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Many women believe they don’t have the right to have rights
Deepa Shankaran on the politics of religious fundamentalism: In these politics, the key platforms are grounded in “morality”, “the family” and gender roles, and fundamentalist campaigns often call for...
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Defining ‘badness’
Robert Lambert and Jonathan Githens-Mazer tell worried Guardian readers about “Islamophobia and anti-Muslim violence” as if they’re roughly the same thing rather than being very different things....
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The bill was not ‘male-friendly’
Pakistan’s parliament last year passed the Domestic Violence (Prevention and Protection) Bill, but then it was rejected by the Senate, reportedly because of the objections of one senator, preventing it...
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This is totally alien to the spirit of Tahrir
Well how sodding depressing. Women hoping to extend their rights in post-revolutionary Egypt were faced with a harsh reality Tuesday when a mob of angry men beat and sexually assaulted marchers calling...
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Do women hate god?
Kristin Aune brings the good news. She and a colleague surveyed “nearly 1,300 British feminists” and guess what? The results show that, when compared with the general female population, feminists are...
View ArticleMy faith dispels any doubts
And by the way three cheers for female genital mutilation. …some communities see the practice as an integral part of their culture. “I have two daughters and five nieces, all circumcised by doctors. I...
View ArticleInstant personhood
Brilliant. The Mississippi Supreme Court has ruled that voters can decide the “personhood” of the fertilized egg – human egg, that is, not chicken egg or salamander egg. The measure would amend the...
View ArticleFirst order of business
Whatever else we do, whatever metaphysical view gets us there, the first order of business has to be shackling women. We always have to make sure women don’t have too many rights. We have to make very...
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They kept beating us with sticks
More religious bullying. (Of a much worse variety. Of a nightmarish variety. That’s how it is – we lurch from the bad to the horrendous, day by day and hour by hour. But the horrendous doesn’t make the...
View ArticleThe Jaafari Personal Status Law
Human Rights Watch to Iraq: yo, don’t legalize marriage for 9-year-olds. Iraq’s Council of Ministers should withdraw a new draft Personal Status Law and ensure that Iraq’s legal framework protects...
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To help impoverished pregnant people travel hundreds of miles
Lindy West is confused. She has a piece at Comment is Free about what a mess the US election is. She starts with a friend who works hard for abortion rights. “You’re a hero,” I said. “No, I am not,”...
View ArticleThe distress and hurt
This also happened today. Statement pic.twitter.com/oW98HnKPEw — Andy Wightman MSP (@andywightman) June 7, 2019 A crappy cowardly “statement” that marks out Julie Bindel (though without naming her) for...
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