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Poor Women Attacked for Aid Supplies PKFLOODS

An injured woman from Pakistan. She is displaced by recent floods in Pakistan. She was attacked for her ration of aid in Bannay Wala, Punjab province, Pakistan.

Tallest Woman of Pakistan Zainab Bibi 7ft 2in Pakistani woman

Pakistani city, a "rat woman

Outside a Muslim shrine in this dusty Pakistani city, a "rat woman" with a tiny head sits on a filthy mattress and takes money from worshippers who cling to an ancient fertility rite. 

Nadia, 25, is one of hundreds of young microcephalics -- people born with small skulls and protruding noses and ears because of a genetic mutation -- who can be found on the streets of Gujrat, in central Punjab province.

Officials say many of them have been sold off by their families to begging mafias, who exploit a tradition that the "rat children" are sacred offerings to Shah Daula, the shrine's 17th century Sufi saint. 

"These are God's children. We are proud to look after her," said Ijaz Hussain, the shrine's government-employed custodian, as Nadia shrieked unintelligibly and put coins in a battered wooden box at her side. 

According to local legend, infertile women who pray at Shah Daula's shrine will be granted children, but at a terrible price. The first child will be born microcephalic and must be given to the shrine, or else any further children will have the same deformity.

Indian Held Kashmir

Jammu Kashmir policewomen detain Kashmiri women during a demonstration in Srinagar, India, Friday, Sept. 29, 2006. Police on Friday swung bamboo sticks and fired tear gas at dozens of rock-throwing demonstrators as protests continued for the third straight day in the Indian portion of Kashmir against the upcoming execution of a Kashmiri man convicted of plotting a 2001 terror attack on India's Parliament.

Women tries to rebuild their Houses

Qubo Saeed Khan, Qambar Shahdatkot, Sindh - It is not every day that one can see a poor handicapped village girl in a typically male dominated society working on painting houses and community buildings. This could hardly have been possible in normal circumstances anywhere in Sindh much less in the far flung village Safal Solangi, in the Qubo Saeed Khan area of Shahdatkot in north-western reaches of the province. However, the floods of July-August 2010 have drastically changed the dynamics across the country.

Shahzadi’s StoryShahzadi is a 21 year old girl of this village lost her arm in an accident at an early age. She, however, remained active in her daily chores of helping in the fields and home. With the destruction of all livelihoods for the village residents, she joined a vocational training programme by the Indus Resource Centre (IRC), a partner of UNDP in the Early Recovery Programme. She chose the unlikely trade of painting buildings along with her brother and together they have helped in the rehabilitation of their village.

“I learnt this trade and was also provided tools to practice my skill professionally. I have worked on rebuilding of our village school under the Cash for Work programme”, says Shahzadi. This high spirited and confident girl is now teaching her skill to others in her village as well as looking forward to more projects where she can participate on the Cash for work programme. “I am now looking for work in this field and am willing to wherever similar projects are available”, Shahzadi says.

Vocational Training for villagersThere are many other females who have participated in the IRC training programmes and learnt skills like painting, masonry, and stitching, while male beneficiaries learnt skills including plumbing, electrification, masonry, painting and stitching. Under this programme 42 females and 87 males from 20 villages from district Qambar Shahdatkot have been imparted vocational training and given tools of their trade and an opportunity to work on Cash for Work programmes.

With high hopes and a will to make a difference numerous other females, young and old, have ventured in the fields of masonry as well. Allah Bachai, a 60 year old widow has helped build community latrines and buildings while Ameer Zadi and Feroza are working alongside men to help rebuild houses in their nearby village of Shah Wasaio.

These villages of Qambar Shahdatkot district lie on the border with the Balochistan province and were one of the worst hit areas of Sindh in the floods. Safal Solangi, Shah Wasaio and many other villages remained completely inundated for 2 months leaving just destruction in the aftermath. The residents of this area, while struggling to rebuild their homes and community buildings, face the biggest problem of livelihoods as the agricultural lands in the area are still not able to support crops due to excess salinity.

Rasheed Ahmed, a beneficiary of the UNDP/Indus Resource Centre vocational training programme says that his newly acquired skills of painting will help him earn a living as there is no other avenue of earning for some months to come. “I thank UNDP and IRC for helping me enter a new field where I can earn a living and I will soon be moving to nearby towns and cities to find work in painting houses and buildings”, he says.

Providing Livelihoods and Infrastructure Recovery
Besides vocational training UNDP is also many other Community Physical Infrastructure rehabilitation projects implemented by IRC in this area. Numerous schemes of water supply, drainage, and access roads are in various stages of completion on which over 150 male and female skilled workers are engaged in the Cash for Work initiative.

The future is bright for these resilient men and women of Qambar Shahdatkot who have taken innovative and unconventional paths to rebuild their villages and lives.

Women’s Action Forum expresses disappointment at the SC verdict in Mukhtar Mai’s case

Lahore: Women’s Action Forum expressed deep regret and disappointment at the Supreme Courts decision to acquit five out of six accused in the Mukhtar Mai case.Mukhtaran Mai had filed appeals against the order of the LHC, Multan Bench, commuting the sentence of one accused and acquitting the abettors involved in gang-raping Mukhtaran Mai on June 22, 2002. The rape occurred on the orders of a Punchayat (village council) convened by the influential Mastoi tribe in the village of Meerwala in southern Punjab. The Punchayat was called to seek punishment for Shakoor, the 12-year-old brother of Mukhtaran Mai. It was suggested that Shakoor marry the girl with whom he was accused of having an affair and Mukhtaran Mai marry a man of the Mastoi tribe. But the Mastois rejected this and insisted that the offence of adultery be settled with adultery. Mukhtaran Mai was called by the Punchayat to apologies for the conduct of her brother who had already been sodomised by the Mastois. She was allegedly dragged to a nearby hut and raped by four men. A case was registered against 14 accused under the Pakistan Penal Code, the Anti-Terrorism Act and the Hudood Ordinance. Four of the accused were charged with raping Mukhtaran and the rest for abetting the crime. In August 2002, an anti-terrorism court sentenced six men to death (four for raping Mukhtaran and two for being part of the punchayat). The remaining eight were acquitted. Mukhtaran Mai filed separate appeals in the LHC’s Multan Bench against the acquittal of the eight men

Woman in dhaka

A woman prays in the rain in Dhaka, Bangladesh.

Women pull bed through water

Pakistani women pull a bed through floodwater caused by heavy monsoon rains in a village near Nowshera, Pakistan.

Woman at market in Bangalore

The Woman of Rural India

The woman of rural India courteous and dutiful,

Victim of Patriarchy, but Oh! So beautiful.

When she is born, her mother is called a sinner,

But her gender is ignored when she becomes a bread winner.

She serves her parents to become an 'ideal' daughter,

But loses her childhood in the barter.

Then comes the most important phase of her life,

This is when she becomes a slave-wife.

Soon she is instructed to multiply,

And Oh! she has more beings to satisfy.

She endures her domestic and maternal drudgery,

As if she was born to bear this overdose of misery.

But, what else can she do?

Education cannot come to her rescue.

A symbol of strength and perseverance,
Few admire her power of endurance.
The woman of rural India, courteous and dutiful,
Victim of Patriarchy, but Oh! so beautiful.

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Islam is an abomination. It destroys human beings. The Burqa is the chains of modern slavery. Hundreds of millions of women are passing their lives with no choice in their destiny, all thanks to Allah.

INDONESIA: As crowd screams for more, Barack Obama’s former homeboys cane a woman for having an extramarital affair

Irdayanti Mukhtar, 34, received nine lashes by Sharia Police for having a relationship with another man, even though she is said to be in the process of divorcing her husband.The harsh punishment was meted out in front of a crowd of 200 people outside the Al Munawwarah Mosque in Jantho, Indonesia.

The jeering crowd recorded the brutal beating on their mobile phones and camcorders and shouted for more beatings in the strict Muslim city.Mukhtar had been sentenced to the punishment the previous day by a Sharia court where prosecutors said that she was guilty of being in ‘close proximity’ to another man. Under Sharia law the offence carries a maximum beating of nine strokes with a cane or a minimum of three. Neighbours had seen Mukhtar with the man and had barged in on her while the couple were in her bedroom, although it is unclear what they were actually doing. The mob then dragged them to the local police station to be charged. (But notice, only the woman got caned)It is believed Sharia Police are also investigating a claim that Mukhtar was molested by the crowd before they took her to be charged.Shortly after the caning on Friday Mukhtar passed out and had to be taken to hospital for treatment.She was one of four people, including the man she was caught with, to be caned for extramarital affairs.

SYRIA: Employer hit her with a hammer to break several ribs, distorted her face and nails with sharp instruments, extinguished cigarette butts on her body, and stabbed her with a knife.

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GAZA: Palestinian women reporters beaten and tortured by Hamas

A number of Palestinian women journalists complained on Sunday that they had been beaten and tortured by Hamas security forces in the Gaza Strip. They said the assaults occurred in recent days when they and their colleagues tried to cover pro-unity rallies in different parts of the Gaza Strip.Hamas policemen used force to disperse the protesters, who were calling for an end to the dispute between the Islamist movement and Fatah. The rallies were part of a Facebook campaign organized by Palestinian youth on March 15.At least eight journalists were beaten by the Hamas police officers during the rallies.Some had their cameras and laptops confiscated, while others were taken into custody and made to sign a document pledging to refrain from covering such events in the future.Later, Hamas security personnel raided the offices of a number of media organizations and confiscated equipment and documents. Among the offices targeted were Reuters, and a Japanese TV network.One of the female journalists, Samah Ahmed,complained that a Hamas policeman in military uniform stabbed her in the back as she tried to leave the al-Katiba Square, where pro-unity protesters were staging a sit-in strike.She said that she and another female journalist, Asma al- Ghoul, were later also beaten with clubs before they were taken to detention. “At the police station, they continued to beat us and curse us,” Ahmed told the Palestinian news agency Aswar Press. “When they realized that I wasbleeding from the area where I  was stabbed, the police interrogators sent me to hospital.”She added that the Hamas police officers who accompanied her to the hospital forced the medical team to admit her under a different name and to list her as a victim of a traffic accident.Jihan al-Sirsawi, another woman who works as a journalist in the Gaza Strip, said that the police officers who attacked the demonstrators beat her severely. “They used electrical shocks against us,” she said. “They beat me so strongly that I lost consciousness and fell to the ground. I woke up only 15 minutes later.”Two more female journalists, Manal Khamis and Dima al-Lababidi, also complained that Hamas policemen had beaten them up during the demonstration. Khamis said that the policemen confiscated her mobile phone and attacked her physically. Al- Lababidi accused the Hamas policemen of hitting her on the back with an iron chair.

 

The Violent Oppression of Women in Islam

It is an utter disgrace that more people the world over - including and especially human rights and women's organizations - are not speaking out loudly against the hideous, violent treatment of women within Islam. This abuse has been going on for centuries, and little has changed over the past decades since the non-Muslim world began to take notice of Islam. In fact, Muslim apologists - including non-Muslim defenders - are very vocal in DENYING that women are abused and oppressed within Islam, an assertion that is patently false and mendacious. All of the apologies and apologetics in the world will not make these facts of violence against women go away, and day in and day out women and girls are treated abysmally in the Muslim world, simply because of their female gender - and because the wanton abuse of women is endorsed by the Islamic holy book, the Quran/Koran, as well as various commentaries thereon, such as the Hadiths, to the evident exultation of misogynists worldwide.The silence of the non-Muslim world in not criticizing Islam and its proponents especially in regard to the vicious, widespread and ongoing oppression and abuse of women and girls is deafening - and shameful.Please read the booklet linked hereto by Robert Spencer and Phyllis Chesler, and pass it along to all those who love life and justice. We need many more voices like these hard-working individuals who are risking their necks to expose the harsh realities behind Islam.The bottom line is that MILLIONS OF WOMEN AND GIRLS ARE SUFFERING EVERY DAY WITHIN ISLAM, and not doing anything about constitutes a tacit endorsement of such suffering.
The Violent Oppression of Women
The booklet that you are about to read details some of the principal ways in which women suffer in the Islamic world - often with religious and cultural sanction. Many of these crimes against women, such as wife-beating, are ordained by the Qur'an itself; others, such as female genital mutilation and honor killing, are praised by Islamic clerics and hallowed by Islamic culture. That feminists in the West remain silent about this deeply ingrained and institutionalized mistreatment of women, and even ally with groups that have devoted themselves to the spread of Islamic law that justifies this mistreatment, is one of the unconscionable scandals of our time.This article is a segment of a series being run as part of our nation-wide campus effort, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which will be held on 200 university and college campuses on October 22-26. Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week is a national effort to focus on all the victims of Islamo-Fascist Jihad -- as well as to counter the lies of the academic Left, which seeks to deny the evil, and even the very existence, of our enemy in this terror war. In this way, Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week hopes to educate American students and to enable them to rally to defend their country.In terms of the booklet of our subject today, its cover is a still photograph that epitomizes Islamic oppression of women, and it has come to also epitomize the Western feminist non-response to it. The picture comes from a Dutch film called De Steen (The Stone), directed by Mahnaz Tamizi, and features the actress Smadar Monsinos. The Stone dramatizes the barbaric treatment of women in Islamic countries. It accurately depicts the reality of Islamic Sharia law regarding adultery: when a couple is caught in adultery, the man is jailed while the woman is stoned to death.It is a telling indication of the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the Left that it has fastened upon our use of this picture to try to discredit Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, since the photo does not depict an actualevent - as if women weren't being stoned to death under Sharia law in Iran and some other Muslim countries today. In reality, eight women are currently in prison in Iran awaiting death by stoning for the crime of adultery. A mother was sentenced to be stoned to death in Iran for adultery just last week. It is typical of the Left to try to cast opprobrium not upon those responsible for these harsh realities, but upon us who are trying to draw attention to them in the name of human rights.It may have seemed inconceivable that feminists and their allies would defend those who bury women in the earth and kill them by throwing large stones at them, but that is the ultimate thrust of the Left's outcry against our use of this picture and against Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week in general. Such are the ironies of our troubled age.In this booklet are realities that should be of paramount concern not just for feminists in the West and their allies on the Left, but of all those who are concerned with the universality of human rights and the dignity of every human being.Final note from Acharya: I don't usually engage in the politics of "right v. left," but I have to say that, in the case of Islam, the lefty liberals have driven me and many others straight into the Neocon camp. For those who are bothered by the "staged stoning" of the pic above, please see this disturbing video of a real stoning - albeit of MEN, who likewise suffer horribly under the sadistic fascism called Islam.

Women In Islam Status And Position

Women in Islam have a significant place in the formation of the characters themselves and their families. Before Islam came, the lot of women be crushed, killed and even existence have not considered. That is why Islam came to remove the injustice and the way of approach towards women.In fact, Islam is not only change how the perspective of women, but women in Islam have a position and a strategic place. A just a Hadits of the Prophet that says: If I respect the most? Your mother, and who, your mother, then who, and who, your mother and your father.In addition, if a review of science education, the mother is the first school for the children. And God is not reluctant to include women in the name of one of surah in the Al-Quran. So that would suggest that women should not be crushed, humiliated and harass as occurred in Manohara.

Manohara is a small piece of how a woman who oppressed and sexual harassment. But Islam never teaches to harassing women. However, Islam should be taught how to respect women as creatures of God who is weak.Therefore, the withdrawal of women in Islam a man. However, there are rules that should not be syar’i are for a woman. And however because even though men are leaders of women.Basically, take some lessons from the cases of persecution against women. Because basically, women in Islam is as educators, teacher and beauty.