When I first saw a story today about CNN firing Octavia Nasr, I couldn’t believe CNN had acted so stupidly. All Nasr had done was say “”Sad to hear of the passing of Sayyed Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah. One of Hezbollah’s giants I respect a lot.” Later, after a deluge of criticism, Nasr, in a blog, [...]
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In an effort to improve Islam’s image in Great Britain, an Islamic organization began placing ads in the London Underground and on taxicabs. Remona Aly, the campaign director of the Exploring Islam Foundation (the group responsible for the ads) says that she hopes the campaign will help counteract “the often inaccurate and negative stereotypes of [...]
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Following in the very noble footsteps of Pat Roberston, Jerry Falwell, and their ilk, a Houston minister has declared the latest oil spill crisis was the fault of…abortions! Preacher Joseph Herrin has announced that the Spirit of Christ revealed to him a parable in the BP Oil Spill: that Planned Parenthood, and abortion-rights advocates were [...]
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The group was small, but it made its point. Eight Roman Catholic women, as representatives of a half-dozen Catholic reform groups, staged a one-minute demonstration for women’s ordination Tuesday in St Peter’s Square. The purpose was to bring attention to the goal of having women be ordained as priests and they unfurled banners reading “Born [...]
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According to BBC, Chief Rabbi Elyakim Levanon of the West Bank has recently banned women from running in elections in his community. After an anonymous woman wrote to him, expressing her interest in running for Common Secretary, Rabbi Levanon said: “The first problem is giving women authority, and being a secretary means having authority. The second [...]
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The women of Afghanistan are correct to worry that any peace deals the Afghan government might make with the Taliban will sacrifice women’s rights. After all, the Taliban was more repressive to women than, probably, any government in the world. And their relatively recent re-control of parts of Afghanistan is reestablishing the tyranny. For example, [...]
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There has been a series of poisonous gas attacks against school girls in Afghanistan. The most recent occurred on Sunday in Kunduz province, in which at least 13 girls fell ill. They reported symptoms such as headaches, vomiting and shivering. On Saturday, 47 girls from a different school had reported feeling dizzy and nauseous, while [...]
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I saw this photo on MSNBC. The caption was: Afghan women learn how to make a doll at an April 15 workshop in Kandahar sponsored by a Malaysian nongovernmental organization called Mercy. Some 80 women participate in every workshop despite rising tensions in the city between the Taliban and NATO troops.
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Would you really want to be in a car where the driver is wearing a niqab (a full face veil with an open slit for the eyes)? Doesn’t it seem reasonable that the driver’s sight would be restricted? Well, last month, a French police officer gave a ticket to woman who was wearing a niqab, [...]
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