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Saudi advertising campaign not enough

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On May 1, 2013
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domestic violence, saudi Arabia

Monica Lanfranco has written an article in Italy’s Il Fatto Quotidiano on the first Saudi campaign against domestic violence here. A poster of the educational campaign can be seen above. In the article she quotes me saying: This anti-violence campaign in Saudi Arabia is clearly in response to the public outrage over the death of […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On December 17, 2011
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domestic violence

Here’s a video clip of an Islamic ‘scholar’ speaking about the wife-beating ‘etiquette’ in Islam; he says ‘Allah honours wives by instating the punishment of beatings’. Yes, it is such a sign of respect and honour not to have a man shake your hand, to be segregated, to be veiled and to be beaten, amongst […]

Saudi advertising campaign not enough

Beating your wife honours her