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U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton meeting with a Saudi royal. No doubt deeply engaged in discussing “The Feminist Mystique”.
Hillary Clinton...
made popular Mar 14 2011
The fall of the House of Saud is much to be wished, but very unlikely since the nation is ruled by a ruthless royal family and subservient clerical establishment which...
made popular Mar 9 2011
Noted anti-Muslim bigot Bill Maher, a Hollywood hack who has a delusional inflation of his own intelligence and is known for his pathetic middle age forays to the...
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Israeli President Moshe Katz has been found guilty of rape charges. The former president, I should note, had to resign his office after being indicted for rape after...
made popular Jan 4 2011
“Do not cry like a girl”, “Only girls cry like that”, “Be a man, be brave” and so on are some of the rhetoric that goes on continuously inside a man – a...
made popular Nov 23 2010
Some men in the city certainly seem to think so, with a save the male event being planned for International Men’s Day on November 19
Indian men who believe that the...
made popular Nov 23 2010
“Men are infidel by nature. They are always in search of ‘other lucrative greener pastures’. That’s why all women favoring laws are designed, so that wife gets...
made popular Nov 15 2010
Below are the differences between dowry and alimony:
• Dowry is given at the time of marriage, where as alimony is given at the time of divorce.
• Dowry is given...
made popular Nov 11 2010
It is a known fact that whenever there is an incidence of matrimonial dispute and husband and wife live separate, law forces husband to pay monthly living expense of...
made popular Nov 8 2010
Few nations have as abysmal and grotesque sexual culture norms as South Africa.
Rape against woman in the nation is not some aberration committed only by deranged,...
made popular Oct 13 2010
There’s two types of gender gaps: pay scale and professional employment.
The former is often cited, but rather dubious. Feminist groups often allege that women...
made popular Oct 4 2010
Saudi women seem to be getting bolder. At least some of them. Perhaps it’s because King Abdullah is becoming a little more progressive in his outlooks that women...
made popular Sep 29 2010
“From the first day I decided to enter politics, I have felt I have been on the frontline of a war for women’s rights,”
made popular Sep 14 2010
How refreshing to see one Arab country that is moving in the right direction as far as women’s rights is concerned. Far too many Middle-Eastern, Arab or...
made popular Sep 14 2010
According to Egyptian cleric Sa’d Arafat, a man has every right to beat his wife, that is, with certain qualifications. He can’t pummel her in the face and...
made popular Sep 7 2010
The parliamentary elections scheduled to be held on September 18 brings into contest young, determined Afghan youth face to face against some of the seasoned political...
made popular Aug 27 2010
I was in a men’s group for a couple of years in the late nineties. The group grew and shrank and went through several incarnations with only three of us at the...
made popular Aug 7 2010
Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, a 43-year-old Iranian widow and mother of two children was to be stoned to death for allegedly committing adultery. After justified...
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Brazil’s president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday.
President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva...
made popular Aug 2 2010
In its latest report Human Rights Watch has warned that efforts made by the Afghan government for making peace with the Taliban could put the lives of Afghan women in...
made popular Jul 15 2010
Background and Introduction:
Before talking on this topic, I would like to take a background drift. Let’s look at the performance of women organizations as far as...
made popular Jul 6 2010
Mai Jori Jamali, a mother of nine, hails from village Ghulam Mohammad, Jafarabad where five women were buried alive in 2008 for trying to exercise their rights. Issues...
made popular Jun 15 2010
‘Hi, I am Varsha. 3 days after I was married, my husband beat me unconscious’.
For an opening PTC, this is perhaps the most shocking line a reporter could come up...
made popular May 26 2010
In the last twelve years (1996 - 2008) 170,000 husbands have been claimed by rampant domestic violence against them. In a shocking revelation of suicide statistics for...
made popular May 24 2010
Saudi women suffer under the most misogynistic government in the world. A state whose official ideology - Wahhabiyya - is based on institutional misogyny.
This is no...
made popular May 22 2010
A Lebanese court has prohibited a Lebanese woman from bequeathing citizenship to her children. The court ruled that the judiciary lacks oversight on citizenship matters...
made popular May 21 2010
Family, the social unit, is the backbone of any country’s progress. The more stronger and stable is the family system of a country, better is the country’s...
made popular May 18 2010
Male Feminists! – Does it sound like an oxymoron? How can males be feminists, especially when women fighting for women have accorded luxuriously demeaning and fancily...
made popular May 1 2010
Saudi Arabia is currently in an intellectual battle between the ultra-conservative Wahhabi fanatical clerics who insist on dogmatic and unfounded restrictions, most...
made popular Apr 30 2010
Iran desires to join the Commission for the Protection of women’s rights. Yes, those champions of women’s rights who whip or jail women for ‘bad hijab’...
made popular Apr 28 2010
Dear Prospective Grooms,
I had no shoes and complained, until I met a man who had no feet. I had no wife and complained, and then I got one who ruined my life.
You...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Dear Terrorists,
I know that you will be surprised to receive this letter from an Indian against the fact that India is dead against terrorism and we do not believe in...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Mexico City is increasingly finding itself isolated from the rest of the country. Not due to anything geographic, but due to its social liberalism.
And in this...
made popular Apr 17 2010
Although cricket is NOT the official national game of India, it’s more than that. Indian kids, especially boys, grow up with it, identifying it as a part of their...
made popular Apr 3 2010
It’s not a good thing to be a Hindu, or any other minority for that matter, in Pakistan. It’s especially difficult for a female. When they get raped or...
made popular Mar 29 2010
I must be a prostitute because I wear perfume in public. At least that’s what an advice programme, called IslamiQA, on England’s main Muslim television...
made popular Mar 27 2010
I don’t really consider myself a feminist but rather someone who concerns herself with human rights, regardless of gender. I probably focus more on women’s...
made popular Mar 25 2010
When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.
“They grabbed me, put their hands over my...
made popular Mar 18 2010
Anyone who beats his wife is nothing more than a wife-beater. No man has the right to beat a woman as if they were some kind of animal, and if they do, they should be...
made popular Mar 16 2010
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