[Cincinatus' Wife]

[monocle]

And yet some muslim women are as devout as any man.

[zook]

Where did that excellent graphic come from?

[livius]

Excellent article with carefully assembled facts. It certainly gives an entirely different view of Iran. But of course a closed society is free to give out its own view of itself, unchallenged by facts.

[independentmind]

Some may think a thriving sex trade in a theocracy with clerics acting as pimps is a contradiction in a country founded and ruled by Islamic fundamentalists. In fact, this is not a contradiction. First, exploitation and repression of women are closely associated. Both exist where women, individually or collectively, are denied freedom and rights.

The growing worldwide sex slave industry is a subject that interests me, but I think the above statement is inaccurate. That some societies permit this treatment of women is not, fundamentally a political issue. It's religious and cultural and no amount of tinkering with laws will change it.

[2banana]

Religion of Peace...

Ayatollah Khomeini issued a special "religious decree" that required that all virgin women prisoners be raped before execution to prevent them from going to heaven. They also threatened Ashraf Jalali, Farah Shirmahale, and Mashid Sheikh with rape. The routine was to rape all of the women, especially the unmarried girls, before they were executed. Ashraf was young, not more than 17-years-old. I got to know her in prison and in the torture chamber. She had attractive dark eyes, and would stare at one point. When asked what she was thinking about, she said she was thinking about freedom for the women of her country. She used to say that the more they flogged us with cables, the more she believed in the path she had chosen. She was only with us a short time; they executed her very quickly.

From: Making the Harm Visible

http://www.uri.edu/artsci/wms/hughes/mhvact.htm

[Savage Beast]

"They proposed setting-up brothels, called 'morality houses'"

You can't get any more Orwellian than that.

"Islamic fundamentalism is a political movement with a political ideology"

The sooner the Western nations realize this, face this unpleasant face, and accept it and begin treating it as a political movement with a political ideology and agenda, the better. Its overt goal is the establishment of a worldwide Islamic theocracy with the Koran as the constitution, dhimmitude for all non-Muslims, and the shariah as international law. The people of the West have duped themselves into mistaking a political movement for a religion and giving it free-reign under the misconception that it should be protected under a misguided and paralysing commitment to "freedom of religion".

[Zack Nguyen]

Good find, CW. Corruption to the core.

[ALOHA RONNIE]

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America will be safer when it FREES the Women of the Middle East to be able to teach their children the real prices paid for waging war...

so that they won't go out and start them in the future.

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[FierceDraka]

The exposure of sex slave networks in Iran has shown that many mullahs and officials are involved in the sexual exploitation and trade of women and girls.

I can't say that any of this surprises me in the least. Those mullahs are nothing more than barbarians with access to 20th Century weapons and communications. Maybe 21st Century communications, come to think of it. But still barbarians, none the less.

And these are the people the leftist feminists turn a blind eye to? They need to wake up and realize that if they were to find themselves in an Islamic dictatorship (and let's face it Islam is dictatorship) as single women, they would be liable to kidnapping, rape, and slavery just as brutal as what the "native" women are exposed to.

[DoctorMichael]

Degenerate Islamist Scum Bump.

[CharlesThe Hammer]

Thanks for posting this article. The broader implication of Islamicist relegation of women to chattel status is in Islam's long flirtation with the Utopian left. The Ba'athists and the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem had their asssociation with National Socialism and there has long been a Pan-Arab courting of Soviet ideas and friendship. The silence of the political Left in the West over this outrageous exploitation of women should not suprise us. After all, cosmolpolitan internationalism holds that ALL cultures and societies are of EQUAL value. In this radically egalitarian view, who are we to criticize the practices of Sharia(Koranic Law)in the Sudan, or Saudi Arabia, or Yemen? Just because wife beating and the chador are outside the petty bourgeois, Christian standard for humane treatment, doesn't necessarily condemn such practices. Thus, N.O.W., the EU, the UN, and the neo-Coms cannot bring themselves to rail against this gross offense against women. They are complicit by their silence. No big deal if slavers are trading in the lascivious abuse of callow girls. It's so easy to dehumanize certain groups whilst on their quest for social nirvana. Note: the torture rooms and mass graves of Saddam; the whippings and summary executions by the Taliban; the Palestinian textbooks portraying Jews as apes or swine; the indoctrination of children to suicidal martyrdom; the incineration of tourists in Bali; the decapitaion of Christians in the Philippines; and, of course, the destruction of thousands of our countrymen in lower Manhattan. The dichotomy presented to Leftists by their abandonment of these young girls is ruinous because the destruction of innocents is so obviously wrong. The Left's silence bankrupts any moral claim it might make and Islam itself is fractured on the rocky truth. Young Muslim girls are an appetizer to such insatiable gluttons for human misery and our silence is simply not an option.