Oppression of Women Bulletin

Bulletin of the Oppression of Women (Thanks to William Warner)

August 12th - November 2, 2010 August 12, 2010 Iran The 'confession' from a woman facing stoning.

August 13, 2010 India A female engineer is facing threats for not wearing a veil.

August 15, 2010 USA A Tulsa shelter helps abused Muslim women.

UK Muslim parents are charged with beating and imprisoning their daughter over a facebook fling.

August 17, 2010 USA Honor killings aren't a new thing in the US.

August 27, 2010 Italy An acid attack on a 19 year old woman.

Italy Islam is denied income tax revenue for various reasons including their failure to uphold women's rights.

August 29, 2010 UK Taxi drivers double as bounty hunters for Muslim women.

August 31, 2010 Afghanistan (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Blood tests have confirmed that a mysterious series of cases of mass sickness at girls' schools across the country over the last two years were caused by a powerful poison gas. Update on Sharia law and the Taliban treatment of women in Afghanistan HERE.

September 2, 1010 UK Another honor killing in the UK.

September 4, 2010 USA (Hat tip to JihadWatch)
Update on the Muslim man who beheaded his wife.

September 5, 2010 Iran (Hat tip to JihadWatch)
An Iranian woman who's sentenced to stoning is also going to get 99 lashes for having her picture published without her headscarf. Update HERE.

USA A video where Imam Feisal Rauf says in sharia law women are equal with men and calls the US a 'Sharia compliant state'.

France France is to strip citizenship from attackers of police but not polygamists or those that promote female circumcision.

Egypt Egyptian cleric: If women are harassed even when wearing the niqab or hijab, it may be because they should not be outside the house at all.

September 7, 2010 Bangladesh A n 11 year old girl is raped by her teacher.

September 9, 2010 Saudi Arabia A Saudi man divorces his wife over cheese sambosa.

September 13, 2010 USA The problem of honor killings; the number of victims might be four times higher than UN estimates.

USA Forced marriages and conversions of Christian girls in Islamic countries.

September 14, 2010 UK Iranian gang members try to sell girls' virginity to wealthy Arabs.

Netherlands (Hat tip and translation to Islam in Europe) 
13 Honor murders a year.

UK An African woman was kept as a slave by a Muslim doctor.

September 15, 2010 Saudi Arabia A Saudi Arabian women's rights activist has called for the political leadership in the country to abolish rules granting male authority over women.

Pakistan The latest development in an incident involving policemen refusing to register a case of forced religious conversion of a 13-year-old Hindu girl.

Australia (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
A 14-YEAR-old girl has been banned from leaving Australia and has had to surrender her passport to save her from an arranged marriage, just days before the girl's father planned to whisk her overseas to marry a man she has never met.

September 16, 2010 USA A Philadelphia man admits going to Egypt to impregnate young girls.

USA A man is charged for splashing battery acid in girlfriend's face.

India There is a growing number of honor killings in the Indian Capital Region.

September 17, 2010 India This article examines why Muslim Queens have vanished from history.

September 18, 2010 USA The unremitting degradation of women in most of the Mideast, Africa, and other parts of Asia where Islamic Sharia law plays a huge role is horrifying and appalling. Sharia law endorses slavery, demands executions for apostasy, and condones the repression of women.

India An aeronautical engineer by qualification, a 23-year-old Muslim girl here refuses to wear the burqa and often sports jeans despite constant threats to her life.

September 19, 2010 Pakistan There was a reported 13% increase in violence against women from 2008 to 2009.

September 20, 2010 West Bank (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Khaled Mahmoud admits beating his sister to death last year in the West Bank and says he'd do it again.

September 23, 2010 Egypt Egyptian cleric states that Islam permits wife beating only when she refuses to have sex with him.

September 24, 2010 Pakistan The Taliban blew up two more girls' schools in the provincial capital of Peshawar.

Pakistan (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
A rare video reportedly smuggled out of northwest Pakistan allegedly shows a woman being stoned to death by Taliban militants in the upper region of Orakzai. WARNING, GRAPHIC IMAGES.

September 27, 2010 Chechnya (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Women in Chechnya are under pressure to adopt Islamic dress, according to human rights activists and an Islamic fundamentalist video circulating on the Internet in the latest example of deteriorating women's rights under the president of the restive southern Russian republic.

September 28, 2010 Germany Wafa was only 17 years old when she was murdered by her family about 17 years ago for "honor", said her sister, a Kurd living in Germany, who witnessed the murder of her sister.

September 30, 2010 New Zealand A Turkish immigrant who claimed he was performing a traditional dance with violent-looking moves as he beat his wife has been convicted of assault by a New Zealand judge.

October 1, 2010 Indonesia Two women were publicly caned in Indonesia's staunchly Muslim Aceh province on Friday for selling food during Ramadan.

October 2, 2010 Britain (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
Hundreds of girls are bring forced by British schools to wear the Islamic veil in a move which has been heavily criticised by mainstream Muslims. Update HERE.

October 3, 2010 Egypt Egyptian psychotherapist reports that women in Arab societies are treated as minors.

October 4, 2010 Italy A Pakistani woman has died in Italy after her husband beat her with a brick for opposing the arranged marriage of her daughter.

October 8, 2010 Indonesia (hat tip to JihadWatch) 
In a move criticized as an insult to the dignity of women, an Aceh district speaker has called for the replacement of a female subdistrict head, arguing that women were unfit to lead under Islamic law.

October 9, 2010 Iraq Blame is laid on Islaic clerics for prevalence of honor killing in Iraqi Kurdistan.

October 12, 2010 Australia If you think Islamic women have the right to be uncovered, and want the burqa banned, you're an Islamophobe

October 29, 2010 UN/Iran The United States Government and human rights groups reacted forcefully yesterday to news that Iran is close to gaining a seat on a new UN agency to promote equality for women.

November 2, 2010 Iran (Hat tip to JihadWatch) 
An Iranian woman who was sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery and helping kill her husband, will be executed on Wednesday, November 3, 2010.

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