[knighthawk]

However, while the new constitution says that women are equal under the law, critics have condemned a provision that says no law can contradict the “established rulings” of Islam as weakening women’s rights.

Islam-list

If people want on or off this list, please let me know.

[Judges Gone Wild]

Christians were better off under Islam than under Bush, sad to say.

[Popman]

The violence is displacing the few members of religious minorities in the area. Fuad Na’im, one of a handful of Christians left in the city, said Thursday that the way his wife dressed made the whole family a target.

“I was with my wife few days ago when two young men driving a motorbike stopped me and asked her about her clothes and why she doesn’t wear hijab,” he said. “When I told them that we are Christians, they beat us badly, and I would be dead if some people nearby hadn’t intervened.”

That was enough, he said.

“I’m about to leave the city where I was born and where my father and grandfather were buried, because I can’t live in a place where we’re asked about our clothes, food and drink.”

ROP strikes again

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

["Extremists beat, kill females seen as not sufficiently Muslim, police chief says "]

Religion of Peace. OK.

[lilylangtree]

Where are all those women like hildebeast who attend an international women’s conference and talk, but don’t do anything, about the repression of women worldwide? Is this just a conference for these women to get up and spout their spiel without anything to back it up. Sheesh! Just a no-nothing like NOW.

[Madame Dufarge]

Before the U.S.-led invasion in 2003, Iraqi women had had rights enshrined in the country’s constitution since 1959 that were among the broadest of any Arab or Islamic nation.

I note the "Bush's fault" and of course "America's fault" undertone.

Things were so much fairer in the old days....

[Minn]

“These gangs represent only themselves, and they are far outside religious, forgiving instructions of Islam.”

While looking for adjectives to best describe Islam, somehow "forgiving" never made the A. list.