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ROME - Italy’s Justice Ministry has ordered a preliminary inquiry into an appeals court ruling that overturned a rape verdict in part by arguing that the woman who was attacked was too ugly to be a credible rape victim. The ruling has sparked outrage in Italy, prompting a flash mob Monday outside the Ancona court, where protesters shouted “Shame!” and held up signs saying “indignation.” The appeals sentence was handed down in 2017 — by an all-female panel — but the reasons behind it only emerged publicly when Italy’s high court annulled it on March 5 and ordered a retrial....

Islam has a very low opinion of women. Take for example these quotes from the holy Hadith text: Bukhari (48:826) Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri: The Prophet said, "Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?" The women said, "Yes." He said, "This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind." Tabari I:280 “’I must also make Eve (bad word), although I created her intelligent.’ Because Allah afflicted Eve, all of the women of this world menstruate and are (bad word).”)…happy, content…utterly incapable from intellectual weakness…never to give us trouble… One may think that...

Mary Noonan of the University of Iowa is still concerned about the acceptance of the importance of a woman's career. "People still buy into the stereotypes of what it means to be a good wife. It means that caring for your children and supporting your husband's career is viewed as a wife's main priority," she said. Ms Noonan should have a discussion with the folks at the Daily Kos, as the progressives in the number one liberal website are suggesting that Hadassah Lieberman should be removed from her job because of the political actions of her husband. Yesterday Joe Lieberman...

1. The foetus cannot be taken seriously as a person An unborn baby in its 7th week after conception Before I knew much about the abortion debate, I was entirely uninterested in the unborn baby. When it was mentioned, I accepted uncritically that the "foetus" was just some sort of overdeveloped sperm of no value or worth. Pro-abortion rhetoric convinced me that the baby in the womb was somehow an entirely different class of human from you or me, as though the mere act of leaving the womb and inhaling oxygen conferred humanity on someone. I'm not sure I considered...

The U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the Bush administration ban on partial-birth abortion. Partial-birth abortion is just what its name indicates and it is the most hideous medical procedure known to modern man. A full or near full-term baby is dragged by its feet from its mothers womb, leaving only the head inside so as to claim that the child is not yet born and therefore, is not yet a child. The doctor then inserts a sharp instrument into the base of the skull thrusting upwards, piercing the brain stem and ultimately causing death. For decades, two very determined opposing...

.....Find an idiot on the street (I’d be spoilt for choice), pay him a bit of money, enter into a “friendship marriage,” get the travel permission signed, dump the idiot on the street and leave. Hey presto! What a wonderfully practical solution. What’s absolutely shocking about the whole concept is that this is what women have been reduced to in our society. It’s unthinkable for a woman to try to function as an independent entity irrespective of her capabilities, inclinations, or preferences. In fact, judging by the responses that I received it is wholly deplorable for a woman to even...

Will Katie Holmes be a stay-at-home mom? The buzz is that Tom Cruise wants his wife-to-be to focus on being a wife and a mother — not on her career. He also reportedly wants her to avoid the spotlight for a while. “I’ve got Katie tucked away, so no one will get to us until my child is born — and until I want them to,” Cruise recently told “a friend” according to the new issue of Life & Style Weekly.

Assisted Reproductive Technologies are Anti-WomanBy Marie Anderson, M.D., FACOG and John Bruchalski, M.D. "Assisted reproductive technologies" (ART) broadly includes any therapy directed towards improving the chances of conception for an infertile couple. In 1978 one form of this technology made its debut when Louise Brown was born after her mother underwent IVF (in vitro fertilization). At the time, the scientific world marveled at man's accomplishment in creating the first "test tube baby." Now it seems more as if we have opened Pandora's Box. Initially it sounded simple to mix sperm and an egg in a Petri dish, but we...

There are signs of gradual change in Arab women's rights For the first time in the Arab world, a woman has chaired a parliamentary session in the Gulf state of Bahrain. Alees Samaan, who is Christian, also became the first non-Muslim to act as speaker in predominantly Muslim Bahrain, if only for a few hours. Details of the story are published on the front page of Bahraini newspapers, which describe the event as historic. The leading pan-Arab newspaper, al-Hayat, also reported the session on its front page. The Bahraini press speak of warm applause as Ms Samaan walked up to...

KUWAIT CITY (AP) - The emir should have the last word on granting women political rights if Muslim clerics disagree, said a religious edict issued by the Ministry of Islamic Affairs on Saturday. The Cabinet and the suffrage supporters hope the edict - or fatwa - will convince undecided lawmakers, mostly tribal and independent, to approve a government-proposed bill that could give Kuwaiti women the right to vote and run as candidates. The Cabinet's amendment to the 1962 election law that restricts political rights to men is expected to be up for a vote in the coming weeks. The emir,...

Jordan's new parliament has rejected two proposals giving women more rights because, some deputies say, they contradict Islamic teachings. While parliament was dormant in 2001, the government amended the two bills to allow women to file for divorce and to give courts the leeway to impose harsh punishment on what has become known as honor killings—men who kill women relatives who are perceived to have shamed family honor. Sunday, in just its third session since the June 17 parliamentary elections, the 110-seat Chamber of Deputies rejected the amendments to the Civil Status Law and the Penal Code by acclamation. The...

JORDAN'S newly-elected parliament threw out temporary laws allowing women the right to divorce their husbands and providing harsher punishments for those guilty of so-called honour crimes, parliamentary sources said Monday. Islamist and conservative deputies mounted a coalition to reject the laws passed by the cabinet in the two years since the previous parliament was dissolved, despite a vigorous defence from Jordanian Prime Minister Ali Abu Ragheb, who stressed they did not violate religious traditions. Although welcomed by liberal deputies as a "positive development", Islamists said allowing women the right to divorce without their husband's consent would "destroy families". Conservatives pointed...

Religious police demand head-to-toe modesty, but men are in charge of selling women their underwear RIYADH THE SAUDI woman, swathed in black with only her eyes showing, held up a lacy orange bra and asked the salesman in a whisper if he had her size. "Did you say 36C?" the man replied, loudly enough for other customers to hear. "Are you sure you don't need a bigger size?" "It was 36C in the past," said the woman. "Well, the past changes," responded the salesman. It's not the kind of exchange one might expect in Saudi Arabia, where the sexes are...