Posted on 09/25/2008 1:16:38 AM PDT by CitizenM
IN one of his last sermons before his death, Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini warned of "three threats" to his vision of Islam: the US, the Jews and women.
Two decades later, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad thinks he has the United States and the Jews in hand - and is moving on the third "enemy."
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His new law would restore men's Islamic right to divorce their wives without even informing them. Men would also be absolved from paying alimony.
In exchange, they'd be required to pay a mahrieh (a severance payment, whose amount is set in the marriage contract) to a wife they wish to divorce. But the draft law also plans a hefty government tax on the mahrieh. So a divorced woman left with no alimony and no resources except her mahrieh could end up losing most of that to the government. "This text is designed to return women to the dark ages," says Sousan Tahmaspi, a spokesperson for the campaign against the law.
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To prevent the law's passage, women have been holding meetings nationwide, and launched a campaign to collect a million signatures in support of gender equality.
And at least five women's-rights advocates have gone missing. One, Solmaz Igdar, was abducted on her way home in Tehran, her family says.
The Khomeinist propaganda machine seeks to portray the women's movement as part of a plot by "Zionists and Crusaders" to undermine Islam. In recent days, government media have published claims linking Shirin Ebadi, the Nobel Peace Prize winner who has spoken in support of the women's movement, to the Bahai faith, a religion banned by the regime. This is a deadly threat: To abandon Islam for another faith carries a death sentence.
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With women like Jodie Evans, Medea Benjaman, (who met with this woman-hater in NY yesterday), Cindy Sheehan, and other women who have turned against America and are supporting this man the women in Iran and here have no "sister." Don't these people even read about his policies?
American men should be ashamed.
A Look at Iran
http://www.truthusa.com/IRAN.html
I suppose divorce might be better than death :o
Ping
This past June was the 19th anniversary of Assahollah Khomeini arriving in Hell for his eternal punishment at Lucifer’s 24/7 BBQ Pit & Spit.
He is most likely a very crispy critter by now, and highly seasoned from the endless sessions of demonic sodomy he has experienced while slowly being turned over that fire that is always increasing it’s temperature.
And you can be certain he’s not shouting ‘allah akbar’ now, but I’m sure he’s eagerly looking forward to Jimmy Carter joining him on the spit next door.
They don’t care.
While women in Iran suffer genuine persecution by their own government now, American feminists shriek about imagined persecutions to come at the hands of Sarah Palin.
But then, Iranian women present no threat to feminist orthodoxy. What happens to them is of no import compared to the threat to the Ivy League educated, blue-state urbanite feminists.
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