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Obama's mosque visit demonstrates tacit acceptance of a form of gender apartheid
The New York Times ^ | 2/3/16 | ASRA Q. NOMANI AND IFY OKOYE

Posted on 02/03/2016 6:20:24 PM PST by Pining_4_TX

As President and Michelle Obama argued decades ago in the context of the U.S. civil rights movement, separate is indeed unequal. To Muslim women’s rights activists fighting for equal access to mosques as part of a broader campaign for reform — from equal education for women and girls to freedom from so-called “honor killings” — the president’s visit to a mosque that practices such blatant inequity represents a step backwards. While it may be meant to convey a message of religious inclusiveness to American Muslims, the visit demonstrates tacit acceptance of a form of discrimination that amounts to gender apartheid. For that reason, we will be standing outside the mosque on Johnnycake Road, as close as the Secret Service allows, to protest the separate and unequal standards inside and advocate for equal rights.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Maryland
KEYWORDS: feminism; isb; mosque; obama; obamamosquevisit; obamaspeech
Such a joke that Obama is demanding to know how much US companies are paying women in comparison to men when he speaks at a place that treats women as 2nd class citizens.
1 posted on 02/03/2016 6:20:24 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

11 1/2 months.............


2 posted on 02/03/2016 6:22:55 PM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Pining_4_TX
Islam: The real war against women,
3 posted on 02/03/2016 6:26:35 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Exemplifies the filthy Democrats WAR ON WOMEN !!!!!


4 posted on 02/03/2016 6:31:05 PM PST by Iron Munro (The wise have stores of choice food and oil but a foolish man devours all he has. Proverbs 21:20)
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To: Pining_4_TX

What ? No pictures of B. Hussein with his ass in the air and his head in the ass of the guy in front of him?

And I don’t mean the pictures of date night with Reggie.


5 posted on 02/03/2016 6:38:05 PM PST by digger48
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Neither of the Obamas had anything to do with the civil rights movement


6 posted on 02/03/2016 6:40:54 PM PST by pluvmantelo (Barack Obama-gleefully bringing taharrush gamea to your neighborhood)
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To: pluvmantelo

LOL Baraq was smokin weed in Hawaii and Mooch was hangin with Jesse Jacksons daughter in So. Chitown.


7 posted on 02/03/2016 6:45:35 PM PST by nascarnation
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To: Pining_4_TX

the pass he gives Islam and Muslims that he doesn’t to Christianity, Judaism, and humanism (which Geert Wilders points out are the bedrock of REAL civilization) is why people think he’s a Muslim; not conservatives.


8 posted on 02/03/2016 7:10:13 PM PST by TraditionalMerica
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To: Pining_4_TX

And never mind their stance on gay rights, which is basically - death.


9 posted on 02/03/2016 8:05:50 PM PST by sunrise_sunset
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To: sunrise_sunset

you’ve basically summed up part of the reason I’ve left the Democrat Party; they’ve shed any principle for demographics they think will go in their favor (more Muslim voters and making “Islamophobia” a race thing, or at least feeding into it) and plan to use it as cover to implement a far-left agenda.


10 posted on 02/04/2016 12:39:52 AM PST by TraditionalMerica
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