women's rights
January 28, 2009
- There are reports that Ms. Ghada Jamsheer, President of the Women's Petition Committee, a Bahrain based organization that advocates for women in sharia law courts, is one of the more recent victims of a vicious, sustained, state-sponsored harassment campaign. The reports state that, while she was attending a women's conference in South Africa in November, her home was broken into and ...
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December 1, 2008
- A 16-year-old Arab-Israeli mother from Ramle, Dalia Abu-Ghanem, is believed by police to have been murdered by her brother, Mohammed. She has been missing for two weeks, having fled her home due to alleged spousal abuse.Nine other members of Dalia's family have been murdered in dishonor killings in the past eight years. The first of them was Dalia's mother, Naifa, whose corpse was discovered ...
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November 19, 2008
- I've blogged about the January 2008 dishonor killings of the beautiful and promising Said sisters, Amina and Sarah, in suburban Dallas (http://www.redroom.com/galleryimage/amina-18-and-sarah-17-said-usa). Last month the FBI, in a wanted poster of the prime suspect, the girls' father, Yaser Abdel Said (http://www.redroom.com/galleryimage/yaser-abdel-said-50-usa), finally called this crime what it ...
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September 3, 2008
- A friend sent this to me this morning, and I wanted to share it: Subject: This is America. We don't jail journalists here.Jailing journalists is unacceptable in a democracy. But that's exactly what is happening at the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota. Award winning journalist and host of "Democracy Now" Amy Goodman was arrested by St. Paul police while covering a ...
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September 1, 2008
- Depending on location, the Islamic holy month of Ramadan either began yesterday or begins today or tomorrow. It depends on the sighting of the new moon during the ninth month of the Islamic calendar. Globally, more than a billion Muslims observe Ramadan, one of the five pillars of Islam (the other four being the profession of faith, ritual prayer, the payment of alms, and at least one ...
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July 26, 2008
- In my daily Googling, I came upon these two commentaries about Senator Barack Obama, his recent visit to the Middle East, and his supposed frontrunner candidate for Muslim liaison. This is not to bang on Senator Obama, but to highlight how difficult it is to find leaders who take human/women's rights seriously.I've not decided who will get my vote in November, but I have written to Senator Obama ...
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July 26, 2008
- For those who may be interested, FOX News will be airing a documentary called "Murder in the Family: Honor Killings in America" at 8 p.m. EDT tonight, July 26th, and 8 and 11 p.m. EDT tomorrow, July 27th. More details can be found here:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,391531,00.html
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July 17, 2008
- Several news items caught my eye this week. . .The parents of the late Du'a Khalil Aswad (see http://www.redroom.com/blog/ellen-r-sheeley/the-dishonor-killing-dua-khalil-aswad and http://www.redroom.com/blog/ellen-r-sheeley/book-launch-nothing-but-red) accepted 40 million Iraqi dinars (a little more than US$34,000) as blood money for the mob stoning of their daughter. That is their ...
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July 6, 2008
- I had hoped to blog about another area of Jordan today, describe its beauty, tell a tale about it, and link to some photographs. But when I performed my daily ritual of Googling for dishonor killing news, I discovered that a 25-year-old Clayton County, Georgia woman named Sandela Kanwal was strangled to death earlier today by her father, Chaudhry Rashad (pictured here, in my rogues' gallery: ...
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July 5, 2008
- The headline in yesterday's Daily Mail reads, "Sharia law SHOULD be used in Britain, says UK's top judge." I'm not making this up. . .have a look for yourself:http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1031611/Sharia-law-SHOULD-used-Britain-says-UKs-judge.html#addCommentThe bewigged one at the top of this blog post is Lord Chief Justice Lord Phillips (there is at least one too many lords ...
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