Posts Tagged: female genital mutilation
Practicing Feminism While White
The year 2021 is already a bad year for feminist truth-tellers. In March, three brave Indigenous Australian women flew to the capital in Canberra to draw...
Western Feminists AWOL in Supporting Abused and Dissident Muslim Women
Muslim and ex-Muslim feminists and dissidents have been risking torture and death in the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa, and the Far East by refusing...
Muslim Reformers: Ilhan Omar and Islamists Don’t Speak for Islam
Anti-Islamist Muslims came to US Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN)'s home turf on Tuesday night. They made it clear that not all Muslims support her shutting...
Are American Girls at Risk After Court Ruling on FGM?
As her aunt held her down, the child screamed and fought desperately to escape. But even as she struggled, the woman sliced at the child's...
The Horrors of Honor Violence in the West
She was a 15-year-old student at San Antonio's Taft High School with a soft smile and dark eyes. Like most girls her age in Texas,...
Council of Europe Responds to Peres: Female Genital Mutilation and Circumcision Not ‘On Equal Footing’
Thorbjorn Jagland, Secretary General of the Council of Europe, responded on Wednesday to a letter sent earlier this week by Israeli President Shimon Peres asking Jagland to...
Muslim Acts of Beheading in the West
The gruesome murder last week of a soldier outside London by a Muslim convert, Michael Adebolajo, brings to mind that throat slitting and...
Human Rights Organizations Overlook Female Genital Mutilation to Focus on Israel
When the U.N. signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights on December 10th, 1948, it signaled a post- World War II optimism that human rights...
Mona Eltahawy Claims Victory for Vandalism
Last week, opponents of free speech had a great time in New York City. During the annual UN General Assembly meeting, some Arab and Muslim leaders,...
Pro-Circumcision Rally Held in Berlin, German Activists Seek a “Fantasy Israel with no Judaism”
On Sunday, September 9, 2012, the first ever pro-circumcision and Jewish (and Muslim) life rally in Germany, was held in Berlin. In May 2012 a...
On the Death of Christopher Hitchens: Obituary for an Atheist Propagandist
There is a story told about the saintly Rabbi Nosson Tzvi Finkel, also known as the Alter (The Old One) of Slobodka (1849-1927), whose...
