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By Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the Huffington Post Blog:
- Feminists Refuse To Confront Sharia
A woman writing for the Irish Independent points out the failure of alleged feminists to condemn sharia: Last week the Council of Europe brought into effect the Istanbul Convention which aims to combat violence against women. Fourteen countries have so...
- British Lawyers Will Get Training In Sharia
As the UK legal system incorporates sharia, they proceed to offer training for lawyers: High street lawyers are being offered formal training in Islamic Sharia Law by the professional body which represents solicitors, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose....
- Infidel Bloggers Alliance Exclusive: Uk: Interfaith Group Proposes Shari'a Law For All Women
You read that title correctly: for ALL women. From Creeping Sharia, citing this source: An academic expert in Muslim Sharia law is holding a presentation on the subject for women in Melksham later this month. Amra Bone, who has worked as a lecturer in...
- British Atheist Says Sharia Courts Are Ok
There’s an atheist in Scotland who thinks sharia courts are OK. Good for women, too. Not only that, but he or she speaks for the organisation, Atheist Scotland. A letter from I Stewart, convener of Atheist Scotland, appears in the Scotsman (second letter...
- Just What Is This Domestic Sharia Law The Archbishop And The Lord Chief Justice Are So Hot For?
The Archcunthip and The Lord Chief Pussois of England are both in agreement, we ought to entertain the idea of using Sharia law for domestic situations, so Muslims can feel as if they are serving Allah and Mammon too. But, what is domestic Sharia law?...
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From Selma to Tunis: When Will We March Against the Segregation of Our Own Time?
...Not only has the situation of African-Americans improved in many respects but, as Obama put it, the civil rights movement also swung open "doors of opportunity" for women, Latinos, Asian-Americans, gays and the disabled. And it continues to offer inspiration for those fighting for freedom around the world -- in Obama's words, from "the streets of Tunis to the Maidan in Ukraine." If anyone has the right to make this point, it is our half-African president.Read the rest HERE.
Yet what the president failed to point out is that, around the world, segregation is making a comeback -- including in the streets of Tunis, where the proponents of today's segregation spilled blood last week....
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The system of law I am talking about is sharia law, the body of legislation derived from the Qur'an, the Hadith, and the rest of Islamic jurisprudence. And the discriminated group I have in mind is women, though I could also reference Jews, Christians and gays.
No group is more harmed by sharia than Muslim women -- a reflection in part of the patriarchal tribal culture out of which Islamic law emerged. Repeatedly, women are considered under the code to be worth at most "half a man." Sharia subordinates women to men in a multitude of ways: the requirement of guardianship by men, the right of men to beat their wives, the right of men to have unfettered sexual access to their wives, the right of men to practice polygamy, and the restriction of women's legal rights in divorce cases, in estate law, in cases of rape, in court testimony, and in consent to marriage. Sharia states that women are considered naked if any part of their body is showing except for their face and hands, while a man is considered naked only between his navel and his knees. Finally, although Muslim men may marry Christian or Jewish women, Muslim women may only marry Muslim men.
Segregation, in short, is central to sharia -- a fact that no amount of contortion by self-styled Muslim feminists can get around.
True, not all Muslim-majority countries apply sharia. In Tunisia, after a heated internal debate, the Islamist Ennahda Movement -- which came to power following the Arab Spring -- opted last year not to make sharia the basis for the country's new constitution. But that is precisely the kind of moderate policy explicitly targeted by whichever jihadist gang carried out the Tunis museum massacre. And the troubling thing is that, worldwide, sharia is gaining ground. In Brunei, for example, the Sultan announced the introduction of sharia law last April. The advance of organizations like Islamic State and Boko Haram mean the most brutal application of sharia on a rising number of women and girls.
There seems to me only one possible way to react to this trend toward sharia and that is to resist it. Perhaps that is more obvious to me than to most; having lived under sharia when I was a young girl in Saudi Arabia I know just what it means to be a second-class citizen. Yet many Western liberals seem to struggle with the obvious point that if they were against segregation and discrimination in the 1960s they should be against gender segregation and discrimination now....
- Feminists Refuse To Confront Sharia
A woman writing for the Irish Independent points out the failure of alleged feminists to condemn sharia: Last week the Council of Europe brought into effect the Istanbul Convention which aims to combat violence against women. Fourteen countries have so...
- British Lawyers Will Get Training In Sharia
As the UK legal system incorporates sharia, they proceed to offer training for lawyers: High street lawyers are being offered formal training in Islamic Sharia Law by the professional body which represents solicitors, The Sunday Telegraph can disclose....
- Infidel Bloggers Alliance Exclusive: Uk: Interfaith Group Proposes Shari'a Law For All Women
You read that title correctly: for ALL women. From Creeping Sharia, citing this source: An academic expert in Muslim Sharia law is holding a presentation on the subject for women in Melksham later this month. Amra Bone, who has worked as a lecturer in...
- British Atheist Says Sharia Courts Are Ok
There’s an atheist in Scotland who thinks sharia courts are OK. Good for women, too. Not only that, but he or she speaks for the organisation, Atheist Scotland. A letter from I Stewart, convener of Atheist Scotland, appears in the Scotsman (second letter...
- Just What Is This Domestic Sharia Law The Archbishop And The Lord Chief Justice Are So Hot For?
The Archcunthip and The Lord Chief Pussois of England are both in agreement, we ought to entertain the idea of using Sharia law for domestic situations, so Muslims can feel as if they are serving Allah and Mammon too. But, what is domestic Sharia law?...