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And one more thing about Morocco... a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man

September 28, 2015

Politifact doesn't trade in facts. It just selectively deploys any facts it can dig up in support of a left-wing political narrative without caring about the truth.
Lauren Carroll's attack on Ben Carson is typical of the dishonesty that Politifact has become known for.

There is not "one of the Muslim nations" that doesn't have "discrimination against women, discrimination against gays, subjugation of other religious beliefs."
— Ben Carson on Tuesday, September 22nd, 2015 in an interview with Fox's "The Kelly File"

Lauren Carroll begins trying to produce something that looks like a fact.

Of the 43 Muslim countries included in the report, most have "high" to "very high" levels of institutional discrimination in most categories. Just three are categorized as "low" discrimination across the board -- Kazakhstan, Morocco and Turkey. Labeled "medium" are Tunisia, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Senegal and Indonesia.

Morocco is admittedly a somewhat moderate place. That still means it's a country where marrying 12-year-old girls is legal and where, until last year, there was a rapist law forcing children to marry their rapist.

Lawmakers in Morocco voted unanimously to amend an article of the penal code so that men who rape underage girls can no longer avoid prosecution by marrying their victims.
The move comes two years after 16-year-old Amini Filali committed suicide following her forced marriage to Moustapha Fellak, about 25 years old, who raped her. She claimed Fellak continued to abuse her, which he denied. Seven months after their marriage, Filali swallowed rat poison.
Her death sparked protests across the country and highlighted the different attitudes toward rape victims in rural and urban communities. One in four women in Morocco is a victim of violence, rights groups say, with the most vulnerable living in the countryside.

Lauren Carroll could have found this in 5 minutes of Goggling, and maybe she did, but it would have ruined her narrative.

The report goes on to add that most of these victims of child marriage suffer from gynecological pathologies, and many of them are subjected to sexual violence from their husbands.
“In some cases, young girls married at the age of 12, 13 and 14. Those girls are experiencing symptoms of illness because of being obliged to bear psychological and physical burdens which doesn’t match with their age,” the report noted.

And one more thing about Morocco... a woman's testimony is worth half that of a man. Perhaps Lauren Carroll will agree that Morocco meets Carson's standard of "discrimination against women".
On to Turkey.

Turkey was formerly a secular Republic, but it came under the rule of the Islamic AKP party. It still has many of the old republic laws, but the condition of women has shifted. An easy way to tell is the murder rate.

In 2010, the Ministry of Justice revealed the numbers on murdered women: From 2003 until 2010, there has been a 1,400% increase in the number of murdered women. The AKP government came under harsh criticism after the release of this information, so in a last-ditch effort to save its reputation, it started altering the numbers...
in 2013, Turkey ranked 127th among 136 countries in the gender gap index of “economic participation.”

And it comes from the top down.

In Turkey, perpetrators of violence against women, most commonly male partners, expartners, and family members, often enjoy impunity. The authorities have failed to implement the 2012 Law on the Protection of the Family and Prevention of Violence.

And, oh yes, child marriage.

Out of 42,312 women and girl child brides interviewed in Turkey, 364 were under 12 years old, 7,617 were between 13-15 years old and 11,400 were 16 or 17.
The AKP government has come under fire for its policies towards women over the past few months, and details continue to come in of the detrimental effects of these policies towards the situation of the country’s population of young women...

Researchers from Gaziantep University have revealed that almost 40% of marriages in Turkey are child marriages. The literacy rate of child brides is just 18%.

Turkey is steadily being Islamized making it a particularly poor test case. It's like positively ranking German human rights during the early days of Hitler based on pre-existing laws.
Kazakhstan, a former Soviet republic, has some similarities in that it was also forcibly secularized, but its government isn't the nightmare that the AKP is. But it's still the country where "bride kidnapping" is a thing.
Still two of the countries on the list were forcibly de-Islamized and secularized. They only rate as low in discrimination against women because they were de-Islamized. And that proves Ben Carson's point.
None of these countries are good for women. Not even by normal standards, never mind the standards of a feminist movement that views just about anything as discriminatory. But the less Islamic a country is, the better it is for women.
Islam states that women are inferior, that they are inferior as witnesses, that they have fewer legal, economic and practical rights. Politifact can run from those facts, but it can't hide from them.