* Iran: Lawmakers reject proposal to allow men to marry additional wives without first wife’s consent

Ahmadinejad’s Great Leap Backward for women

According to this report, Ahmadinejad’s recent move to cancel Iranian women’s legal right to object to or even know about their husbands’ plans to marry additional wives is part of a much larger (albeit unsurprising) agenda to further restrict women’s rights under Sharia law. Meanwhile, apologists are likely preparing the standard boilerplate: Islam elevates women, Sharia liberates them, and any time a measure comes under criticism from the West, it is to be branded as “cultural,” not Islamic.

Funny how those same “cultural” flaws keep cropping up in association with Islamic law and tradition, though. Like communism, no one is apparently ever implementing Sharia “right,” and that’s why countries under its yoke are dysfunctional, corrupt, and largely impoverished outside the ruling class. But hey, let’s try it in your country, and this time it’ll be different. Honest.

“Ahmadinejad’s New Enemy: Women,” by Amir Taheri for the New York Post, September 6 (thanks to JCB):

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Iran urges EU to stop ‘anti-Islamic’ meet in Germany  

Reuters

Oriana Fallaci:

*  ”The Muslims refuse our culture and try to impose their cult(-ure) on us. I reject them, and this is not only my duty toward my culture-it is toward my values, my principles, my civilization.”

*  ”The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.”

* How does one ‘defame Islam?’ in  ”U.S. fights Islamic anti-defamation push” 

* Fitzgerald: Reasonable accommodation and Muslim demands

* Fitzgerald: Paying to prevent an increase in terrorism

* Muslims are religiously obligated to participate in the “struggle,” or Jihad, to remove all obstacles to the spread, and then the dominance, of Islam.

Iran called on the French presidency of the European Union on Wednesday to prevent an “anti-Islamic congress” of right-wing groups from taking place in Germany later this month.

The official IRNA news agency said the French charge d’affaires in Tehran was summoned to the Foreign Ministry’s human rights department over the Islamic Republic’s concern about a “growth in anti-Islam”.

“Specifically, Iran asked the rotating head of the EU to prevent the formation of an anti-Islamic congress in Cologne in Germany by making responsible decisions,” IRNA said.

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Iranian minister’s Oxford degree apparently fake

* Just proves once again what primitive rogues these guys in Teheran are…

CAIRO, Egypt - Iran’s new interior minister has raised an uproar among lawmakers and Iranian media over an apparently fake claim that he holds an honorary doctorate fromBritain’s Oxford University. To back his case, he’s shown off a degree certificate riddled with spelling and grammar mistakes.

Oxford issued a statement Wednesday denying it ever awarded Ali Kordan an honorary doctorate of law, as he claimed to parliament before it approved his appointment to the post earlier this month.

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“But we still have to have the bomb..”

*  This should be in the humor section, but since there is no humor in Islam its news:

Ahmadinejad’s deputy: Iran is a friend of the U.S. and Israel (But we still want the bomb)

By DPA

Tags: Nuclear Program, Iran, Israel

The deputy to Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said Saturday that
Iran was a friend of Israel, Iranian news agencies reported.

“Iran wants no war with any country, and today Iran is friend of the United States and even Israel…. Our achievements belong to the whole world and should be used for expanding love and peace,” said Iranian Vice President Esfandiar Rahim-Mashaei, who is also head of the Cultural Heritage Organization.

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