Day: May 17, 2009

Yasmin Alibhai-Brown: Who’d be female under Islamic law?

Saudi judge: It’s OK to slap spendthrift wives
— Judge Hamad Al-Razine made the remark “during a seminar on domestic violence”
— Al-Razine “also pointed out that women’s indecent behavior and use of offensive words against their husbands were some of the reasons for domestic violence in the country”
— UPI
— Saudi women’s rights activist Wajeha Al-Huwaider: “This is how men in Saudi Arabia see women… They’ve been raised to see women this way, that they’re less than a person.”

(Afghanistan) New ‘poisoning’ hits 98 Afghan schoolgirls
— Taliban using poison gas on Afghan schoolgirls?
— 84 Afghan girls hospitalized in apparent poisoning
— “At least 84 Afghan schoolgirls were admitted to a hospital Tuesday for headaches and vomiting in the third apparent poison attack on a girls school in as many weeks, officials and doctors said”
— AP describes suspects not as extremists, but as “conservative extremist groups”

Afghani kills daughter, boyfriend
— “The motive for the murders was likely to protect family ‘honour’. Similar killings are common in rural Afghanistan but rarely reported”

Afghan clerics plan protests over changes to marital rape law
— “Supporters of the Afghan law which critics claim legalises marital rape and restricts the rights of women say they will oppose amending the legislation significantly.”
— Another link

Afghan women campaigners risk death to show world their plight

Afghan women protest over Taleban-style laws despite attacks