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by Khaled Abu Toameh
• February 24, 2015 at 5:00 am
While
a woman in Gaza is barred from smoking in a café, or walking in public
unaccompanied by a male relative, she is permitted to join a military
training camp. In the next war, Hamas and its allies will not be able to
claim that these are civilians killed by Israel.
It is
also worth noting that Hamas and the other armed groups always find the
money to buy weapons and ammunition and run military training camps.
Hamas
wants the international community to fund the reconstruction of the Gaza
Strip under the pretext that it does not have the resources to
participate in the effort. But when it comes to arming and training women
and teenagers, Hamas and other Palestinian groups always seem to find
enough money.
Yet
this does not stop Mahmoud Abbas and the Palestinian Authority from
pursuing their effort to convince the world to support a Palestinian
state where women and teenagers are being trained to become the next
"martyrs" in the fight to destroy Israel.
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A woman at Gaza's Nasser Eddin Brigades camp trains
on a rocket-propelled-grenade launcher.
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It is not easy to be a woman living under the Hamas regime in the
Gaza Strip.
Women face many restrictions, including not being able to go to the
beach alone or even smoke in a public place. In addition, it is forbidden
for a woman to be seen in public with a man who is not her husband,
father or brother.
Women are also forced to adhere to a strict Islamic dress code in
public, which includes a cloak and a veil covering their hair (hijab),
especially at university and college campuses and work offices.
However, these severe restrictions do not apply to women who are
prepared to become "martyrs" in the fight against Israel. So
while a woman is barred from smoking in a café or restaurant, or walking
in public unaccompanied by a male relative, she is permitted to join a
military training camp in preparation for war against Israel.
by Burak Bekdil
• February 24, 2015 at 3:00 am
The
problem is about the conservative culture in which the Turks take much
pride. Child brides and buying brides (mostly in return for gold or
cattle), are fine. Killing your daughter because she was raped is from a
tradition to protect family honor. Killing your daughter because she fell
in love with a boy is also normal. Covering up such horrible crimes is
fine, too. But a boy putting on an earring would be unacceptable.
President
Recep Tayyip Erdogan was angry because feminists had objected to his
remark that, "in Islam, women are entrusted to men."
Murders
of women in Turkey, between 2002 and 2009, have risen by 1,400%. — BBC
report, 2013.
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Turkey's former President Abdullah Gul and his wife
Hayrunnisa, pictured standing front and center at an August 2014
reception, married when she was 15 years old and he was 30.
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Ozgecan Aslan, a 20-year-old female student living in the southern
Turkish city of Mersin, went missing on February 11. The next day,
gendarmerie forces stopped a suspicious minibus and discovered
bloodstains and a hat in the vehicle. The day after that, Aslan's burned
body was discovered in a nearby riverbed. Her friends were able to
identify her only from the remains of her clothes.
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