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  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 28, 2011
  • 5 Comments
  • veil, women
The women’s basij group (the Islamic regime of Iran’s paramilitary militia) has trained 52,000 ‘experts’ to ‘promote chastity and veiling’ in the society. Maybe some of those ‘progressives’ who so love the hejab can join the women’s basij as they are also looking to create an Institute for chastity and veiling and a group of […]
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And you thought only Islam was anti-woman

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 26, 2011
  • 4 Comments
  • Islam, Judaism, religion, women
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish groups find the female image ‘offensive’ and women’s voices seductive so they ban both. In recent months, women’s faces have disappeared from billboards across the city due to defacement of posters with women on them.
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Calling All Nude Photo Revolutionaries

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 22, 2011
  • 14 Comments
  • Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, Islamism, women
Remember Calendar Girls when a group of women posed nude to raise money for charity? As a follow up to the photo of Israeli women who stripped in solidarity with Egyptian blogger Aliaa Magda Elmahdy, why not make a calendar of Nude Photo Revolutionaries in homage to Aliaa and also to raise awareness on free […]
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Some women are deficient in intelligence…

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 21, 2011
  • 15 Comments
  • Egypt, Islam, Islamism, women
Mona Salah, an Egyptian parliament candidate for the Islamist Salafi Movement told Al-Sharq Alawsat (an Egyptian newspaper) ‘Women are deficient in mind and religion’* and are not permitted to have authority by taking on the position of Presidency.
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Forget breasts, cover those tempting eyes!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 19, 2011
  • 15 Comments
  • Islam, religion, Saudi, veil, women
The Saudi Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice (yes, it’s really their name), can order women with ‘tempting’ eyes to cover them up.
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Women: how not to get punished!

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 16, 2011
  • 0 Comments
  • saudi Arabia, Sharia, women
Here’s a good video for women who keep getting punished. It’s unnecessary as long as you remember to ask permission and to know your place…
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The EU, like Sharia courts, doesn’t want women to speak up

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 15, 2011
  • 7 Comments
  • Afghanistan, Moral Crimes, women
A few days ago, Ophelia Benson blogged about Gulnaz, the Afghan women jailed for 12 years after being raped in Afghanistan. On the day, I was asked to do an interview on it by SKY TV but couldn’t as I had to pick up my 6 year old from school. Since then, I have been […]
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Finally, a more woman-friendly Koranic verse (it had to be made up though)

  • Posted by Maryam Namazie
  • On November 7, 2011
  • 16 Comments
  • Al-Nisa, Islam, Koran, women
You have all read or know of the famous Koranic verse or sura al-Nisa (The Women), which basically speaks of the ‘excellent’ status of women under Islam. It says things like how a women is worth half that of a man and that’s it’s alright to beat a disobedient woman (spare me any comments on […]
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