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One of the most bizarre manifestations of leftist cognitive dissonance occurs when hardcore feminists like Naomi Wolf abandon all their principles and twist themselves into philosophical knots, in order to make excuses for one of the most misogynistic belief systems on Earth: Behind the veil lives a thriving Muslim sexuality. ...
LGF, Naomi Wolf, Feminism, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Islam, Veil
A setback for the Islamist ruling party of Turkey: Turkish Rulers Backtrack on Head Scarves. ANKARA, Turkey, July 31 — Turkey’s ruling party has dropped for now its attempts to lift a decades-old ban on wearing Islamic head scarves in universities, a campaign that infuriated defenders of the country’s ...
LGF, Turkey, Islamic Supremacism, Women's Rights, Hijab, Headscarf
When modern society collides with powerful traditions from the Dark Ages, women die: Police: Arranged marriage led father to kill daughter. A Clayton County man faces murder charges in the strangling death of his 25-year-old daughter early Sunday over her desire to end an arranged marriage. Chaudhry Rashad, 54, ...
It’s confirmed. That really is Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s wife in that photograph I posted yesterday. Here are some more pictures of the First Bag Lady, with a hat tip to LGF reader dgoddard.
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Veil, Headscarf, Burqa, Islam
I don’t know if it’s a real picture, but it’s too funny/sad/pathetic not to post; it’s from hurriyet.com.tr, and it purports to show Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and his first lady. (Hat tip: Drained Brain.) Also see: Iran’s First Lady - Confirmed
LGF, Iran, Ahmadinejad, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Veil, Headscarf, Burqa, Islam
Remember this horrifying story the next time an Islamic advocacy group tries to tell you that wearing the hijab is a completely voluntary choice for Muslim women: Murder Charge for Brother Whose Sister Shed Scarf. TORONTO — The brother of a Canadian teenager who was slain in what friends described ...
LGF, Islam, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Hijab, Headscarf, Honor Killing
Sheer evil surfaces in Norway—but to Reuters it might be just a “rite of passage.” After all, who are we to judge? OSLO (Reuters) - Police in Norway have arrested a Gambian-born man and charged him and his wife with subjecting five of their six daughters to genital mutilation, ...
LGF, Norway, Female Circumcision, FGM, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Islam
Blowing themselves up, that is: Muslim Extremist Women Fight For Right To Join Al Qaeda. CAIRO, Egypt (AP) — Muslim extremist women are challenging al Qaeda’s refusal to include - or at least acknowledge - women in its ranks, in an emotional debate that gives rare insight into the ...
LGF, Jihad, Al Qaeda, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Terrorism, Suicide Bombers
Here we go again, with yet another demand by Muslims for special treatment in the workplace, backed up by the Saudi-funded, Hamas-linked Council on American Islamic Relations: Muslim women: Dress code violates faith. Their employer requires them to wear “immodest” clothing, they say. Definition of “immodest” in this case: you ...
LGF, CAIR, Council on American Islamic Relations, Saudi Arabia, Radical Islam, Propaganda, Misogyny, Women's Rights
We may have another burqa bandit case in Philadelphia, and this time a policeman has been murdered: Officer Shot, Killed After Bank Robbery. PHILADELPHIA — Philadelphia police said a veteran police officer was shot and killed in the Port Richmond section of the city on Saturday. Steven Liczbinski, 40, ...
LGF, Burqa, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Islam, bank robbery, Crime
Here’s an expert on Islamic law, appearing on Iraqi television, explaining that under sharia there are very good reasons to allow grown men to marry pre-teen girls, and “stupid” infidels have no right to complain about Mohammed marrying an eight-year old, because we allow our young girls to fornicate. (Courtesy ...
LGF, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Iraq, Mohammed, Child Abuse
The Washington Post’s Ruth Marcus applauds Harvard’s decision to allow the suppression and segregation of Muslim women: Hijabs at a Harvard Gym. The most ridiculous quote from her article: Muslim women who enroll at Harvard and turn up in hijabs at its gyms reflect a strand of Islam that ...
Harvard, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Dhimmitude, Washington Post, Islam
Via MEMRI TV, another appalling clip from Hamas TV (Al Aqsa TV), advising women and young girls to stop worrying and learn to love the hijab. Or else the satans will get you, and you’ll go to hell. [Video] Wallah Khadher Al-As’ad: Welcome, everybody, to our program that talks ...
Al Aqsa TV, Indoctrination, Child Abuse, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Propaganda, Hamas
The Swiss have never been averse to making a few bucks through questionable associations, but this time they’ve added a little dhimmitude to the mix, as Swiss Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Rey dons the veil in Tehran: Washington laments Swiss gas deal with Iran. There’s a video at the link ...
LGF, Switzerland, Iran, Nuclear Weapons, Dhimmitude, Misogyny, Women's Rights
I had to pick my jaw up off the floor after receiving the following email from a representative of Marked Moskva, the designers of that bizarre burqa fashion show. The reader who told me it was an art project was apparently mistaken. They are serious. With the subject line, “This ...
Norway eagerly submits to the suppression of women, and ABC News helps with yet another sick, whitewashed series of excuses for misogyny: The Burqa Gets a Makeover. Opening with this ludicrous statement: The burqa is the wardrobe of choice for many Muslim women. (Hat tip: LGF readers.) ...
A Kos Kid gives it his best effort to be as blind and stupid as possible: Daily Kos: Is Islam Really Stuck in the 12th Century on Women’s Rights? After denying that there’s any problem for women in Islamic countries, Joshua Holland writes in the first comment: Who Knows? ...
Progressives, Useful Idiots, Women's Rights, LGF, Daily Kos, Moonbats
The Harvard University gym is now closed to men for six hours a week, on demand of the Harvard Islamic Society: To accommodate Muslim students, Harvard tries women-only gym hours. Harvard University has moved to make Muslim women more comfortable in the gym by instituting women-only access times six ...
Islamic Supremacism, Harvard, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Islam
Reuters reporter Fredrik Dahl witnesses the thuggish repression of women in the Islamic Republic of Iran. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Wearing a brightly colored headscarf and high-heeled boots, the woman refused to be bundled into the police van without a fight. Protesting loudly and even trying to escape, her standoff ...
In the religious apartheid kingdom of Saudi Arabia, the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice is defending their Dark Ages thuggery: Virtue Commission Defends Arrest of Businesswoman. RIYADH — The Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice yesterday defended its ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights
Our medieval pals are about to execute a woman for witchcraft. A leading human rights group appealed to Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah on Thursday to stop the execution of a woman accused of witchcraft and performing supernatural acts. The New York-based Human Rights Watch said in a statement that ...
Dark Ages, Witchcraft, Theocracy, Wahhabism, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Saudi Arabia, Islam
At least 17,000 women are victims every year. Up to 17,000 women in Britain are being subjected to “honour” related violence, including murder, every year, according to police chiefs. And official figures on forced marriages are the tip of the iceberg, says the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO). ...
Honor Killing, Britain, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Islam
The infidel holiday that fills the Islamic world with dread is upon us once again: Kuwait Hardliners Take Aim at Valentine’s Day. KUWAIT CITY — Valentine’s Day is just three days away, but one Muslim politician is heading up a committee to make sure it goes completely ignored. ...
Valentine's Day, Theocracy, Wahhabism, Women's Rights, Misogyny, LGF, Saudi Arabia, Islam
Yesterday we posted about the businesswoman in Saudi Arabia who was arrested, strip-searched, and threatened by the Saudi religious police because she was out in public with a male colleague. Today Fox News reports that two weeks before being arrested, the same woman had been boasting about how wonderful things ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights
This story is a perfect illustration of why it’s so maddening when Laura Bush puts on the headscarf, or George W. Bush sword-dances with Saudi princes. The United States should be standing up against this Dark Ages barbarism, not pandering to it: Religious police in Saudi Arabia arrest mother for ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights