Comments on: Friday Links — August 1, 2008

By: Anti-Flag

Anti-Flag — Sun, 03 Aug 2008 05:49:00 +0000

I couldn’t help but right an email to the Iranian judiciary regarding the decision to stone Kobar Najjar. Although i’m aware of the demonisation of Iran via Western discourse, these decisions are often made in the name of Islam! I encourage everyone else to write in support of Najjar.

By: samaha

samaha — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:20:00 +0000

Thank you for linking and also thank you for linking to the article about the Bosnian woman and rape camp. While the arrest of Karadzic is important – it’s so much more important that we actually know how the ethnic cleansing campaign worked and how it will affect people’s lives forever.

By: Duniya

Duniya — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:11:00 +0000

Re: Akbar Ahmed’s daughterYay for her! We need to highlight these Muslim women more and demonstrate the wonderful work Muslim women are doing for the betterment of the world. A very impressive woman indeed! Masha’Allah. And what a wonderful relationship father and daughter have. I’ve been lucky to have this kind of relationship with my father as well Alhumdollilah. I wish it were more common. Re: Turkish DailyDitto! The statistics and research are clear – rape, sexual assault, and harassment have nothing to do with a woman’s clothing. It is a result of a patriarchal way of thinking which places women in an inferior position where they are considered property, not people, and there is a desire to control women. If harassment was a result of how we dressed then we would see all men harassing us. But because it is about a way of thinking we see a certain type of man harassing /assaulting women – those who think of women as inferior and in need of control by men. This unfortunate and harmful belief rampant among Muslims, that a woman is responsible when a man harasses or assaults her, not only victimizes a victim but it does not hold those men accountable who are violating women’s rights. We need to work at eradicating this belief.

By: ammena

ammena — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 10:33:00 +0000

dont have time to comment on much but just watched the video from the girl who punched the guy. Amusing…. I think she could have handled it better really.. the guy at the end makes a comment about Muhammed, wonder where he got the comment of him being a guy of pieces when the original preacher mentioned the same analogy.. original? me thinks not! La hawla wala qwata illah billah