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Charge £400 for her, £200 for him
The wonderfulness of Sharia councils. After fleeing a forced marriage characterised by rape and physical violence, Nasrin applied for an Islamic divorce from a Sharia council; that was almost 10 years...
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Incompatibles
Sooraya Graham is very confused. She wants to be liberal and free and provocative, and she also wants to be reactionary and veiled and submissive. She’s an art student, see. She wears hijab. She took a...
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The only category
This little spat between the Inquisition and the slightly disobedient (but not disobedient enough) nuns reminds me of something that we generally don’t focus on sharply enough. It’s certainly obvious,...
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Delusions of choice
And now I’ll spell out exactly why I think the Collective Response is so wrong and bad. The hijab is a statement of female subordination, and it’s also a statement of loyalty or obedience to a...
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How did that get there?!
There’s a new group in Tunisia, Equality and Parity, that is protesting the wearing of the niqab. Equality and Parity promised that they will plan manifestations and sit-ins if women’s rights are...
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You gonna believe Mona Eltahawy or the grand mufti?
Nahed Eltantawy responds to Mona Eltahawy’s article on woman-hating in the Middle East. She hates it. I felt deeply offended and insulted by Mona Eltahawy’s latest article in Foreign Policy, titled Why...
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Failure to comprehend
I don’t understand. Eleven years ago, Farida Bano was circumcised had her genitals mutilated by an aunt on a bunk bed in her family home at the end of her 10th birthday party. The mutilation occurred...
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Loose morals
Udate: note this is from the Washington Times, a very dubious source. Good old liberation struggles, like the liberation struggle of Chechnya from the brutal embrace of Russia. Chechnya’s government is...
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The joke’s on them
For awhile there it looked as if Mali were going to have a new and better Family Code to improve the rights of women. Its provisions included raising the minimum legal age of marriage for girls,...
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A full 20 days
Remember the 9-weeks pregnant Dominican 16-year-old with acute leukemia whose doctors refused to give her chemo because she was pregnant? Well, great news: you don’t have to worry about her any more,...
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If women have choices
What do you do when women attain not only equality but, in some areas, numerical superiority? Well if those areas are things like doing most of the domestic work, or low pay, or getting hassled in the...
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So that she will mend her ways
Małgorzata has sent me another gem - a lecture on tv by an Egyptian cleric explaining why men have to beat up women. Abd Al-Rahman Mansour: Islam instructs a man to beat his wife as a last resort...
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Oh thank you so much Allah, you’re so kind
Okay maybe I’m being a big mean atheist poopy head, but honestly, I do wish people would stop thanking Allah for saving Malala’s life. Say what? If Allah saved her life, why the fuck didn’t Allah...
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The ERD part 2
The US Catholic bishops’ orders to Catholic health care providers. Page 20 still. 28. Each person or the person’s surrogate should have access to medical and moral information and counseling so as to...
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For theological reasons
A member of the General Synod of the Church of England explains about the vote not to allow women bishops. The legislation we voted on needed to achieve two outcomes: the ordination of women to the...
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Almost all the missing students are female
A Turkish lawyer and women’s rights activist, Canan Arin, was arrested for mentioning the fact that girls get married off very young in Turkey. I was the co-founder of the Istanbul Bar Association,...
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Uh oh. A state-funded religious education program in Australia has been telling girls they’re sluts. Parents and teachers have called for an urgent overhaul of religious education in schools after year...
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Ew lady dirt
Another showy public display of women-loathing delays another El Al flight out of New York. Last week, a scheduled El Al flight from New York’s JFK Airport to Israel sat on the runway for more than an...
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Do your housework cheerfully as unto the Lord
A Good Christian Woman who goes by the name “The Transformed Wife” dispenses Good Christian Wisdom on Facebook (founded by Jesus shortly after he did the loaves and fishes trick). She dispenses it by...
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Shrouded
Shaaz Mahboob at British & Global Muslims for Secular Democracy: Behold the military’s pet and Islamist prime minister of Pakistan #ImranKhan and the mindset he carries. Taslima also remarks on the...
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