“I am not a precious pearl”

This self-proclaimed  Muslim feminist says that wearing a headbag does not protect her from being raped or assaulted by men. But if she is a ‘Muslim feminist’ (on oxymoron if ever there was one), why does she obey the Muslim man-made rule that women need to cover themselves?

RUSSIA: Muslim man slaps around two women in grocery store

And nobody does anything to stop it. I guess they are following sharia law in Russia now.

“If I threw myself from a building, I’d break an arm or a leg, but I wanted to die, that’s why I set myself on fire, so I would die instantly.”

Forced into marriages with older men when they are as young as seven, Afghan women often choose self-immolation as the only means they have of escaping abusive husbands and in-laws. Whatever human rights gains Afghan women had achieved since the American invasion, now are disappearing as quickly as Barack Obama is turning back control of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

Self-immolation is considered taboo in their society, so one-third of women admitted to the Burns Unit in a hospital in Herat, Afghanistan, are forced to lie about how they became so badly burnt. The remaining two-thirds die, reports CNN’s Nick Paton.

One young woman, arms covered in bandages, was married off to her cousin when she was only 10 years old. Doctors say that after six years of abuse from her mother and sister-in-law, she became an opium addict.

In this case, self-immolation is seen as an act of protest — an apparent last result in fighting back against cruelty at home. ”She burned herself because of domestic violence,” says her counsellor Naeema Nikzaad.

It’s taken months for Atifah to admit what happened in private, but in public, she insists she’s just another victim of an accident in the kitchen.

The burns unit is full of similar stories — there have been almost 90 suspected cases of self-immolation in the last 10 months.

The woman in Bed 19 is another silent victim who also claims to have been burnt in a cooking accident.

“Seemingly she is saying I burned with the gas but when the patient comes to the emergency room you can smell the fuel,” says Dr Ghafar Abawar.

“Self-immolation is taboo in our society… The shame of it.”

The truth would bring shame on her family, and that could mean they kill her.

One explanation is that extreme domestic violence leaves many women so powerless that this shocking bid to die is the only way they can speak out about the brutality of their lives.

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MUSLIMS ARE LIKE PIGS

You should never try and teach a pig to sing because it wastes your time and it annoys the pig. Nine years of trying to instill the notion of basic human rights to Iraqis and nothing has changed.

The UN estimates that one in five women in Iraq suffer from domestic abuse, in a society where a woman leaving her husband for any reason is considered grounds for punishment. One rights group says cases of abuse appear to be on the rise since the fall of former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein nearly nine years ago. But even for women who do manage to escape their abuse, there are few places in the country they can go to seek refugee.

French Jewish Mother says, “Not without my daughter.” Saudi Royal Father says, “That’s what you think.”

Candice Cohen-Ahnine and Aya

A French Jewish woman won a court victory after a judge granted her custody of her daughter, whom she claims has been held captive by the girl’s Saudi royal father. But Candice Cohen-Ahnine, 34, is unable to celebrate because Prince Sattam al-Saoud refused to comply with the ruling, which also demands monthly child support of £8,300.

UK Telegraph  The Paris criminal court ordered Prince Sattam al-Saud from the kingdom’s founding royal family, to hand over custody of his daughter Aya to her French Jewish mother, Candice Cohen-Ahnine.. For the past three-and-a-half years, the prince has kept Aya in a Riyadh palace despite efforts by the French foreign ministry and President Nicolas Sarkozy’s office to resolve the issue.

But the French court ruling appears to have had no effect on the prince. “What do I care of Sarkozy?” he is cited as telling Nouvel Observateur magazine. “If need be, I’ll go like [Osama] bin Laden and hide in the mountains with Aya.”

Prince Sattam al-Saoud

Miss Cohen-Ahnine claimed that her daughter was taken from her during a visit to Saudi Arabia in 2008 and that she was held in the prince’s palace where she had only fleeting meetings with her daughter.

Miss Cohen-Ahnin was eventually spirited out of the country after the prince allegedly produced a document purporting that she had been Muslim but had converted to Judaism — a crime punishable by death.

She said she was concerned about her daughter’s upbringing when she discovered Facebook photos of her in a niqab and playing with her father’s firearms.

Despairing at the lack of diplomatic progress, she published Give My Daughter Back, a book recounting her ordeal, in October. Since the court ruling, the prince faces an international arrest warrant for ignoring the custody sentence. The prince denied ever having kidnapped the child or the mother. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, he said: “She was free to come and go as she pleased.”

He said she had converted to Islam and the two had married in Lebanon under Islamic law, and under terms of the divorce, put through courts in Lebanon and Saudi Arabia, the parents were to share custody of the child.

1998 Candice converted to Islam to marry her Prince but never became a real Princess

He said the protocol was drawn up in Saudi Arabia offering her a house, all expenses paid and access to the child and the possibility of taking her on holiday for one-and-a-half months a year. He said she left Saudi Arabia for France without even telling the family. He claimed that she said: “’Give me two million euros and take the daughter’. I said, ‘No, I don’t bargain over my own child’. That’s when the problem started.”

The prince said he would send lawyers to France to challenge the court decision but not his daughter. “France hasn’t got the right to take her back. She is a Saudi citizen and a princess. They cannot oblige a princess to leave this country,” he said.

HONOR IN ISLAM…honor killings, honor mutilations, honor gougings

A Bangladeshi college professor’s husband allegedly gouged her eyes out when he suspected her of cheating.

The Daily Beast  Rumana Monzur, 33, became an assistant professor at Dhaka University in the country’s capital, and a year ago set out to earn a master’s degree in political science as a Fulbright scholar at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver. This past May, missing her husband and 5-year-old daughter, she returned to Dhaka to write her dissertation. Little did she know her world would soon turn dark, quite literally.

A Muslim, she completed her late-afternoon prayer, and returned to the computer, her daughter drawing on the bed nearby.  Monzur’s husband, Syeed Hasan Sumon, came in and she showed him her Facebook page of photos from her life in Canada, doing yoga and ice skating with friends after which he flew into a rage, accusing her of an affair with an Iranian student in Canada.

Sumon pulled his wife’s hair, throwing her to the bed and pinning her arms down with his legs, she says. Then, in an account that is bone-chilling, she says her husband pressed his fingers into her eyes, gouging them out. According to Monzur, he gnawed at her cheek, lips, and nose, biting off bits of flesh, blood spilling throughout the room as Monzur flailed. Her daughter, Anusheh, stood in a corner of the room, screaming, as two household servants struggled to open the locked door. A neighbor took her to the hospital, where her parents soon arrived. The diagnosis: blindness. “I lost my eyes,” says Monzur. “I don’t want anyone to suffer like I am suffering. It is horrible.”

Rumana Monzur is now unable to see her daughter Anoushe, who was in the room during the horrific attack by her father

Two days later, Bangladeshi police arrested Monzur’s husband, presenting him to the media handcuffed in jeans and a striped T shirt outside the police detectives’ headquarters. According to a Bangladesh online news story, headlined “Hassan Alleges Betrayal By Rumana,” the husband launched the type of smear campaign Monzur’s father had feared: “She had an affair with an Iranian male during her stay in Canada for her studies since August last year,” he told the press. He had deleted the Iranian man’s name from her Facebook friends, he said. “Finding the Iranian guy’s name deleted, she attacked me, and we had a scuffle,” he said. “I lost my glasses and since I don’t see well, she might have been hurt in the fight.”

A month after the attack, in her hospital room in Dhaka, Monzur’s voice trembled as she related details from her marriage. She says he started beating her a few days after they were married in 2001, with a respite for a few years when he was “good,” causing her to overlook his alleged abuse. Her father supported her leaving her husband. Her in-laws urged her to stay with him, until they returned from the U.S., family members say. The night of the attack, she said, “he pulled my hair and pressed me against the bed and grabbed my neck. He put his fingers into my eyes. He threatened me when he left that he would not let me live. He will kill me no matter where I go.”

"In Canada I learned how to dream," Romana Monzur told The Globe and Mail in an interview. She says she hopes to regain her sight to finish her studies and take care of her daughter.

But, in the way that this story was handled differently than many, this wasn’t just another headline about an attempted “honor killing” by a disgraced Muslim man. This time, the local and diaspora Bangladeshi community challenged the justification of violence. When a reporter asked Monzur at a second press conference about the allegations of an affair, Bangladeshi colleagues of Monzur, including her former professor, Mohsin, shouted, “Shame! Shame!” to quiet the spurious claims. “We have to change the very concept of what is ‘good’ and what is ‘bad’ in our societies,” says Mohsin. “We have to shame the perpetrators.”

UPDATE: On Dec.. 4, 2011, Hasan Sayeed Sumon, who tortured and blinded his wife Rumana Manzur, was found dead in his prison cell at Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University.

Rumana went back in Canada to receive what she hopes will be treatment to allow her to see again.

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PAKISTAN: Brother chops off sister’s legs for ‘honor.’ Sister dies. No charges filed.

Express Tribune (H/T Susan K)  He told The Express Tribune that he was certain his brother-in-law would withdraw the case as it was a matter of family’s honour. “I have killed her because she brought disgrace to the family’s name,” Bachaya said.

“She had become a nuisance. I feel no remorse over my actions. I am backed by the family. They were in favour of my decision to kill her,” he said.

Bachaya said Alina* had eloped more than once with [different] men from the neighbourhood. On Saturday, he said, she had returned home after spending three days with a man.

Alina*, 25, was married to Muhammad Akhtar. The couple had three children. Akhtar, who is the complainant in the FIR against Bachaya, told The Tribune that while he had filed a complaint in the matter he might withdraw it in a few days.

“I believe he (Bachaya) has not done wrong. Nothing is above honour,” he said. “I would have also taken similar action had my sister left her husband and eloped with someone else,” he said, “I filed the report so that the police are informed of the matter. I don’t plan on prosecuting him (Bachaya),” he said. He said he would soon inform the police in writing that he had pardoned the suspect.”

When she returned home on Saturday, I sat down with her and tried to make her realise the consequences of her actions but she kept straying from the topic,” he said.

Later, he said, Bachaya came over to his house on finding out that Alina* had returned. Following an argument, he said, Bachaya attacked Alina* with an axe, chopping both her legs. She died while she was being taken to hospital.

Rohilanwali SHO Waseem Leghari said the police had registered a case on the complaint of the deceased’s husband.

He said an autopsy had already been carried out and the body handed over to the family. He said the police would proceed in the matter in accordance with the law.

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WOW! Saudi women will finally be allowed to watch soccer games in a sports stadium

A government-run Saudi newspaper reports that for the first time in the conservative Muslim country, women will be allowed to attend soccer matches in one of the country’s stadiums. But not until 2014.

FOX NEWS  Al-Sharq newspaper reported that women will be able to watch the matches in a new facility that will be completed in 2014 in the western port city of Jeddah.The officials say that the new stadium will include a family section with private cabins and balconies for women who wish to attend the games.

Saudi Arabia’s strict interpretation of Islam prohibits unrelated men and women from mingling. Women and men in Saudi Arabia remain highly segregated and are restricted in how they are allowed to mix in public.

Maybe someday, Saudi women will even get to play competitive soccer.

Mid East Soccer  Two Saudi women have established a women’s soccer and basketball team in the port city of Jeddah in a bid to persuade the government to allow and support women’s right to engage in competitive sports in a country that officially bans women from competitive sports.

Some clerics condemn women’s sports as corrupting and satanic and charge that it spreads decadence. They warn that running and jumping can damage a woman’s hymen and ruin her chances of getting married. In defiance, women have quietly been established soccer and other sports teams with the backing of more liberal members of the ruling Al Saud family as extensions of hospitals and health clubs. The International Olympic Committee has threatened Saudi Arabia with suspension if it does not create frameworks for women’s sports.

CANADA: Burqa Ban triggers FemiNazi and IslamoNazi hysteria

Tarek Fatah, who sees himself as Canadian first, Muslim second, supports the burqa/niqab (full face veil) ban and condemns the bizarre and hysterical reaction from Islamists, their leftist allies, and the liberal media.

Immigration Minister Jason Kenney’s words had barely echoed across the country when the usual apologists of the Muslim Brotherhood agenda in Canada were churning out press releases denouncing the minister. The liberal media joined in with the Toronto Star falling just short of labelling Minister Kenney a bigot, referring to his action as ‘bigotry.’

Tarek Fatah says, “One day I hope to see the Liberals and New Democrats join the Conservatives to say out loudly that they find the niqab to be a medieval monstrosity that is a manifestation of misogyny that has no place in Canada and that this ghastly attire is not a religious requirement, but a political statement thumbing its nose at Canada and its Western allies.”

TUNISIA: Bagheads protesting a university’s veil ban get it shut down

Tunisia, once considered the most liberal, most secular country in the Muslim world, is getting a taste of what life will be like under the newly elected fundamentalist Islamist government.

Not only will the existing headbag ban be lifted, pretty soon all women will have to cover their heads or risk arrest.

 UPI    Women who endorse the ban carried signs saying, “Science before the niqab (full veil),” and “No to shackles, no to niqab, knowledge is free.”

Hundreds of Islamists protesting against a ban on women wearing face veils enrolling at university. Classrooms were empty, but the campus of Manouba University remained the arena of protests against the university’s policy prohibiting the niqab, or full-body veil.

The mainly young protesters blocked a main road leading through the area and threw stones at vehicles trying to get through. They shouted: “Allahu Akbar,” or “God is greatest” and “We will die for Allah!”

Secularist Tunisians Protest Against Islamist Attacks on Women’s Rights

A former French colony, Tunisia has a long history of secularist bans during the era of autocratic president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali who was swept from power in January.Under Ben Ali rule, thousands of people who were suspected of membership of an Islamist political group were arrested.

GERMANY: Muslim man kills girlfriend’s unborn baby after he finds out she had been examined by a male doctor

Upon learning that his girlfriend was seen by a male doctor, Afghan-born Ahmad Sherzai, started punching the girlfriend in the abdomen so hard, that the unborn baby suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died.

Islam vs Europe   The starting point for the fateful event was a routine gynaecological examination of the pregnant woman. As the female doctor who was usually responsible for her was on holiday, the examination was performed by a male substitute instead.  For the then 20-year-old boyfriend, a practicing Muslim, this was horrific. 

The fatal punches caused the unborn baby to suffer cerebral haemorrhages while still in its mother’s womb. It was delivered through emergency Caesarian section, but died of its serious injuries two days later in the hospital.  As the child was not born at the time of the action, the indictment against the 21-year-old refers only to “abortion” and not to murder. 

When the Rheine resident learned of the examination by the doctor, a major row broke out between the couple. Sherzai is said to have struck his seven-month pregnant girlfriend forcefully several times in the abdomen.

UPDATE: The Muslim got 2 years and 9 months for this. His girlfriend was of German origin and from a Catholic family. Both Sherzai and his father (“a devout family”) have had a long history of trouble with the police.

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‘RAPE JIHAD’ – Forced conversions of Hindu girls/women to Islam

Sometimes referred to as ‘Love Jihad,’ this malicious campaign is in full swing by the Islamic seminaries, where students are used to abduct young Hindu women and rape them in captivity. And when it is identified that the girl has been abducted, they announce that thevictim is married and has embraced Islam.”

ZEE NEWS  The Asian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) has condemned the alleged forced conversion of  young Pakistani Hindu women to Islam. ”A woman’s embracement of Islam through abduction and rape are recognized by the courts and courts are happy to see her converting to Islam. Hindus account for a little over one percent of the population of Pakistan. However, the community claims that even this number is dwindling because girls are being kidnapped, converted to Islam and forcibly married to Muslim men.

A Hindu wife and mother of two children was allegedly kidnapped April 27 from her house in Moro in Sindh province.  Her husband was not at home and the two children, a boy of four years and a girl of 22 months were beaten up and locked inside the house. The police later said the woman must have run away on her own as her character “would be like that”, said a statement from the AHRC. 

The statement said the abductor’s lawyer produced a Muslim marriage certificate in a court, and the latter announced that she had embraced Islam by marrying a Muslim man. 

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EGYPT: Women are the targets of a new Saudi-style ‘Morality Police’

Oh, BOO HOO! This is what happens when a secular country like Egypt votes in representatives of the two most radical IslamoFacist parties in the country. Are you missing Hosni Mubarak yet? You will.

“We all know that these vice prevention committees are really a way to subject women to disgusting ways of life and push us farther into the house and away from the public,” Suzie argues.

Egypt is an oddity in the Middle East and with the recent gains being made by Islamic groups in the country’s first post-Hosni Mubarak election, many are worried that a conservative brand of Islam is already rising from the uprising. The Muslim Brotherhood’s political arm, the Freedom and Justice Party (FJP), and the Al-Nour Salafist Party have won the lion’s share of votes thus far, with nearly two-thirds of votes cast in their favor.

“That can scare people a lot, but we must all remain cautious before we jump to conclusions,” says Nehad Abu Komsan, the head of the Egyptian Center for Women’s Rights (ECWR). “I don’t think that many people voted for these parties because of a conviction toward them, but more because that was who was campaigning the most.”

The grassroots Committee for the Prevention of Vice and Promotion of Virtue has adopted the name of an official government body that operates in Saudi Arabia.  Armed with wooden canes, the Saudi committee’s paid operatives and volunteers patrol the streets enforcing the strict separation of men and women, conservative dress codes, public prayer and other behavior it regards as commanded by Islam. Looking nervously at the Saudi model, activists and average Egyptians worry about what the Egyptian vice committee might bring as Islamist parties sweep the elections.

You won't be seeing bikinis on the beaches of Egypt anymore

“I do feel the Salafists are powerful and have a lot of support because they have told people that the Western liberals and protesters are doing bad things like drugs and having sex. This scares people who believe them,” says café owner Mohamed Yussif, who runs a small successful middle-class café in downtown Cairo. “I hear people talk about our customers and say they should not be here, especially the women.”

Even little girls are not immune from the morality police

Suzie contends that they have a big draw for the average Egyptian because of the conservative and religious undertones to their message. She argues that groups that build a mission on faith and Islam are “strong with people who think that anything Islamic is a good thing.”

The on-line group, named after their Saudi brothers, claims the great majority of Egyptians support their efforts, citing “millions of Egyptians who voted for the Al-Nour Party.”  They argue this proves their support is not fabricated.

The group’s official Facebook page – all administrators of the page are anonymous – claims to “preserve the morals of Egyptians in accordance with Sharia law.”

Already, Egyptians are reporting members of the group have entered shops, cafes and other Egyptian locations to lecture owners on the un-Islamic nature of their businesses, often referring to places that sell body-clinging women’s clothes and alcohol as haram, or forbidden in Islam.

Two Iranian women arrested by the morality police for their inappropriate attire

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Why do Muslims always think we ‘infidels’ need to be educated about Islam?

Two not so all-American Muslim women whine about being misunderstood by non-Muslims. Well, here’s a bulletin: we know more about your stinking so-called religion than we ever wanted to know.

But maybe you could tell us why you have to wash your dirty feet in public restroom sinks where we wash our hands? As for your wearing of headbags (hijabs), the two of you  would do the world a favor if you wore the full face-covering veil – niqab.