Solsticewitch13's BOS: September 2, 2009 - War on Women News

Wednesday, September 2, 2009

September 2, 2009 - War on Women News - Responsible for Equality And Liberty

UK: Muslim Woman Writes of Parental Abuse, Threats to Kill Her Over "Western Lifestyle"
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/uk-muslim-woman-writes-of-threats-to-kill-her/
-- Daily Mail: "My mother hired a hitman to kill me: The shocking story of a Muslim woman whose parents disapproved of her Western lifestyle"
-- report from Sofia Hayat
-- "Sofia Hayat was imprisoned and her mother threatened to kill her because she led a Western lifestyle"
-- Sofia Hayat: "The text message forwarded to me from my younger sister Saira was concise and chilling: 'Mum's sent a hit man to kill you,' it read. 'Be careful.' As I read those words, my first instinct wasn't fear or even shock, but simply survival."
-- Sofia Hayat: "I'd become accustomed to behaviour like this from both my parents - behaviour that anyone else would find abhorrent - and I was emotionally numb to their threats. But I also knew that my sister's warning was deadly serious and my life was in real danger. I'd been in hiding for several weeks when I received the text. I was born in Gravesend in Kent in 1974 and brought up there in a devout Muslim family with three sisters and two brothers."
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1210799/My-mother-hired-hitman-kill-The-shocking-story-Muslim-woman-parents-disapproved-Western-lifestyle.html?ITO=1490

(Pakistan) Man kills wife - shot after husband views wife "in an objectionable condition"
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\09\03\story_3-9-2009_pg12_5

Iran: Report on Anti-Democracy Imam on Iranian Prison Rapes
http://www.realcourage.org/2009/09/report-on-mesbah-yazdi/
-- Unconfirmed reports by INN state that "Iranian pro-democracy sources" have alleged that Ayatollah Mesbah-Yazdi has been speaking publicly on the issue of prison rape
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133214
-- INN reports that Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi spoke to crowd on prison rape "in Jamkaran, a popular pilgrimage site for Shi'ite Muslims on the outskirts of Qom, on August 11, 2009"
-- INN reports that this is "[a]ccording to Iranian pro-democracy sources, the gathered crowd heard from Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi and Ahmadinejad himself regarding the issue"
-- "Mesbah-Yazdi is considered Ahmadinejad's personal spiritual guide"
-- Mesbah-Yazdi: "The necessary precaution is for the interrogator to perform a ritual washing first and say prayers while raping the prisoner. If the prisoner is female, it is permissible to rape through the vagina or anus."
-- Mesbah-Yazdi: "If the judgment for the [female] prisoner is execution, then rape before execution brings the interrogator a spiritual reward equivalent to making the mandated Haj pilgrimage [to Mecca], but if there is no execution decreed, then the reward would be equivalent to making a pilgrimage to [the Shi'ite holy city of] Karbala."
-- Mesbah-Yazdi: "The child borne to any weakling [a denigrating term for women - ed.] who is against the Supreme Leader is considered illegitimate, be it a result of rape by her interrogator or through intercourse with her husband, according to the written word in the Koran."
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133214
--- August 13, 2009 - Reuters: "Iran cleric says obeying Ahmadinejad like obeying God"
--- "A senior Iranian cleric seen as President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's spiritual mentor said obeying the head of government was like obeying God, the moderate Etemad-e Melli newspaper said on Thursday."
--- "Firebrand cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi believes the authority of Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei comes from God, not from the people."
--- "Mesbah-Yazdi has long held that democracy and elections are incompatible with Islam."
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090813/wl_nm/us_iran_18
http://www.thememriblog.org/iran/blog_personal/en/19194.htm
--- Mohammad-Taqi Mesbah-Yazdi
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohammad-Taqi_Mesbah-Yazdi
--- November 17, 2006: Ayatollah who backs suicide bombs aims to be Iran's next spiritual leader
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1534604/Ayatollah-who-backs-suicide-bombs-aims-to-be-Irans-next-spiritual-leader.html
--- Supports suicide bombings on his web site
http://www.mesbahyazdi.org/english/index.htm