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		<title>Hatred of Women on the March in Iran</title>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/iran_female_ninjas.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-247600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/iran_female_ninjas-392x350.jpg" alt="iran_female_ninjas" width="320" height="286" /></a>The hatred, misogyny and injustice against Iranian women has continued to ratchet up under the office of the so-called moderate president of Iran, Hassan Rouhani.</p>
<p>After a series of acid attacks against young women in the city of Esfahan, the Iranian parliament (Majlis) has passed a new bill, which would <a href="http://archive.radiozamaneh.com/english/content/basij-forces-given-go-ahead-enforce-hijab-compliance"><span style="color: #0433ff;">allow</span></a> Basij, the governmental volunteer militia, to go around in the streets and give verbal warning to those Iranian women who do not comply with the government’s Islamic dress code.</p>
<p>More recently, stabbing women has become another sign of increased violence. A suspect was recently arrested for stabbing six women in city of Fars in Iran, reportedly for wearing an improper hijab. One of the women was stabbed in the stomach. According to <a href="http://sahamnews.org/1393/09/271250/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Saham News</span></a>, the suspect is the son of a Basij Commander from the village of Ghotbabad.</p>
<p>The Basij, which is supervised by the Islamic Republic’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, intervenes in the day to day activities of ordinary people, spying on individuals, and attempting to impose the ideological and Islamist doctrine of the Iranian government.</p>
<p>When I used to live in Iran, I, like many Iranian people, witnessed how young girls would be dragged into police cars by the moral police for not complying with the government’s religious dress code. Showing some strands of hair or some part of the body in public can lead to arrest, imprisonment, and fines.</p>
<p><b>The Vigilante Law to Impose Hijab and Dress Code</b></p>
<p>Under the presidency of Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian parliament has also <a href="http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/10/sotoudeh-on-acid-attacks/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">introduced</span></a> a bill referred to as the “Plan to Promote Virtue and Prevent Vice.”  Apparently, all of these human rights abuses and discrimination against women are part of promoting virtue in the perception of the ruling clerics in power.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, what is crucial to point out is that discrimination against Iranian women and the egregious human rights abuses against them are at the core of the cleric political power. In other words, these human rights abuses &#8212; such as restricting women’s freedoms, imposing the hijab on them, encouraging them to stay at home and raise children, forbidding them from participating in sports or even watching some sports events such as volleyball &#8212; are cemented in the state’s institutional structure as well as in the Islamic Republic’s constitution.</p>
<p>Secondly, women are being utilized as a crucial tool and platform to define the country as Islamic. Imposing dress codes and the hijab on women gives the clerical political institution unique character ideologically.  Walking in public and watching millions of women across the country being forced to wear the hijab and cover their hair strengthens the image of the country as being Islamic.  It also makes it stands out immediately in comparison to other Muslim countries, and it significantly ratchets up the ideological foundation and Shiite agenda of the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>Third, forcing women to comply with a dress code is the manifestation of the state’s power. Technically, this is referred to as biopower of the state, which is applied in order to homogenize the population, immediately find those who dissent, make women compliant, subservient, and remind women everyday that the state is in power of even their basic activities such as wearing clothes, listening to music, and watching sports. As Michel Foucault <a href="http://www.generation-online.org/p/fp_foucault14.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">states</span></a>, biopower is a political strategy. “By this I mean a number of phenomena that seem to me to be quite significant, namely, the set of mechanisms through which the basic biological features of the human species became the object of a political strategy, of a general strategy of power.”</p>
<p>Fourth, marginalization of Iranian women by the state and depriving them of their basic and fundamental rights is a method to treat almost half of the population as second-class citizens.  Subduing women, repressing them, and ensuring that women are controlled by their male guardians and state apparatuses, promotes the patriarchal character of the system.</p>
<p>Fifth, the increasing misogynistic laws and hatred against Iranian women will continue whether the president of the Islamic Republic is a reformist, moderate, hardliner, etc. This is due to the fact, all Iranian presidents believe in the fundamental institution of the Islamic Republic and they totally accept the superiority of the Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.</p>
<p>Nevertheless, misogyny and hatred against women has not halted courageous and brave Iranian women from fighting inequality and the repression against them. Several female leaders and formidable women&#8217;s movements in Iran continue to resist the repressive apparatuses even though they face imprisonment, execution, and torture. Their efforts have produced powerful women such as Shirin Ebadi, the Noble Prize Laureate, and Maryam Rajavi, the human rights and political activist, and the president of the National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI).</p>
<p>As the repression against women continue in the Islamic Republic, their resistance grows deeper, and their stance firmer. Our responsibility is to chart efficient approaches in order to give a voice to these women and assist them in their struggle for combating extremism carried out under the name of religion, the ruling cleric&#8217;s version and the manipulation of Shia Islam.</p>
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		<title>Lifting the Veil &#8212; on The Glazov Gang</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2014 05:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Scholar of Islam I.Q. Al-Rassooli reveals the true faces of Muhammad and Islam.]]></description>
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<p>This week&#8217;s <em>Glazov Gang</em> was joined by <strong>I.Q. Al-Rassooli,</strong> a scholar of Islam who was born in Iraq. He is the author of the trilogy, “<a href="http://www.amazon.com/Lifting-Veil-Faces-Muhammad-Islam/dp/1434392023"><em>Lifting the Veil: The True Faces of Muhammad and Islam</em></a>.” The book is based on his YouTube series, &#8220;<em>Idiot’s Guide to Islam</em>.&#8221;</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Mr. Al-Rassooli joined the show to discuss <strong>Lifting the Veil</strong>, analyzing the true faces of Muhammad and Islam. The discussion occurred within the context of Mr. Al-Rassooli&#8217;s focus on the question: “<strong>Is Allah the Same as the God of the Bible?</strong>”</p>
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		<title>Throwing Off the Veil</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2014 04:45:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Facebook campaign demands fashion freedom for Iranian women.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/vl.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-236226" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/vl-450x270.jpg" alt="vl" width="303" height="182" /></a>Women in Iran are throwing off their veils, otherwise known as hijabs. Women in Iran have been forced by law to wear the hijab (headscarf) ever since the Islamic Revolution of 1979. Indeed, going without the hijab is punishable by 70 lashes or 60 days in prison. Yet, led by a Facebook campaign titled “My Stealthy Freedom”, some Iranian women are daring to post public photographs of themselves veil-less with hair showing, in violation of Iran’s laws and in protest against Sharia law.</p>
<p>How are Muslim “feminists” in the West going to cope with this? They have worked so darn hard to fight for the right of Muslim women to be covered in America and Europe – and not just with hijabs, but with the full abaya and niqab as well, revealing only their eyes. After all, it’s “liberating” not to have men look at you with lust in their eyes, not to be objectified into a sexual object. True, one could refrain from romping the city streets in Madonna-like bra-shirts and mini-skirts that show too much, but why stop there? Muslim men are particularly alpha in nature and simply cannot control themselves around women who seduce them by merely exposing their hair. Nor should they have to. And for westerners to fail to understand this is just plain culturally insensitive.</p>
<p>In Islamic countries, the hijab is a political as well as religious statement. It is forced upon Muslim women by men, in order to let everyone know that, well, they are Muslim. Its significance is that under Sharia law, Muslims are superior to the rest of us infidels. That’s why even Jews and Christians are required to adhere to Islamic Sharia law. It’s the reason it’s forbidden to repair an old church or synagogue and the reason Christian and Jewish prayer is disallowed in public yet, Muslims can build as many mosques as they desire and ring Minaret bells 5 times a day in a call to Islamic prayer. It’s the reason that an infidel’s testimony is not permitted in Sharia courts, and the reason that acts of murder against infidels are not punishable by the Hudud criminal code. It’s the reason that infidels must walk on the side of the street, and strip naked to provide a Muslim his clothes if he is in need, free of charge, of course. And it’s the reason that Muslims are forbidden to befriend “people of the book”, those evil Jews and Christians who keep insisting on loving their neighbors and turning the other cheek. Dammit, don’t they understand that Allah wants martyrs who are willing to blow themselves up in the holy war to kill as many kuffar as they can?? How stupid can they be? Such is the fate of the infidel.</p>
<p>Islamic supremacism is the reason that it’s A-Ok for Muslims to loot the property of infidels and rape their women and children. Yup, it’s a grand old time for Islamists, especially if they are of the male variety. There’s just one problem. How are Muslim men to know whom to rape and whom not to rape? Enter the hijab and therein lies the answer. As the the Koran 33:59 states, “Oh Prophet! Tell your wives and your daughters and the women of the believers to draw their cloaks all over their bodies that they may thus be distinguished and not molested.“ Thus, the hijab is a political statement, letting men know who is and isn’t Muslim, so they know that the hijabbed women are off limits for raping purposes. What a bummer! Still, they usually have plenty of kaffir females to choose from and they’re probably not all that picky.</p>
<p>Now that Muslim women in Iran are throwing off the veil, it’s likely Muslim men could get confused. And if a non-hijabbed Muslim woman gets raped, well, obviously it’ll be her own fault for enticing her perpetrator with her long flowing hair. And that’s true even if her hair is short.</p>
<p>Besides, hijabs are cool. Oh, I don’t mean physically cool. In that case they are hot. Like in Saudi Arabia where the hijabs and abayas must be black and walking in the summers is sweltering hot underneath all that covering. But I mean that they look cool, and that’s what’s important. After all, in the US, women can buy hijabs that are red, orange, and all the colors of the rainbow. They can even put jewels on their hijabs and pretend that they are stylish.</p>
<p>After all the work that Muslim “feminists” in the west have endured to ensure that Muslim women have the choice to stay in tune with their Islamist supremacist misogynistic culture that treats men as superior to women in matters of inheritance, child-custody, court testimony and almost every other aspect of life, it’s pretty darn insensitive of those women in Iran to throw off their veils, seeking the freedom <em>not</em> to wear this political symbol in favor of being equal.</p>
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		<title>Three Cheers for Poland</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Oct 2013 04:19:18 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Poland.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-205902" alt="Poland" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Poland-450x314.jpg" width="270" height="188" /></a>I don&#8217;t often find myself agreeing with Thomas L. Friedman, but I&#8217;ve now discovered for myself that a New York Times column he wrote ten years ago, and that I remember reading at the time, was right on the money.</p>
<p>“Poland,” he declared, “is the antidote to European anti-Americanism.” Noting that he had spent much of the previous two years being targeted by anti-Americanism in Western Europe and the Middle East, he&#8217;d spent three days in Poland “and got two years of anti-American bruises massaged out of me.” To his surprise, Poles “actually tell you they like America — without whispering.”</p>
<p>As someone who&#8217;s spent most of the last fifteen years or so living and traveling in Western Europe, I&#8217;ve experienced more anti-Americanism than I care to remember. But last week, like Friedman back in 2003, I spent a few days in Poland and found that, yep, they actually do like America.</p>
<p>A 2007 Heritage Foundation report affirmed this fact: “Poland has supported America&#8217;s global leadership role&#8230;.Wherever America is doing good in the world, Poland is not far behind.” It&#8217;s no coincidence that Poland, along with the U.S., Britain, and Australia, was one of the four leading members of the “coalition of the willing” in Iraq.</p>
<p>An American friend of mine, Paul, moved to Poland in 2001. “I was shocked at how pro-American people in Poland were,” he says. He&#8217;s also lived in the Netherlands and Ireland, and there&#8217;s no comparison. In 2002, he attended a commemoration at the U.S. consulate in Krakow of the first anniversary of 9/11. He didn&#8217;t know what to expect. What he found was a street flooded with Poles waving American flags. He was moved to tears.</p>
<p>How to explain Poland&#8217;s love of America? Well, look at its history. Poles – whose land, over the centuries, has been repeatedly invaded and carved up by powerful, tyrannical, and imperially ambitious neighbors – have learned never to take freedom for granted. (Remember the roles Kosciuszko and Pulaski played in our revolution.) While the children of Western Europe, living in their nanny states under the umbrella of U.S. protection, can afford to feel superior, in their sublime peaceableness, to the warlike Americans, the grown-ups of Poland have long understood how important it is that the most powerful country on earth is also a beacon – and a guarantor – of liberty.</p>
<p>But its pro-Americanism is just part of what makes Poland special. The way I&#8217;d sum up is as follows: It&#8217;s one European country that&#8217;s moving in the right direction – in a lot of ways.</p>
<p>To walk around Warsaw is like paying a visit to the European past – it&#8217;s precisely the Europe that many vacationing Americans think they&#8217;re going to encounter when they hop on the plane at JFK. On the one hand, the Old Town is beautiful, charming, picturesque, its cobbled streets lined with exquisitely maintained houses from the 16th and 17th centuries – just the sort of thing a tourist wants to see. Meanwhile, other parts of the city, which after all spent decades under the Soviet yoke, are predictably dreary – packed with ugly, gray, massive, and perfectly identical apartment buildings that are plainly relics of Communist times, and with broken-down tenements where, if you walk into the central courtyard, you discover it to be crisscrossed with networks of huge steel beams without with, apparently, the whole thing would tumble to the ground.</p>
<p>One thing you don&#8217;t see, however, is women walking around in hijab. None. Anywhere. For anyone familiar with European cities today, it&#8217;s a striking difference. It makes you realize just how accustomed you&#8217;ve become to the idea of an Islamized Europe. Yes, there are some Muslims in Poland – about thirty thousand out of a total population of thirty-eight million, or less than a tenth of one percent. Many of them are Tatars, who have been a part of Polish society for centuries. In any event, the percentage is infinitesimal compared to that in Western Europe.</p>
<p>Indeed, whereas almost every nation in Western Europe has been pursuing disastrous, self-destructive immigration policies for the last several decades, Poland, since winning its freedom, has been welcoming the right kind of immigrants – and for the right reasons. Paul remembers that when he first moved to Krakow, there were relatively few foreigners around. “Now there&#8217;s a Brazilian community here – and Japanese, Chinese,” he says. Indeed, “some cities in Poland are now an international as any Western European capital.”</p>
<p>The fact is that after the Iron Curtain fell, Poland embraced capitalism and privatization unhesitantly. Its economy has been strong ever since. In the last ten years it&#8217;s developed a middle class and supplemented its strong manufacturing base with a robustly growing service sector. Poland now has the EU&#8217;s fastest-growing economy – since 2010, its economy has actually been larger than that of the Netherlands – and it&#8217;s the only EU member that didn&#8217;t fall into a recession as a result of the world financial crisis.</p>
<p>“There&#8217;s lots of opportunity and they&#8217;re making it easy to do business here, easy to start things,” Paul says. All over Warsaw, big construction projects are underway. Companies like Google, IBM, Fujitsu, and Motorola have established major centers in Krakow. There&#8217;s even talk of Krakow becoming Europe&#8217;s Silicon Valley, and it&#8217;s not just a pipe dream: young Poles today tend to be well-educated, ambitious, and hard-working, with many being fluent not only in English but also in German, Russian, and Czech, and sometimes even in languages like Spanish and Italian.</p>
<p>Not all Poles, to be sure, have remained in Poland. Many, taking advantage of EU and EEA labor-immigration laws, have moved to Western Europe. In recent years, for example, Poles have been the largest single group immigrating to Norway, and have been a bright spot in that country&#8217;s otherwise bleak immigrant profile – because just as Poland has itself been taking in the right kind of immigrants, Poles themselves have also proven to be the right kind of immigrants: people who relocate not to go on the dole but to work hard, obey the law, and contribute to the economy. Three cheers for Poland!</p>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Aug 2013 04:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Woman Exercises Her Rights – And Some Lefts – Against Iran’s Veiling Law</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cleric badly beaten, sent to hospital for three days, by woman he told to cover up.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/burqa_prison.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-146002" title="burqa_prison" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/burqa_prison.gif" alt="" width="375" height="239" /></a>A woman in the Iranian city of Shamirzad, angered earlier this month by a cleric who told her she was insufficiently covered, decided that enough was enough with such religious street harassment and took matters into her own hands. Or rather her fists and feet, to be more exact.</p>
<p>Women in Iran are required to be covered up in public in accordance with a law introduced after the 1979 Iranian Revolution, causing most never to leave home without first wrapping themselves up in a body-encompassing black hijab. Women appearing in public deemed improperly covered are warned, and sometimes even beaten, by an assortment of morality guardians that include a morality police, regular police, busybody clerics or general, run-of-the mill religious fanatics.</p>
<p>But this apparently fed-up Iranian female was obviously not in the mood for any more religious street bullying, at least on this particular day. After the admonishment about the state of her dress, she abruptly told the intrusive cleric, Hojetoeslam Ali Beheshti: “You should close your eyes.”</p>
<p>“Not only didn’t she cover herself up, but she started shouting and threatening me,” said Beheshti after the brush off.</p>
<p>Beheshti should have taken the woman’s hard-line refusal and behavior as a warning sign. But his supposedly divinely-ordered duty to keep the streets of the mullah state safe for Iranian men who might lose all sexual self-control at the sight of a bare, well-turned ankle and other such horrendous, woman-derived, society-threatening evil appears to have overridden all common sense and he unwisely repeated his admonishment. Bad mistake.</p>
<p>“She pushed me and I fell to the ground on my back,” Beheshti related. “From that point on, I don’t know what happened. I was just feeling the kicks of the woman who was beating me up and insulting me.”</p>
<p>The price of the poor cleric’s martyrdom for the cause of “commanding right and forbidding wrong,” as his moral guardian duties are officially called, was a three-day stay in the hospital.</p>
<p>Golnaz Esfandiari, a correspondent for Radio Free Europe, wrote about the incident on her blog, saying the story appeared in the semi-official Iranian news agency, <em>Mehr</em>. An Iranian woman herself, Esfandiari says she does not support violence but has an understanding of the cleric-beating woman’s actions.</p>
<p>&#8220;[A]s a woman who grew up in Iran and was harassed many times for appearing in public in a way that was deemed un-Islamic, I understand the frustration that that woman in Semnan (Province) must have felt and why she lashed out at the cleric,” Esfandiari wrote. “For the past 30 years, Iranian women have been harassed by the morality police, security forces, and zealots over their appearance[.]&#8221;</p>
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		<title>The Great Muslim Cover-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 04:30:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Covering up women and the truth about Islam.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/women-burka-sarkozy-debat-001.gif"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-138587" title="women-burka-sarkozy-debat-001" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/women-burka-sarkozy-debat-001.gif" alt="" width="375" height="256" /></a>Over in Toronto, a Muslim cleric with the unwieldy name of Al-Hashim Kamena Atangana had a great idea. Al-Hashim&#8217;s idea was for Toronto to pass laws forcing women to wear burkas. &#8220;Cover up or get raped,&#8221; was the implied message. Toronto only has an estimated 5.5 percent Muslim population so the Toronto Taliban probably won&#8217;t be getting their way until they have higher double digit numbers, but they can wait.</p>
<p>Meanwhile in Egypt where the population is 90 percent Muslim and the other 10 percent are running for their lives, a new TV channel represents a brave new frontier in Islamic feminism. Maria TV features women giving lifestyle and makeup tips while wearing full niqab, which covers their faces and leaves only their eyes exposed. According to some Saudi clerics who think that women are only allowed to leave one eye exposed, this makes them either a bold feminist experiment or shameless strumpets.</p>
<p>In a country where Tahrir Square has become synonymous with sexual assault; the Al-Hashim paradigm is taking hold. There are photos of <a href="http://frontpagemag.com/2010/jamie-glazov/how-the-veil-conquered-cairo-university/">female students at Cairo University</a> from the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s that showed them dressing like women did in the 60&#8242;s and 70&#8242;s. But by the time Obama showed up to praise Cairo University as a great representative of Islamic civilization, the cover-up had begun. The question is where will the cover-up end and what will the Cairo University class of 2020 look like? They probably won&#8217;t have faces, but will they even have eyes?</p>
<p>You can attend a university with your head covered, even with your face covered, but it gets harder to attend class when your eyes are covered. If the trend means anything in a decade Muslim feminism will mean fighting for the right to keep one eye open in a creed that wants everyone to keep their eyes shut.</p>
<p>The West has reacted to the Islamic cover-up with its own cover-up. The Western liberal will run through the gamut of his own civilization&#8217;s sins before reluctantly admitting that some parts of the Muslim world may not be an ideal place to be a woman, but he immediately reaches for a rolled up copy of the New York Times and uses Tom Friedman’s latest report from an airport&#8217;s luxury lounge in Dubai or Kuala Lumpur as proof that the reforms are coming.</p>
<p>Indeed if you read anything from Tom Friedman, who is expert at writing books about how the world is becoming a global village because it&#8217;s so ridiculously easy for him to fly anywhere on his frequent flyer miles, that is all he can talk about. Saudi Arabia is constantly being reformed. Why in 1962 it abolished slavery and recently the Saudi king has agreed to let women vote in municipal elections in 2015. This is naturally a big deal in an absolute monarchy that has been ruled by the same family for longer than it had oil companies.</p>
<p>There is no question that King Abdullah is a great feminist. If you doubt that just ask any one of his 13 wives. It may be true that women in Saudi Arabia are not allowed to drive or leave the country without permission from their husband; but so long as Tom Friedman has a comfortable seat and an alcohol-free drink whenever he flies to Saudi Arabia, the reports of reforms will keep on coming about this cheerful outpost in our global village.</p>
<p>We all live in villages. Our village is a place where women are considered human beings, but in the village that is an ocean and a desert away, women are considered property. The problem is that lately our two villages have been overlapping thanks to the heap big magic of the airport. Americans travel to Saudi Arabia, where they are told to cover themselves up and respect the local customs, and Muslims travel to Canada where they tell the city of Toronto that it needs to cover up its women or they won&#8217;t be responsible for the consequences. Our village just can&#8217;t seem to win.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Buddhists don’t wear burqas.]]></description>
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<p>Last week, <a href="http://www.newsweek.com/id/238265" target="_blank">Newsweek</a> published yet another liberal opinion piece: Superficially but falsely even-handed, optimistic, pro-Arab and Muslim culture, pro-Judeo-Christian Western culture—safely middle-of-the-road. So “middle” that the reader does not really know what road she is on or where she is going. The journalist, Christopher Dickey, is writing about the new winner of the Miss America contest, Rima Fakih, who is an Arab-American Shiite Muslim with family roots in Lebanon.</p>
<p>And they say that Americans are “Islamophobic?”</p>
<p>Speaking out of all sides of his mouth, Dickey tells us that the French Cabinet has drafted an anti-burqa/anti-niqab law; that the new Miss America has been accused both of having “family ties to Hezbollah terrorists”—and of being too-sexy a pole dancer; that in 1985, Lebanon was filled with “bearded radicals holding Americans hostage at the Beirut airport in 1985” and, at the same time, with women “tanning in their bikinis at a beach club just a couple of miles away.”</p>
<p>This continues for another ten-eleven paragraphs. All things are true. Opposites exist. Contradictions abound. Therefore, nothing is true, there are no objective or universally moral truths. What exists is Dickey’s and the mainstream media’s point of view: He writes: “The fact is that most Arab and Muslim women, like people anywhere, are basically just trying to get by in the culture that’s been handed to them, looking to make a little space for their ambitions, take advantage of opportunities, and find freedom where they can.”</p>
<p>Does he include Al-Qaeda, Al-Shabaab, Islamic Jihad (in Palestine and Egypt), the Muslim Brotherhood, the Taliban, Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jemaah Islamiya or the Islamist terrorists who perpetrated 9/11, 3/11, 7/7, 11/25 in this happy-go-lucky description of Muslims who are just like us? He mentions the Iranian-backed terrorist group Hezbollah, but he does not seem truly worried about them. Alright, Dickey and his supporters might say: C’mon, these terrorists are national and supra-national players. They have hijacked the true, peaceful Islam and have nothing to do with the large majority of Muslims who are peaceful and pro-modernity. A good point—and I believe in supporting anti-Islamist Muslims: the dissidents, the feminists, the pro-democracy activists, the secularists, etc. Alas, they are an endangered minority both in the West and in their countries of origin.</p>
<p>But really, how can Dickey so totally overlook the local, indigenous, tribal, cultural, and/or religious customs that define Islamic gender apartheid? How about those Islamist men who throw <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8661387.stm" target="_blank">acid</a> into the faces of young Muslim schoolgirls because they are wearing their Islamic Veils improperly? How about those civilians who <a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8661387.stm" target="_blank">honor-murder</a> their daughters, sisters, and wives when they refuse to wear the Islamic Veil, who dare to leave a dangerously abusive husband, who are seen as too “Western?”</p>
<p>Dickey avoids these questions entirely. Instead, he focuses upon the false moral equivalence between the burqa and the bikini. He quotes Amal Gandour, a Stanford-educated Shiite (unveiled) woman who says that “the very educated and professional—but veiled—woman in the southern suburbs of Beirut may have a stronger claim on the cosmopolitan vision than the bimbos with bare stomachs, big lips, and fake eyelashes walking downtown on Rue Foche.”</p>
<p>Just a minute. While I may not like the pornographication of the female body that has taken over Western culture, neither my family nor the state will ever force me to wear a bikini—or kill me if when I refuse to do so. Increasingly, the Islamic Veil has become either a life—or a death sentence for Muslim women. The veiling of women is also related to fundamentalism and terrorism. Bin Laden’s wives are all fully veiled. Follow the chador or the burqa, in Muslim lands and in the West, and soon enough, you will stumble upon an anti-infidel, anti-Zionist den of extreme haters or terrorists.</p>
<p>Dickey is right to say that “The real test of modernity, including our own, is tolerance.” But to suggest, as he does, that the more a person is willing to tolerate, the more modern you are, is just as mistaken as suggesting that the more nakedness you reveal, the more liberated you are. Tolerance and liberty without limits will eventually lead to their opposite.</p>
<p>When President Sarkozy calls the Islamic Veil a threat to France and to democracy, he may be exaggerating but he is also taking a legitimate moral stand. Dickey scoffs at French Justice Minister Michele Alliot-Marie who insists that burqa wearers are “a threat to the values of the Republic and democracy.” Dickey finds it hard to “take her seriously.” Two thousand burqas in France (Dickey’s estimate) may not be an epidemic, but what Dickey misses is that this is the just the tip of the iceberg of Islamic misogyny. He also completely misses a larger truth: that burqas are a <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2009/07/02/should-america-ban-the-burqa/" target="_blank">health hazard</a> to women, a violation of their human and civil rights.</p>
<p>There may be many women like Rima Fakih in the Muslim World, but they are increasingly endangered. The once modern, educated, unveiled women of Turkey and Egypt have been <a href="http://pajamasmedia.com/phyllischesler/2010/01/28/the-steady-erosion-of-womens-rights-in-egypt-a-photographic-story/" target="_blank">re-veiled</a>. The once emerging women of Afghanistan and Iran have been sent back to the tenth century. The women of Saudi Arabia have not yet left the seventh century—although some women are feminists and are actually <a href="http://www.jpost.com/MiddleEast/Article.aspx?id=175779" target="_blank">fighting back</a> against the dreaded Muttawa’a, the religious “vice and virtue” police. Muslim girls and women in the West are veiling too—as if it’s a form of “resistance” against “Islamophobia” or a statement of jihad. Some are veiling in order to show solidarity with their family or religion and in order to remain marriageable—or simply in order to avoid being beaten or killed.</p>
<p>I am really tired of these politically correct multi-culturally relativist pieces on this important subject. And, I do understand that a) there is absolutely no religious imperative for Muslim girls and women to veil; b) a secular state ban against the burqa is as problematic as a family who forces a girl to veil against her will. And yet—we live in treacherous times. This is not the time to sue for the right to wear this barbaric, anti-woman clothing as if winning such a “lawfare” lawsuit represents a victory for freedom. This is the time to end the practice of veiling women on behalf of women’s freedom.</p>
<p>Clearly, this battle must begin in the West.</p>
<p>Mr. Dickey: You begin your article by asking: “Do clothes make the Muslim?” My answer: Buddhists don’t wear burqas. Mr. Dickey: The ball is now squarely in your court.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Quebec courageously introduces a bill that says no to the niqab. Will other Canadian provinces follow?]]></description>
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<p>Multiculturalism is threatening to ruin Canada by purporting that all cultures are equal.  How this definition reconciles those cultures that practice and affirm Sharia Law with that of our democratic system of human rights is beyond reason.</p>
<p>The niqab is a sticky point in Canada.  It is the ultimate symbol of female oppression.  It also denies the rest of society the right to see what could be hidden under that garb, translating into potential safety and security issues.  As for the importance of body language, it is the primary way we communicate and a critical factor in law enforcement and in our courts.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/580790" target="_blank">Last year in Ontario:</a></p>
<blockquote><p>A judge has ordered a Toronto woman to testify without her niqab at a sexual assault trial – raising the thorny issue of whether Muslim women should be allowed to appear as witnesses wearing a veil that covers everything but the eyes.</p>
<p>A relative of the woman said it’s distressing the judge has exceeded his “jurisdiction and ventured into the interpretation of religious laws concerning the veil, not to mention the fact that … (she) has observed the veil for many years in accordance with her” beliefs.</p></blockquote>
<p>Full Story <a href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/580790" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>Though a sensitive issue and any fair thinking person can sympathize with the pain of this victim, her relative needs to wake up and realize that she is not in a country governed by Sharia.  Witnesses are routinely scrutinized and body language is revealing.</p>
<p>So now, sparks are flying in Quebec over the niqab.  Traditionally Liberal Quebec has ironically introduced Bill 94 which requires people to show their faces in order to receive government services, for reasons of identification, security and communication.</p>
<p>There is nothing unreasonable about this.  In fact 95 percent of Quebecers support the bill according to an Angus Reid poll, while 80% of Canada as a whole supports it, yet there are those radically opposed to the bill, branding it as discriminatory and even racist.  In fact, a day of Action was even planned by the Non/No Bill 94 Coalition Press, comprised largely of far left feminists.</p>
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<blockquote><p>Day of Action on May 18 that will demonstrate national opposition to Bill 94, the sweeping legislation proposed in Quebec that would deny government services to people who wear face coverings such as the niqab (or face veil) worn by some Muslim women, and to demand that this legislation be immediately withdrawn.   The Non/No Bill 94 Coalition Press Release</p></blockquote>
<p>For a list of supporters for the subjugation of women through the niqab click <a href="http://nonbill94.wordpress.com/about/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p>
<p>These feminists have a twisted understanding of what human rights means. They are supporting the subjugation of women under the multicultural pretext, disregarding the relentless warnings from moderate Muslims who accurately understand what enslavement means.  While these feminists continue to fiercely oppose Western women who embrace their femininity–and even scoff at the choice to stay home and raise children–they fight for the &#8220;rights&#8221; of Muslim women to be stripped of their personhood.  Moderate Muslims rail against the niqab:</p>
<blockquote><p>There is no requirement in Islam for Muslim women to cover their face. Rather, the practice reflects a mode of male control over women. Its association with Islam originates in Saudi Arabia, which seeks to export the practice of veiling — along with other elements of its extremist Wahhabist brand of Islam.</p>
<p>If readers have any doubt about this issue, they should take a look at the holiest place for Muslims — the grand mosque in Mecca. For over 1,400 years, Muslim men and women have prayed in what we believe is the House of God. And for all these centuries, female visitors have been explicitly prohibited from covering their faces.  (Tarek Fatah, National Post)</p></blockquote>
<p>How about if  the husbands or boyfriends of these radical feminists shoved them under a black burka, even in scorching summer heat?  Another missed factor by these misguided feminist cads:  physical abuse can be easily hidden under masses of black cloth.</p>
<p>This insanity is driven and propelled by special interests bent on stirring up trouble.  Salam Elmenyawi, head of the Muslim Council of Montreal  called Bill 94 “very troubling and serious” since the government has allegedly tailored legislation that “points a finger” at the Muslim community.</p>
<blockquote><p>He predicted that if the bill becomes law, it will be challenged as an infringement of the freedom of religion guaranteed under the Charter of Rights and Freedoms.  (National Post)</p></blockquote>
<p>Canada continues to be torn apart under a multicultural banner, cheered on by Leftist ideologues and agenda driven fundamentalists. The forces of Islamism are insidious and determined. Bill 94 represents a critical positive step that hopefully other Canadian provinces will follow.</p>
<p><strong>Christine Williams is the producer and host of the Canadian National Talk show <em>On the Line</em> on CTS TV, which has been recipient of 6 International Awards. To read Jamie Glazov’s interview with her at Frontpage, <a href="../2010/04/27/rejecting-the-left/">click here</a>. She can be reached at <a href="mailto:ChristineBWilliams23@gmail.com" target="_blank">ChristineBWilliams23@gmail.com.</a></strong></p>
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		<description><![CDATA[In Turkey, a father and grandfather bury Medine Memi, a sixteen-year-old girl, alive.]]></description>
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<p>In Turkey—a country which was nearly accepted as a member by the European Union—a father and grandfather recently <a href="http://www.montrealgazette.com/Girl+buried+alive+honour+killing+Turkey+Report/2521342/story.html">buried Medine Memi, a sixteen-year-old girl, alive</a>—and all because she was seen talking to boys. Medine was repeatedly beaten. The police did not help her. When the men buried her she was “alive and fully conscious.”</p>
<p>This savage, heartless, primitive act is the ultimate, logical consequence of burying women alive—shrouding them–while they still roam the earth. One becomes claustrophobic under the burqa, until one gets used to being seen as a ghost, invisible, non-human, dead.</p>
<p>All this past week, I received news of this atrocity in Turkey. I refrained from writing about it. What can one say? There is nothing to say. There is everything to do. No one is doing anything.</p>
<p>But, all over Europe, they are fighting about the Islamic Veil. Should burqas (full body shrouds) and niqab (face masks) be banned? Should hijab remain banned in school in France? <a href="http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0206/1224263887684.html">The Council of Imams in Ireland has just had a press conference</a>. It said that “a ban on the niqab – a veil worn by Muslim women that covers everything except the eyes – violates personal freedoms guaranteed by democratic systems. It added that such bans also constitute an obstacle to multiculturalism, integration and human rights.”</p>
<p>Well—that ought to shame the Europeans.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Radical Islam’s takeover of the lives of Egypt’s educated women. ]]></description>
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<p>Frontpage Interview’s guest today is Nonie Darwish, the co-founder of <a href="http://www.formermuslimsunited.com/" target="_blank">FormerMuslimsUnited.com</a> and the author of <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Usual-Punishment-Terrifying-Implications/dp/1595551611">Cruel and Usual Punishment</a></em>.</p>
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<p><strong>FP:</strong> Nonie Darwish, welcome to Frontpage Interview.</p>
<p>Today I would like to discuss with you the photos we are exhibiting below of Cairo  University graduates over the course of this era. There are the 1959 and 1978 photos compared to the 1995 and 2004 photos.</p>
<p>These pictures tell quite a story. Radical Islam has taken over even the minds of educated women in the Muslim world.</p>
<p>Since you’re from Egypt, I would like to get your take on this phenomenon. What’s going on here? One would think that people yearn for freedom rather than enslavement, but I guess life experience and human history tells us otherwise – when it comes to certain cultures. Being from Russia, I’m not too surprised with many Russians’ adoration of a thug despot like Putin and even their <a href="http://www.theotherrussia.org/2010/01/28/veterans-outraged-at-stalin-soft-drink/">pining for Joseph Stalin.</a></p>
<p>Let’s first show these pics and then you share your thoughts on them.</p>
<p><strong>1959</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>1978</strong>:</p>
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<p><strong>1995:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>2004:</strong></p>
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<p><strong>Darwish:</strong> These photos represent the gradual but steady Islamic radicalization invading the Middle  East and the rest of the world in the last three decades. I lived in Egypt until the year 1978 and have never wore a head cover, neither did my mother or grandmother. And this is thanks to a feminist movement that started in Cairo in 1919 under the leadership of the famous Egyptian feminist Hoda Shaarawi.</p>
<p>Shaarawi had attended women’s conferences in Europe and Turkey, which was undergoing major reforms by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk who wanted to be more like Europe and less like Muslim Arabia. Upon her return from a trip to Rome in 1923, Shaarawi performed a bold act that became the central symbol of her life: with the support of several upper class Egyptian women, she removed her veil in public, at the crowded Cairo train station.  If such an act of defiance had happened today in Iran or even Egypt, she would be executed by the Iranian government and, as to Egypt, she could be killed by an Islamist on the street for defying or insulting Islam.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What were the circumstances at that time that allowed Hoda Shaarawi to engage in this act of freedom of conscience?</p>
<p><strong>Darwish:</strong> The reason she was not killed then but actually protected, and was able to start a reform movement in Egypt, was due to many reasons. First and most important was the existence of the British in the area. They helped protected the peace, minorities and equal rights. Second, the Egyptian king was moderate and wanted to bring modernity to Egypt.  Third, this was the pre-petrodollar era of wealth in Saudi Arabia which was still weak and poor. Fourth, the Muslim Brotherhood was not yet in existence.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> How and why have things changed?</p>
<p><strong>Darwish:</strong> Things started drastically changing after the Egyptian 1952 coup which ousted King Farouk and the British. Even though that coup appeared secular, none of the rebel ‘free officers’ were Christian Egyptians and almost all were members of the Muslim Brotherhood. However, the impact of the Muslim Brotherhood was delayed for a decade after the revolution when they attempted to assassinate Nasser who killed and imprisoned many members of its members. After Nasser died, the Muslim Brotherhood was empowered and with it the status of women. That coincided with Saudi petrodollars and the Iranian revolution, both of which brought power of Islamists to the whole area.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Talk about these photos.</p>
<p><strong>Darwish:</strong> The first 1959 photo reflects the influence of the Sharaawi feminist movement which existed until the death of Nasser. However, I must stress that the Egyptian feminist movement which started in 1919 and ended in the late 70’s, and which freed Egyptian women from the hijab, was more cosmetic than true Western-style liberation. Women still had to abide by Sharia law when it came to marriage and family matters and the culture still practiced segregation of the sexes and honor killing.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So why did many of Egypt’s women, and educated women, become more radicalized and turn to the veil?</p>
<p><strong>Darwish:</strong> As we see in the photos, the change was gradual, from 1959 of no head covers at all, to 2004 where almost all women, even some young girls, are wearing head covers. It must be noted that the Egyptian government, unlike Iran, does not force the head cover on women.  Religious and social pressure on Egyptian women was the cause for the change. Feminists such as Shaarawi are now threatened and accused of apostasy, forcing the Egyptian feminist Nawal El Saadawi to leave the country. And now we see that some of the harshest critics of Muslim women reformists and human rights activists are none other than Muslim women.</p>
<p>The Muslim woman’s attire is the first thing noticeable in any Muslim country and is dictated by Islamic law. Some devout Muslim women chose to carry the torch of Islam by wearing the burqa on their own and exhibit their piety and devotion to their faith. Those were the ones who were rewarded and respected by society. The rest were left in a quagmire, either choose to be viewed as devout Muslims or as outcast rebel apostates. The majority chose the former since perception and image is extremely important in Muslim society where the uncovered head can be regarded as a defiant image of rebelliousness. After some acts of violence on the street against uncovered women, even some Christian girls found it safer to cover their heads so they were not noticed. How can feminism be practiced openly let alone survive under such conditions?</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> What does the future hold?</p>
<p><strong>Darwish:</strong> Muslim women in the Middle East have never developed a relationship of solidarity and support for their rights and freedoms. To the contrary, they often have hostile relationships where women often report other women when they violate social and religious taboos. Most have developed a holier than thou attitude towards other women. In such an atmosphere many found that if they want respect and even financial rewards, then they must be as radical, if not more radical then men. Some women do not even talk or communicate with women who are uncovered. This happened to me personally when I visited Egypt in 2001 and was wearing a conservative one piece bathing suit on the beach and a couple of covered up women in a group I was with would not talk to me.</p>
<p>In the beginning of our interview you asked why educated Egyptian women choose going back to the old days of the repression of the Burqa. The reasons are many and complex. Muslim women were left with two choices; to be in a constant struggle against Islamization and merciless rejection by society or if you can’t beat them, then join them. Another reason is nationalism, Arab pride and rejection of Western influence. Arab nationalism and pride came at the same time with the sudden wealth from petro-dollars which empowered radial Muslim countries such as Saudi Arabia.</p>
<p>Muslim countries have an obsession against free democracies that are prosperous and give women equal rights. Muslim leaders are having a hard time convincing their citizens that the Muslim system is better than Western democracies and thus the media and preaching is consumed with hate propaganda against the West, telling the West we reject your culture, the way you dress etc. I actually remember mosque sermons telling us how Western civilization is corrupt, satanic and we should not befriend them or imitate them in any way shape or form.</p>
<p>The return of the Burqa movement has also migrated to the West. When I moved to the US in 1978 I visited some Muslim girlfriends at UCLA and none of them wore the head cover. Many Muslims who moved to the States in the same year with me never wore the head cover back in Egypt. However, I have seen some of these immigrants a decade later with full Islamic attire. Even on US college campuses the movement is the same, Muslim students are proud to wear their Islamic outfit and refuse to assimilate. The trend is everywhere, just like in the Egyptian photos.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> So then what is the future of true women&#8217;s rights under Islam?</p>
<p><strong>Darwish:</strong> Many believe that Islam’s treatment of women is on its way to being reformed and that it is just a matter of time until Muslim women will wise up, figure what must be done, stand together in unity and march for their equality and human rights. That happened to women in the West, so why not to Muslim women in the Middle East?</p>
<p>There is a major difference: in the West, Christianity did not come with thousands of pages of Jesus’s laws regulating every detail in a Christian’s life to control every Christian. Jesus did not call women deficient in intelligence and lacking in religion or that they are toys, slaves in a marriage. Very simply Western feminists were not confronted with the many dead ends that the Muslim feminist is confronting.</p>
<p>Many also believe that the reformation of Sharia and Islam itself will come from its most oppressed group: women. I disagree with that view, partially because the woman is largely the object of extreme regulation in Sharia (Allah’s law).</p>
<p>Expecting Muslim women to be behind the reformation of Islam and Sharia, is like asking slaves to end their own slavery without their masters’ approval or asking prisoners to get out of prison without the guards opening the doors. That is the reason Muslim Feminism has not succeeded in getting the majority of Muslim women on board. A Muslim woman’s inferior status in Muslim society has gone too deep and has become institutionalized. Muslim societies, cultures and institutions are dependent on it. For Muslim women to simply revolt against Islamic gender apartheid will be regarded as anti-man, anti-family, anti-religion, anti-government and worst of all, anti-Allah himself.</p>
<p><strong>FP:</strong> Nonie Darwish, thank you for joining us. And again, thank you for being the brave freedom fighter that you are.</p>
<p>And I encourage all our readers to get their hands on Nonie Darwish&#8217;s book <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Cruel-Usual-Punishment-Terrifying-Implications/dp/1595551611">Cruel and Usual Punishment</a>.</em></p>
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		<title>How a “Nice American Girl” Became a Jihadist</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dr. Aafia Siddiqui learned to hate America, hate Jews, and hate Israel right here in liberal America.]]></description>
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<p>She studied at MIT and at Brandeis where she received a Ph.D in Neuroscience. Thus, she was both an educated and in some sense, a westernized woman. Both her Pakistani-born father and Pakistani husband are physicians who trained in the West, in England and America, respectively; her brother and sister are also highly trained professionals. Nevertheless, Dr. Aafia Siddiqui learned to hate America, hate Jews, and hate Israel right here in liberal America.</p>
<p>Like a small but increasing number of “westernized” Muslim women, Aafia Siddiqui joined her local mosque (in her case, the <a href="http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/whos_afraid_of_aafia_siddiqui/">Roxbury, MA mosque</a>) and started to veil, and as she did, her ambitions became aggressively jihadic. This is not a contradiction. Obediently veiled Muslim women can be very aggressive, murderously so. They certainly police other women in savage and self-righteous ways in Iran and Indonesia. In Iraq, veiled Muslim women have <a href="http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/female-suicide-bombers-kill-47-in-iraq-fourth-lead_10077011.html">blown up other Muslim female religious pilgrims</a>. And, Muslim women who were normatively spurned by their mothers were manipulated by Samira Jassim, an attentive, “loving” Iraqi mother-figure, who carefully <a href="http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2009/02/female_suicide_bombe_1.php">turned them into suicide killers</a>.</p>
<p>Women are very aggressive—but usually towards other women. I have written about this in <em><a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1556529465/ref=pd_lpo_k2_dp_sr_1?pf_rd_p=486539851&amp;pf_rd_s=lpo-top-stripe-1&amp;pf_rd_t=201&amp;pf_rd_i=1560253517&amp;pf_rd_m=ATVPDKIKX0DER&amp;pf_rd_r=0YH8ZZFRJ6ES9NP6JBDX">Woman’s Inhumanity to Woman</a></em>. Traditionally, women do not go up against men whom they view as their potential protectors and as more powerful than they are. Ironically, Islamic jihad wishes to reverse, upend, both Nature and human evolutionary history. Just as normatively degraded mothers are “turned” into hero-mothers who publicly praise their suicide killer sons—just so, are normatively self-hating women “turned” into Al-Qaeda heroines who not only directly attack men, but who directly attack infidel male <em>soldiers</em>.</p>
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		<title>France denies citizenship to man with veiled wife &#8211; AP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS – French authorities have denied citizenship to a man who forced his French wife to wear a face-covering veil, saying he had rejected national values of secularism and gender equality.The government has been speaking out strongly against head-to-toe veils, and is moving toward banning them in public after a long public debate over French [&#8230;]]]></description>
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<p>PARIS – French authorities have denied citizenship to a man who forced his French wife to wear a face-covering veil, saying he had rejected national values of secularism and gender equality.The government has been speaking out strongly against head-to-toe veils, and is moving toward banning them in public after a long public debate over French national identity in the age of globalization.Critics call the face-covering veil a gateway to extremism, but the move to ban it has drawn fierce criticism from some of France&amp;apos;s five million Muslims, who say such restrictions are based in fear and intolerance of Islam.President Nicolas Sarkozy has called the veils degrading to women and unwelcome in France. Sarkozy, a law-and-order conservative whose relations with the Muslim community have often been fraught, has been a vocal proponent of an all-out ban on the burqa, niqab and other face-covering Muslim veils.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100204/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_muslim_veil;_ylt=AtBeV913E9H163nydCA8VGis0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNwOHVvZ3E1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwMjA0L2V1X2ZyYW5jZV9tdXNsaW1fdmVpbARjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzUEcG9zAzIEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl9oZWFkbGluZV9saXN0BHNsawNmcmFuY2VkZW5pZXM-">France denies citizenship to man with veiled wife &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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		<title>French report wants limits on Muslim face veil &#8211; AP</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[PARIS – A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and a leading panel member said he foresees such an interdiction by the end of 2010. The nearly 200-page report contains a panoply of measures intended [&#8230;]]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>PARIS – A parliamentary panel that wants Muslim women to stop veiling their faces recommended Tuesday that France ban such garb in public facilities, including hospitals and mass transit, and a leading panel member said he foresees such an interdiction by the end of 2010.</p>
<p>The nearly 200-page report contains a panoply of measures intended to dissuade women from wearing all-enveloping veils in France. It also recommends refusing residence cards and citizenship to anyone with visible signs of a &#8220;radical religious practice.&#8221;</p>
<p>However, there is no call to outlaw such garments — worn by a tiny minority of Muslims — in private areas and in the street. A full ban was the major issue that divided the 32-member, multiparty panel which ultimately heeded warnings that a full ban risked being deemed unconstitutional and could even cause trouble in a country where Islam is the second-largest religion.</p>
<p>via <a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100126/ap_on_re_eu/eu_france_forbidding_the_veil">French report wants limits on Muslim face veil &#8211; Yahoo! News</a>.</p>
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