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In "Omani dissident promises to keep speaking out" from Agence France Presse (thanks to DFS), Taiba al-Mawali is called both an "Islamist" and a "human rights activist." And, apparently with abundant justification, a "very unusual woman."
It would be interesting to know whether she thinks general equality of rights should be accorded to women in Oman, or to non-Muslims, and if Amnesty International knew or cared about her positions on these matters before floating her name for the Nobel Peace Prize. It seems from her statement about changes in Islam that she opposes any attempt at softening Sharia provisions. But the Sharia-inspired violations of human rights are so far off the radar screen for most people that I think it is highly doubtful that these matters came up at all.
MUSCAT: For an Omani, Taiba al-Mawali is a very unusual woman. She is a militant human rights activist, unafraid to say what she thinks in a country where any criticism of the authorities is considered heresy. "I always say what I think is good for the country - and they don't like it," the former teacher and official radio journalist told AFP in an interview.A fervent Islamist, Mawali, 42, has paid dearly for her beliefs - she spent six months in prison for criticizing the trial last year of 31 Islamists for having "plotted the overthrow of the government by force of arms ... by forming an illegal underground organization."
They were sentenced in May 2005 to prison terms ranging between one and 20 years but pardoned a month later.
The Islamist affair has left its marks on Mawali, a mother of six who is married to a policeman, turning her life upside down. Mawali says she has been under surveillance by the security services since her membership in the Majlis al-Shura (Consultative Council) from 1994-2000....
Then, at the beginning of 2005, dozens of people suspected of being part of an Islamist plot were interrogated, and 31 were later charged.
"I knew them personally. I had read their books and visited them in their homes. They love their country and His Majesty," she said of Sultan Qabous bin Saeed, whom she says is misled by his advisers. Her friends, she said, had merely been trying "to teach religion to people as it should be taught." Mawali claims the Omani authorities have changed "many things" in the teaching of Islam "in the cause of the Americans."...
Last July, Mawali was sentenced to 18 months for her Internet articles and criticizing the authorities. She appealed. But she was afraid of being thrown in jail before this was heard, and fled to a friend's house where she hid for 17 days. The day before the appeal hearing, she returned home "disguised as a man."
Six months in prison was the verdict, and she was immediately taken into custody. She was freed a few days before the full term of her sentence, and believes this was done to avoid any public demonstration of support upon her release.
According to Amnesty International, which called her a "prisoner of conscience," Mawali's name has been put forward for the Nobel Peace Prize.
Mawali says prison made her more determined.
"We want proper and free elections," she said, "[and] we have to have an independent judiciary. Because I know my religion, I fight for the rights of man and for justice."
Man, yes. But woman?
Posted by Robert at May 30, 2006 6:51 AM
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"I fight for the rights of man and for justice."
-- from the article above
Which "rights" for which "man"? Infidel man, as well? Infidel man now being subject to Da'wa and demographic conquest by millions of Muslims who have been allowed, in a fit of criminal negligence by Western elites and peoples over the past 30 years, to come and settle deep behind what Muslims themselves are taught to regard as enemy lines?
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at May 30, 2006 8:06 AM
Let's get more liberal, shall we?
Posted by: Shy Guy at May 30, 2006 8:15 AM
Islamist Human Rights.....Oxymoron of the day.
Posted by: Turbinehead at May 30, 2006 8:32 AM
She sounds like that Hamas mother martyr who celebrates sending her sons to be suicide martyrs. She LOVES Islam, Islam all the time.
Posted by: John Sobieski at May 30, 2006 8:58 AM
Oman appears to be trying to avoid the "Algerian Effect":
-one man, one vote, one time.
May this "unusual woman" enjoy the meditation time in jail to finally grasp the sordid nature of the pedophile "prophet" and terrorizing intolerant warlord Mohammad, and his hand puppet of personal vengeance, Allah.
Posted by: profitsbeard at May 30, 2006 11:02 AM
Mawali claims the Omani authorities have changed "many things" in the teaching of Islam "in the cause of the Americans."...
So as I understand this article, Mawali is a "human rights activist" because she believes the government of Oman is not abusive enough. Am I missing something here?
at May 30, 2006 11:26 AM
"Let's get more liberal,shall we?" re: Moroccan islamic feminism
I love the idea of feminism, democratisation and islamism working hand in hand. I've no idea what people who tried to square the circle were actually attempting to do, mathematically, but it sounds like much the same sort of enterprise.
Posted by: wallyUK at May 30, 2006 11:31 AM
If AI likes her, then .. wait, AI could be wrong.
Posted by: FreeSpeech at May 30, 2006 11:38 AM
"I know my religion"
Do you, Taiba?
This is either taqiyya for Western consumption or strictly speaking the woman is a "hypocrite" for whom the hottest places in hell are reserved, but for now such heresy is tolerated by the mullahs because it may contribute towards confusing gullible infidels.
There can be no reform of Islam---only abrogation and nullification of this nazi cult of death.
at May 30, 2006 12:48 PM
One must use the Islamic lexicon for all statements Muslims make:
Muslims on the basis of Islam do support "human rights":
Islamic Lexicon:
human = Muslim
rights = Sharia.
It's quite simple. There should be no confusion.
at May 30, 2006 1:11 PM
OTP, but important and also disgusting!
From Jerusalem Post, today (30.March.2006):
"Masked Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades gunmen on Tuesday publicly executed a Palestinian man and woman they suspected of having spied for Israel.
The man was shot dead in the main street of a refugee camp, with a large crowd looking on. The woman was later shot to death by her relatives in the courtyard of the West Bank's largest hospital.
The Al Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, an offshoot of Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas's Fatah movement, accused Jafal Abu Tzrur, 24, of having informed the IDF where to find three of its members. The three were killed by IDF troops during a raid on the Balata refugee camp near Nablus earlier this year.
Al Aqsa gunmen interrogated Abu Tzrur, claimed he confessed and then dragged him into Balata's main street. As a large crowd looked on, the gunmen threw Abu Tzrur to the ground, witnesses said. When he tried to get up, the gunmen killed him with several shots, the witnesses said.
The movement said it also killed Odad Abu Mustafa, 27, a Nablus woman. Abu Mustafa was married to one of the Al Aqsa men slain by Israel, and was reportedly having an affair with Abu Tzrur.
Abu Mustafa, a mother of four, was shot by gunmen and male relatives on grounds that she shamed her clan. More than 15 people took part in the execution, witnesses said. It took place in the courtyard of Raffidiyeh Hospital, the West Bank's largest.
The mob originally planned to kill her in the street but were swayed by a man who pleaded with them not to carry out the killing in the view of little children could. She was then taken into the courtyard of the hospital, said Yousef Mahmoud, 18, who witnessed the killing.
"One of the gunmen said 'where is her brother?' and when he stepped forward they said to him 'you know what you need to do,"' he said. "The brother took out a gun and shot her in the head with one bullet."
Mahmoud said the brother then emptied the entire clip into the body of his sister, while the surrounding gunmen fired into the air. He said that the woman remained silent throughout and did not resist her captors.
Neighbors of the woman said she had four children; two boys and two girls, ranging in age from 11 to three and a half."
Unbelievable!! This is how pallies act! I could just puke.
Posted by: bonncaruso at May 30, 2006 2:03 PM
The religion of peace excels at meting out injustice swiftly and brutally.
Posted by: US_infidel at May 30, 2006 2:44 PM
At the beginning of the 21st century, electing a new people seems to be exactly what Socialist parties in Europe are doing. Perhaps the greatest idea of the Leftist parties after the Cold War was to re-invent themselves as Multicultural immigration parties and start importing voters from abroad.
Rush Limbaugh made the same point last week. That the USA leaving it's borders open has nothing to do with immigration as we are accustomed to it. It has everything to do with the Democrats getting new voters. New voters when the illegal aliens become citizens and of course the American born children. That these people will vote for socialist policies
GWBush and Rove think they can get these (mostly) Hispanics to vote Republican if he caters to them today by treating them with kid gloves by not guarding borders, no employer sanctions and no workplace raids and enforcement. Under Bill Clinton we had more such raids.
Hmmmm.... The White House has a very nice fence and it's well guarded. Unlike our Southern border!
Posted by: dennisw at May 30, 2006 3:51 PM
Here's another one for our Champion Dhimmi:
From The Independent-
Galloway says murder of Blair would be 'justified'
By Oliver Duff
Published: 26 May 2006
The Respect MP George Galloway has said it would be morally justified for a suicide bomber to murder Tony Blair.
In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"
Posted by: Godefroi de Boulogne at May 30, 2006 4:53 PM
George Galloway has zero credability after appearing on Big Brother dressed in a pink leotard and pretending to be a purring cat on all fours licking imaginary milk out of some woman's hand.
Went down a treat with his muslim constituents.
Posted by: Celsius at May 30, 2006 5:11 PM
In an interview with GQ magazine, the reporter asked him: "Would the assassination of, say, Tony Blair by a suicide bomber - if there were no other casualties - be justified as revenge for the war on Iraq?"
Mr Galloway replied: "Yes, it would be morally justified. I am not calling for it - but if it happened it would be of a wholly different moral order to the events of 7/7. It would be entirely logical and explicable. And morally equivalent to ordering the deaths of thousands of innocent people in Iraq - as Blair did."
The Labour MP Stephen Pound, a persistent critic of Mr Galloway during previous controversies, told The Sun that the Respect MP for Bethnal Green and Bow in east London was "disgraceful and truly twisted".
He said: "These comments take my breath away. Every time you think he can't sink any lower he goes and stuns you again. It's reprehensible to say it would be justified for a suicide bomber to assassinate anyone."
The Stop the War Coalition criticised Mr Galloway: "We don't agree with Tony Blair's actions, but neither do we agree with suicide bombers or assassinations."
Just hours after four bomb attacks killed 52 people on London's transport system last July, Mr Galloway said the city had "paid the price" for Mr Blair's decision to go to war in Iraq and Afghanistan. "Ten thousand Osama bin Ladens have been created at least by the events of the last two years," he told MPs in the Commons that day.
Mr Pound said at the time: "I thought George had sunk to the depths of sickness in the past but this exceeds anything he has done before." The Armed Forces minister, Adam Ingram, accused the Respect MP of "dipping his poisonous tongue in a pool of blood".
Mr Galloway yesterday made a surprise appearance on Cuban television with the Caribbean island's Communist dictator, Fidel Castro - whom he defended as a "lion" in a political world populated by "monkeys".
Mr Galloway shocked panellists on a live television discussion show in Havana by emerging on set mid-transmission to offer passionate support for Castro. Looking approvingly into each others' eyes, the pair embraced.
Posted by: Godefroi de Boulogne at May 30, 2006 5:25 PM
A thought experiment:
Would it be acceptible to Galloway if someone from the anti-jihad opposition, who thought he was a seditious, anti-Western lunatic, then planted a mercury switch bomb in his car?
Just to balance his homicidal equation?
What's semtex for the Goose Blair is semtex for the Gander Galloway, no?
He should be shackled to Abu Hamza, stuffed in a sack, and the diseased pair of them thrown off a cliff.
(No need to add a snake and a monkey to the bag, as the Romans did, since innocent critters are far saner and less dangerous than these drivelling madmen.)
Posted by: profitsbeard at May 30, 2006 7:09 PM
"We want proper and free elections," she said, "[and] we have to have an independent judiciary. Because I know my religion, I fight for the rights of man and for justice."
It's a crazy and mixed-up world out there. And with each small Fast-Breed success,it gets a little bit crazier and a little bit more mixed uppier. She knows her religion, and she's spoiling for a fight.
Wait till she runs into a gaggle of enraged Moslems in a dark alley somewhere. Then she'll know.
Posted by: Alarmed Pig Farmer at May 31, 2006 4:47 AM
"Islamist human rights activist"
Is that a double oxymoron?
at May 31, 2006 8:26 AM
It is a euphemism-cannibalizing-oxymoronic-non-sequitur...
Posted by: jsla at May 31, 2006 5:33 PM
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