Day: March 23, 2009

Gender Apartheid- – Not Our Agenda. Part One — by Phyllis Chesler and NY NOW’s Marcia Pappas
— “The issue of Islamic/Islamist gender apartheid is one of epidemic and global proportions”
— “why would American feminists hesitate to condemn crimes against women which are being committed on American soil by immigrants, including Muslims, from Third World countries?”
— “Just as men and women once stood together as abolitionists, we now call upon men and women of all races and religions, including secularists, to stand with us against the subordination of and violence towards women in the name of religion, beginning with Islam or Islamism.”

See also our petition calling for U.S. and international leaders to acknowledge and act on the extremist war on women…  please sign it today!

March 23, 2009: Saudis awaiting change from religious police
— “Visitors to a women’s job training center heard terrified screams — and rushed to see an agent of the religious police dragging a woman by her hair down the stairs of the building.”
— “The woman had apparently run for shelter in the center after the religious police caught her alone in a car with a man she is not related to — a violation of Saudi Arabia’s strict gender segregation, one of the visitors, Nasreen Qattan, told the Associated Press.”