TagsTagsMore of the ugly misogyny that makes the religious apartheid Kingdom of Saud so special: Saudis order 40 lashes for elderly woman for mingling. (CNN) — A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced a 75-year-old Syrian woman to 40 lashes, four months imprisonment and deportation from the kingdom for having two ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Sharia
A mother of six, arrested by Iraqi security forces in January, is revealing the disgusting tactics of Islamic terrorists in Iraq—who use rape as a recruitment tool. BAGHDAD (AP) — A woman accused of helping recruit dozens of female suicide bombers looked into the camera and described the process: trolling ...
Iraq, Terrorism, Militant Islam, Women's Rights, Misogyny, Suicide Bombers
The highest Islamic authority in Saudi Arabia comes out strongly in favor of child molestation. Saudi Arabia’s most senior Muslim cleric has been quoted as saying it is ‘okay’ for 10-year-old girls to marry. Sheik Abdul-Aziz Al Sheikh was quoted as saying those who think such girls are too young to ...
Saudi Arabia, Islam, Wahhabism, Misogyny, Women's Rights, Child Abuse
Q: How do you know when you’ve really made it in the Arab world? A: Father offers daughter to shoe-thrower. CAIRO (Reuters) - An Egyptian man said on Wednesday he was offering his 20-year-old daughter in marriage to Iraqi journalist Muntazer al-Zaidi, who threw his shoes at U.S. President George ...
Iraq, President Bush, Journalism, Arab World, Women's Rights, Misogyny
It may be hard to believe, but a British Muslim think tank has discovered that some Imams are biased against women. A Muslim think tank has found some UK Imams discriminate against women when enforcing Islamic Sharia law. Scholars at the Centre for Islamic Pluralism (CIP) interviewed 90 Muslims in London, ...
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 secular ...
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, apparently got ...
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 as ...
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, officials said ...
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 gender ...
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 can ...
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, a ...
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 of ...
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 society ought ...
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 about the Islamic ...
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 above, if ...
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 is not an ...
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.) UPDATE at 3/12/08 11:41:42 am: Wow. ...
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? Hell, maybe women ...
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 hours ...
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 with Iranian ...
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 action ...
LGF, Saudi Arabia, Wahhabism, Theocracy, Islam, Misogyny, Women's Rights