They rape and torture women in Iran: First, at home, as a family matter; then in prison, as a state matter. They publicly execute women for daring to kill their attackers in self-defense. It is public in order to
Meriam Yahya Ibrahim, the Sudanese Christian woman whom an Appeal Court freed yesterday, has just been re-arrested at the airport trying to leave Khartoum. She is now in more danger than ever before. Here’s why. A man, Al-Samani
Earlier today, an appeal court in Sudan overturned Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Ishag’s death penalty and released her from jail. Ibrahim is the woman who had never embraced her absent father’s Muslim faith and whose mother brought her up as
I was recently asked to advise a young Arab Muslim woman on her doctoral dissertation. Her work concerned violence against women–honor killings in particular. I said it would be my “honor” to do so. However, this feminist, from a wealthy
On the seventh day, the Lord rested–but that is a luxury that the Israeli Defense Forces can ill afford. This is the seventh day of captivity for the three kidnapped Israeli teenagers. Some well-meaning Jews have already compared them to
First, some facts on the ground. Then, a brief Talmudic discussion of how civilized peoples are supposed to deal with someone who is “coming to kill you.” Here’s what Israel just did: Last night, the IDF went door to door in
Day Four–and the three kidnapped Israeli boys are still missing. Everything is happening all at once: The IDF has launched a massive manhunt on the West Bank. They have also asked journalists to use the hashtag #EyalGiladNaftali and to include
The disappearance and presumed kidnapping of three Israeli teenagers took place on Thursday evening, Israel time. By Friday evening, Israel time, the IDF had released their names and photos. They are: Gil-ad Shaar, Naftali Frenkel, and Eyal Yifrach. It has been confirmed that
Free Meriam Yahya Ibrahim Now. I demand that my government, and especially President Obama, take visible and immediate steps to open her cell door and bring her here. Her husband is an American citizen as are their two children. If
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
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
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 women
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
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
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) men
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 politically correct fearfulness
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
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 girl died.
Last week, “something” happened in a confrontation between masked and violent Palestinian youths and the IDF on the West Bank, a.k.a. Judea and Samaria. The world is still talking about it and their voices are growing louder by the minute. Hanan
I was surprised but pleased when people began calling to tell me that, in her much discussed Vanity Fair piece, Monica Lewinsky referred to one of my books, which was first published in 2002. Lewinsky writes that the “culture of humiliation”
For weeks, I have been wrestling with the question: Should America and the West take on Boko Haram or not. Now, France–not the United States–has convened a meeting of five western African states in Paris. American, British, and other European
The entire world is focused on the captured Nigerian girls, many scenarios have been envisioned–and yet there is at least one issue no one has raised: That it is entirely possible that these poor girls have also been genitally mutilated.
On April 14, 2014, Boko Haram, (whose name either means “Western education is forbidden” or “a colonialist fraud being perpetrated against us”), captured three hundred Christian and Muslim Nigerian schoolgirls to become their sex and domestic slaves. The Muslim fundamentalists
As everyone knows, Brandeis publicly announced that they would award Ayaan Hirsi Ali an honorary doctorate–and then, under siege by nearly 30% of their professors, and by thousands of their own students, they publicly disinvited Hirsi Ali. This campaign was
We are drowning in anti-Israel propaganda, and still it never stops coming. Simultaneously, the “Palestinian narrative” appears to us as if in a dream, over and over again, always slightly surreal and yet overly familiar. By now the “Palestinian narrative”
