Supposedly I shouldn't even mention such things
Two niqab-wearing women assaulted and forcefully cut the hair of a Christian woman on the metro Sunday, the third such reported incident in two months, raising fears of a growing vigilante movement to punish Egyptian women for not wearing the veil in public.
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Lawmakers in Iran are preparing to consider legislation that may drastically alter an adult woman's ability to obtain a passport and travel outside the country.
The draft law, set to go before the 290-seat Majlis, stipulates that single women up to the age of 40 must receive official permission from their father or male guardian in order to obtain travel documents.
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British-based Islamic radicals are preparing to announce a fatwa on Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl shot by the Pakistan Taliban, for her role in standing up to extremists.
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... almost everyone is smiling. Twelve-year-old Suminah is not. She looks like she wants to punch somebody. Under her white hijab, which she has yanked down over her brow like a hoodie, her eyes have the livid, bewildered expression of a child who has been wronged by people she trusted. She sits on a plastic chair, swatting away her mother's efforts to placate her with a party cup of milk and a biscuit. Suminah is in severe pain. An hour earlier, her genitals were mutilated with scissors as she lay on a school desk.
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A Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family's honour by looking at a boy, the couple said in an interview broadcast Monday by the BBC.
Oh, wait, I forgot, since plenty of barbarity is committed by Christians and Jews, it's morally wrong for white non-Muslim Westerners to even mention atrocities committed in the name of Islam. Even white non-Muslim Westerners who regularly call out misogyny and other barbarities in their own cultures.
Also how dare we consider burqas misogynist. Vomit. Yeah, it's totes feminist to cover yourself up to avoid "tempting" men. That must be why the FLDS and ultra-Orthodoxy are also hotbeds of feminism.
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Lawmakers in Iran are preparing to consider legislation that may drastically alter an adult woman's ability to obtain a passport and travel outside the country.
The draft law, set to go before the 290-seat Majlis, stipulates that single women up to the age of 40 must receive official permission from their father or male guardian in order to obtain travel documents.
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British-based Islamic radicals are preparing to announce a fatwa on Malala Yousafzai, the 15-year-old girl shot by the Pakistan Taliban, for her role in standing up to extremists.
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... almost everyone is smiling. Twelve-year-old Suminah is not. She looks like she wants to punch somebody. Under her white hijab, which she has yanked down over her brow like a hoodie, her eyes have the livid, bewildered expression of a child who has been wronged by people she trusted. She sits on a plastic chair, swatting away her mother's efforts to placate her with a party cup of milk and a biscuit. Suminah is in severe pain. An hour earlier, her genitals were mutilated with scissors as she lay on a school desk.
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A Pakistani couple accused of killing their 15-year-old daughter by pouring acid on her carried out the attack because she sullied the family's honour by looking at a boy, the couple said in an interview broadcast Monday by the BBC.
Oh, wait, I forgot, since plenty of barbarity is committed by Christians and Jews, it's morally wrong for white non-Muslim Westerners to even mention atrocities committed in the name of Islam. Even white non-Muslim Westerners who regularly call out misogyny and other barbarities in their own cultures.
Also how dare we consider burqas misogynist. Vomit. Yeah, it's totes feminist to cover yourself up to avoid "tempting" men. That must be why the FLDS and ultra-Orthodoxy are also hotbeds of feminism.
Unlocked.
This entry was originally posted at http://ms-daisy-cutter.dreamwidth.org/1924638.html. Please comment there using either your DW account or OpenID.