Yesterday Jihad Watch reported that Muslim hardliners had attacked Women’s Day marchers in Pakistan. It is not surprising that this has happened in other Muslim countries as well: “While the world…celebrated International Women’s Day with joyful events and colourful initiatives, women’s marches were attacked in Muslim-majority Asian countries, namely Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan and Turkey. In some […]
Pakistan: Muslims disrupt International Women’s Day rally, attacking rallygoers with stones and shoes
It’s not surprising that International Women’s Day would get pushback in Islamabad. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good […]
Pakistan: Provincial parliament adopts resolution denouncing women’s marches as “shameless and un-Islamic act”
Linda Sarsour, call your office. “Pakistani lawmakers claim women’s march was anti-Islam,” Associated Press, March 21, 2019: Provincial lawmakers in northwestern Pakistan have assailed as anti-Islamic women’s marches held earlier this month across the country to mark the International Women’s Day. Lawmakers in the Khyber Pukhtunkhwa provincial parliament unanimously adopted a resolution on Wednesday denouncing […]
Qur’an quote for International Women’s Day: “As for those from whom you fear disobedience…beat them” (4:34)
It’s International Women’s Day, an excellent time for a Qur’an study. The Qur’an teaches that men are superior to women and should beat those from whom they “fear disobedience”: “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other, and because they spend their wealth to maintain them. Good women […]
More oppression chic: Facebook marks International Women’s Day with image of girl in hijab
This is great. Facebook hereby signals its virtue: it is standing with Muslim women and presumably against Donald Trump and racist, redneck yahoos everywhere. But where is Facebook’s concern for Aqsa Parvez, whose Muslim father choked her to death with her hijab after she refused to wear it? Or Amina Muse Ali, a Christian woman […]