http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/muslimwomen/ en-us Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:10:19 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097646/posts Saudi cleric Sheikh Mohammed al-Habadan has declared that a Muslim veil, or hijab, that covers all but the eyes encourages women to use eye make-up to look seductive, the BBC reported Friday. Al-Habadan has called on Saudi women to wear a full veil, or niqab, which covers the entire face, including one eye. The question of how much of her face a woman should cover is a controversial topic in many Muslim societies. The niqab is more common in Saudi Arabia and the Gulf, but women in much of the Muslim Middle East wear a headscarf which covers only their... Haaretz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097646/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:10:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097645/posts A Muslim cleric has called for Saudi women to wear a full veil, or nigab, that reveals only one eye, in order to control seduction, the BBC reported Friday. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said that women in Saudi Arabia are encouraged to use eye makeup and look seductive when allowed to wear a veil that exposes both eyes. How much of their face Muslim women expose differs from country to country, and is an area of contention. The nigab is more common in Saudi Arabia, but in many Muslim societies women wear a headscarf that covers only their hair. foxnews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097645/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 23:07:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097575/posts A Muslim cleric has called for Saudi women to wear a full veil, or nigab, that reveals only one eye, in order to control seduction, the BBC reported Friday. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said that women in Saudi Arabia are encouraged to use eye makeup and look seductive when allowed to wear a veil that exposes both eyes. How much of their face Muslim women expose differs from country to country, and is an area of contention. The nigab is more common in Saudi Arabia, but in many Muslim societies women Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097575/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:48:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097551/posts A Muslim cleric in Saudi Arabia has called on women to wear a full veil, or niqab, that reveals only one eye. Sheikh Muhammad al-Habadan said showing both eyes encouraged women to use eye make-up to look seductive. BBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2097551/posts#comment Sat, 4 Oct 2008 20:00:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096708/posts Wives, daughters, girls are punished by having acid thrown on them, permanently disfiguring them. The government prohibits the sale of the corrosive liquids, but they are easily found on the market. The phenomenon is spreading. The victims now include children and adult males. Dhaka (AsiaNews) - Women in Bangladesh suffer marginalization. And the violence against them, at home and outside, continues to grow. Recently, a new weapon has been added: acid, which disfigures their faces and bodies. Parul's husband is 30 years old. In 2000, he disfigured her by throwing acid into her face, because her relatives had not paid... Asia News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2096708/posts#comment Fri, 3 Oct 2008 16:13:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092851/posts LONDON: British children as young as nine "are being compelled into wedlock by their families" against their will, reportes said. This revelation came as official figures disclosed that nearly 60 children were rescued by UK's Forced Marriage Unit in the past four years. The cases fuel concerns that a number of children are disappearing from UK schools to be forced into marriage overseas. Karma Nirvana, a charity which runs a national helpline on forced marriage said in one incident a nine-year-old girl from a Pakistani family was rescued after her parents told her to wed. On average four children a... Times of India http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2092851/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 04:12:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081088/posts BABAKOT, Pakistan – In a tangle of bushes and trees outside a remote village in southwest Pakistan, six close male relatives of three teenage girls dug a 4-foot wide by 6-foot deep ditch, on a sweltering night in mid-July, and allegedly buried the girls alive. The girls' crime: they dared to defy the will of their fathers and the customs of their tribe and choose their own husbands. The mother of one of the girls and the aunt of another were shot and killed while begging for the girls’ lives, according to local media reports. MSNBC http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2081088/posts#comment Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:41:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079967/posts Sarah, 20, set herself ablaze in a desperate bid to end her life after four years of marriage to a drug addict in Sheendand District in western Afghanistan. Her family extinguished the fire and took her to the hospital. "I was sad when I opened my eyes in the hospital," the severely burnt woman told IRIN. Sarah's husband is a jobless drug addict who often beat her for alleged "insubordination". "I wanted to die and never come back to this life," she told IRIN from her bed in the Herat city hospital. Doctors said up to 40 percent of her... AKI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2079967/posts#comment Thu, 11 Sep 2008 14:55:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076157/posts DESPAIR among human rights workers in Pakistan over a rash of so-called "honour killings" intensified yesterday when it was disclosed that a girl forced into marriage with a 45-year-old man at the age of nine had been killed by her parents because she asked for an annulment. The girl, 17, who had been fighting a lonely but successful legal battle, was coming out of court in the Punjabi city of Sahiwal after being granted the annulment by a judge when she was surrounded by a group of men and shot in view of police. The death of Saira Nusrat... News.com (Australia) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076157/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:38:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076138/posts AHMADINEJAD'S NEW ENEMY: WOMEN By AMIR TAHERI September 6, 2008 -- 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." Women were the first to demonstrate against Khomeini's regime with a mass rally in Tehran on March 8, 1979 - less than a month after the mullahs had seized power. Over the next decade, the authorities... www.nypost.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2076138/posts#comment Sat, 6 Sep 2008 17:11:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073323/posts Five women were buried alive by their tribe in a mass honour killing prompted by their wish to choose their own husbands. The victims, who included three teenagers, were abducted at gunpoint, beaten and shot before being thrown into a ditch. They were still breathing as their bodies were covered with rocks and mud, according media reports and human rights activists. The incident occurred in Baba Kot, a remote village in Jafferabad district, after the women decided to defy tribal elders and arrange marriages in a civil court, according to the Asian Human Rights Commission. They were said to have... this is london http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2073323/posts#comment Tue, 2 Sep 2008 22:39:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071612/posts Women preachers are urging followers at one of Britain’s most influential mosques to kill homosexuals and view all non-Muslims as “vile”, according to a television documentary. The London Central Mosque and Islamic Cultural Centre, known as the Regent’s Park Mosque, is one of the most respected centres for moderate Islam in western Europe. However, an undercover investigation by the Channel 4 Dispatches programme has found extremist preachers have held study circles there and are teaching followers a hardline version of the faith followed in Saudi Arabia, known as Wahhabism. The documentary, to be broadcast tomorrow, is a follow-up to Undercover... Timesonline.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071612/posts#comment Sun, 31 Aug 2008 03:29:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071479/posts Drugged girl, 15, a reluctant bomb martyr Published Date: 30 August 2008 By Tim Cocks in Baghdad RANIA is only 15, but in the past week the softly-spoken Iraqi girl has been drugged and strapped with explosives, before being arrested and thrown into a detention centre. Now she finds herself at the heart of a propaganda war waged by the Iraqi security forces against the al-Qaeda militants who tried to use her as a suicide bomber. Police arrested the teenager on Sunday in Iraq's violent Diyala province, where tADVERTISEMENThe Sunni militants are waging a bitter campaign against US and Iraqi... scotsman http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2071479/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 23:08:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068365/posts ISLAMABAD: Three teenage girls along with their two close elderly relatives were shot at before being buried alive in a desert of Balochistan by their tribesmen in the name of honour. The shocking reports of this horrible incident reaching the capital from different quarters revealed that the girls studying in classes 10 to 12 intended to marry men of their choice through a civil court by defying the centuries-old tribal traditions. When the fuming elders of Umrani tribe came to know about the intentions of these girls to appear before a local court, they picked them up from their homes... Pak Tribune http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068365/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 16:09:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068419/posts Tears streaming down her face, she is confronted by police - a teenage girl apparently planning to blow herself up in front of an Iraqi school. The officers handcuffed her to a metal balustrade before moving in with extreme caution to uncover a vest full of explosives hidden under her colourful robe. The dramatic scenes were captured on a video shot by the police.-SNIP- Police in Baqouba, where the girl was caught on Sunday, said she was fitted with the vest by female relatives of her husband, whom she married five months ago. They also claimed that the girl's father... Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068419/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:14:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068034/posts Tears streaming down her face, she is confronted by police - a teenage girl apparently planning to blow herself up in front of an Iraqi school. The officers handcuffed her to a metal balustrade before moving in with extreme caution to uncover a vest full of explosives hidden under her colourful robe. The dramatic scenes were captured on a video shot by the police. Daily Mail (UK) http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2068034/posts#comment Tue, 26 Aug 2008 02:00:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2064940/posts Shereen Sabet, a Southern California woman has designed a line of swimsuits for Muslim women, who adhere to a modest dress code. The Fashion Time Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2064940/posts#comment Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:33:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064082/posts LAHORE, Pakistan; Saira Liaqat squints through her one good eye as she brushes a woman's hair. Her face, most of which the acid melted years ago, occasionally lights up with a smile. Her hands, largely undamaged, deftly handle the dark brown locks. A few steps away in this popular beauty salon, Urooj Akbar diligently trims, cleans and paints clients' fingernails. Her face, severely scarred from the blaze that burned some 70 percent of her body, is somber. It's hard to tell if she's sad or if it's just the way she now looks. Liaqat and Akbar are among Pakistan's many... FoxNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064082/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:36:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064064/posts A husband who constantly beat up his young wife and treated her as a 'slave' has been told he will be jailed. Sania Bibi, 20, arrived in Britain from Pakistan following an arranged marriage to Haroon Akhtar and was forced to work 17-hour days cooking, cleaning and washing clothes for his family. Her violent husband and his domineering mother Zafia Bibi, 50, threatened to shoot the terrified bride in the head if she did not follow their orders. The victim told St Albans Crown Court she was attacked at least twice a day by her husband, with his mother egging... dailymail.co.uk http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2064064/posts#comment Tue, 19 Aug 2008 01:37:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063705/posts LAHORE, Pakistan — Saira Liaqat squints through her one good eye as she brushes a woman's hair. Her face, most of which the acid melted years ago, occasionally lights up with a smile. Her hands, largely undamaged, deftly handle the dark brown locks. A few steps away in this popular beauty salon, Urooj Akbar diligently trims, cleans and paints clients' fingernails. Her face, severely scarred from the blaze that burned some 70 percent of her body, is somber. It's hard to tell if she's sad or if it's just the way she now looks. FOXNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063705/posts#comment Mon, 18 Aug 2008 13:56:18 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063429/posts LAHORE, PAKISTAN -- Saira Liaqat squints through her one good eye as she brushes a woman's hair. Her face, most of which the acid melted years ago, occasionally lights up with a smile. Her hands, largely undamaged, deftly handle the dark brown locks. A few steps away in this popular beauty salon, Urooj Akbar diligently trims, cleans and paints clients' fingernails. Her face, severely scarred from the blaze that burned about 70% of her body, is somber. It's hard to tell if she's sad or if it's just the way she now looks. Liaqat and Akbar are among Pakistan's many... The L.A. Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2063429/posts#comment Sun, 17 Aug 2008 22:02:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061839/posts Her crime? Converting to Christianity. "Saudi man kills daughter for converting to Christianity," by Mariam Al Hakeem for Zawya, August 13:Riyadh: A Saudi man working with the Commission for Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice recently killed his daughter for converting to Christianity. According to sources close to the victim, the religious police member had cut the tongue of the girl and burned her to death following a heated debate on religion. The death of the girl sent shockwaves and websites where the victim used to write with various nick names have allocated special space to mourn her, while... Jihad Watch http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061839/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:01:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061984/posts Saudir Arabian Muslim father cut out his daughter's tongue and lit her on fire upon learning that she had become a Christian. The child became curious about Jesus Christ after she read Christian material online, the Gulf News reported. Her father read of her Internet conversation, detached her tongue and burned her to death "following a heated debate on religion," according to an International Christian Concern report... WorldNetDaily http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061984/posts#comment Thu, 14 Aug 2008 21:02:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061171/posts  Saudi Cleric Muhammad Al-Munajid Slams Beijing Olympics: Nothing Makes Satan Happier Than The 'Bikini' Olympics Sheikh Muhammad Al-Munajid is a well-known Saudi Islamic lecturer and author. He frequently appears on Saudi TV channels and is known for issuing controversial fatwas. He previously worked in Washington, D.C. at the Saudi Embassy Islamic Affairs Department but was stripped of his diplomatic credentials. [1] In an August 10, 2008 interview with Al-Majd TV, Al-Munajid was highly critical of the Beijing Olympics, which he called the "bikini Olympics," referring to them as "satanic." Al-Munajid is known for his criticism of other sporting events.... MEMRI http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2061171/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:33:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060881/posts BAGHDAD -- Insurgents, who have increasingly turned to women to stage suicide bombings, on Tuesday used a man dressed as a woman in a failed assassination attempt on a provincial governor. The target, Gov. Raad Tamimi of Diyala province, escaped unharmed. But at least one other person was killed and several were wounded when the bomber's vest exploded near the governor's convoy. The use of the man in disguise appeared designed to give the attacker easier access to his target. It was the second suicide bomb attack in two days in Baqubah, the capital of Diyala. On Monday, a 15-year-old... latimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2060881/posts#comment Wed, 13 Aug 2008 00:44:53 GMT