A Universal Doctrine of Women’s Rights – by Phyllis Chesler and NOW’s Marcia Pappas
“It is time for feminists, both women and men, of all faiths, and of no faith, to stand together for a woman’s right not to be murdered in the name of family honor. Indeed, we welcome men and women of all faiths, including Islam, to stand with us against female genital mutilation/castration, forced veiling, child marriage, arranged marriage, polygamy, and ‘honorcide,’ and in favor of a woman’s right to live as a westerner in the West without being threatened and beaten for refusing to wear hijab, wanting to have non-Muslim friends, wear makeup, attend college, drive her own car, or end an abusive marriage. Muslim and Sikh women have been honor murdered in North America for all these alleged crimes against their religion and their culture.”
Read it all…
Month: March 2009
Making Human Rights A Priority
Join our commitment to be responsible for the inalienable human rights of equality and liberty and defy the forces of totalitarianism and supremacism.
Responsible for Equality And Liberty (R.E.A.L.) is a group committed to our inalienable human rights of equality and liberty as defined in America’s Declaration of Independence and in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Our goals:
(1) We seek to educate the public about those totalitarian and supremacist ideologies and organizations that defy such human rights.
(2) We seek to promote public activism in challenging such totalitarian and supremacist ideologies in public gatherings, meetings, and rallies in support of equality and liberty.
(3) We seek to promote action by government leaders and international organizations in challenging such totalitarian and supremacist ideologies, as part of our responsibility to equality and liberty.
(4) As individuals responsible for equality and liberty, our members agree to oppose all totalitarian and supremacist ideologies, including, but not limited to, Communist totalitarianism, racial supremacism, Aryan Nazi supremacism, and extremism – as well as the war on women.
For more information on how you can help, email us at realpublic@earthlink.net
The dirty secret of Turkey’s honour killings
Turkey: Eyes gouged out, tongue cut off, remains in a bag. The dirty secret of Turkey’s honour killings
— “There’s a local saying where she’s from — you go to your husband’s house in your wedding dress and you’ll only ever leave in your death shroud.”
India: Arrests in “honor killing” murder of 16 year old Muslim girl
(India) Arrests in “honor killing” murder of 16 year old Muslim girl
— “They have confirmed the claims of other accused Asim and Arif that Imrana’s father had asked them to straighten his daughter as one Irfan used to visit her frequently.”
— original reports
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Villagers-burn-girl-alive-in.5103494.jp
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Lucknow/16-year-old-burnt-in-Gzb-honour-killing/articleshow/4311952.cms
Canada: reports of racist growth in Alberta
India: Villagers burn 16-year old Muslim girl alive in ‘honour killing’
— for having relationship with a boy…
News report
— “Four residents of her village in Ghaziabad, north India, allegedly set
the 16-year-old Muslim girl alight after they suspected her of having a relationship with a boy.”
— “Police claim residents kept a vigil on her house as they noticed the boy
visited her frequently when her father was away. The four men then beat her, doused her with kerosene and set her on fire.”
— Times of India Report: “The victim had screamed for help for about 20 minutes before neighbours arrived only to find her still smoldering”
Turkey: Poll – Over a Quarter Support “Honor Killings”
(Turkey) Today’s Zaman: “Media help escalate honor killings, study reveals”
— Turkish parents blame the “media” for “honor killings,” claim stories are not “impartial”
— “the study also showed that 26.2 percent of the parents and 25.9 percent of the students said they support such killings”
Gender Apartheid- – Not Our Agenda. Part One
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!
Saudi “religious police” drag woman by hair out of shelter
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.”
Alabama bares scars of the civil-rights era
– monuments inspire courage to face new challenges
— Yvonne Williams: “We just have to keep fighting. That’s what I tell them. That’s what America’s all about. Don’t stop.”
— Shirley Cherry: “If people hadn’t stuck together, it would never have worked.”