Quiet resistance in Bangladesh to Sharia provisions discriminating against women, which are akin to those discriminating against dhimmis. From the Washington Times, with thanks to EPG:
Bangladesh has used a "silent social revolution" to boost women's rights and avoid the religious extremism that has plagued other Muslim countries, Foreign Minister M. Morshed Khan said in an interview yesterday.On a visit to Washington this week, Mr. Khan said that free and subsidized schooling for girls, expanded job opportunities for young women and political power -- the country's prime minister and opposition-party leader are both women -- have been critical to the country's stability.
"It is our policy to bring women into the mainstream, into the work force," Mr. Khan said in a luncheon interview with editors and reporters at The Washington Times."It amounts to a silent social revolution for us," he said. "We could not send our women back to the kitchen now if we wanted, because without economic opportunity, they become a target for extremists. Extremism flourishes in poverty."
lets make sure these ladies can read
'Jihad' magazine for women on web
A new jihadist magazine for women celebrates human sacrifice. They could dedicate it to Reem Raiyshi. From the BBC, with thanks to Ali Dashti:
Radical Islamists have launched a new magazine publication on the internet especially for women.
The aim of the magazine is to show women how to reconcile the apparent contradiction of fighting jihad while maintaining family life.
The magazine is called Al-Khansa, after a famous Arab woman poet in the early days of Islam, who wrote eulogies to male relatives who had died in battle.
It appears to be the first "jihadist" publication aimed exclusively at women.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/002960.php
They must be running low on male 'martyr' bombers and now need women to be able to read the assembly instructions for the construction of their ball-bearing filled suicide vests.
As Rajiv Ghandi discovered when a Tamil woman turned him into shredded gobbets of former prime minister, in 1991, women can approach checkpoints under much less scrutiny, since men do not naturally expect ladies to be as self-destructively crazy as miltant guys.
A clever tactic Mr. Khan.
The "silent revolution" with a big bang at the end?