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Will Egypt's New Freedom Force More Women Under a Veil of Brutality?
http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/938/egypt-women-veil
  Be the first of your friends to like this.Excerpt: Islamism seems to be winning the day in the Middle East and in central Asia. Today, the Obama Times has a highly sympathetic article about how shelters for battered women as well as for women who are at risk of being honor murdered are themselves "under siege." The shelters are seen as encouraging forbidden female flight and independence and as exposing and tarnishing Afghanistan's reputation. According to Amina Afzali, a member of a new government commission,"there [are] cases where women needed protection but [she] was upset about the shelters' high profile in discussing abuse." Afzali found it "grating" that Time magazine featured child bride Bibi Aisha on its cover; her husband had hacked off her nose after she tried to run away from home. Such publicity "humiliates us in the eyes of the world." Read the complete original version of this item... Related Topics: Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid | ||||||
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