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Muslim Women's Liberation Movement Leader: Biggest Opposition from Some Sister Muslims

On July 18-19, 2014, an important liberation movement and Declaration of Equalities for Muslim Women will be discussed and signed in Seneca Falls. Yes, Seneca Falls, the very site where Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, and Susan B. Anthony once

The Next Great Movement: Muslim Women's Liberation

July 18-19, 2014, a group of Muslim women, led by attorney Nadia Shahram, will hold a convention in Seneca Falls to issue a "Declaration of the Equalities for Muslim Women." Symbolically and historically, this is an important event, one that may only be

ACTIVISTS HIJACKING FEMINISM TO ATTACK ISRAEL AT WOMEN'S STUDIES ASSOCIATION MEETING

The next National Women's Studies Association annual meeting will take place in San Juan, Puerto Rico on November 13-16, 2014 and is aptly named "Feminist Transgressions." Indeed, the conference itself is "transgressive" in that it minimizes the cause of

Captive in Afghanistan: Bowe Bergdahl, Yvonne Ridley, and Me

Unless one has been through it, one cannot imagine what five years of captivity in Afghanistan might be like. I only endured five months of captivity in Kabul and, to this day, no one has ever understood what that was like. Breitbart reporters Jordan

The Bigger Story in the Real War on Women

And so now Malaysian men have joined the circus of barbarism against women that is very much upon us this season. Is such violence specific to Asia? Actually, no. For example, similar kinds of bestial rape-murders took place in Guatemala at the hands of

Girls Raped Then Hung in Uttar Pradesh, India, Force Focus on Rape Worldwide

Early Thursday, two teenage Indian girls, aged 14 and 15, cousins, were found dead, hanging from a mango tree, in Uttar Pradesh, where their heartless gang-rapists had left them. Both are Dalits, formerly considered "untouchables." One (or possibly two)

Girls Raped Then Hanged in Uttar Pradesh, India, Force Focus on Rape Worldwide

Early Thursday, two teenage Indian girls, aged 14 and 15, cousins, were found dead, hanging from a mango tree, in Uttar Pradesh, where their heartless gang-rapists had left them. Both are Dalits, formerly considered "untouchables." One (or possibly two)

How the Media Distorts Radical Islam's Record

We have all suffered the glaring omissions, false moral equivalencies, and unfair and unbalanced reporting in the formerly distinguished mainstream media venues. This media has absolutely refused to write about Islamic Jihad-terrorism in a truthful way.

The Real War On Women

I just appeared for a rather intense hour on the BBC on the World Have Your Say program to talk about three separate cases in the news: the Pakistani woman who was just stoned to death for daring to marry the man she loved; the massacre in Isla Vista,

STOPPING THE FLOOD OF FEMALE GENITAL MUTILATION: EGYPT BRINGS HISTORIC CASE

For the first time in Egyptian history, an Egyptian physician, Dr. Raslan Fadl, will stand trial for the female genital mutilation of a thirteen-year-old girl—not only because he broke the 2008 Mubarak-era law against such practices but because the