The Real War On Women by Phyllis Chesler Breitbart May 27, 2014 http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1310/the-real-war-on-women Print Send RSS Share: Be the first of your friends to like this. I just appeared for a rather intense hour on the BBC on the World Have Your Say program to talk about three separate cases in the news: the Pakistani woman who was just stoned to death for daring to marry the man she loved; the massacre in Isla Vista, California, fueled by a violently misogynistic manifesto; and the German tabloid exposure of Kate Middleton's bottom. I appeared with some very wonderful speakers in Pakistan, the United States, and the UK on this issue. As to the first story: Early today, a 25-year-old woman was stoned to death by twelve—yes, twelve—male relatives, beginning with her father and including her brothers and possibly cousins. They did so right outside the High Court in Lahore. This is a brazen statement about refusing to abide by any secular Pakistani law. This victim's blessed name was Farzana Iqbal and bravely, tragically, she refused to marry her cousin and instead married the man she loved. One of the Pakistani women on the BBC program pointed out that none of the many bystanders rescued her or stopped these men from killing her. A crowd gathered. No one dared intervene. The bystander phenomenon coupled with cultural approval for this act of barbarism, coupled with some vicarious enjoyment involved in seeing an "uppity" woman punished, coupled with the fear that if one intervened they, too, would be stoned, stayed the hand of one and all. » CONTINUE READING Related Topics:  Gender, Psychology & Law, Honor Killings, Islamic Gender & Religious Apartheid

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