I’m not sure if Islamic law is the worst thing ever… but it’s probably the worst thing ever for women.
I keep hearing that Mohammed was the original feminist and that
Islamic law protects women. Also the State Department praised the
moderate Muslim president of moderate Muslim Maldives for being elected
through democratic values.
Nothing says democratic values like rape, Islamic law and being the brother of a tyrant.
The US has congratulated Abdulla Yameen on him being
elected as the new President of the Maldives, and called the association
between the two countries as “a long history of cordial relations”.
“The extraordinarily high turnout on November 16th was a tribute to
the Maldivian people’s commitment to the democratic process and
democratic values,” State Department spokesperson Jen Psaki told
reporters yesterday. Yameen is the half-brother of former autocratic ruler Maumoon Abdul Gayoom.
Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen, center, was sworn into the
presidency on Nov. 17, 2013. Photo by Maldivian government (press
release).
Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen refused to sign a bill Thursday
that criminalizes some forms of marital rape, Religion News Service
reported. Though the bill passed parliament with 67-2 vote, Yameen
rejected the legislation, which limits a husband's right to demand sex
from his wife, because it was "un-Islamic."
The bill did not criminalize all marital rape, but banned it under the following circumstances:
if a case for dissolution of a marriage is in court
while a divorce, filed by the husband or wife, is pending a court hearing
if the intent of intercourse is to transmit a sexually transmitted disease
Egypt’s new
constitution strengthens the country’s military, the police and the
judiciary, as well as giving more rights to women. Photograph: Mohamed
Abd El Ghany/Reuters
Over 98% of participants in the first Egyptian vote of the
post-Morsi era voted in favour of approving a new constitution, the
country's electoral commission officially announced on Saturday. Egypt's government hailed the result as a resounding show of support for the direction the country has taken since the overthrow of Mohamed Morsi last July.
"This
is a wonderful day for Egypt, Egyptians and for democracy, despite the
extraordinary circumstances," a spokesman for Egypt's interim
presidency, Ehab Badawi, said in a statement ahead of the official
announcement. "This vote represents a resounding rejection of terrorism
and a clear endorsement of the roadmap to democracy, as well as economic
development and stability."
After a campaign in which
several no-campaigners were arrested and the government said
participation was a patriotic duty, the poll's turnout is also seen as a
significant indicator of the level of public support for the process.
According
to officials, the turnout was a respectable 38.6% – higher than the 33%
who voted in a referendum during Morsi's tenure, but lower than the
41.9% who turned out in a similar poll following Egypt's 2011 uprising.
Egypt's
new constitution strengthens the country's three key institutions – the
military, the police and the judiciary. It also gives more rights to
women and disabled people, and removes certain Islamist-leaning clauses
inserted under Morsi, while maintaining the principles of Islamic sharia
as the main source of legislation.
By: Mohamed Khodr “As
for the believers, both men and women they are allies to one another.
They enjoin the doing of what is right and forbid the doing of what is
wrong, and are constant in prayer, and render the purifying dues, and
pay heed unto God and His Apostle. It is they upon whom God will bestow
His grace: verily, God is almighty and wise” –Qur’an: 9:71
“The rights of women are sacred. See that women are maintained in the rights assigned to them.” –Prophet Muhammad (pbuh)
“Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue”. –The Honorable James Buchan; Scottish Novelist and Journalist Twelve
Saudis were arrested on October 26-27 for posing a grave threat to
Saudi Arabia’s security and masculine misogynist interests. All were
immediately charged for the same crime and referred to the Bureau of
Investigation and Prosecution. The Saudi Ministry of the Interior said
it has taken the appropriate measures to prevent such crimes in the
future. Their heinous crime: Driving While Female (DWF)
Sixty
courageous Saudi women on October 26 dared to defy this outrageous and
Un-Islamic ban on women driving despite governmental threat of arrest
and punishment.
These women will be remembered as the Rosa Parks
of Saudi Arabia who refused to surrender their right to drive and who
thus began a civil rights struggle which will take time but with God’s
help will eventually succeed. Like Rosa Parks they will succeed in
this noble effort during their lifetime.
This driving ban against
women is simply a result of the racist and gender bias of a patriarchal
and puritanical Wahbist kingdom where women are only wombs and servants
to men.
Such sex discrimination goes against the most basic tenets of Islam where men and women are blessed h equal human rights..
Saudi Araba –the only Muslim nation that follows the tyrannical and violent Wahhabi sect.
Saudi
Arabia is the ONLY Muslim nation and the only nation in the world that
bans women from driving. The corollary to this is that the other 56
Muslim nations that allow women to drive are, unlike Saudi Arabia, are
defying Islamic teachings.
In face of this oppressive denial of
Saudi women driving there arose courageous Saudi women to challenge the
all powerful whims and nonsensical fatwas of the Shura Council, a
council created to subjugate the masses but avoids dealing with the
corrupt immorality of the ruling family.
The most visible courageous face and voice for the right of Saudi women to drive is Manal Al Sharif; a
33 year old wife and mother of a son. She is highly educated and works
in the field of computer science and software development. She has won
several awards for her professional work and now for her activism to
free Saudi women from the iron fist of the Shura Council.
Manal, the driving force behind the campaign to gain Saudi women the right to drive said: “We won’t stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman”.
Below is a Video of Manal Al-Sharif speaking. Her eloquence is incredible.
Saudi women should know that the entire world, Muslim and Non-Muslim,
men and women of all ages, races, ethnic groups, and color stand with
you and support your rights to live free of all oppression and have the
free right to drive in your misguided country.
Islam forbids the
oppression of anyone and puts the onus on the Muslim community to fight
oppression anywhere and against anyone in the world be it a ruler, a
government, or a group regardless of their faith until the oppression
ends.
Justice is the paramount goal and objective of a Muslim
society as repeatedly addressed in the Holy Qur’an. It is a religious
duty and an important part of worshiping God. Thus every Muslim must
stand firmly against all injustice regardless of who is the perpetrator.
The arrest comes a
week after Saudi women got behind the wheel to protests against the
kingdom's ban on female drivers. Photograph: AP
A Kuwaiti woman was arrested in Saudi Arabia
for trying to drive her father to hospital, a Kuwaiti newspaper
reported on Sunday, a week after Saudi women protested against a ban on
female drivers.
Kuwaiti women are free to drive in their country
and enjoy far more rights than those in Saudi Arabia, who are not
allowed to travel abroad, open a bank account or work without permission
from a male relative.
Rick Perry has been trying every trick in the book to pass the new
abortion bill in Texas, and now, according to Addicting Info.org, the
truth behind his extreme “desperation” has been uncovered. The bill’s
passage would mean that his sister’s company could be poised to make big
money from abortions. Milla Perry Jones, Rick Perry’s sister, is the
Vice President of Government Affairs at United Surgical Partners
International. In addition to that plumb position, she is also a board
member at the Texas Ambulatory Surgical Center Society.
The Houston Chronicle reports the bill’s passage would mean that
nearly all of the abortion clinics in Texas would close because they
would not be able to afford to transform into official ambulatory
surgical centers. The bill would restrict abortions to being performed
only in clinics that have this designation.
The few abortion clinics that would stay open would be the ones that
already function as ambulatory surgical centers. It does not seem to be a
coincidence that Perry’s sister just so happens to work at a company
that is already considered to be an ambulatory surgical center. She
stands to profit handsomely from the bill being signed into law.
Addicting Info.com reports: Closing 37 of the 42 clinics in Texas significantly eliminates
competition and gives the company the ability to offer and perform
abortion procedures at a higher cost. This means low income women will
have to pay more to get an abortion and Rick Perry’s sister will profit
from it.
Malala
Yousafzai has received a rambling letter from a Taliban commander,
claiming she was targeted for maligning it. Photograph: Rick Bajornas/UN
Photo/PA
A senior member of the Pakistani Taliban has written an open letter to Malala Yousafzai
– the teenager shot in the head as she rode home on a school bus –
expressing regret that he didn't warn her before the attack, but
claiming that she was targeted for maligning the insurgents.
Adnan Rasheed, who was convicted for his role in a 2003 assassination attempt on the country's then-president Pervez Musharraf, did not apologise for the attack, which left Malala gravely wounded, but said he found it shocking.
"I wished it would never happened [sic] and I had advised you before," he wrote.
Malala
was 15 when she and two classmates were targeted by a masked gunman who
picked them out on a school bus as they went home from school in Pakistan's northwest Swat valley last October.
She
was seriously injured in the attack, and was flown to Britain to
receive specialist treatment from doctors in Birmingham, where she and
her family now live.
Last week, she celebrated her 16th birthday by delivering a defiant speech at the United Nations in New York, in which she called on world leaders to provide free schooling for all children.
In
the letter, Rasheed claimed that Malala was not targeted for her
efforts to promote education, but because the Taliban believed she was
running a "smearing campaign" against it.
"You have said in your
speech yesterday that pen is mightier than sword," Rasheed wrote,
referring to Malala's UN speech, "so they attacked you for your sword
not for your books or school."
The rambling four-page letter, in
patchy English, citing Bertrand Russell, Henry Kissinger and historian
Thomas Macaulay, was released to media organisations in Pakistan.
Maldivian President Abdulla Yameen, center, was sworn into the presidency on Nov. 17, 2013. Photo by Maldivian government (press release).
