Solsticewitch13's BOS: Bulletin of the Oppression of Women February 5

Monday, February 22, 2010

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women February 5 - February 19, 2010

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women

February 5, 2010 - February 19, 2010

February 5, 2010

Germany

Mother of 4 is beheaded in an honor killing.

February 6, 2010

Pakistan

Muslim lawyers will "burn alive" anyone who defends a murdered 12
year old Christian girl.

February 9, 2010

Denmark (Translated)

According to a book by a Copenhagen employed prison imam, it's OK for a Muslim
man to beat his wife.

Spain

Restraining order on Imam for threats to Muslim woman.

Turkey

Turkish women fight against honor killings.

USA

A man from Buffalo, New York, allegedly raped 13 year old sex slave over 100
times.

February 10, 2010

Indonesia

A young woman is said to have been forced to endure a horrific sexual attack
by two men posing as religious police officers.

February 12, 2010

Indonesia

Indonesian clerics slap a ban on Valentine's Day and also rule against aerobic
exercise in "sexy" attire. More HERE.

Spain

An Imam is accused of sexually abusing minors.

UK

A Muslim whipped a schoolgirl's head with a belt buckle when she told him she
did not want to pray five times a day.

Afghanistan

Four people found dead in a southeastern Afghan compound appear to be victims
of an honor killing.

February 13, 2010

Germany

Members of the Bundesrat wants tough jail sentences for individuals found guilty
of female genital mutilation.

Saudi Arabia

Women in Saudi Arabia are being asked to join a two-week boycott of lingerie
shops in the Middle Eastern kingdom that employ male staff to serve female customers.

February 15, 2010

Afghanistan,
Pakistan

Rape is forbidden by the Quran, but some family leaders of the Taliban Islamist
Haqqani network, a powerful and militant factor in Afghanistan and Pakistan,
systematically have been raping young women and photographing the episodes for
their own lurid pleasure, according to reports.

Bangladesh

Her husband's extreme physical abuse and his decision to take a fourth wife
drove a woman in Bangladesh to cut off his penis with a kitchen knife and then
repeatedly stabbed him to death.

February 16, 2010

India

The Bombay High Court will soon decide which of the two -- Muslim Personal Law
or Prohibition of Child Marriage Act are applicable in case of the marriage
of a Muslim girl who is 14 years of age.

Pakistan

Pakistani Christians have strongly protested the release on bail of a Muslim
lawyer accused of raping, torturing and killing last month a 12-year-old Catholic
girl, employed in his household as domestic worker.

February 17, 2010

Malaysia

Malaysian authorities said that officials caned four Muslim men and, for the
first time, three Muslim women this month after being found guilty of having
sex out of wedlock. Update HERE.

Pakistan

The police have registered the kidnapping case of a young girl. The father said
that his two daughters, one 16 and another 18, had gone to a hospital in Gulbahar
for treatment on December 7 last year and when they were returning home in Kotla
Mohsin Khan, armed car riders kidnapped his younger daughter at gunpoint and
subjected the elder to torture when she offered resistance.

Finland

Killings of women are just the tip of the honour violence iceberg says Rebwar
Karimi who helps identify the full range of honour violence in Finland.

February 18, 2010

Israel

Although Palestinian society is known for its progressiveness, honor killings
of women have not been eliminated.

Saudi Arabia

A Saudi Princess advocates changing Saudi laws to improve women's status.

Iraq

For women in Iraq, the coming national elections offer both a promise and a
reminder of the difficulty of change in this male-dominated culture. The Constitution
calls for at least 25 percent of Parliament's seats to go to women, but the
first women elected in 2005 have had little effect, analysts and women who are
members of Parliament say.

USA

The walls that segregate Muslim men from women inside many American mosques
took a long time to go up, and it could be a long time before they come down.

February 19, 2010

USA

A Glendale, Arizona man accused of slaying his daughter in an "honor killing"
will not face the death penalty.