The Courage of Iranian Women
This is an excellent post.
This is what they wanted:
- Banning polygamy;
- Reversal of men's uncontested right to divorce;
- Equal child custody rights for mothers and fathers;
- Equal rights in marriage (such as a woman's right to choose where she works, to travel freely, etc.);
- Increase in the legal age of children to 18 years of age (currently girls are viewed as adults at 9 years of age and boys at 15 years of age, making them eligible to be tried as adults);
- Equal value placed on women's testimony in court; and
Feminists of Europe, have some shame! These are your sisters being beaten up. They want the same rights as you. Why do you think Iranian women are not worthy of your support?????? Yes I wondered that myself a few months back.
Noone seems to be arsed to do anything. Whether that be to protect free speech here or support women whose rights are nothing in comparison to ours. Nothing! I wonder if we dont need to lose some freedoms to want them.
posted by Alison @ 11:02 pm
8 Comments:
Great post...keep it going Iranian women, die if you have to but keep fighting. You are equal and always have been try populating the world without women. Where are you our liberal Western Sisters..can we cry out in support. Can our *****MSM help them!
Well thats the thing isnt it- if you read any bleeding heart liberals chattering on about anything in the press its certainly NOT about women struggling for very basic rights in Iran. Most of them are happily endorsing the f****** burqa as a the latter day symbol of womens 'rights' in 2006, aint multi culturalism grand?
Rasta - I wonder if the article was by Ayaan Hirsi Ali as thats what she says....
Where do you stand on religion generally?
This complete silence from the so-called "radical feminist" groups simply shows up their real aims. Most of such groups are merely branches of the SWP and so on; they are not really interested so much in women's equality, but use it as a vehicle to further their aims of socialist utopia. "Women" are just a convenient victim group to them, and now Muslims are viewed as another victim group in "the struggle against intolerance and inequality" etc. So they don't care about REAL oppression of REAL female human beings, it's just a political tool to them.
But I think you know that.
Tom Tyler- you hit the nail on the head. I dont even need to comment....
Except to say that Euro-Feminists sure know how to pipe up about Bush and the 'crimes' at Guantinamo Bay....
Yes I do...the left are a bunch of phonies generally.
Women have been marginalized historically by many groups, but women under the tenets of Islam, I believe, have suffered the most.
How can we in the West help?
Hi Annie - it is limited yes but re focusing that western lefty mindset onto what i always thought the left were supposed to be good at would be a start. As List Administrator correctly summises there is such furore over Guantanamo and yet silence over the struggle for basic rights in Iran. I understand they hauled one activist off after the demos and noone knows what is happening to him. Is that not worthy of MSM coverage if Guantanamo is anything to go by? The left are full of crap.
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