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A graduate teaching assistant at the University of Missouri (MU) has been arrested and could be charged with child abuse after he allegedly assaulted a 14-year-old relative after seeing her in school without a headscarf. Youssif Omar was reportedly at Hickman High School in Columbia, Mo., last Tuesday when he spotted the girl, and noticed that she wasn't wearing a hijab, a traditional headscarf worn by many Muslim women and that many believers regard as a religious obligation. According to a Columbia police representative who spoke with the Columbia Daily Tribune, Omar reacted violently when he saw the relative without...

There is no need for me to highlight the importance of Lama al Suleiman and Nashwa Taher’s win in the Jeddah Chamber of Commerce elections, the first of its kind in Saudi Arabia. The two female candidates succeeded in the first election to allow female candidates to stand. Does this victory represent progress or is it simply a minor event with no consequence to the electoral process or the participation of women? While it may be a minor step, the election of female representatives might have a great impact if it continues and develops. It can serve as an example...

Why Women Should Not Vote -And, if a single woman should win an election, that would mean the government would have to construct a separate building for her. - Then of course the problem still exists of finding women who are willing to work in village or small towns. If the women are willing then they would need male escorts to stay with them there, in addition of course to finding male drivers since women are not allowed to drive here. -Those who have been following the Arab News will know that the council of ministers had called for more...

All sensible husbands will agree with me when I say that it is very important to beat one's wife. They will therefore share my sympathy with Mohamed Kamal Mustafa, the preacher who was given a 15-month prison sentence in Spain last week for writing a book offering tips on wife-beating, the Muslim way. In Women in Islam, published three years ago, Mr. Mustafa recommends a three-stage approach to keeping the little woman in order: first, give her verbal warnings; next, if she still refuses to mend her ways, subject her to a period of sexual abstinence; finally, if even stage...

MALES FIGHT OVER FEMALES—That is the basic instinct in the animal kingdom! The clash of civilization is another coined phrase that describes the 9/11 attack. I will even simplify this further to the most basic element of the animal kingdom. It is simply the act of brutal males-fighting to keep females in their place- subservient, and underprivileged! In Islam, women inherit half as much, and it takes two of them to be equivalent to one man testimony. Their profit declares that women are deficient in their mind, and that the majority of the hell dwellers are women! It is very...