August 20, 2009 War on Women News - Responsible for Equality And Liberty

(U.S.) ICC Calls On Florida Social Services (DCF) to Not Return Christian Girl to Ohio -- Rifqa Barry
-- "May Face Honor Killing If Returned"
-- "International Christian Concern (ICC) is calling upon officials in Florida to retain custody of a Rifqa Barry, a Christian girl who has alleged that her fundamentalist Muslim Father in Ohio threatened to kill her upon finding out about her conversion to Christianity. Rifqa faces a jurisdictional hearing Friday at 3:15 pm from Florida’s Department of Children and Family (DCF) to decide if she should be sent back to Ohio Social Services or her parents. ICC has extensive experience with fundamentalist Islam and is warning Florida officials that they must take these allegations seriously."
http://www.persecution.org/suffering/newssummpopup.php?newscode=10699
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/icc-urges-protection-of-rifqa-bary/
-- Florida: Ohio Girl Says Family Threatens to Kill Her for Converting from Islam to Christianity
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/florida-ohio-girl-convert-threatened/

(U.S.) Florida: Court Expected to Send Runaway Teen Home Despite Muslim Honor Killing Fears -- Rifqa Bary
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541205,00.html

(U.S.) Florida: Gov. Charlie Crist Must Act to Save Muslim Girl -- Rifqa Bary
http://www.newsmax.com/frank_gaffney/crist_muslin_bary/2009/08/20/250292.html

(Iran) Stop the stoning of Sakine Ashtiani by barbaric Islamic Republic of Iran
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=55479797684
-- Petition:
http://stopstonningnow.com/sakine/sakin284.php?nr=50326944

(Iran) Bishop pleads for captive female converts in Iran
-- "The case of two of them, Maryam Rustampoor, 27, and Marzieh Amirizadeh, 30, also suffering in Evin prison, has been taken up by the Bishop of Rochester, Dr Michael Nazir-Ali, who steps down soon as a diocesan to concentrate on helping persecuted Christians around the world."
-- "Dr Nazir-Ali told me: 'Maryam and Marzieh are being held simply because they have changed their belief. The UN Declaration on Human Rights says people everywhere should be free to do this and the Iranian Constitution guarantees freedom of religion. I appeal to the Iranian President to have mercy and to release these two young women forthwith so that they can receive the medical treatment which they so desperately need.'"
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/gledhill/2009/08/bishop-pleads-for-captive-female-converts-in-iran.html

(Pakistan) Honor killing of 40 women in month of May, 2009, in Sindh
http://www.pakistanchristianpost.com/headlinenewsd.php?hnewsid=1364
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/08/pakistan-honor-killing-of-40-women-in-sindh/

Afghan women to miss out on vote in landmark election
-- Independent reports: "Millions of Afghan women will be denied their chance to vote in presidential elections this week because there aren't enough female officials to staff the women-only polling stations."
-- Independent reports: "Strict cultural norms mean women can't vote in male-run stations."
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/afghan-women-to-miss-out-on-vote-in-landmark-election-1773091.html
--- Comment: Islamic supremacism against women is not merely "strict cultural norms"

(Germany) Muslim man sentenced to life in jail after killing his German-born wife because she was 'too independent'
-- "The 27-year-old Kurdish man, identified only as Onder B, was found guilty today of stabbing his wife in the eyes, beating her with a billiard cue and then running over her in his car."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1207931/Muslim-asylum-seeker-sentenced-life-jail-killing-wife-independent.html

Sudan's Rosa Parks
http://www.aina.org/news/20090819102812.htm