women | Maryam Namazie

Anyone looking for a job?

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 […]

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.

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 […]

Posted by Maryam Namazie
On November 22, 2011
7 Comments
women

23 year old Afghan university student Khaleda Mohammadi was beaten by her husband and prevented from leaving home for three weeks. Why? One of her male classmates uttered her name in public.

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.

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.

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…

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 […]

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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Anyone looking for a job?

And you thought only Islam was anti-woman

Calling All Nude Photo Revolutionaries

Don’t utter her name but feel free to mention who she belongs to

Some women are deficient in intelligence…

Forget breasts, cover those tempting eyes!

Women: how not to get punished!

The EU, like Sharia courts, doesn’t want women to speak up

Finally, a more woman-friendly Koranic verse (it had to be made up though)