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Perfectly legal &
horrific discrimination & abuse against women
World's only place where
it is illegal for females to drive
Impunity for
"honor" killings of women
Religious police prevents
male firemen from rescuing girls burning to death
Tens of millions of females
genitally mutilated as children
Millions of girls
denied access to school
Child soldiers - Incitement
of children to hatred - Child & women slavery
 Children of the Jihad. Palestinian kids raised for war. Taught to
hate, kill Jews through 'Sesame Street'-type TV show (Jon E. Dougherty and David
Kupelian, Nov 3, 2000): "Palestinian children
are taught to hate Jews, to glorify "jihad" (holy war), violence, death and
child martyrdom almost from birth, as an essential part of their culture and
destiny."
Shia Muslims
mark Ashura (BBC, Mar 24, 2002): "Thousands of Shia Muslims - many bloodied
from beating themselves - marched through Lebanon's cities on Sunday to
commemorate the killing of one of their most revered figures, Imam Hussein."
Allaahuakbar.net
 Allah is Great,
Oh Little Ones (Palestinian TV Sattellite, June 26, 2001) (MPG, 16.2 MB):
"... I gladly welcome my Martyrdom
..."
Senators voice concern over discrepancy between Arafat, PA rhetoric to
the West and hatred preached to Palestinian people and taught in schools
(Hillary Rodham Clinton, United States Senator, June 14, 2001)
"Amnesty International is gravely concerned at
reports that 14 girls have lost their lives and
dozens of others were injured following a fire at their
school in Mecca on 11 March 2002 after the
religious police (Mutawa'een) prevented them from escaping from the fire because
they were not wearing headscarves and their male relatives were not there to
receive them. The religious police are also reported to have prevented rescuers
from entering the school because they were males and therefore not permitted to
mix with females." - Mar 15, 2002
A Gap in their Hearts: the experience of separated
Somali children (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Sep 21,
2003): "After a decade of international neglect to, Somalia's unique
circumstances ever since the collapse of the
state in 1991 have served to produce one of the largest groups of separated
children arriving in Europe and North American
countries."
Saudi
Arabia - Questions of Human Rights (Website of the Saudi Arabian Embassy in
London): "Q:
Why can women not travel freely and alone within
Saudi Arabia? A: This phenomena is not limited to Saudi
Arabia. This custom prevails in many Muslim countries. There is a religious
basis for it: the Prophet Mohamed said that no women should travel for more than
one night without her husband or a mahram, for example her father, son or uncle.
Some Muslim scholars believe that the Prophet's instruction was based on the
unsafe travel conditions of the time. They argue that as travel is no longer
risky, that injunction does not apply. However, religious scholars in Saudi
Arabia do not accept this interpretation, and neither do the majority of the
Saudi people. This is not a matter of government decree; it is a matter of deep
personal belief."
HUMAN RIGHTS IN SAUDI ARABIA: THE ROLE OF WOMEN.
(TESTIMONY OF ALI AL-AHMED, Director of the Saudi Institute before the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Jun 4,
2002): "Saudi Arabia is the only country in
the world that prevents women from driving, studying law and engineering,
directly selling or buying property, attending court (even when accused of
murder), and showing their faces in public."
Female Genital Mutilation (An Overview, World Health Organization,
1998)
 Female Genital
Mutilation, Somalia (World Health Organization, p. 149-154) (PDF, 672 KB):
97% of Egyptian women [= 29
million] have
undergone Female Genital Mutilation
89% of
Sudanese women [=
14.4 million] have undergone Female Genital
Mutilation
98% of
Djibouti women [=
250,000] have undergone Female Genital Mutilation
98% of
Somali women
[= 5 million] have
undergone Female Genital Mutilation
25% of
Mauritania women have undergone Female Genital
Mutilation
Report on Female Genital Mutilation, Yemen (U.S. Department of
State):
"... 96 percent of women in
Hodeidah, Hadraumaut and Al-Maharah had undergone this procedure, while Aden and
Sana'a city were 82 percent and 45.5 percent,
respectively."
 Report on Female Genital Mutilation, Egypt (U.S. Department of
State): "... practice is nearly universal
among women of reproductive age in Egypt ... findings show that 97 percent of
women surveyed have undergone one of these procedures
..."
Pictures of
Female Genital Mutilation and "Instruments"
(Warning: These pictures are not suitable for
children. They are extremely
disturbing!!!)
World
Medical Association Statement on Condemnation of Female Genital Mutilation:
“Even with the least drastic version, an incision in the clitoris, complications
and functional consequences cannot be ruled out … The World Medical Association condemns the practice of genital
mutilation including circumcision where women and girls are concerned and
condemns the participation of physicians in the execution of such
practices.”
American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP): “ ... pediatricians and
pediatric surgical specialists should be aware that this practice
[FGM] has serious, life-threatening health risks
for children and women. The AAP opposes all forms of FGM …”
[Graphical descriptions of FGM included]
 Program on Imposing Discipline in the Family: Hosted by Jasem
Muhammad Al-Mutawah, Expert on Family Matters (IQRAA TV/MEMRI, May 9,
2002)
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transcript: "...there is a wife with whom the
situation is the opposite: If you use calm words with her, she will not grasp
them, and the problem will continue...We all know that Allah has given authority
to the man, including admonishing and guiding the wife in cases of disobedience,
banishing her from the bed, and then - the
beatings."
Defending Muslim Women from Beatings (Othman Al-Rawwaf, Saudi columnist
for the London-based Arabic-language daily Al-Sharq Al-Awsat/MEMRI, Aug 25,
2003): "The book, 'Women in Islam,' describes
how men should beat their wives, citing the Koranic verse: "And [as to] those on
whose part you fear disobedience, admonish them, expel them from the bed, and
beat them [ 4:34]." ,,, "Wife-beating cannot be explained in
terms of necessity and non-painful methods when speaking with non-Muslims, and
even with many Muslim women… The [participating] Shari'a experts gave various
answers, some of them explaining the reasons and justifications for
wife-beating. When one of the professors of Shari'a used his pencil [to
demonstrate], tapping his hand lightly and explaining to those present, 'Such is
wife-beating in Islam, light and not painful,' cries of laughter and
astonishment broke out in the hall..."
Jordanian Parliament Supports Impunity For Honor Killings (Human
Rights Watch): (Washington DC, January 27, 2000) -- Human Rights Watch today
condemned the failure of the Jordanian Lower House to end impunity for men who murder female family members in the name of
preserving the "honor" of the family. "For too long, men in
Jordan have been getting away with murder," said Regan Ralph, executive director
of the Women's Rights Division at Human Rights Watch. "This vote is a slap in
the face of Jordanian women who have been organizing to stop the killings." ...
This is the second time in two months that the Jordanian Lower House has failed
to abolish Article 340 of the Penal Code, which provides for lenient sentences
when men kill their female relatives in the name of "honor." Parliamentarians justified their defense of honor killings as
protection of Jordan's traditional and moral values against western
influences. ... Human Rights
Watch further called on the Jordanian parliament to provide protection for women
threatened by their family members on the basis of "honor," and to abolish other
laws that discriminate against women, including the rape law, citizenship law,
passport law, and social security law."
 This is not Islam (Paris based Iranian journalist Amir
Taheri, The New York Post, Aug 15, 2003): "Muslim women could easily check the fraudulent nature of the
neo-Islamist hijab by leafing through their family albums. They will not find
the picture of a single female ancestor of theirs who wore the cursed headgear
now marketed as an absolute "must" of Islam. This fake
Islamic hijab is nothing but a political prop, a weapon of visual terrorism. It
is the symbol of a totalitarian ideology inspired more by Nazism and Communism
than by Islam. It is as symbolic of Islam as the Mao uniform was of Chinese
civilization. It is used as a means of exerting pressure on Muslim women who do
not wear it because they do not share the sick ideology behind it. It is a sign
of support for extremists who wish to impose their creed, first on Muslims, and
then on the world through psychological pressure, violence, terror, and,
ultimately, war."
HUMAN RIGHTS IN SAUDI ARABIA: THE ROLE OF WOMEN.
(TESTIMONY OF ALI AL-AHMED, Director of the Saudi Institute before the
Congressional Human Rights Caucus, Jun 4,
2002): "Saudi Arabia is the only country in
the world that prevents women from driving, studying law and engineering,
directly selling or buying property, attending court (even when accused of
murder), and showing their faces in public."
Lebanon: Torture and
ill-treatment of women in pre-trial detention: a culture of acquiescence
(Amnesty International, Aug 22, 2001): "Widespread torture or other ill-treatment of women detainees,
especially those accused of major criminal offences, takes place in police
stations. Women in pre-trial detention are routinely held in incommunicado
detention and coerced to confess guilt or testify against themselves at a time
when they lack the protection of the law. Women accused of political offences
have also been tortured or ill-treated. Another vulnerable category of women are
migrant workers, who have frequently been subjected to torture and ill-treatment
in detention."
SAUDI ARABIA: GROSS HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AGAINST WOMEN (Amnesty
International, Sep 27, 2000): "Discrimination
against women impacts upon and compounds the wide range of human rights
violations commonly reported in Saudi Arabia. These
violations, which have been described in detail in two recent Amnesty
International reports on Saudi Arabia, A Justice System Without Justice and A
Secret State of Suffering1, include arbitrary
arrest and detention as facilitated by the wide-ranging powers enjoyed by the
arresting authorities; vague written and unwritten laws; secret and grossly
unfair trials; torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment;
and the use of the death penalty."
Slavery
and Slave Redemption in the Sudan (Human Rights Watch, March
2002):
"...
government-backed and armed militia of the Baggara tribes raid to
capture children and women who are then held in
conditions of slavery in western Sudan and elsewhere. They
are forced to work for free in homes and in fields, punished when they refuse,
and abused physically and sometimes sexually. Raids are directed mostly at the
civilian Dinka population of the southern region of Bahr El Ghazal.
The government arms and sanctions the practice of
slavery ..."
The Women
of Islam (Lisa Beyer, Time, Nov 25, 2001):"The Taliban perfected
subjugation. But nowhere in the Muslim world are
women treated as equals."
From
Article XXII of the Israel-PLO Accord (the "Oslo II" agreement) signed Sept. 28,
1995:
1. Israel and the [Palestinian]
Council shall seek to foster mutual understanding and tolerance and shall
accordingly abstain from incitement, including hostile propaganda, against each
other and, without derogating from the principle of freedom of expression, shall
take legal measures to prevent such incitement by any organizations, groups or
individuals within their jurisdiction.
2. Israel and the [Palestinian] Council will ensure
that their respective educational systems contribute to the peace between the
Israeli and Palestinian peoples and to peace in the entire region, and will
refrain from the introduction of any motifs that could adversely affect the
process of reconciliation.
PALESTINIAN WOMEN AND CHILDREN IN THE THROES OF
ISLAMIKAZE TERRORISM (Raphael Israeli): "The world often views Islam as a
seventh century anachronism. But the truth is the Islamic world is
playing and winning a sophisticated game of media
manipulation in which powerful and wealthy police states and anti-democratic
political movements are more often portrayed and perceived – at least in the
context of the Arab-Jewish conflict – as victims rather than threatening
oppressors. This paper will contrast what Islamic leaders
say about their intentions for the state of Israel in English while western
television cameras are rolling and what they say to their own constituents in
Arabic."
Education
in the Arab States: Five million girls still denied access to school (UNESCO,
May 14, 2003)
The Ultimate Child Abuse (Downloadable presentation - Palestinian
Media Watch) (PPS, 328 KB)
Stop Inciting Children to Kill (SICK)
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