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U.N. Survey: 3 Out of 4 Men and over Half of Women in Egypt Support FGM

A new United Nations surveyof male attitudes toward “gender equality” finds precious little appetite for it across the Middle East.

“Male attitudes towards the role of women in the workplace and at home, and of their participation in public life, were stereotypically sexist in the study of views in Egypt, Lebanon, Morocco and Palestine,” writes the UK Guardian in summarizing the report.

Egypt scored the lowest on the report’s “Gender Equitable Men” scale and is the source of the most striking headlines. For example, CNS News reports that “70 percent of Egyptian men approve of female genital mutilation.” For that matter, 56 percent of Egyptian women also voiced approval for the hideous procedure, which is illegal but not unheard-of, in much of the world.

Egyptian men also supplied 90 percent agreement with the statement that “a man should have the final word about decisions in the home,” and 58.5 percent of Egyptian women agreed. Only 31 percent of Egyptian men thought married women have the same rights to work outside their homes as men. 93 percent of men thought a husband should “know where his wife is at all times.” 96 percent thought a wife should agree to sex whenever her husband desires it.

53.4 percent said “there are times when a woman deserves to be beaten.” 90 percent agreed that “a woman should tolerate violence to keep the family together.” Roughly 45 percent of Egyptian men said they had been violent to their wives.

Continue reading Egypt: 70 % of men & 56 % of women approve of female genital mutilation

Hirsi Ali: “The aim of FGM in all its forms is to control female sexuality.”

Ayaan Hirsi Ali states the blatantly obvious – too obvious for the NYT apparently – at Fox News:

The recent news that a grand jury in Michigan has indicted three people, including two doctors, for female genital mutilation is a welcome development. As the first ever prosecutions of this crime in the United States, the case shines much needed light on an underground human rights abuse that has been going on for too long. Female genital mutilation has been deliberately covered up by those practicing it here or sending their daughters overseas during summer break to be mutilated outside of the law.

Yet, ham-fisted attempts to appear culturally sensitive by the likes of the New York Times reporting on this story will push these issues underground once more. The newspaper’s Health and Science Editor wrote that referring to female genital mutilation as ‘genital cutting’ is less ‘culturally loaded’ and will help to bridge a gap between those who practice FGM and those who campaign against it. In her eyes it’s a case of Africa vs. the West.

As an African who was subjected to FGM, now living in the West, allow me to help bridge that gap by explaining what we’re really talking about beneath the weasel words ‘genital cutting’.

There are five types of female genital mutilation performed on girls from as young as five years of age. Four of them are unarguably mutilation, and the other is designed to symbolize mutilation. I will start with the mildest.

Continue reading Ayaan Explains Female Genital Mutilation

Smokescreens in Islam: Confusing the Public about the Facts

by Denis MacEoin

• Qadri’s admirable take on terrorism conceals another large elephant in the room. Islam has for centuries used violence against non-Muslims in what is considered a legitimate manner: through jihad. It is not simply that Muslim armies have fought their enemies much as Christian armies have engaged in war. Jihad is commanded in the later verses of the Qur’an, is endorsed in the Traditions and the biography of Muhammad, and codified in the manuals of shari’a law. Qadri knows this perfectly well, and at times inadvertently reveals as much in several ways.
• Qadri does not just insist that Islam is a religion of peace and security. By tucking all references to jihad in footnotes in transliterated Arabic, he never has to explain what it is about and how it relates to his rulings on what is and what is not permissible.
• It is hard to be a reasonably knowledgeable Muslim and not know that calls for violence pervade the Qur’an and sacred traditions, or that Islamic armies have been fighting European Christians, Indian Hindus, and others since the 7^thcentury.
• Islam, after all, conquered Persia, Turkey, North Africa and the Middle East, Greece, Spain and most of Eastern Europe — until its armies were stopped at the gates of Vienna in 1683.

Triggs said she was “honoured” to receive the award and congratulated the other winners in a statement that referenced the controversy over section 18C of the Racial Discrimination Act, which the government attempted to water down.

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Equivalent to giving Saudi Arabia the feminist human rights award

Triggs, who has been consistently criticised by the Abbott and Turnbull governments for her condemnation of Australia’s treatment of refugees, was named the 2017 recipient of the Voltaire award by Liberty Victoria on Tuesday for her “courageous stand on people’s rights”. (Her people would not be the Australian people.)

ROWAN DEAN ON GILLIAN TRIGG’S “FREE SPEECH” AWARD

Don’t miss this: Rowan Dean goes to town over the sickest of sick jokes. Liberty Victoria has actually given its Voltaire award for free speech to … Gillian Triggs, president of the Human Rights Commission and persecutor of Bill Leak and innocent university students.

Australian  universities,  where mendacity meets mediocrity

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Thanks to JW:

Host Paul Barry of Australia’s “leading forum for media analysis,” Media Watch, has openly stated that the Australian Broadcasting Network (ABC) hired Muslim host Yassmin Abdel Magied solely because she is a Muslim. Now Andrew Bolt in the Herald Sun is accusing the ABC network of being “racist and pro-Muslim in its hiring.” When one looks at the evidence, it’s certainly enough to question the hiring practices of the ABC.

Two-and-a-half months ago, a petition that demanded that ABC fire Magied for her open support for Sharia gained 10,600 signatures. The Daily Mail also reported that Magied “reached out to global hardline Islamist political group Hizb ut-Tahrir after her polarising television appearance, where she declared Islam to be ‘the most feminist religion.’” There’s more: on Anzac Day, Magied insulted Australian history when she tactlessly wrote on Facebook: “Lest we forget (Manus, Nauru, Syria, Palestine),” provoking a social media outcry.

The leftist media has long proven itself “tolerant” toward Sharia-pushing Muslims, despite the clear human rights abuses that are practiced under sharia law, but the brazenness of the ABC is telling. Says Bolt:

This means the ABC promotes a relatively strict form of Islam, and largely uncritically. It does not give the same promotion to any other faith, including ones less hostile to our values and freedoms.

“ABC HOST ADMITS: ABC HIRED YASSMIN FOR BEING MUSLIM”, by Andrew Bolt, Herald Sun, May 1, 2017:

ABC Media Watch host Paul Barry says Yassmin Abdel-Magied’s Anzac Day post was “tactless”, and rightly defends her from some of the more hysterical abuse.

But this was his most interesting concession:

Abdel-Magied presents a round-up of ABC news on Saturday morning. She’s also appeared as a guest on Q&A and The Drum. And she partly owes those roles to being Muslim, black and a woman.

So the ABC is both racist and pro-Muslim in its hiring.

But think this through. The ABC has hired this inexperienced and unwise 26 year old on the understanding that she is Muslim – which sends her a message. Stay Muslim, or else your job is in danger.

Then there are the ABC’s other similar hirings of celebrity Muslims. There’s Waleed Aly and his wife Susan Carland, with Maha Abdo and Silma Ihram appearing regularly as ABC panellists. Note that all the women covering their heads. The ABC seems to have no interest in hiring women who have left Islam or who have their head uncovered and thus are not identifiably Muslim.

This means the ABC promotes a relatively strict form of Islam, and largely uncritically. It does not give the same promotion to any other faith, including ones less hostile to our values and freedoms….

ABC PROMOTES TWO GREENS: ISLAM AND WARMISTS

Former Labor Minister Gary Johns: “The ABC’s great mistake is that it paints a particular future. Take two long-running examples: its promotion of an idealised Islam in pursuit of multiculturalism, and its obsession with renewables as a response to climate change.” Read it all.

On the sunni side of the street

Back in 2014 Tim Blair spent an enlightening day or so in the intensely Islamic Sydney suburb of Lakemba, a pleasant enough place if you ignore all the Jew hatred, freedom sacks and raging calls to jihad. It also led to the publication of one or two pieces taking angry issue with (his) polite coverage.

Shiite sheikh ABUSED in Sydneys Muslim heartland Lakemba

Imam Tawhidi says Islam must be reformed and saved from extremists and terrorists. Result: he gets abuse in the streets of Lakemba and he and the film cred are forced to hurried leave. Watch.

Counter-terror cops raided relative of Islamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf’s home

Counter-terrorism police raided the home of a relative of notoriousIslamic State fighter Khaled Sharrouf over fears of an Anzac Day attack.

It followed the emergence of a fresh video of the Sydney terrorist urging his youngest son Humzah, eight, who is armed with a knife, to kill Australians and non-Muslims.

A spokeswoman for the Minister for Justice and Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Counter-Terrorism Michael Kennan confirmed their office was aware of police operations in NSW on Anzac Day related to terrorist activity.

The menacing video believed to have been made in Syria was exposed in The Sunday Telegraph at the weekend. It is not known when it was made.

State and federal police targeted the relative after becoming aware of a conversation between him and Sharrouf involving the video.

READ MORE: Khaled Sharrouf video shows terrorist’s son with knife and suicide vest

“The NSW Joint Counter Terrorism Team (JCTT) conducted a search of a house in Peakhurst on Tuesday April 25th under the auspices of a Firearms Prohibition Order,” a NSW Police Force spokesman confirmed.

The man’s house was raided early on Anzac Day but no guns or weapons were found.

Sharrouf, who in 2013 used his brother’s passport to flee to Syria and join IS, was thought to have die in a coalition air strike that killed his friend, the former Sydney boxer and fellow jihadi Mohamed Elomar.

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Police set on fire by ‘tolerant’ anti-le Pen protesters:

Commies in France really made the most of May Day yesterday (or as it is known to countermoonbats, Victims of Communism Day). This ought to help Marine Le Pen in Sunday’s election almost as much as the latest example of Islamic outreach:

French police were pelted with Molotov cocktails and fireworks as hundreds of anti-Marine Le Pen activists hijacked the annual May Day march on Monday.

Officers were pictured on fire while demonstrators were hit with tear gas and charged with batons as scenes turned ugly ahead of a speech by Le Pen and her presidential opponent Emmanuel Macron.

As with Islamic savages, so with leftists; coming to mutually acceptable terms with them is not possible. Either they win or we do.

Throwing Molotov coctails at police to protest Le Pen. How do you say “backfire” in French?

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Macron is threatening to walk out of the debate if marine is mean to him. Is this the leader France needs?

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Tony Blair takes veiled swipe at Marine Le Pen after boasting Macron ‘understands’ Europe

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Marie-France Garaud was at one time considered the most powerful woman in French politics (by Newsweek magazine). Born in 1934, she studied law and entered politics in 1961 when she became parliamentary attaché in the ministry of Cooperation. Later in 1969 she was named technical adviser to president Georges Pompidou, continuing in that capacity until his death in 1974. She continued to advise Jacques Chirac but walked out having come to conclusion he was not capable of governing. She opposed the Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties that would be instrumental in the creation of the European Union. She has come out for Marine Le Pen. An interview with Le Figaro has been reprinted at numerous websites. It is worth reading:

– Le Figaro: What is at stake in this election?

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‘May God curse you, you pig, you dog’: Islamic leader Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi abused by Muslims as he walks down the street in Sydney

The Daily Mail is engaging in fake news re “God”. It is certain that the Islamic headbangers in Lakemba didn’t say “God”, they said ‘Allah’.

• Shia imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi did a street walk at Lakemba in Sydney
• He was called a pig and a dog in Arabic as he visited Sydney’s Muslim heartland
• The religious leader is outspoken against radicalisation, sharia law and violence 
• He fears he could be shot at or stabbed next time he visited that area of Sydney 

An Islamic sheikh who speaks out against radicalisation and sharia law has been cursed and spat at while walking down the street in the Muslim heartland of Sydney.

Shia imam Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi was mobbed with abuse only moments after strolling along Haldon Street in Lakemba, which is home to Australia’s largest mosque.

A man shouted in Arabic as he ventured past shops with 7News reporter Bryan Seymour shortly before noon on Monday.

Asked by what the insult meant, Sheikh Tawhidi said: ‘It means, ‘May God curse you, you pig, you dog.’

Sheikh Tawhidi, who moved to Australia from Iraq when he was 12 in 1995, said this was the first time he had experienced abuse of this nature.

‘We were abused, spat at, insulted, called pigs and dogs and they gathered to try and intimidate us,’ the Adelaide-based religious leader told Daily Mail Australia shortly after the incident.

‘I have never been insulted or abused in Australia by any non-Muslim.

A man on a closed Facebook page used the Arabic word for dog, kalb, to wonder why violence wasn’t inflicted on Sheikh Mohammad Tawhidi

Continue reading Lakemba: Sheik Tawhidi escapes sunni stronghold unharmed