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Feb 07, 2006 at 04:10 PM |
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(The following publications and the opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Women's Freedom Forum, Inc.) By Donna Hughes In spring of 1996 I attended a conference in Paris entitled "Women, Islam and Fundamentalism." I decided to go to the conference based only on the title. I was a member of Women Against Fundamentalism in England, where I was working at the time, where numerous threats and acts of violence, including murder, had been committed against women in the name of religion. |
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Feb 07, 2006 at 04:07 PM |
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(The following publications and the opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Women's Freedom Forum, Inc.) Making the Harm Visible, Iranian Women and Girls - Victims of Exploitation and Violence By Sarvnaz Chitsaz and Soona Samsami Fundamentalist Views on Women Throughout the world, women still suffer from discrimination and oppression, for no reason other than their gender. In essence, the plight and suffering of women is the same for all of us. Today, major issues such as peace, social and economic development, and the spread of democracy have become unavoidably entangled with the issues of women. |
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Feb 07, 2006 at 03:31 PM |
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(The following publications and the opinions expressed are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of Women's Freedom Forum, Inc. )
By Donna M. Hughes - February 2000
There is a popular notion that Iran is undergoing reform under the leadership of President Mohammed Khatami and women are among the beneficiaries of a more tolerant, less harsh society, where there are more personal freedoms and freedom of expression.
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Feb 07, 2006 at 03:06 PM |
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Feb 07, 2006 at 01:36 PM |
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Sex Slave Jihad By Donna Hughes, frontpagemag.com - January 27, 2004 A measure of Islamic fundamentalists ' success in controlling society is the depth and totality with which they suppress the freedom and rights of women. In Iran for 25 years, the ruling mullahs have enforced humiliating and sadistic rules and punishments on women and girls, enslaving them in a gender apartheid system of segregation, forced veiling, second-class status, lashing, and stoning to death. |
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