop discriminatory and harmful practices in health care coverage… practices that label rape and spouse abuse as ‘pre-existing conditions’ and force women to choose between their health and their finances. I posted about the Huffington Post article ...
  4 weeks ago

• Somalia: Islamic supremacists murder Christian woman for refusing to wear veil

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  "Moreover, freedom in America is indivisible from the freedom to practice ones religion. That is why there is a mosque in every state in our union, and over 1,200 mosques within our borders. Thats why the United States government has gone to court to protect the right of women and girls to wear the hijab and to punish ...
  5 weeks ago

• Extremists and Women

  
  MetaFilter — Authority: 737
  "Somalia is in the grip of famine and chaos but officials there are inspecting bras "."..[T]he extremist ideology assumes that humans are a group of wild beasts that are completely incapable of controlling their instincts". In an editorial in The Independent, Alaa Al-Aswany discusses fundamentalist gender bias.
  5 weeks ago

• Selective outrage: Islamic world fuming over German who murdered hijab-wearing woman

  
  Jihad Watch — Authority: 742
  The photo above is from a protest in Istanbul. Note the flag following the coffin, featuring the swastika and the Star of David. What does demonizing Israel have to do with this case? Why, nothing -- but it is all part of the larger jihad against the West. The selectivity of the outrage here is stunning. Alexander ...
  5 weeks ago

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