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		<title>Islamic Law: Girls Can Be Married Even &#8216;In The Cradle&#8217;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 05:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The difference between Sharia and common decency reaffirmed once again.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><i><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/174549556.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-248426" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/174549556-415x350.jpg" alt="BAHRAIN-RELIGION-ISLAM-RAMADAN" width="309" height="261" /></a>Originally published by </i><i><a href="http://www.vieinter.com/themiddleeast/islamic-law-girls-can-be-married-even-if-they-are-in-the-cradle/">Veritas International Enterprise</a>.</i></p>
<p>Muslim attempts at “reformation” <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-reformers-forever-talking-the-talk-never-walking-the-walk/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">continue to be limited to words not actions</span></a>.  A few days ago, efforts to set a minimum age for marriage in Saudi Arabia “<a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/saudi-arabia/saudi-arabia-grand-mufti-says-no-opposition-to-underage-marriage-1.1429882"><span style="color: #0433ff;">received a blow</span></a> after the Grand Mufti said there was nothing wrong with girls below 15 getting married.”</p>
<p>Two years earlier, the justice ministry began pushing for setting a minimum age in the Arabian kingdom.  According to Gulf News, “It submitted an integrated study on the negative psychological and social effects of underage marriages to religious scholars and requested a fatwa that sets a minimum age.”</p>
<p>However, the <i>ulema</i>—the “religious scholar,” the learned ones of Islamic law—responded by totally ignoring the request.  Saudi Arabia’s highest religious authority, its Grand Mufti, Sheikh Abdul Aziz, shrugged the whole matter off by saying “There is currently no intention to discuss the issue.”  In other words, case closed.</p>
<p>Although the brief Gulf News report focuses on the age 15, going back to earlier reports when the justice ministry began bringing this issue up, one discovers that the issue at stake is full-blown pedophilia.</p>
<p>Back in 2011, for example, Dr. Salih bin Fawzan, a prominent cleric and member of Saudi Arabia’s highest religious council, issued a fatwa <a href="http://alwatan.kuwait.tt/ArticleDetails.aspx?Id=124848"><span style="color: #0433ff;">asserting</span></a> that there is no minimum age for marriage and that girls can be married “even if they are in the cradle.”</p>
<p>Appearing in Saudi papers, the fatwa complained that “Uninformed interference with Sharia rulings by the press and journalists is on the increase”—likely a reference to the justice ministry’s advocacy—“posing dire consequences to society, including their interference with the question of marriage to small girls who have not reached maturity, and their demand that a minimum age be set for girls to marry.”</p>
<p>Fawzan insisted that nowhere does Sharia (or Islamic law) set an age limit for marrying girls: like countless Muslim scholars before him, he relied on Koran 65:4, which discusses marriage to females who have not yet begun menstruating (i.e., are prepubescent) and the fact that Muhammad, Islam’s role model, married Aisha when she was six or seven, “consummating” the marriage—or, in modern/Western parlance, <i>raping</i> her—when she was nine.</p>
<p>The grand point of the Saudi fatwa, however, is not that girls as young as nine can be married, based on Muhammad’s example, but rather that there is no age limit whatsoever.  The only question open to consideration is whether the girl is physically capable of handling her “husband.”  Fawzan documented this point by quoting <a href="http://www.sifatusafwa.com/en/hadeeth/1037-sharh-sahih-al-bukhari-li-ibn-battal-449h.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Ibn Battal’s authoritative exegesis of Sahih Bukhari</span></a>:</p>
<blockquote><p>The ulema [Islam’s scholars and interpreters] have agreed that it is permissible for fathers to marry off their small daughters, even if they are in the cradle.  But it is not permissible for their husbands to have sex with them unless they are capable of being placed beneath and bearing the weight of the men.  And their capability in this regard varies based on their nature and capacity.  Aisha was six when she married the prophet, but he had sex with her when she was nine [that is, when she was deemed capable].</p></blockquote>
<p>Fawzan concluded his fatwa with a warning: “It behooves those who call for setting a minimum age for marriage to fear Allah and not contradict his Sharia, or try to legislate things Allah did not permit.  For laws are Allah’s province; and legislation is his exclusive right, to be shared by none other.  And among these are the rules governing marriage.”</p>
<p>Once again, case closed.</p>
<p>Fawzan, of course, is not <a href="http://islamqa.com/en/ref/22442"><span style="color: #0433ff;">the</span></a> <a href="http://www.memritv.org/clip/en/0/0/0/0/0/0/3023.htm"><span style="color: #0433ff;">first</span></a> to insist on the legitimacy of <a href="http://wikiislam.net/wiki/Islam_and_Pedophilia"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pedophilia in Islam</span></a>.  Nor is this just some theoretic, abstract point; the lives of countless young girls are devastated because of this teaching.  Recall, for instance, the <a href="http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2415871/Yemeni-child-bride-8-dies-internal-injuries-night-forced-marriage-groom-40.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">8-year-old girl who died</span></a> on her “wedding” night as her “husband” raped her; or the 12-year-old who <a href="http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/yemen/yemeni-12-year-old-dies-while-giving-birth-to-a-stillborn-1.539240"><span style="color: #0433ff;">died giving birth to a stillborn</span></a>; or the 10-year-old who made headlines by <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2009/10/marriage_saudi_arabiastyle_1.asp"><span style="color: #0433ff;">hiding </span></a> from her 80-year-old “husband.”</p>
<p>Finally, it should be borne in mind that Grand Mufti Abdul Aziz—the highest Islamic authority in the land of Islam’s birth—not only dismisses calls to place an age restriction for marriage, but is the same Grand Mufti who called for the destruction of all Christian churches on the Arabian Peninsula (<a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/saudi-mufti-destroy-churches/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">as first reported here</span></a>).</p>
<p>The consistency makes perfect sense.  After all, in the eyes of non-Muslims, or “non-believers,” Sharia law is nothing less than a legal system built atop the words and deeds of a seventh century Arab, whose behavior—from pedophilia and <a href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/muhammad-and-islams-sex-slaves/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">sex-slavery</span></a> to war mongering and plundering to destroying non-Muslim places of worship—was very much that of a seventh century Arab.</p>
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		<title>Hatred of Women on the March in Iran</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Dec 2014 05:35:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Women live in fear as government empowers vigilante moral police. ]]></description>
				<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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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Nov 2014 05:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A former Muslim Imam points to the Islamic texts that dehumanize women for possessing fertility and spawning life. ]]></description>
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<p>Dr. Christian discussed <strong>Islam vs. Female Menstruation</strong>, pointing to the Islamic texts that dehumanize women for possessing fertility and spawning life<strong> (starts at 9:51 mark)</strong>. The discussion occurred within the context of a dialogue about <strong>Islam’s Assault on Women’s Sexuality,</strong> in which Dr. Christian analyzed the misogynist texts of Islam and their earthly incarnations:<span id="eow-title" class="watch-title long-title " dir="ltr" title="The Glazov Gang-Islam’s Assault on Women’s Sexuality"><br />
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<p>Dr. Warner joined the show to discuss <strong>Measuring Extremism in Islam</strong>, illuminating how Sharia compliance defines a way to measure civilizational &#8220;extremism&#8221; that goes beyond beheadings:</p>
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		<title>The Democrats Failed White Voters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Nov 2014 05:50:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Beating up on white women won’t change that.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wendy.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-244932" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/wendy-450x253.jpg" alt="wendy" width="317" height="178" /></a>The left isn’t known for being a good loser. The Democrats had counted on women to be their ace in the hole in the election. Now lefty media outlets are lashing out at women.</p>
<p>“White women didn’t just fail Wendy Davis — they failed the rest of Texas,” Salon bellows. That would be the rest of Texas which also voted against Davis. “Married white women&#8230; failed Wendy Davis,” another lefty site declares.</p>
<p>It never occurs to the left that Wendy Davis might have failed white women and that they might have rejected her because she had nothing to actually offer them.</p>
<p>In the left’s warped tyranny of ideology, their politicians don’t fail the people. The people fail them. Obama and Davis are always right. It’s up to the people to prove that they’re good enough for a Barack Obama or a Wendy Davis. If they are, the media will pat them on the head for voting the right way. If they aren’t, they’ll be blamed for thinking the wrong way and failing their rightful rulers.</p>
<p>East German authorities had warned that the government had “lost confidence in the people”. Now that white voters have lost confidence in the Democratic Party, the Party is announcing that they failed it.</p>
<p>The left doesn’t listen to people. It tells them what to think. If they don’t agree, then they have failed it.</p>
<p>White women are the latest punching bag for the Democratic Party’s humiliating defeat even though the previous election should have been a warning sign that even the white voters that the left treats as its property were drifting away. Romney had won white women in every age group and the Jewish vote had dropped. If the Dems couldn’t rely on the friendlier portions of the white vote, they were in trouble.</p>
<p>White voters felt that Obama and his party had failed them. Exit polls showed no confidence in the future. Instead of trying to connect with them, the Democratic Party doubled down on identity politics sloganeering. Obama had won anyway which proved that white voters didn’t matter. Not when a sizable turnout and a disproportionate voting tilt by minority voters could politically erase a more moderate tilt among white voters. It didn’t matter if you were losing the white vote by 12 percent if you were winning the black vote by 90 percent. The model had worked for Obama, but it didn’t work for his party.</p>
<p>The shift in the white vote proved to be politically deadly. The 90/12 formula depended on a large minority turnout and a weak white turnout. It also assumed that there wouldn’t be a bigger and deeper shift among white voters.</p>
<p>What happened had nothing to do with a black president. It had to do with using community organizing techniques to win elections. The same racial polarization that brought in black voters also alienated white voters. While the Democrats were selling a narrative of Republican extinction, they were the ones whose extremist identity politics were forcing them into a narrow demographic corner.</p>
<p>Obama won by turning out his base and turning off what used to be his party’s base. The more he committed to racial polarization, the weaker his position with white voters became.</p>
<p>The working class white voter had come to be ignored and disparaged by a Democratic Party that envisioned a new electoral politics based on demographic change and welfare voters coming out to protect their privileges and challenge the “disrespect for our president”. The new slogans of the Democratic Party spoke to a rainbow coalition culture of angry minorities and Sandra Flukes who were constantly demanding things while the Democratic Party’s original base was left by the side of the road.</p>
<p>Working class white voters did not shut out Democrats. The Democrats shut them out.</p>
<p>The Democrats took their positions, such as opposition to coal or support for gun control, as a given and no longer even acknowledged the existence of voters who disagreed. The results were inevitable.</p>
<p>There are now more black Republicans in Congress than there are white Democrats from the Deep South. The War on Coal may have been won at the policy level by the EPA, but the blowback has forced Democrats out of coal country.</p>
<p>In a profound admission of political failure, Democratic consultants are dropping quotes about learning to talk to white voters again. Should a mostly white party really have that much trouble talking to white people? But the white people they’re talking about don’t have much in common with their political establishment of Ivy League grads obsessed with diversity for whom “white people” is a contemptuous punchline. Diversity devalued the existence of white people. Elitist smugness shut out the working class.</p>
<p>The white women who “failed” Wendy Davis didn’t have much in common with her, despite a fictionalized biography of struggle, or with her message which centered on an ideological dog whistle that penetrated loudly and shrilly in Berkeley or Portland, but fell flat in much of Texas.</p>
<p>Voting is as cultural as it is political. Anti-abortion is progressive code for Christian fundamentalist. To the shock of a lot of Blue State media types, this code not only doesn’t work that well in a Red State, but its covert political payload isn’t a bad thing in a place where religion is an organizing principle for communities in the way that virtual fandoms, hobbies and progressive politics can be in a Blue State.</p>
<p>Democratic political consultants didn’t ask themselves why they thought that declaring a Blue State culture war in a Red State was supposed to be a winning formula. Or why women in Colorado or Texas would want to put a lefty culture war pitched in shrill tones ahead of their own economic concerns.</p>
<p>And it’s the economy that is still the issue.</p>
<p>White women in Texas “failed” Wendy Davis because they weren’t interested in an Emily’s List sideshow of pink sneakers, they wanted economic security. White voters failed the Democrats because they weren’t interested in their menu of culture wars. What they wanted was the return of a better life.</p>
<p>And a better life is the one thing that Democrats can’t deliver as affordable health care turned out to be very expensive and every year’s bold new jobs program has consisted of worthless pork.</p>
<p>The Republican Party’s formula for a majority-minority party looks better now than the Democratic Party’s formula for a minority-majority party. Without Obama on the ballot, the Democrats have to confront the possibility that they might be caught without minority turnout or white voters. And that leaves them with nothing. Nothing is what they ended up with in this election.</p>
<p>White voters didn’t fail the Democrats. The Democrats failed white voters.</p>
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		<description><![CDATA[Terrorized women live in fear. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bbbunnamed.png"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-243506" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/bbbunnamed-450x324.png" alt="bbbunnamed" width="346" height="249" /></a>“I was never more scared than I am now. I am scared of going to class, doing normal chores, driving a car, and even walking in the street. I am really afraid of motorcycles. Do you know what will happen to my life if one of these people throw acid in my face?” Azita, a university student in Isfahan, anxiously told me. Her neighborhood, Jolfa, has become a target of a new wave of acid attacks against young girls. Women are not even safe in their cars, as the Iranian Students’ News Agency (ISNA) has <a href="http://freethinker.co.uk/2014/10/20/immodest-hijab-wearers-under-threat/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">reported</span></a> that in October 15, witnesses saw an incident of an acid assault by a motorcyclist on a 27-year-old woman who was in the car with her car window left open.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">I was born in this neighborhood &#8212; to be more specific, in Hakim Nezami &#8212; and lived in this area of Isfahan for two years of my youth. Although the issue of acid attacks against women has been prevalent, and on the rise, particularly in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, I have never heard of acid being a threat or an issue targeting women in the Islamic Republic until these recent developments.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;"><span style="color: #0433ff;"><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/bad-hijab-acid-attacks-iranian-women-142736305.html">Reportedly</a></span>, a series of acid attacks mainly by motorcyclists has been carried out against Iranian women because they were badly veiled and their hijabs did not meet the Islamic dress code of the Islamic Republic. The acid assaults in countries such as India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan have been more aimed at female victims, who, according to the aggressors, cause their family to lose honor due to premarital sex or &#8220;indecent behavior&#8221; with the opposite sex.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">According to the imposed dress code of the Islamic Republic of Iran, women are supposed to wear a complete hijab, preferably a black chador, which covers their heads, necks, and bodies. The cloth should be loose in order to not expose the frame of the body. As a result, anything beside this criteria is marked as a bad hijab. The punishment for not wearing the hijab has ranged from arrests to lashings, fines, torture, and imprisonment. In the beginning years of the Islamic Revolution of 1979 and 1980 when the hijab was imposed, secular female movements protested but many women were stabbed as a result. The fear and use of brutal force centralized the dress code imposed by the Iranian regime.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The overwhelming majority of Iranian women opposed this forceful theocratic law by pushing the boundaries set by the state. Over the years, they have slightly changed the dress code by wearing colorful, small, and thin veils, which hardly cover the hair and exposes some hair in the front and back. In addition, young girls have been slightly exposing some skin (ankles, arms, etc.), along with wearing tight coats, shirts, and clothing that reaches mid-thigh.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Since millions of girls across the country have been resisting the theocratic and Islamic social order, the government has found it impossible to arrest all these women and put them in jail. Notwithstanding this fact, the Iranian regime has had moral and Islamic vigilantes in the streets, who randomly arrest and drag women to the police station and the “Amre Be Maroof va Nahi az Monkar” office: the Center for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">The major question to address is why and who these abusers are who are attacking innocent women with acid for not wearing the hijab properly? From my perspective, and having lived in the Islamic Republic, I do not think that ordinary Iranian people, even the religious ones who are not connected to the government, would commit such acts. Culturally, socially, and historically speaking, acid attacks have never been a method of torturing innocent women for not complying with dress code in the Iranian society. Iranian citizens are well educated and many of them favor Western secular ways of living to the status quo and theocratic, authoritarian Islamic rule.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">One speculation and presumption behind these egregious human rights abuses can be traced to the Iranian regime itself. Under the presidency of the “moderate” cleric, Hassan Rouhani, the Iranian parliament has recently given more power to moral police, vigilante Islamic groups, and moral patrols in the streets, by <a href="http://www.inquisitr.com/1549693/iranian-women-attacked-with-acid-for-bad-hijab-attackers-may-be-enforcing-law-not-breaking-it/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">passing</span></a> laws that grant freer rein to these groups to monitor and spy on the society. Some of these powerful moral and militant groups, which have gained more power from the Iranian parliament, are Basij and Ansar e Hezbollah (the Supporters of the Party of God).</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Some motorcyclists have been <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/10/18/acid-attacks-on-women-spread-terror-in-iran.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">noted</span></a> to ride large bikes and have conservative appearances. Some motorcyclists are also causing women to believe their faces are being burned by throwing water and cleansers into their faces. This is more a method of imposing fear in the society. Outrageously, militant and fundamentalist groups such as the Basij, Ansar e Hezbollah, intelligence, and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, view women’s improper dress as the underlying reason behind these acts against them. As a result, for them these kind of egregious abuses are totally justified.</p>
<p style="color: #1a1a1a;">Since the Islamic Republic is incapable of controlling and imprisoning millions of women who are challenging the Islamic power structures of the regime, the acid attacks might be a new method employed by governmental vigilante groups to impose fear in the society, particularly in women, and coerce women to comply with the Islamic dress code of the Islamic Republic.</p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 27 Aug 2014 04:05:47 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iranian-women-dk.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-239600" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/iranian-women-dk.jpg" alt="IRAN-WOMEN-DEMO" width="317" height="234" /></a>Recently, Majlis (Iranian parliament), which is dominated by hardliners<span style="color: #0433ff;">, has voted</span> to ban vasectomies, permanent kinds of contraception, and impose restriction on women&#8217;s fertility. In addition, the bill bans advertisements aimed at promoting birth control. Any doctor, or woman, who violates the ban will be punished and prosecuted according to the new Islamist bill.</p>
<p>Since its establishment, the Islamic Republic has significantly exercised “biopower” (a term coined by the historian Michel Foucault) in order to control the population and particularly subjugate women to achieve the regime&#8217;s Islamist, religious, ideological, political, and economic objectives. According to <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&amp;rct=j&amp;q=&amp;esrc=s&amp;source=web&amp;cd=2&amp;ved=0CCwQFjAB&amp;url=http%3A%2F%2F78.158.56.101%2Farchive%2Flaw%2Ffiles%2Fdownloads%2F325%2F2088.126d6dc4.Paliwala.doc&amp;ei=mkn6U9jdPKmBiwL00oCACw&amp;usg=AFQjCNHWIwknXVcMp1VNXxjjcj1rTg3_QQ&amp;sig2=1hxq_883R0sReEaMcq1MEA&amp;bvm=bv.73612305,d.cGE"><span style="color: #0433ff;">Foucault</span></a>, biopower is defined in <i>The History of Sexuality as</i> &#8220;an explosion of numerous and diverse techniques for achieving the subjugations of bodies and the control of populations.&#8221;</p>
<p>Under the new Islamist state, the Ayatollahs and ruling clerics utilized methods in order to control and exercise power over women to gradually take away their capacity to act in social affairs particularly by regulating their day to day activities, monitoring all their actions, as well as by having authority over their bodies.</p>
<p>For example, dress codes including (scarves, chador, etc) were imposed on women. Women could not wear what they desired out of the home. Women were encouraged to cover their bodies and dress more conservatively. And those who did not comply were laid off from work, fined, lashed, arrested, imprisoned, and attacked.</p>
<p>In addition, women’s bodies were predominantly defined by the Islamic Republic as a platform for satisfying their spouses. Women were banned from playing several sports.  Instead, being a housewife and submissive was encouraged. The control of women’s bodies and their day-to-day activities were used as a formidable venue to subjugate, dehumanize, and sway women’s capacity in life.</p>
<p>On the other hand, what are the underlying reasons for the new restriction on women’s fertility under the Islamic law of Iran?</p>
<p>The fundamental reasons are political, ideological and religion-driven. The whole process of passing a bill to impose restriction on women&#8217;s fertility began by one man’s plan: Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.  The Supreme Leader has the final say as well as the power to delineate general policies for the entire country after consultation with the Nation&#8217;s Exigency Council, according to <a href="http://www.iranonline.com/iran/iran-info/government/constitution-8.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">article 110</span></a> of the Islamic Republic.</p>
<p>The Supreme Leader decided that he wanted the population of his country to increase from 75 million people to 150 million. Khamenei’s new doctrine was read out to the nationwide conference in the city of Qum, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/iran-supreme-leader-ayatollah-khamenei-population-family-519685"><span style="color: #0433ff;">pointing out</span></a> that “I believe that our country is not a country of 75 million people, our country [could be] a country of 150 million people&#8230; and even more… a young image is an essential and important issue for the country, and the countries which have faced aging population have overcome the issue in a difficult way. &#8221;</p>
<p>The message added, “We always wonder how life is going to be if we have four or five children; we should also think that if we have four or five children and if they are able to find jobs they will contribute to the development of the country.”  In addition, the Supreme Leader introduced a <a href="http://farsi.khamenei.ir/news-content?id=26440"><span style="color: #0433ff;">14-point plan</span></a> to increase the population.</p>
<p>The Iranian regime carried out the same policy in the 1980s, encouraging larger families and more children during the Iran-Iraq war. Iran’s population reached its peak during that time.</p>
<p>On the other hand, the new Islamist bill is aimed at pushing women in the Islamic Republic to be housewives and take traditional roles as mothers rather than participate in public political and social affairs. Currently, large numbers of Iranian women are highly educated and seeking more public functions in the society.</p>
<p>Across the country, billboards that promote less children have been replaced by <a href="http://thinkprogress.org/health/2014/08/11/3469707/iran-birth-control-policy/"><span style="color: #0433ff;">mottos</span></a> such as “A single blossom is not spring” and “More children, better lives.” The Supreme Leader states rhetorically that doubling the number of the population will &#8220;<a href="http://news.yahoo.com/iranian-parliament-bans-vasectomies-bid-boost-birth-rate-124757397.html"><span style="color: #0433ff;">strengthen national identity</span></a>&#8221; as well as counter &#8220;undesirable aspects of Western lifestyles.&#8221;</p>
<p>Nevertheless, politically speaking, the population of a country can be regarded as a defining character for the political strength of that government. The new bill will purportedly double the population of Shia Muslims, providing further manpower for the Islamic Republic and strengthening its political influence, national security.  The Iranian regime will be able to have mandatory military service and hire a considerable amount of young people in its army and militia groups such as Basij by offering them incentives such as educational fellowships, loans, etc.  From the Ayatollahs and ruling political figures in the Islamic Republic, this move will ensure their hold on power in the future.</p>
<p>However, many policies have unintended consequences as well.  This restriction on women might have a backlash. It is questionable whether educated Iranian women will accept going back and being confined in homes as mothers and housewives. Secondly, the increase in population might lead to a larger discontent and disaffected population, which would pose greater risks in the future in case protests against the Iranian regime erupt, as they did in 2009. Controlling a larger dissatisfied population poses more challenges.</p>
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<blockquote style="font-style: italic; color: #8f8f8f;"><p>I&#8217;m Make-Believe Outraged!</p>
<p>I’m Andrew Klavan and this is the Revolting Truth.</p>
<p>I am make-believe outraged at some of the things I’ve been hearing lately.  I am pretending to be deeply offended and I demand an insincere and meaningless apology.</p>
<p>Everywhere I turn there’s a celebrity or a politician or a businessman or a teenager on YouTube or some guy somewhere saying something that forces me to play at being shocked and hurt as if I had nothing better to do than just sit around pretending to be shocked and hurt as if I had nothing better to do&#8230;  than that.</p>
<p>There are pundits calling Muslims terrorists as if Muslims were killing people all around the world through acts of terror. There are conservatives insisting on their constitutional rights to free speech and gun ownership as if the constitution protected free speech and gun ownership.  There are even broadcasters calling fat women fat as if fat women were, y’know, fat.</p>
<p>You can’t just go around speaking plainly like that!  I am pretending to be shocked and I demand an insincere apology.</p>
<p>And another thing.  I will not have people openly behaving as if they were exactly who they are. Christians publicly praying as if they were Christians!  Gays kissing people of their own sex as if they were homosexual!  Women acting feminine!  Men acting like men!</p>
<p>This sort of thing is make-believe outrageous!  I’m not going to be forced to live in the world as it is!  I demand hypocrisy or, so help me, I’ll recoil in feigned horror at the basic facts of life.</p>
<p>Before individuals thoughtlessly open their mouths and say something I disagree with — or recklessly behave in a way completely in keeping with human nature — I want them to display a trigger warning so I can prepare to pretend I’m traumatized.</p>
<p>Everyone knows the truth will set you free.  And we can’t have that.  This is America.  I am make-believe outraged and I demand an insincere apology!</p>
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		<title>Freedom from the Hijab</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2014 04:25:15 +0000</pubDate>
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<p>For 35 years, the Islamic Republic of Iran has forced millions of Iranian women and young girls to wear a chador, hijab, or other form covering to hide their bodies and hair. Girls are ordered to wear a hijab at the age of eight or nine.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The moral police have been deployed to crack down on those women who do not fully comply with this Islamic rule. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Growing up in the Islamic Republic, I saw how many women and girls felt it intolerable to wear a hijab, not only because it breached the personal freedoms of each citizen, but also because they found it difficult to wear a hijab on hot desert days throughout the year. One of my university friends, Sahar, dreamt to one day be able to walk freely down the street, wearing whatever she liked, feeling the breeze, the wind blowing through her hair, and not having to wear this mandatory covering that had been part of her public life since she was eight years old. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">One day, I attempted to help Sahar fulfill her dream and I took her to a field far from the eyes of the Islamic moral police, and she walked, ran, and jumped around without a scarf like a child. It felt as if she had been released from prison, like she was capable of feeling this simple pleasure of freedom for the first time.  Nevertheless, we were still afraid that there might be a governmental observer or a spy hiding somewhere. It was not a totally liberating experience. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This simple individual freedom might be taken for granted by women in the Western democratic world. And some might find it comical, ridiculous, or bizarre to have such a simple dream. But this is truly a dream for millions of Iranian women. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The summer is coming and the heat reaches over 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in Iran.  Working a full day with a thick hijab around your head and body can also cause serious health problems. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The battle between the Iranian regime, its moral Islamic police and women continues even after 35 years. When the summer comes, women attempt to push the boundaries of the religion and law by sliding their scarves a little bit back, making it looser in order to divert the heat or feel some breeze and wind. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The Islamic moral police though, ratchet up their crack down in the summer. The parliament is currently passing a new law that would work to enforce this dress code more strictly in the summer. They fine women, arrest them, detain them, jail them or even torture them if they keep resisting the Sharia and Islamic law of the land. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I believe that the Islamic law of Iran that forces and orders women to wear a mandatory hijab, and the Sharia law that punishes women who defy this rule, are not only ideological and religious, but are a means of control over women. These are legal, political, and judiciary instruments to control women’s bodies, subjugate them and humiliate them. </span></p>
<p>As a woman, if one would like to be promoted in a career, the regime imposes a much stricter dress code regarding the hijab, where no part of the body should be shown. Many people have lost their jobs due to this Islamic law.</p>
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<p>Intriguingly, one of the ways that Iranian women have started to fight back is through Facebook and other social media platforms. A Persian Facebook page has recently been created called “Stealthy Freedoms of Iranian Women.” On this page, Iranian women post their photos flaunting their hair, taking their hijabs off secretly in public spheres such as in streets, parks, mountains, and even in front of religious institutions.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A young Iranian girl posted a picture of herself without her scarf in front of one of the Grand Ayatollah’s offices. </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.facebook.com/StealthyFreedom">She wrote</a>,<span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> “We will move faster until you comprehend what we can do, whatever you say, we will do the opposite, hoping for freedom.&#8221;</span></p>
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<p>Another Iranian women posted a picture of herself, standing in water in one of the governmental fields. She said, “Freedom is a right of every human being. Freedom&#8230; happiness&#8230; colorfulness&#8230; is the right of every Iranian woman. Freedom is a right, and rights are to be fought for and obtained! They will not give it to you. So we will attain our rights ourselves.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A husband takes a photo of his wife in Masooleh, in the north of Iran. It is posted on the Facebook page with almost 3000 likes in one day. She is jumping in the air spreading her hands and feeling the breeze through her hair. She writes, “Here is Masooleh. We searched and searched until we found a place devoid of any observer! It was us… and the sun and the spring breeze! We jumped and pranced until we got tired and then lay down on the grass and slept a few hours without having to worry. If you cannot bear to see these stealthy freedoms we breed for ourselves, then see it and burn. Taken by my dear husband.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yes, having a dream that one day they could walk through the streets or university dormitories with the wind blowing through their hair is something many women think of every day.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I totally agree that some women wear the hijab of their own volition (or to be more precise, I truly believe that they have been indoctrinated by the religion, Imams, fear of Islam, fear of Allah’s punishment, or empty promises of comfort in this life and afterlife), but this does not mean all women should be forced and ordered to wear this thick cloth over their bodies, which does not have any other purpose other than hurting oneself. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">I remember my youngest sister, when she was 9 years old, would wake up almost everyday for several months in the middle of night having nightmares because her teacher and school’s Imam said that if they take of their hijab, that God has said they will be hung from their hair and tongue infinitely in </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Jahanam</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (hell) and that they will be burned over and over again for millions of years. What a merciful and lovely God (Allah) who does such things!</span></p>
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		<title>To Execute a Victim of Attempted Rape</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Apr 2014 04:36:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Islamic Republic unveils its true face. . .again.]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/jabbari21n-2-web.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-224011" alt="jabbari21n-2-web" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/jabbari21n-2-web-335x350.jpg" width="234" height="245" /></a>A few days ago, the United Nations and various international human rights groups joined a growing call for the Islamic Republic of Iran to halt the execution of a woman scheduled for Monday.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Iran’s court has sentenced Reyhaneh Jabbari to death for the 2007 killing of Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi, who was a former employee of Iran&#8217;s Ministry of Intelligence and Security.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Jabbari was acting in self-defense against Sarbandi, who attempted to rape her, and she never received a fair trial and due legal process.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to testimony of “reliable sources” and the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights, Sarbandi hired the 19-year-old Jabbari, an interior designer, to work in his office. While Sarbandi was attempting to sexually harass and rape Jabbari, a struggle began, and she stabbed him.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Therefore, Jabbari was sentenced to death for her action under the Islamic judiciary system of Iran. Why would a young professional woman be executed for defending herself against unwelcome actions from her superior, a sexual abuser?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The profound irony, and the peak of the Islamic Republic’s hypocrisy, became clear this week in a speech marking Women&#8217;s Day, when Iranian president Hassan Rouhani made international headlines by condemning any form of sexual discrimination and advocating for equal opportunities and rights for women.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to Fars News, while speaking at the National Forum on Women Shaping Economy and Culture in Tehran Rouhani pointed out, &#8220;We will not accept the culture of sexual discrimination.&#8221;</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The liberal and mainstream media took these remarks as promoting and projecting a democratic and humane image of the Iranian president.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to the 104-page UN report and UN Special Rapporteur on the Situation of Human Rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran Ahmed Shaheed, the number of executions of women and the number of prisoners on death row has increased under President Rouhani’s rule.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Beyond these sweet remarks, President Rouhani did not even scratch the surface of women’s rights regarding the actual day-to-day discrimination that women face in the Islamic Republic. He solely commented on investing in electronic technology and marketing to lay the ground for women’s scientific progress.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In other words, there was no tangible, legitimate, or nuanced explanation about how to address the institutionalized discrimination against women or how secure equality for them.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">For example, he did not mention practical solutions for ongoing gender inequality in terms of marriage and divorce, citizenship rights, nationality, international travel, employment, inheritance, child custody, among other things.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Many Iranian women activists who live in the Islamic Republic, and several of those campaigners whom I have interviewed, shed light on a different reality for women rights under Rouhani’s presidency.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Many women voted for Rouhani due to his promises for social freedom, gender equality, and for being a moderate candidate.  Nevertheless, as Sima, an Iranian teacher and women’s rights activist who lives west of Tehran in the city of Karaj, stated, </span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">“President Rouhani has been successful in making a nuclear deal and resolving some of the tension regarding nuclear issues, but the reality is that women’s conditions have not changed. The conditions are still the same as those of former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s era.”</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In mid-2013, based on a ruling passed by the constitutional body in the Islamic Republic, women are banned from running in presidential elections. A recent university policy excluded women from entering 77 courses of study. These are only few examples of recent laws being passed.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some might make the argument that Iranian women are serving in the parliament or that President Rouhani has three female vice presidents (Elham Amin-Zadeh, Shahindokht Molaverdi, and Masoumeh Ebtekar).  However, we need to comprehend the fact that a handful of carefully selected women does not represent the conditions that millions of other disenfranchised women in the Islamic Republic face. According to the World Bank, the female population in Iran (last measured in 2011) is roughly 49.54 percent, approximately 38.1 million people.</span></p>
<p>The contradictory messages from the Islamic Republic intriguingly come from top officials and from within the system. While President Rouhani has rhetorically urged for gender equality and promotions of women&#8217;s rights, the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei pointed out in comments this week that gender equality is &#8220;one of the biggest mistakes of the Western thought.&#8221;</p>
<p>For the Supreme Leader, women’s rights and employments are acceptable as long as these rights do not come in conflict with &#8220;the main issue” of family. In other words, from the Iranian hardliners and conservatives’ point of view, based on underlying ideological biases, women’s primary role in society is the fulfillment of the &#8220;family environment and household.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Rouhani’s message and position should not be analyzed as a reversal or a renegade move vis-à-vis the hardliners. Rouhani’s social base is the moderate, pragmatic section of the society and the millions of women who voted for him. This social base will be needed for Rouhani to run for reelections in a few years.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The likelihood of any positive shift in women’s rights is close to zero due to the institutionalized, unfair process in Iran’s judiciary system, Islamic and Sharia law, the fundamental ideological commonalities among moderates and hardliners when it comes to women&#8217;s critical rights, as well as the power of the Basij, the moral police, Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, and other governmental hardliner forces in enforcing the law. </span></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Walter Williams]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The government's futile attempt to combat "inequality." ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1e120686562e69a46fcdf51a22673b2e.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223915" alt="1e120686562e69a46fcdf51a22673b2e" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1e120686562e69a46fcdf51a22673b2e-450x337.jpg" width="315" height="236" /></a>&#8220;President Obama Vows Zero Tolerance on Gender Wage Gap,&#8221; read one headline. Another read, &#8220;Women Still Earned 77 Cents On Men&#8217;s Dollar In 2012.&#8221; It&#8217;s presumed that big, greedy corporations are responsible for what is seen as wage injustice. Before discussing the &#8220;unjust&#8221; wage differences between men and women, let&#8217;s acknowledge an even greater injustice — which no one seems to care about — age injustice.</p>
<p>According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, workers ages 16 to 24 earn only 54 cents on every dollar earned by workers 25 or older (http://tinyurl.com/n6puf6j). This wage gap is 43 percent greater than the male/female gap. Our president, progressives, do-gooders, academics and union leaders show little interest in big, greedy corporations ripping off the nation&#8217;s youth. You might say, &#8220;Whoa, Williams! There&#8217;s a reason younger people earn less than older people. They don&#8217;t have the skills or experience.&#8221; My response would be — if I shared the vision of the president, media elite and do-gooders: Just as there can be no justification for big, greedy corporations paying women less than they pay men, there&#8217;s no justification for them to exploit the nation&#8217;s youth.</p>
<p>The 77 percent median income statistic, used in discussions about male/female differences in earnings, tells us nothing about differences that might explain the differences in income, and it leads to stupid discussions. Let&#8217;s use some common sense and look at some differences between men and women that may have a bearing on earnings.</p>
<p>Kay S. Hymowitz&#8217;s article &#8220;Why the Gender Gap Won&#8217;t Go Away. Ever,&#8221; in City Journal (summer 2011), shows that female doctors earn only 64 percent of what male doctors earn. But it turns out that only 16 percent of surgeons are women, whereas 50 percent of pediatricians are women. Even though surgeons have put in many more years of education and training than pediatricians and earn higher pay, should Obama and Congress equalize their salaries? Alternatively, they might force female pediatricians to become surgeons.</p>
<p>There are inequalities everywhere.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Asian men and women have median earnings higher than white men and women. Female cafeteria attendants earn more than their male counterparts. Females who are younger than 30 and have never been married earn salaries 8 percent higher than males of the same description. Among women who graduated from college during 1992-93, by 2003 more than one-fifth were no longer in the workforce<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, and another 17 percent were working part time. That&#8217;s to be compared with only 2 percent of men in either category. Hymowitz cites several studies showing significant career choice and lifestyle differences between men and women that result in differences in income.</span></span><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">According to 2010 BLS data<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, the following jobs contain 1 percent or less female workers: boilermakers, brick masonry, stonemasonry, septic tank servicing, sewer pipe cleaners and trash collectors. By contrast, women are 97 percent of preschool and kindergarten teachers, 80 percent of social workers, 82 percent of </span>librarians and 92 percent of dietitians and nutritionists and registered nurses.</span></p>
<p>For people having limited thinking skills, differences in earnings cannot be explained away. For them, Congress has permitted — and even fostered — a misallocation of people by race, sex and ethnicity. They&#8217;ll argue that courts have consistently concluded that &#8220;gross&#8221; disparities are probative of a pattern and practice of discrimination. So what to do? Maybe President Obama and Congress should require women, who are overrepresented in preschool and kindergarten teaching, to become boilermakers, garbage collectors and brick masons and mandate that male boilermakers, trash collectors and brick masons become preschool and kindergarten teachers until both of their percentages are equal to their percentages in the population. You say, &#8220;Williams, to do that would be totalitarianism!&#8221; I say that if Americans accept that Congress can force us to buy health insurance, how much more totalitarian would it be for Congress to force people to take jobs they don&#8217;t want?</p>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Apr 2014 04:50:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why there can never be compatibility between the two. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/militants1n-3-web.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223589" alt="militants1n-3-web" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/militants1n-3-web-450x343.jpg" width="315" height="240" /></a>Recently, I met a Syrian Salafist while speaking to Leaders of Democracy Fellows about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Islam and human rights violations in Syria.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The individual who lives in Syria, and who seems to sympathize with Jubhat Al- Nusrah (Al-Nusrah Front), drew several distinctions between Islamic objectives of the global Jihad movement, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant, and Jubhat Al-Nusrah.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The argument was that these powerful movements in Syria and beyond attempt to create an Islamic state anchored in Shari’a law, the teachings of Islam, Muhammad, and Allah. But the difference between Jubhat Al-Nusrah and ISIL, according to the person, was that the mission of the Jubhat Al-Nusrah aims at only establishing Islamic social order and an Islamic state in Syria. Whether this mission spreads to other countries is not a part of their objectives, though other countries can adopt this political Islamic platform if they desire.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">On the other hand, the objectives and mission of ISIL is a return to the Caliphate system and establishment of an Islamic state throughout the region. In other words, creating an Islamic state and Shari’a law-based government in Syria or in Iraq is not sufficient and will not fulfill the desire of God, Muhammad, and Islamic teachings.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Currently, we can contend that Syrian oppositional groups are functionally dominated by Jihadists from around the world, other Islamist groups, and external groups attempting to create an Islamic order and pursue their own ideological goals.  </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Regarding these Islamic movements, my major question is on where human rights stand for them, regardless of the minor or significant differences between these Islamist oppositional groups.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Recently, a seven-year-old boy died because fighters believed him to be an apostate. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a 15-year-old Syrian boy was also killed in the northern city of Aleppo in front of his parents because the Islamist groups believed what the boy said was heretical.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Some of the proponents of Islam and Islamic laws would point out that the ideology and religion of Islam sit at the heart of human rights standards and are totally compatible with the modern notion of human rights. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">But when I delve into the issue, and going into the nuances and details of the question, they seem to dodge answering. How can Islam be compatible with a modern notion of human rights and gender equality, when social and legal laws of Allah’s words in Quran, depict women as inferior to men in every aspect?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Article three of the universal declaration of human rights, states that &#8220;Everyone has the right to life, liberty and security of person.&#8221; But in Islamic countries, a person who rejects and abandons Islam has no right to life. According to Islam, unbelievers commit the gravest sin in Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While article four of the universal declaration of human rights says “one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms,&#8221; slavery is officially recognized and accepted in Quran.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Article five states that “No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment.” Cases of stoning, lashings, and other violent acts are rampant in Islamic countries.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">How can Islam be compatible with human rights when, according to Muslims and the Quran, Allah specifically states in the Quran that a woman’s testimony in a court of law is considered half the value to that of a man?</span></p>
<p><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">&#8220;And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not found then a man and two women.&#8221; </i>[<span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Qur&#8217;an (2:282)]</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A Muslim told me that scientific data shows women’s logical and speaking neurological center in brain are at the same place, and as a result, they are more forgetful than men! And so, this is why God made their testimony worth half. I was totally confounded and baffled by this ungrounded logic.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">How can Islam be compatible with human rights when according to Muslims and the Quran, Allah states that women inherit less than men in several instances?</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">They ask thee for a legal decision. Say: Allah directs about those who leave no descendants or ascendants as heirs. If it is a man that dies, leaving a sister but no child, she shall have half the inheritance: If a woman, who left no child, Her brother takes her inheritance: If there are two sisters, they shall have two-thirds of the inheritance: if there are brothers and sisters, the male having twice the share of the female. Thus doth Allah make clear to you , lest ye err. And Allah hath knowledge of all things. (Quran 4:176)</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">All Muslims are expected to follow and implement the rules of Islamic inheritance clearly stated in the Quran, verbatim words of God, accordingly.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In addition, how can the ideology of Islam be in line with human rights when abandoning Islam triggers punishments, including execution? Or does the law that allows a man to marry four wives respect the rights of women? Do these Islamic laws comply with the article one of the universal declaration of human rights that “All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood”?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The aforementioned laws reveal how women are restricted and seen as inferior. While men can marry any women from any other religion, Muslim women are not allowed to marry a non-Muslim.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There are also the rights of an accused person to a fair trial, which is mentioned in the Universal Declaration of Human rights. While a women’s testimony is worth half, non-Muslims are not permitted to testify against Muslims.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">These are only samples of the contradictions and incompatibilities between the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and Islamic laws and doctrines. The critical phenomenon is that as long as the Quran is perceived to be the words of God—and hence should be implemented word by word— and as long Islam views itself as part of the state, I think there can never be compatibility between the modern notion of human rights and Islam.</span></p>
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		<title>The &#8216;War on Women&#8217; and Statistical Frauds</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2014 04:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Thomas Sowell]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Left's war against common sense. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/equal-pay-women-006.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223546" alt="equal-pay-women-006" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/equal-pay-women-006-450x270.jpg" width="315" height="189" /></a>The &#8220;war on women&#8221; political slogan is in fact a war against common sense.</p>
<p>It is a statistical fraud when Barack Obama and other politicians say that women earn only 77 percent of what men earn — and that this is because of discrimination.</p>
<p>It would certainly be discrimination if women were doing the same work as men, for the same number of hours, with the same amount of training and experience, as well as other things being the same. But study after study, over the past several decades, has shown repeatedly that those things are not the same.</p>
<p>Constantly repeating the &#8220;77 percent&#8221; statistic does not make them the same. It simply takes advantage of many people&#8217;s ignorance — something that Barack Obama has been very good at doing on many other issues.</p>
<p>What if you compare women and men who are the same on all the relevant characteristics?</p>
<p>First of all, you can seldom do that, because the statistics you would need are not always available for the whole range of occupations and the whole range of differences between women&#8217;s patterns and men&#8217;s patterns in the labor market.</p>
<p>Even where relevant statistics are available, careful judgment is required to pick samples of women and men who are truly comparable.</p>
<p>For example, some women are mothers and some men are fathers. But does the fact that they are both parents make them comparable in the labor market? Actually the biggest disparity in incomes is between fathers and mothers. Nor is there anything mysterious about this, when you stop and think about it.</p>
<p>How surprising is it that women with children do not earn as much as women who do not have children? If you don&#8217;t think children take up a mother&#8217;s time, you just haven&#8217;t raised any children.</p>
<p>How surprising is it that men with children earn more than men without children, just the opposite of the situation with women? Is it surprising that a man who has more mouths to feed is more likely to work longer hours? Or take on harder or more dangerous jobs, in order to earn more money?</p>
<p>More than 90 percent of the people who are killed on the job are men.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">During my research on male-female differences for my book &#8220;Economic Facts and Fallacies,&#8221; I was amazed to learn that young male doctors earned much higher incomes than young female doctors. But it wasn&#8217;t so amazing after I discovered that young male doctors worked over 500 hours more per year than young female doctors. </span>There is no point pretending that there are no differences between what women do and what men do in the workplace, or that these differences don&#8217;t affect income.</p>
<p>Even when women and men work at jobs that have the same title — whether doctors, lawyers, economists or whatever — people do not get paid for what their job title is, but for what they actually do.</p>
<p>Women lawyers who are pregnant, or who have young children, may have good reasons to prefer a 9 to 5 job in a government agency to working 60 hours a week in a high-powered law firm. But there is no point comparing male lawyers as a group with female lawyers as a group, if you don&#8217;t look any deeper than job titles.</p>
<p>Unless, of course, you are not looking for the truth, but for political talking points to excite the gullible.</p>
<p>Even when you compare women and men with the &#8220;same&#8221; education, as measured by college or university degrees, the women usually specialize in a very different mix of subjects, with very different income-earning potential.</p>
<p>Although comparing women and men who are in fact comparable is not easy to do, when you look at women and men who are similar on multiple factors, the sex differential in pay shrinks drastically and gets close to the vanishing point. In some categories, women earn more than men with the same range of characteristics.</p>
<p>If the 77 percent statistic was for real, employers would be paying 30 percent more than they had to, every time they hired a man to do a job that a woman could do just as well. Would employers be such fools with their own money? If you think employers don&#8217;t care about paying 30 percent more than they have to, just go ask your boss for a 30 percent raise!</p>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lead_large.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-223029" alt="lead_large" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/lead_large-450x288.jpg" width="270" height="173" /></a>Yesterday, a president apparently oblivious to his own hypocrisy teamed up with a Democratic Party eager to push the lie of the &#8220;gender gap&#8221; and agitate against sexist America. </span></p>
<p>On the <a href="http://dailycaller.com/2014/04/08/gop-women-paycheck-fairness-act-merely-a-desperate-political-ploy/">progressive-labeled</a> &#8220;National Equal Pay Day,” which allegedly represents the additional time it takes women to earn the same amount of money men made the previous year, Obama signed an executive order <a href="http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2014/4/7/president-obama-equalpaygapgenderinequalityexecutiveorder.html">mandating</a> that federal contractors publish wage data by gender and race to ensure they are in compliance with already existing equal pay laws. The order also prohibits employers from retaliating against workers who divulge their salaries to their fellow workers.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Senior White House advisor Valerie Jarrett inadvertently </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/valerie-jarrett-wage-transparency-will-help-employers-avoid-lawsuits">revealed</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> what this order was really all about in an appearance on MSNBC. &#8220;Employers also should welcome these new tools that they&#8217;ll have available so they can avoid lawsuits, because they&#8217;ll have the statistics to be able to correct pay discrepancies before it ever gets to litigation,&#8221; Jarrett said. </span></p>
<p>One is left to wonder how many man-hours employers will be forced to waste compiling data to serve their government masters, despite the reality that wage discrimination has been banned by law <i>since 1963,</i> and the so-called gender or wage gap that engendered the order has been thoroughly <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/01/no-women-don-t-make-less-money-than-men.html">debunked</a>.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Nonetheless, in keeping with his fellow Democrats, Obama was more than willing to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2014/04/08/obamas-remarks-on-unequal-pay-between-men-women/">promote</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> the same lie he did during his State of the Union address. &#8220;Today, the average full-time working woman earns just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns,” he declared. “For African American women, Latinas, it’s even less. And in 2014, that’s an embarrassment. It is wrong.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Those last three words are certainly accurate, and the president and his fellow Democrats know it. The so-called wage gap is the ultimate apples-to-oranges comparison, using data compiled in a 2010 </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-239.pdf">report</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by the U.S. Census Bureau. The major problem with the report is that it lumped the data on all jobs together, making no distinction between professions, or other controlling factors such as experience, age, educational level, marital status or personal choice.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">When such control factors </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">are</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> introduced, as a 2009 </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf">study</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> compiled by the Labor Department analyzing more than 50 peer-reviewed papers reveals, any existing wage gap virtually disappears. In fact for the Millennial Generation, a childless woman in her 20s living in a metropolitan setting </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://blog.heritage.org/2014/01/17/gender-equality-isnt-myth-wage-gap/">makes</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> about 8 percent </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">more</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> than her male counterpart. The 2009 research corroborates a 2005 </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w11240.pdf">study</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> by the National Bureau of Economic Research.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Not that it matters to Democrats or the president. Remaining consistent with his fact-free agenda, Obama promoted another lie as well. &#8220;We got to make it possible for more women to enter high-paying fields that up until now have been dominated by men, like engineering and computer science. Women hold less than 6 percent of our country’s commercial patents — that’s not good enough,” he said.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">There is absolutely nothing preventing any of that from happening already, save for one factor: the choices made by women themselves. A </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf">study</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> compiled by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce reveals that of the ten college majors that lead to the highest paying jobs, men overwhelmingly dominate nine-out-of-ten categories. The ten majors that lead to the lowest paying jobs? Overwhelmingly dominated by women, in nine-out-of-ten categories.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This reality truly annoys Obama and his fellow progressives who have long dedicated themselves to the idiotic proposition that virtually every difference between the sexes is a societal construct, rather than anything remotely resembling a biological manifestation. Thus a woman who </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">freely chooses</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a career in the lower-paying field of Early Childhood Education, rather than one in the far higher-paying field of Petroleum Engineering, makes no sense to them. Or worse, such choices represent de facto evidence of discrimination.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Such de facto discrimination was precisely what the president alluded to when he exhorted the Senate to hold a vote on the Paycheck Fairness Act today. &#8220;So everybody who cares about this should pay attention to how the Senate votes tomorrow on this paycheck fairness act, because the majority of senators support this bill. But two years ago, a minority of Senate Republicans blocked it from getting a vote,” Obama said.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">A majority of senators are Democrats, who are more than willing to support this additional </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.aei.org/article/society-and-culture/race-and-gender/the-case-against-the-paycheck-fairness-act/">sop</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> to feminist groups and trial lawyers, and Republicans who blocked it were right to do so. The Paycheck Fairness Act encourages class-action lawsuits, because it leaves defendants liable for uncapped punitive damages, pressuring them to settle as a result. Even more perniciously, it not only makes employers liable for intentional discrimination, which has long been outlawed, but for the &#8220;lingering effects of past discrimination.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Those lingering effects will be defined in testimony given by gender “experts,” more than likely attuned to the American left’s belief that rampant sexism permeates our culture. If this effort succeeds, the market forces that currently determine what a job is worth, will undoubtedly give way to capricious definitions of historic discrimination.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The bill also authorizes the awarding of grants by the Labor Secretary to organizations that will teach women how to negotiate better wages and compensation. Such “fairness” leaves men, who have suffered far greater job losses than women during the current recession, on the outside looking in.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Three Republican committee spokeswomen pushed back in a statement, noting that the Act would do more harm than good. “This law will not create ‘equal’ pay, but it will make it nearly impossible for employers to tie compensation to work quality, productivity and experience, reduce flexibility in the workplace, and make it far easier to file frivolous lawsuits that line the pockets of trial lawyers,” contended RNC National Press Secretary Kirsten Kukowski, the NRCC’s Andrea Bozek, and the NRSC&#8217;s Brook Hougesen. &#8220;Ultimately, this bill will hurt all workers, especially women.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The trio also illuminated the Democrats&#8217; real motivation. “These are the same Democrats who controlled the White House and Senate for the last five years but always seem to wait for an election year to push another empty promise,” they stated. “The truth is the ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ is a desperate political ploy.  And Democrats are cynically betting that Americans aren’t smart enough to know better.”</span></p>
<p>Unfortunately for Democrats and the White House, an unusually attentive mainstream media was smart enough to notice the rank hypocrisy of a White House promoting a wage gap myth, even as they have a <i>genuine</i> wage gap occurring right under their noses. &#8220;The White House is getting…roughed up by its own pay equity rhetoric,” <a href="http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/cbs-wh-roughed-its-own-pay-equity-rhetoric_786675.html">reported</a> CBS&#8217;s Major Garrett. &#8220;An analysis of White House salaries, which nobody here disputes, shows that the median income of female staffers is 88 percent of that of male staffers.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In terms of numbers, the median annual salary for women in the White House last year was $65,000, while the median annual salary for men was $73,729.</span></p>
<p>It gets even better. Garrett goes on to reveal the same White House that calculatingly ignored the aforementioned facts to promote the wage gap myth, falls back on them to defend itself. &#8220;Now the study also showed that men and women with the same White House jobs earn exactly the same salary,” Garrett notes. &#8220;Now the White House said its gender pay gap is tied to job experience, education, and hours worked among other factors.”</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">CNN’s John King </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.bizpacreview.com/2014/04/08/white-house-spin-on-equal-pay-so-inept-even-cnn-mocks-carney-111353">piled on</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, calling the double-standard a “textbook case of ‘do as I say, not as I do.” CNN then played a clip of White House Press Secretary Jay Carney’s pathetic defense of that double-standard, in which he contended the White House “has aggressively addressed this challenge” before asserting that the pay gap there “is better than the national average.” “Is that the best you got?” King wondered.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Yes, it is. Democrats and Obama have long embraced the idea that the accumulation and maintenance of power is all that matters. Thus, if it takes lying, hypocrisy, contempt for the law and deliberately turning Americans against each other to achieve that end, so be it. Their desperation is amplified by the ObamaCare debacle, but that doesn’t obscure one over-riding reality: Democrats would rather rule over a bitterly divided and failing nation, than serve as a minority party in a united and prosperous one. In seven months, Americans get their chance to thoroughly repudiate that odious worldview. They should make the most of it.</span></p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Raymond Ibrahim]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mn.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222687" alt="mn" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/mn.jpg" width="278" height="202" /></a>Within the context of keeping the Syrian jihad alive, it seems there is no end to the attempts of some Islamic clerics to legitimize otherwise forbidden behavior in order to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/allahs-sword-of-terror/">gratify the sexual urges of the jihadis</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> and keep them fighting Syrian president Bashar Assad.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">First, there was the now infamous “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/sex-jihad-and-western-disbelief/">sex-jihad</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">” fatwa, which holds that any Muslim woman who willingly allows her body to be used by the sexually-deprived jihadis becomes herself a jihadi, if not a “martyr,” deserving of all the honor and rewards associated with those titles.  (Much has been written about the sex jihad, including </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/islamic-doctrines-justify-sex-jihad-with-video/">videotaped testimonials</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">—and how one teenage girl, after copulating with countless jihadis, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/aids-and-pregnant-tunisian-girl-recounts-her-sex-jihad-in-syria/">got pregnant and contracted aids</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">—even as pro-Syrian war Western entities like </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/islam/foreign-policy-magazine-covers-up-syrian-sex-jihad/"><i>Foreign Policy</i> try to deny it</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">.)</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Another fatwa permitted the jihadis in Syria to </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/new-fatwa-permits-rape-of-non-sunni-women-in-syria/">enslave and rape any non-Sunni women</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">—including Alawites (Assad’s sect), Christians, Druze, and all Shia—in the context of their status as </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">melk al-yamin</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> or “</span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ma_malakat_aymanukum">right hand possessions</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">,” per Koran 4:3 (a verse that permits the enslavement and sexual use of conquered “infidel” women). </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Now, the same Islamic cleric who issued this last “rape fatwa” has issued another fatwa urging destitute women in war torn Syria to become the “right hand possessions” of any man willing to support them—basically, to sell themselves into sex-slavery.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2_ek8H6OVw">video</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> that appeared in December 2013, Jordanian Sheikh Yassin al-Ajlawni, who says he lived in Syria for 17 years, asserted that “the needy, disenfranchised Syrian woman is permitted to ask the Muslim man who is capable of supporting her, to enter into a “right hand possession” contract with him, whereby she becomes his right hand possession.” </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Ajlawni’s logic is that, because Syria is in a state of war, and the numbers of men are dropping, needy and displaced women are permitted to seek out support by selling themselves into concubinage.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In the Muslim sheikh’s own words:</span></p>
<blockquote><p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">We hereby give fatwa permitting the Syrian woman who desires to be married to a Muslim man, via a “right hand possession” contract—whereby he becomes her master and she becomes his slave—that all this contract needs is for the woman be clean of her menstruation period, and that this contract be registered with the sheikhs or other authorities, either in a Sharia or civil court…  Afterwards, once the woman says, “I give you possession over myself,” via contract of “right hand possession,” this woman becomes his loyal servant, and he her lord; she becomes a slave and concubine to him, and he must support her according to a previously agreed upon monetary fee … thus they become governed by the rulings of “right hand possession,” and there is no problem with this, Allah willing.</span></p></blockquote>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To bolster his fatwa, al-Ajlawni referred to a few hadiths (recorded words and teachings of Islam’s prophet Muhammad), </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://library.islamweb.net/newlibrary/display_book.php?idfrom=10810&amp;idto=10863&amp;bk_no=79&amp;ID=257">including</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">: “One of the signs of the [final] hour is that knowledge will decrease, ignorance will increase, adultery will appear, women will grow in numbers, while men will grow less, so that fifty women will be worth one [man].”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Al-Ajlawni also cited a </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://library.islamweb.net/newlibrary/display_book.php?idfrom=9565&amp;idto=9566&amp;bk_no=52&amp;ID=2916">hadith</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> from the canonical </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Sahih Bukhari</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, which has the prophet saying: “whenever </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">fitna</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> [sedition from Islam] becomes widespread, Allah distinguishes his followers, so that 50 women follow one man, saying, ‘Oh Abdullah [“slave of Allah”], take care of me,’” adding that in the same narrative the woman says, “O Abdullah, have sex with me.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In closing, the sheikh said: “We call on the ulema of Syria to adopt this [fatwa], for it is the only legitimate way to guarantee that displaced Syrian women who have no one to rely on but Allah are not physically or sexually exploited or beaten in ways that contradict Sharia.  All prayers and blessings upon our prophet.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">While one may rationalize such fatwas away in the context of the chaotic situation in Syria, the fact is, the same fatwa, the same logic, was earlier issued in Egypt, soon after Muhammad Morsi became president in 2012.  Then, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/egypts-first-sex-slave-marriage/">Egypt’s first “sex slave” marriage</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> took place, when a woman declared before her future master-spouse,” “I enslave myself to you,” before they kissed to an applauding crowd. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The justification for “right hand possession” marriages in Egypt was not displaced and destitute women, but rather young, sexually-frustrated men not able to afford wives, and women who wish to dress promiscuously—since the rules governing female “right hand possessions” forbid them from wearing the hijab (as sex-slaves, they are required to be partially naked, differentiating them from Muslim women, </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.raymondibrahim.com/from-the-arab-world/muslim-woman-seeks-to-revive-institution-of-sex-slavery/">as explained by this Kuwaiti woman</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">).</span></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Apr 2014 04:26:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/218821_5_.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-222446" alt="218821_5_" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/218821_5_-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>During his State of the Union address, President Obama </span><a style="line-height: 1.5em;" href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/01/no-women-don-t-make-less-money-than-men.html">restated</a><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> a long-discredited factoid. “Today women make up about half our workforce,&#8221; he declared. &#8220;But they still make 77 cents for every dollar a man earns. That is wrong, and in 2014, it’s an embarrassment.”</span></p>
<p>What&#8217;s truly embarrassing is a president who seeks to once again divide Americans against each other using inaccurate information as his vehicle. The so-called wage gap is <a href="http://blog.heritage.org/2014/01/17/gender-equality-isnt-myth-wage-gap/">based</a> on calculations done by the <a href="http://www.census.gov/prod/2011pubs/p60-239.pdf">U.S. Census Bureau</a>.  Yet when the Bureau compiled those calculations, it made no distinction between professions, lumping them all together. Thus, as the Heritage Foundation explains, &#8220;if high school teachers make less than congressmen&#8230;and there are more women who are teachers and more men in the U.S. Congress, then yes, the numbers will show that men make more than women.&#8221;</p>
<p>On the other hand, when an apples-to-apple comparison is made, as in controlling for occupation, experience, hours worked per week, education and other choices, a 2009 <a href="http://www.consad.com/content/reports/Gender%20Wage%20Gap%20Final%20Report.pdf">study</a> commissioned by the Department of Labor reveals that the so-called wage gap narrows to approximately five cents on the dollar. This corroborates a 2005 <a href="http://www.nber.org/papers/w11240.pdf">study</a> compiled by the National Bureau of Economic Research, which concluded that the gender gap &#8220;largely stems from choices made by women and men concerning the amount of time and energy devoted to a career, as reflected in years of work experience, utilization of part-time work, and other workplace and job characteristics.&#8221;</p>
<p>A <a href="http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/02/01/no-women-don-t-make-less-money-than-men.html">report</a> by the left-leaning Daily Beast adds another factor to the list. The website cites a <a href="http://www9.georgetown.edu/grad/gppi/hpi/cew/pdfs/whatsitworth-complete.pdf">document</a> compiled by the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce entitled, &#8220;What&#8217;s it Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors,&#8221; that does in fact reveal a gender gap &#8212; in the choice of majors. In the list of the ten &#8220;most remunerative majors,&#8221; the percentage of men overwhelmingly dominate those of women in nine of the ten categories:</p>
<p>1.   Petroleum Engineering: 87 percent male</p>
<p>2.   Pharmacy Pharmaceutical Sciences and Administration: 48 percent male</p>
<p>3.   Mathematics and Computer Science: 67 percent male</p>
<p>4.   Aerospace Engineering: 88 percent male</p>
<p>5.   Chemical Engineering: 72 percent male</p>
<p>6.   Electrical Engineering: 89 percent male</p>
<p>7.   Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering: 97 percent male</p>
<p>8.   Mechanical Engineering: 90 percent male</p>
<p>9.   Metallurgical Engineering: 83 percent male</p>
<p>10. Mining and Mineral Engineering: 90 percent male</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">By contrast, the ten least remunerative majors are dominated by women in nine out of ten categories:</span></p>
<p>1.  Counseling Psychology: 74% female</p>
<p>2.  Early Childhood Education: 97% female</p>
<p>3.  Theology and Religious Vocations: 34% female</p>
<p>4.  Human Services and Community Organization: 81% female</p>
<p>5.  Social Work: 88% female</p>
<p>6.  Drama and Theater Arts: 60% female</p>
<p>7.  Studio Arts: 66% female</p>
<p>8.  Communication Disorders Sciences and Services: 94% female</p>
<p>9.  Visual and Performing Arts: 77% female</p>
<p>10. Health and Medical Preparatory Programs: 55% female</p>
<p>The difference in wage scales is dramatic. For example median earnings for those with a degree in metallurgy and petroleum engineering range from $80,000 to $120,000. By comparison, the median earnings for careers in early childhood education and social work range from $36,000 to $39,000. Doubtless a certain level of cultural conditioning factors in those choices. As the Daily Beast notes, women are far more likely to be attached to jobs in &#8220;caring professions,&#8221; while men opt for &#8220;people-free zones.&#8221; But they omit what may be the most critical factor of all: selecting a college major is a freely-made, <i>personal</i> choice.</p>
<p>Unsurprisingly, reality appears to irritate those with a political agenda. Even as a study <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/christina-hoff-sommers/wage-gap_b_2073804.html">compiled</a> by the feminist group American Association of University Women (AAUW) revealed that the pay-gap between men and women is virtually nonexistent when the aforementioned controls are introduced, they still tried to spin their own data. The <i>Huffington Post&#8217;s </i>Christina Hoff explains how. &#8220;For example, its researchers count &#8216;social science&#8217; as one college major and report that, among such majors, women earned only 83 percent of what men earned,&#8221; she writes. &#8220;That may sound unfair&#8230; until you consider that &#8216;social science&#8217; includes both economics and sociology majors.&#8221; Nonetheless, the AAUW remains wedded to ideology. “Women’s personal choices are similarly fraught with inequities,” that result in women being “pigeonholed” into “pink-collar” jobs in the health and education fields, they contend.</p>
<p>The <a href="http://now.org/">National Organization for Women</a> (NOW) is equally agenda-driven. While they concede that much of the pay gap is driven by personal choice, they insist that powerful sexist stereotypes &#8220;steer&#8221; women and men &#8220;toward different education, training, and career paths&#8221; and family roles. That&#8217;s a rather remarkable statement from one of America&#8217;s foremost promoters of feminism. It suggest that women aren&#8217;t bright enough or aware enough to overcome stereotyping. Is there any doubt that a man making the same observation would be labeled an unrepetant misogynist by the women at NOW?</p>
<p>The Atlantic&#8217;s Derek Thompson also <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/05/the-biggest-myth-about-the-gender-wage-gap/276367/">concedes</a> that the real gender gap revolves around one&#8217;s choice of profession, but it still irritates him. &#8220;But even if the gender gap disappears after controlling for experience and job selection, it&#8217;s hard to imagine that men thoroughly dominating the highest-paying positions is a good outcome,&#8221; he insists. &#8220;For example, the expectation that women more than men bear the responsibility to raise children gently nudges thousands of highly educated women out of full-time work.&#8221;</p>
<p>That so-called expectation is belied by a Pew Research Center <a href="http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2013/03/14/modern-parenthood-roles-of-moms-and-dads-converge-as-they-balance-work-and-family/#fn-16485-1">survey</a>. It notes that while a nearly equal percent of mothers and fathers say they&#8217;d rather be at home raising their children than working, fathers are far more likely than mothers to say they want full-time jobs. Once again, personal choice is the critical factor. On the other hand, the survey also reveals that those choices are changing. Between 2007 and 2012, the percentage of women who indicated they would rather work full-time has increased from 20 percent to 32 percent.</p>
<p>The devil is in the details, however. Much of that change in attitude may be attributable to a bad economy, as women in the most precarious financial situations are more inclined to desire full-time work. Marital status is also an important factor. In 2007, only 26 percent of unmarried mothers wanted full-time work. By 2012 that number had substantially increased to 49 percent. By contrast, 23 percent of married women wanted a full time job in 2007, and that percentage remained unchanged by 2012.</p>
<p>The Pew Center notes that for those determined to frame the issue in terms of a political agenda, it is one that can cut both ways. They note that in the last recession, the net employment for male workers fell by 3 million jobs, compared to only half that number for women. The reason for the disparity is simple. Far more men than women work in the construction, manufacturing, and finance sectors hit hardest by the downturn. &#8220;No one would assert that anti-male bigotry explains the recession’s disproportionate impact,&#8221; they conclude, even as they state the most obvious reason for the pay gap myth. &#8220;Federal and state laws already prohibit sex-based discrimination,&#8221; they explain.</p>
<p>So why do President Obama and his fellow travelers continue to promote a false agenda? The Beast suggests it may amount to nothing more than being &#8220;taken in by the apologetics of groups like the National Organization for Women and the American Association of University Women.&#8221; Yet at the same time, they note the White House has been alerted on more than one occasion about the error, citing a <i>Washington Post</i> &#8220;Fact Checker&#8221; <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/fact-checker/post/the-white-houses-use-of-data-on-the-gender-wage-gap/2012/06/04/gJQAYH6nEV_blog.html">column</a> written in 2012 as evidence that the wage gap has been debunked for quite some time.</p>
<p>Moreover the issue, such as it exists, may be taking care of itself. According to <a href="http://www.bls.gov/news.release/nlsyth.nr0.htm">stats</a> compiled by the Department of Labor, 32 percent of 27-year-old women have earned a bachelor’s degree, compared to only 24 percent of men the same age. There was a similar disparity between men and women with some college and/or a degree as well. Seventy percent of 27-year-old women had a bachelor’s degree or some college attendance, compared to only 61 percent of men. Personal choice will still figure into the overall picture, but it would appear more women will have more choices to make than their male counterparts.</p>
<p>The real agenda being pursued by Obama and company is the one they have always pursued: winning elections by any means necessary. And if that takes riling up a feminist base already attuned to the Democrats&#8217; war on women agenda with another &#8220;lie repeated often enough,&#8221; so be it.</p>
<p>The president may wish to tread carefully, however. According to the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/disclosures/annual-records/2013">2013 Annual Report to Congress on White House Staff</a>, the White House has its very own gender pay gap. Its 228 female employees received a median annual salary of $65,000 that year, while the 231 male staffers earned a median annual salary of nearly $73,729. That amounts to a 12 percent, or 88 cents on the dollar, disparity. If such an inconvenient reality appears very much in alignment with another cherished progressive value &#8212; as in &#8220;do as I say, not as I do&#8221; &#8212; that&#8217;s because it is.</p>
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		<title>The Islamic State of Iran and Gender Discrimination</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Feb 2014 05:35:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Majid Rafizadeh]]></dc:creator>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Woman-Hanging-Iran-2.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-219505" alt="Woman Hanging Iran 2" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/Woman-Hanging-Iran-2-300x350.jpg" width="240" height="280" /></a>Only a few days after a United Nations Special Rapporteurs announcement on the situation of human rights in Iran, a woman was hanged by the Iranian regime in the Lorestan province, as the local media reported.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Even with the seemingly moderate President Hassan Rouhani leading the Islamic Republic of Iran, no action has been taken to address the discriminatory legal and social laws regarding women and young girls. Women are not allowed to exercise basic civil rights in Iran as well.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">To be more specific, some of the laws in the Islamic Republic totally contradict internationally accepted human rights standards, reinforcing the superiority of men over women. </span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In verse 34 of the Quran, which is increasingly cited by Islamic officials, “men are in charge of women by [right of] what Allah has given one over the other and what they spend [for maintenance] from their wealth. So righteous women are devoutly obedient, guarding in [the husband's] absence what Allah would have them guard. But those [wives] from whom you fear arrogance &#8211; advise them; forsake them in bed; and [finally], strike them.”</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">This verse has been applied to various areas of Iranian law. For example, when it comes to criminal law in the Islamic law of Iran, girls can be held criminally responsible at the ages of 8-9 years old, while criminal responsibility for boys begins at 15 years old. Why should girls be regarded as mature adults at 8-9 years old?</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">If a woman is killed in Iran, her blood money (money the family receives in compensation) is not equal to that of man. Women are worth half of that of a man. For criminal laws, according to Islamic Sharia law, sexual intercourse outside of marriage is punishable through the stoning of men and women. However, evidence indicates that women have been stoned at a greater proportion than men.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Honor killing is still practiced in provinces such as Eilam, Khuzestan, Kordestan, Fars, Lorestan, Azerbaijan, and Kermanshah, while the Iranian regime ignores these cases. In addition, a woman’s testimony in court is worth half that of a man’s testimony, based on criminal law.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">In addition, while women are required to wear a Hijab, backed by Article 683, which states: “Those women that appear in the streets and public places without the Islamic hijab, shall be sentenced from ten days to two months’ imprisonment or fined from fifty thousand to five hundred thousand Rials,” there is no similar law and penal code for men.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Regarding family law, girls are legally allowed to marry at 8-9 years old, while boys must be at least 15 years old. Further, the father is the natural guardian who can marry off his daughter; even if the girl is an adult, she cannot marry someone on her own. Wives and daughters cannot leave the country without the official permission of their husbands or natural guardian. They also cannot obtain a passport without the consent of their husbands.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Muslim men can marry women from other religions (religions of the book), while women cannot marry a non-Muslim unless the man converts to Islam.</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Also under family law, it goes without saying that the woman can only contract one marriage at one time, but there is no restriction on the number of wives a man can have. Though many follow Quranic verses that allow four wives, under the Shia Islamic belief system, a </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Mut’a</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;"> (temporary marriage) can provide a loophole.  In </span><i style="line-height: 1.5em;">Mut’a</i><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">, Muslim men are allowed contract an unlimited number of temporary marriages, for a fixed period of time.</span></p>
<p>Article 1105 of the Civil Code states, “In relations between husband and wife, the position of the head of the family exclusively belongs to the husband.”</p>
<p>One of the most appalling laws is <i>Tamkin</i>,<i> </i>meaning submission or obedience. To be more specific, <i>Tamkin</i> has been defined as the full accessibility and unhampered sexual availability of the woman to her husband. Sexual availability is considered a woman’s duty and a man’s right.</p>
<p>When it comes to employment laws, Article 1117 of the Civil Code indicates “The husband can prevent his wife from an occupation or technical profession which is incompatible with the family’s interests or the dignity of him or his wife.” Men can initiate a unilateral divorce.</p>
<p>In family law and inheritance rules, women only receive half as much as their brothers or other male relatives. Even if a husband dies, the wife will receive only one-eighth of the inheritance if she has a child. The law also prevents women from being judges.</p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">The protection of every person’s human rights “without distinction of sex” are enshrined in Article 2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) and Article 2 of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR).</span></p>
<p><span style="line-height: 1.5em;">Hypocritically, while the Islamic Republic of Iran is a signatory of the ICCPR, and while there is a so-called moderate president in power, the discriminatory laws against women remain intact.</span></p>
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		<title>The Islamic Grinch Who Stole the Olympics</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Feb 2014 05:50:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why the Olympics strike at the heart of Islamic ideology -- and why jihadists yearn to annihilate them.  ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/zaw1.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-218178" alt="zaw" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/zaw1.jpg" width="307" height="210" /></a>Coverage of the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, has so far been over-shadowed by the threat of terror from Islamic jihadists. Cursing videos posted on the Internet by jihadists promise that the “demon Olympics” will have an “atmosphere of fear and terror” and tell the athletes that “Satan is with you.” Even Egyptian-born al-Qaeda leader Ayman Al-Zawahiri gave his blessings by calling for a “global jihad” against the Sochi games.</p>
<p>While the world waits for the Olympic games once every four years to celebrate humanity&#8217;s best qualities of excellence, cooperation and respectful competition, Muslim jihadists watch the games with bitterness, envy and criticism. Competitive sports are not an important Islamic value, especially if compared to the mental and physical training of Islamic youth for jihad. It is important to note that Islamic culture often discourages competitive sports, singing, dancing and self-expression, and this is the fundamental reason why there are few prominent Muslim athletes.</p>
<p>Few medals are won by Muslim nations who often participate symbolically in the games. With the exception of soccer, Muslim youth have few athletic outlets, and most of their soccer training is done in narrow streets with constant car and pedestrian interruption.</p>
<p>As for Muslim female athletes, just take a look at the female Saudi team trying to compete while wearing their Islamic garb. While Islamic nations claim to be close brothers, female Muslim teams hardly ever compete amongst themselves within Islamic countries. Why then do Muslim countries even bother to participate with a female team in the Olympics if female sports are discouraged and are contrary to Islamic cultural norms? Like many Islamic activities at the international arena, Islamic female Olympic teams are intended not for sports and winning as much as they are intended to prove to the world that Muslim women are free and liberated. The whole thing &#8212; participation of Islamic female athletes in the Olympics &#8212; is a sham rejected as un-Islamic inside Muslim culture.</p>
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<p>The Olympics evoke Islamic shortcomings and envy of the outside world and feed into their victim mentality &#8212; thus, Islamic silence over terror threats to the Olympics. Jihadists could not care less about what the Olympics represent to the rest of the world: an opportunity to compete and acknowledge the hard work of nations and individuals who sacrificed time, money and strenuous training to excel and to hopefully win fair and square.</p>
<p>While the world is hungry for hope, unity, harmony and a peaceful future, Muslim jihadists plot to ruin it for everyone else. That is not a coincidence, because Olympic values of cooperation, brotherhood and respect between nations regardless of religion, color, national origin and gender strikes at the heart of the Islamic supremacist ideology.</p>
<p>Fake grievances, causes and claims of oppression by the Chechnya rebels and their black widows are excuses to camouflage their jihadist aspirations and their inability to express themselves except through what they were trained to do as a sport: terror. Fair competition is not what the Islamic supremacists understand or are trained to do. What they want is world domination and special treatment because they are told it is their right as Muslims.</p>
<p>Even Islamic media coverage of the Olympics is often colored with envy and criticism, especially over female bikinis in volleyball and bathing suits in swimming. Frustration over not measuring up to infidel teams has driven some Muslim leaders, like for Saddam Hussein and his sons, to threaten soccer athletes who lose with torture and murder.</p>
<p>Fun athletic competition regardless of gender and other Islamic taboos are hard to reconcile with Islamic values. That is why it is not a coincidence that Islamic jihad is often directed against sports events in the West, such as the Boston Marathon, where three were killed and hundreds injured and maimed by Chechen immigrants to the U.S.</p>
<p>Now the world is left with a legitimate question:</p>
<p><em>“Where is the massive and sincere condemnation of the Islamic terror threats against the Olympics, by ‘moderate’ Muslim?”</em></p>
<p>The West is told over and over again that moderate Muslims are the majority, but such a majority has never been able to control or stop jihadists, who, we are told, have misunderstand the true peaceful nature of Islam.</p>
<p>What will it take for Muslims to take responsibility for Islamic jihad and end their constant cover-up for Islamic shortcomings? Will they ever end the defensiveness, be honest and truthful about the negative effect of Islam as it is practiced today, on world peace, happiness and prosperity? Will they continue to choose to remain mentally isolated, un-assimilated, offended and accusing the rest of the world of not understanding Islam?</p>
<p>Will jihadists ever turn around and embrace their humanity like the Grinch did with Christmas and finally join the celebrations? Or will they remain a burden on humanity as the Islamic Grinch that stole the Olympics?</p>
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		<title>All the President’s Women</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Jan 2014 05:50:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nonie Darwish]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why almost all the Obama scandals have female faces behind them. ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/hillary.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-217553" alt="hillary" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/hillary.jpg" width="307" height="173" /></a>It is not a coincidence that most of the Obama administration scandals happened under the leadership of women. The Obama administration chooses to surround itself with &#8220;yes men&#8221; and &#8220;yes women,&#8221; but liberal &#8220;yes women&#8221; have an advantage: it is hard to criticize and grill them when a scandal happens without being accused of sexism and being a bigoted woman-hater.</p>
<p>In our current political environment, liberal politicians in general, men and women, get away with a lot more than conservative politicians because of media liberal bias. But liberal female politicians can get away with a lot more than their male counterparts, and that explains why almost all the Obama scandals have female faces behind them. Under ordinary conditions, men or women should end up becoming fall guys or gals, but many of the women behind the Obama scandals end up rewarded, sometimes even with a better position.</p>
<p>The Benghazi scandal supposedly hurt several women: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Ambassador Susan Rice and Charlene Lamb, among others. It is clear that the White House, for an unknown reason, manipulated the State Department’s decision-making process regarding Benghazi and Clinton went along. Hillary, who wants to be president, has recently stated that she regrets Benghazi, but her &#8220;regret&#8221; would be more accurately described as her &#8220;failure&#8221; to be her own boss in the State Department.</p>
<p>When the Benghazi scandal exploded, the administration had to quickly find a &#8220;yes&#8221; liberal woman to take Hillary’s place on TV. Susan Rice thus came to the rescue when Hillary refused to face the music in public. The White House and the media did everything they could to shield Hillary from the scandal &#8212; even from her own investigators, the State Department Accountability Review Board. The Review Board issued their report without interviewing the boss, Hillary, but they accused yet another woman, Ms. Lamb, for failure in leadership when her office denied providing extra security to the US Ambassador in Libya. But low and behold, Ms. Lamb, who was accused of dropping the ball, was never fired and instead was rewarded by the same State Department that gave her another key position.</p>
<p>Few men can, with a straight face, expect to get away with yelling back to questions in Congress, “What difference does it make?” Only a liberal woman with an entitlement mentality can get away with something like that without becoming the laughing stock of Saturday Night Live. Nothing works better to manipulate public opinion more than an offended woman questioned by a nasty, bigoted Republican male.</p>
<p>The Affordable Care Act scandal also had many women behind it and could never have passed Congress without Nancy Pelosi who, like Hillary, feels entitled to immunity from criticism. Pelosi bragged she would stop at nothing to pass the bill when she said:</p>
<blockquote><p>We’ll go through the gate. If the gate’s closed, we’ll go over the fence. If the fence is too high, we’ll pole vault in. If that doesn’t work, we’ll parachute in but we&#8217;re going to get health care reform passed for the America people.</p></blockquote>
<p>No man could have gotten away without scrutiny for a statement like: &#8220;We have to pass the [health care] bill so that you can find out what&#8217;s in it.” Only in the current liberal environment can the media make a self-made woman like Sarah Palin the subject of ridicule material, while taking someone like Pelosi seriously.</p>
<p>After Pelosi passed the healthcare bill, another woman took over its implementation: Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius. While only a few have read or comprehended Obamacare, Sebelius happily took over the job and consistently expressed confidence that everything was under control. She never prepared America for a possible disaster until the opening day of October 1st when the disaster exploded.</p>
<p>Women, who don’t like to be questioned, were also the face of the IRS Scandal. Before taking the 5<sup>th</sup>, Louis Lerner gave herself the right to state she had done nothing wrong. Lerner’s boss at the IRS, Sarah Ingram, was director of the office that oversaw tax-exempt organizations during the targeting of conservative groups. But again, instead of a demotion, she was promoted to lead the Obamacare office.</p>
<p>While Democrats accuse Republicans of a &#8220;War on Women,&#8221; they have no problem in using liberal a woman as a shield from scandal. These women act untouchable and entitled and are guarded by a liberal media who will viciously attack Republicans whose job is supposed to be the loyal opposition. But how can you be an effective opposition if your opponent claims gender discrimination every time you question all these liberal women leaders?</p>
<p>Even if these women are exposed to scandal, they act like they have been wronged, deserve to be rewarded, insist on staying the course, claim the 5<sup>th</sup> and even get promoted. When Hillary Clinton put up with and defended her husband’s accusations of sexual harassment on the job, she managed to appear as the victim who deserved to be elected Senator, Secretary of State and perhaps the Democratic nominee for President. You see, we owe her.</p>
<p>The mainstream media and academia have produced generations of American women with a constant chip on their shoulder, with unrealistic expectations who perceive life’s challenges as a personal attack because they are women. Ironically, these are the same women who ignore Islamic scandals of honor killing, female genital mutilation and killing of apostates. Some of them even go as far as accusing critics of Islam of being &#8220;Islamophobes.&#8221;</p>
<p>Some liberal women’s feelings of entitlement end up driving them to exaggerate and lie about their background to get special treatment. Two examples are Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts and State Senator Wendy Davis of Texas. One can only imagine what kind of work environment these women will create around them.</p>
<p>The current leftist political culture surrounding women is setting them up either to fail or to turn them into female dictators in an authoritarian mommy state that will threaten the fabric of our free society. Under the guise of &#8220;we are pro-women&#8221; the Left is using women as tools to silence criticism and inquiry of scandals. While the mainstream media places liberal women on a pedestal, it hammers, ridicules and uses vile insults on air to describe conservative women.</p>
<p>And we let them get away with it.</p>
<p><strong>Nonie Darwish is author of <i>“The Devil We Don’t Know.”</i></strong></p>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jan 2014 05:30:00 +0000</pubDate>
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				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sharia.jpg"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-217013" alt="sharia" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/sharia.jpg" width="300" height="208" /></a>Lila Abu-Lughod received her Ph.D. from Harvard, has taught at Williams, Princeton, and NYU, and now boasts the title of Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science at Columbia University, where she teaches anthropology and Women&#8217;s Studies and is considered an expert on the Arab world. Born and raised in the United States, she&#8217;s the daughter of Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, whose buddy Edward Said once described him as “Palestine&#8217;s foremost academic and intellectual.” She&#8217;s also the author of a book, <i>Do Muslim Women Need Saving?, </i>which was published last year by Harvard University Press, and which I first became aware of via an excerpt in the <i>Daily Beast </i>and a <a href="http://ideas.time.com/2013/11/01/do-muslim-women-need-saving/">piece</a> by Abu-Lughod, also entitled “Do Muslim Women Need Saving?”, that appeared in <i>Time </i>Magazine.</p>
<p>The thrust of both these articles is that we in the West who think Muslim women are oppressed have been misinformed. Yes, Abu-Lughod acknowledges, Islamic culture has its demerits – but hey, so does every culture. Also, she argues, women in the Islamic world are a varied crew, ranging from prime ministers to peasants, so there are plenty who don&#8217;t fit the West&#8217;s stereotypes. What to say about these rhetorical ploys except that they could be used to challenge <i>any </i>criticism of just about anything or anyone? (You could defend Nazi Germany against charges of anti-Semitism in precisely the same way that Abu-Lughod defends Islam against charges of oppressing women: “Admittedly, Hitler was horrible, but which national leader has ever been beyond criticism? True, some Jews suffered under Hitler, but anti-Semitism has been a very serious problem in many societies.”)</p>
<p>Then there&#8217;s this, from Abu-Lughod&#8217;s <i>Time </i>piece:</p>
<blockquote><p>A language of rights cannot really capture the complications of lives actually lived. If we were to consider the quandaries of a young woman in rural Egypt as she tries to make choices about who to marry or how she will make a good life for her children in trying circumstances, perhaps we would realize that we all work within constraints. It does not do justice to anyone to view her life only in terms of rights or that loaded term, freedom. These are not the terms in which we understand our own lives, born into families we did not choose, finding our way into what might fulfill us in life, constrained by failing economies, subject to the consumer capitalism, and making moral mistakes we must live with.</p></blockquote>
<p>To rescue Islam, in short, Abu-Lughod is prepared to jettison the very concepts of “rights” and “freedom.” (Yet while she&#8217;s uncomfortable with these supposedly overgeneralizing and “loaded” terms, she has no trouble invoking “consumer capitalism.”) Then there&#8217;s this: “Representing Muslim women as abused makes us forget the violence and oppression in our own midst.” Um, no, it doesn&#8217;t. (Note that this argument is kind of a twist on Matthew 7:3: “Why art thou paying any attention whatsoever to the beam in the Muslim world&#8217;s eye, when thou shouldst instead be entirely preoccupied with the mote in the eye of the West?”) And this: “Ultimately, saving Muslim women allows us to ignore the complex entanglements in which we are all implicated and creates a polarization that places feminism only on the side of the West.” In other words, she&#8217;s more interested in rescuing multiculturalism than in rescuing women.</p>
<p>In both her <i>Daily Beast </i>and <i>Time </i>articles, Abu-Lughod foregrounds her credentials: she&#8217;s an anthropologist who&#8217;s been intimately acquainted with the Arab world, and especially the lives of Arab women, for twenty years. This being the case, she surely knows very well about the systematic inequality of women under Islam, about Muslim patriarchy, and about forced marriage. She knows how common domestic violence is in Muslim homes. She knows, in short, that every day millions of Muslim women endure suffering rooted in the Koran and in Muslim tradition. But instead of using her knowledge to try to help improve those women&#8217;s lives, she uses her rhetorical skills to dance around the truth – dodging, deflecting, doing whatever it takes to uphold the stunningly callous and patently dishonest proposition that Muslim women don&#8217;t need saving.</p>
<p>I was curious to see how Abu-Lughod managed to keep this dance going at book length, and so I secured a copy of <i>Do Muslim Women Need Saving? </i>It proved to be a masterpiece of sheer disingenuousness. Are innumerable girls in the Muslim world denied education altogether, while countless others attend windowless, prison-like madrasses where they learn about nothing but the Koran? Never mind: Abu-Lughod is here to tell us that “education for girls and Islam are not at odds.” Do men across the Muslim world exercise unconditional power over the women in their lives, forcing their daughters to marry and ordering the execution of their wives? Never mind: Abu-Lughod is here to assure us that “it is not so easy to talk about &#8216;patriarchy&#8217; or to put one&#8217;s finger on how power works.”</p>
<p>She draws our attention to a number of books with titles like <i>A True Story of Life behind the Veil in Saudi Arabia; Sold: One Woman&#8217;s True Account of Modern Slavery; My Forbidden Face; Without Mercy; Buried Alive; </i>and <i>Married by Force.  </i>They tell true stories about veiling, forced marriage, and so on. Abu-Lughod is out to bury them. Think that their authors are acting out of compassion for oppressed Muslim women? Think again: Abu-Lughod is here to explain that these authors are “self-righteous,” “smugly superior” do-gooders who, by representing Muslim women as powerless, are being condescending, treating them “as mute garbage bags,” representing them as human pawns without “agency.” Far from having noble motives, these authors are just out to make a buck, to “accrue moral capital,” and to make a name for themselves as “beacon[s] of humanitarianism.” Forget the horrific stories these books tell about women&#8217;s lives under Islam: Abu-Lughod mocks them all for following the same “script.” (Even Hirsi Ali&#8217;s own life story, as told in her memoir <i>Infidel,</i> she charges, is “made to follow the script.”) The stories, Abu-Lughod charges, are “sordid,” “pornographic,” “sensational.” Well, yes, because the reality they describe is sordid, pornographic, and sensational; yet what appalls Abu-Lughod isn&#8217;t the reality but these authors&#8217; determination to expose it.</p>
<p>In contrast to those “sensational” authors, Abu-Lughod wants us to see her – with her appreciation for the complexities of Muslim society, and her ability to recognize the ways in which Muslim women, while perhaps looking oppressed when viewed through Western eyes, are in fact highly empowered – as the one who&#8217;s <i>truly </i>concerned about, and respectful for, Muslim women. She is, she assures us, too well informed “to be satisfied with sweeping generalizations about cultures, religions, or regions.” She is “more drawn to the detail and empathy of the novelist than to the bold strokes of the polemicist.”</p>
<p>Well, I can&#8217;t argue with that: no question about it, this woman is in the business of fiction. Make the most straightforward statement of fact about Islam&#8217;s oppression of women and she&#8217;ll point out that Islam isn&#8217;t the only religion that&#8217;s “built on the premise that people do not fully control what happens to them.” As for secularism, what&#8217;s so great about it? After all, it “has not brought women&#8217;s freedom or equality in the West.” Besides, what do words like “freedom” and “oppression” really mean, anyway? Everyday life “is rarely a case of being free or oppressed, choosing or being forced.” And while we&#8217;re at it, forget the idea of universal rights: “Can there be a liberation that is Islamic? Does the idea of liberation&#8230;capture the goals for which all women strive? Are emancipation, equality, and rights part of a universal language or just a particular dialect?” To drive the point home, Abu-Lughod tells us about her Palestinian aunt who&#8217;s oppressed not by Islam but by – guess who? – <i>Israel, </i>and whose love for the Koran is the only thing that keeps her going. So there! In the lives of women like her aunt, “terms like oppression, choice, and freedom” are “blunt instruments for capturing the dynamics and quality of their lives.</p>
<p>What about honor killing? Abu-Lughod&#8217;s criticism isn&#8217;t directed at the practice itself but at “the unsavory politics of [the Western] conception of honor crimes,” which fails to appreciate the profound “moral code” of communities that pride themselves on their “commitment to honor.” Even to use the term “honor killing,” she says, is to stigmatize such communities while embracing “a comforting phantasm that empowers the West and those who identify with it.” She&#8217;s drawn up a whole list of reasons why talking about honor crimes is a bad thing:</p>
<blockquote><p>First, it simplifies morality and distorts the kinds of relations between men and women that exist in societies where honor is a central value. Second, defining honor crimes as a unique cultural form too neatly divides civilized from uncivilized societies, the West and the rest. Third, the obsession with honor crimes erases completely the modern state institutions and techniques of governance that are integral to both the incidence of violence and the category by which they are understood. Finally, thinking about honor crimes seems to be a sort of “antipolitics machine” that blinds us to the existence of social transformations and political conflict.</p></blockquote>
<p>As consistently as she defends Islam, Abu-Lughod slams the West. Might learning about Islam help us to understand 9/11? Nonsense! Real understanding lies in a study of the history of Western colonialism and American imperialism. Also, why don&#8217;t we Westerners grasp that women throwing off their burkas in Afghanistan would be like “wear[ing] shorts to the Metropolitan Opera”? Quoth Abu-Lughod: “If we think that U.S. women live in a world of choice regarding clothing, we might also remind ourselves of the expression, &#8216;the tyranny of fashion.&#8217;” (Let&#8217;s not forget that tragic story about the U.S. fashion police who wouldn&#8217;t let girls flee a burning school because they weren&#8217;t wearing Vera Wang.)</p>
<p>One way in which Abu-Lughod trivializes the oppression of Muslim women is by accusing Westerners of “trivializ[ing] gender issues in the United States and Europe.” It was Christians, not Muslims, she reminds us, who burned women as witches in colonial Salem. She even claims that frat-house gang-rapes are considered “acceptable” in the U.S. (Huh?) Why, she asks, haven&#8217;t any of the would-be saviors of Muslim women “taken up the cause of oppressed Jewish women, or questioned proud proof of the continuity of Judaism that is pinned on genetic markers passed down from father to son among the priestly group known as Cohens?” (No, I have no idea what she&#8217;s talking about either.)</p>
<p>This was a tough book to get through. I had to keep putting it down. The world-class dishonesty, the willingness to deny the real suffering of women and girls in order to prop up the poisonous religion that&#8217;s responsible for that suffering – and to impugn the motives of noble people who <i>do </i>care – made me livid. Columbia University should be ashamed to employ this brazen propagandist; Harvard University Press should be disgusted with itself for publishing her repulsive book.</p>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Arnold Ahlert]]></dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Majority of female Marine recruits fail fitness test -- will Obama rethink sending them into combat? ]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/marines_blog_main_horizontal.jpg"><img class="alignleft  wp-image-215013" alt="marines_blog_main_horizontal" src="http://cdn.frontpagemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/01/marines_blog_main_horizontal-450x300.jpg" width="315" height="210" /></a>Reality and social engineering recently collided, and reality lost. Beginning in 2014, female U.S. Marines were supposed to meet a minimum standard of three pull-ups for their annual physical fitness test. Unfortunately, when that standard was tested at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in South Carolina last year, only 45 percent of the women could meet it. As a result, that part of their fitness requirement has been delayed until 2015. The change, quietly announced during a November <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHprAKI4NlI&amp;list=PLcK9mGOZrMLmk_jc8ItuD9yA4nMdhsMDG">report</a> on its TV show, “The Corps Report,” raises serious questions about the push to put women soldiers in front-line combat roles beginning in 2016.</p>
<p>The need for upper body strength in military situations is non-negotiable. Scaling walls, climbing ropes, carrying heavy weapons, as well as being able to rescue one&#8217;s fellow soldiers, are all realistic scenarios with regard to combat operations. But apparently such realities were not the the primary consideration for delaying the requirement. Marine spokeswoman Capt. Maureen Krebs noted that while officials felt there was no medical risk involved with making the new standard a requirement, the risk of losing recruits, and hurting efforts to retain women already serving the Marines was &#8220;unacceptably high.&#8221; Thus it would appear that quotas are more important than competence.</p>
<p>Postponing the standard also appears to contradict a 1993 <a href="http://nation.time.com/2013/06/18/women-in-combat-the-numbers-racket/">federal law</a> by which the Secretary of Defense &#8220;shall ensure that qualification of members of the Armed Forces for, and continuance of members of the Armed Forces in, that occupational career field is evaluated on the basis of common, relevant performance standards, without differential standards of evaluation on the basis of gender; may not use any gender quota, goal, or ceiling except as specifically authorized by law; and may not change an occupational performance standard for the purpose of increasing or decreasing the number of women in that occupational career field.&#8221;</p>
<p>In the world where words matter, the law seems clear. Yet, using breathtakingly strained reasoning, a May 2013 <a href="http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/R42075.pdf">report</a> from the Congressional Research Service titled &#8220;Women in Combat: Issues for Congress&#8221; apparently provides wiggle room for the diversity-mongers:</p>
<p>&#8220;A plain reading of the term suggests that men and women would be required to meet the same physical standards in order to be similarly assigned. However, in the past, the Services have used this and similar terms to suggest that men and women must exert the same amount of energy in a particular task, regardless of the work that is actually accomplished by either.&#8221;</p>
<p>Thus the report notes, Air Force Fitness Test scoring currently awards a higher score to a females under 30 years of age running 1.5 miles in a maximum time of 16:22 (minutes:seconds), than it does to male under 30 years of age running the same distance in a maximum time of 13:36. The same two individuals would also receive an identical test score for doing 18 and 33 push-ups, respectively.</p>
<p>The report further notes that lifting the ban on women serving in combat has engendered an argument. Women&#8217;s rights groups contend that uniform standards are exclusionary, in that they prevent women from reaching positions of leadership, and that expanding women&#8217;s role in the military is a civil rights issue. Critics see it as damaging to military preparedness.</p>
<p>One suspects the civil rights argument wouldn&#8217;t hold up particularly well among the members of a unit coming under heavy fire in a combat zone, where each solder expects a certain level of preparedness from their fellow soldiers in order to survive. One further suspects those soldiers would draw little comfort from the knowledge that the &#8220;same amount of energy&#8221; is being exerted in a particular, possibly life saving task, if that exertion failed to accomplish it.</p>
<p>Unfortunately for our men <i>and</i> women in harm&#8217;s way, leftist ideology demonstrates a pernicious lack of concern for the preservation of a soldier&#8217;s well-being. Thus, the <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/01/06/pull-ups-harder-for-women_n_4548587.html">reality</a> that women have 40 percent less upper body mass than men, and an upper body only 50-60 percent as strong as a man&#8217;s&#8211;which translated into <a href="http://freebeacon.com/marines-delay-three-pull-up-requirement-for-female-recruits/">55 percen</a>t failure rate for women, versus a one percent failure rate for men during pull-ups tests at the Marines’ boot camp&#8211;is no great cause for concern.</p>
<p>Nor is the concept of &#8220;gender norming,&#8221; which embraces the aforementioned different standards for different sexes. This Orwellian construct is employed to achieve a predetermined outcome, as in a requisite number of &#8220;combat ready&#8221; women, completely irrespective of their combat readiness, physically speaking. As in so many other facets of life where diversity trumps standards, equality of opportunity must give way to equality of results&#8211;even if it endangers lives.</p>
<p>Elaine Donnelly, president of the Center for Military Readiness (CMR) and a former member of the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces cuts, through the progressive fog regarding these issues. First the pull-ups. “A program with a failure rate that high, compared to a 99 percent success rate for men, clearly indicates that incremental plans to order women into the combat arms are not viable,” she said in an email to the Washington Free Beacon. Next, the so-designated civil rights issue. “There is no reason to force women into the combat arms,” she explains, noting that “for decades, female personnel have been promoted at rates equal to or faster than men.”</p>
<p>And finally, gender norming. “The presidential commission on which I served in 1992 thought about this long and hard,” she revealed. “We approved of gender-normed scores in basic, pre-commissioning, and entry-level training, but the recommendation was contingent on women’s exemption from direct ground combat….There is no gender-norming on the infantry battlefield.”</p>
<p>It&#8217;s not as if women are completely incapable of meeting the same standards as men. Though the only two women who volunteered for the 13-week infantry officers training course at Quantico, VA in 2012 washed out, three female Marines graduated from the enlisted infantry training school in North Carolina the following year, while enduring the same standards as their male counterparts. Those standards included marching 19 kilometers while carrying a 36 kilogram pack. Moreover, an additional 13 women have <a href="http://www.npr.org/2013/12/27/257363943/marines-most-female-recruits-dont-meet-new-pullup-standard">passed</a> advanced combat training, meeting the three pull-up requirement in the process.</p>
<p>Pull-ups have been used to test the upper body strength of Marines for more than four decades. That&#8217;s because in addition to what a Marine may be called on to do, combat Marines carry a 90 pound pack, with gunners carrying an additional 50 to 60 pounds. One is left to wonder what &#8220;accommodation&#8221; should be made for women to lighten the load. Carrying less ammo? Less food? Less medical supplies? Perhaps the gender-norming specialists and/or the diversity engineers could enlighten us.</p>
<p>For now female Marines will only be <a href="http://swampland.time.com/2013/11/21/corps-delays-pull-up-requirements-for-female-marines/">required</a> to perform the &#8220;flexed arm hang,&#8221; as in holding one&#8217;s chin above a bar for 15 seconds, in accordance with a November 2013 Facebook announcement by the Corps. It explained that they are<i> </i>extending the transition to pull-ups &#8220;to allow for the further gathering of data to ensure all female Marines are provided with the best opportunity to succeed. All Marines are strongly encouraged to continue training under the assumption that pull-ups will remain a standard of measure for physical fitness.”</p>
<p>They were already under that assumption heading into <i>this</i> year. They might be better served assuming that when reality doesn&#8217;t align itself with leftist social engineering schemes, reality gets postponed. Or perhaps even eliminated, if the engineers can muster the political firepower to do so in the interim.</p>
<p>Retired Army officer and military historian Ralph Peters isn&#8217;t buying it. “If you can’t pull yourself up, have the decency to pull yourself out,” he declared. &#8220;The military, despite all the post-modern technology, is still essentially physical.”</p>
<p>And dangerous. It is that danger that should be mitigated as much as possible for those willing to serve their nation. Anything less is political chicanery&#8211;and despicable.</p>
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