Fatwah Can't Silence 'Warrior Woman' Poet (Islamofascism Alert!)

''She writes that Muslim women should burn their burqas, that women should be treated as equals, and that religion should have no place in law or government...''

What can you buy for $11,319 these days? You can rent the 14-bedroom Christian Dior Chateau on the French Riviera for a week in December. Or, you can grab a 2001 Ford F-250 Super Duty two-door pickup truck that's still in pretty good shape. Or ... if your taste runs toward the grisly, you and your Muslim extremist cronies might offer $11,319 on the open fatwa market to buy a head; specifically, the head of ''notorious woman'' and dissident writer Taslima Nasreen.

The president of northern India's All India Ibtehad Council recently announced a 500,000 rupee (U.S. $11,319) bounty on Nasreen's head. ''She should be killed and beheaded and anyone who does this will get a reward from the council,'' declared cleric Tauqeer Raza Khan, because Nasreen made ''derogatory references against Prophet Mohammed in her writings.''

Granted, Nasreen's writings which demand equality and dignity for Muslim (and all) women are, to many Islamic fundamentalists, a bit radical. She writes that Muslim women should burn their burqas, that women should be treated as equals, and that religion should have no place in law or government … heretical stuff to Islamic fundamentalists. Nasreen fled Bangladesh in 1994 due to widespread violence about her writing and spent many years in exile in Europe. She recently sought permanent residency in an area of India that is culturally similar to her native country.

Actually...to be fair I just Googled “Taslima Nasin” and “National Organization for Women” and there were many hits.

It looks like NOW had been promoting Taslima Nasin’s cause back in the 90s when she first got into some hot water with the islamofascists.

I know it’s a strange world...feminazis vs. islamofascists.

However, in this instance I take my stand with free speech and free thought so I support Taslima Nasin’s right to dissent and her right to challenge the 14th century mindset that is Islam.

I think Nasin's feminism is pretty radical, even for American standards. But I can tolerate this better than the islamofascist jihadis. For more info about Taslima Nasin, go to her website at:

http://www.taslimanasrin.com/

For a long time, NOW did absolutely nothing to help women suffering under fundamentalist Islam’s oppression. After probably thousands of letters, calls, and emails about their hypocrisy and ignorance, their PR people decided that putting out a few platitudes in favor of those women would make them look good. I just can’t believe that the same people who defended Clinton the rapist are capable of having any genuine compassion for Taslima Nasin.

It was the military forces of the U.S. and our allies, not NOW, who liberated 10 million women from the Taliban. Nobody owes NOW any thanks.

I agree.

I think much of what NOW had done and said were just symbolic gestures and nothing more.

My guess is that the NOW feminists are pretty much dead set against our military operations in Iraq and I wouldn’t be surprised if they also worship at the altar of Cindy Sheehan. Cindy Sheehan would be the perfect poster child for NOW. She claims victimhood (her son died in action in Iraq), she hates Bush, and she is a dedicated socialist.

It’s ironic...but if the U.S. were to pull out of Iraq in the manner like what the Dems want, then the rights of Iraqi women will be hopelessly lost in the stone age. Al Qaeda and/or the Iranian Ayatollahs would fill in the vacuum of an abandoned Iraq and the women in Iraq would be subjugated to a permanent Taliban-like existence.

It’s very frustrating. I wish that more liberals would open their eyes and see that the war on terror (sic islamofascism) is a war that they must be engaged with too.

When Douglas MacArthur reconstructed Japanese society after WW II he purposely ensured that the Japanese women were given full and equal constitutional rights and the right to vote. Before the surrender of Japan, women there were treated as second class citizens.

I wish we had a Douglas MacArthur today who could rebuild countries like Afghanistan and Iraq. If womens’ suffrage spread throughout the Islamic world, I think the Islamic terrorism and jihadism would radcially decrease.

While I agree with liberals on next to nothing...liberals have more to lose from homicidal jihadis than a from a happy conservative warrior like me who advocates for liberty, individual rights, less government and lower taxes.

You are also quite correct about our military. U.S. Navy warships along with heavily armed Marine and Army divisions have done more to liberate women in places like Japan (WW II) Afghanistan and the Middle East than what the NOW hags could ever accomplish in a million years.

Of course the liberal feminazis at NOW will never acknowledge this. They simply prefer to bite the American hand that feeds them and keeps them free so that they can remain angry liberal agitators.

Well...so much for my rant.

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