War on Women - Page 4

As I mentioned in a recent article, I was interested in attending Comicon because from the outside I saw some interesting similarities and differences. This piece is about one similarity in particular: how the media portrays Comicon and the Conservative Political Action Conference’s (CPAC) relationship with women.

The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) has published an article in the latest issue of its magazine, Dabiq, by jihadi bride Umm Summayyah, estimating that First Lady Michelle Obama is only worth $40 on the terrorist group’s slave market. Summayyah also defends the rape of thousands of Yazidi females.

The nation’s top young female conservative activists will gather in June to train in the methods they will use to bring the message that the ideology of the Left will make women more dependent on government and less successful in their individual goals.

The award winning author Walter Mosley once said: “A man’s bookcase will tell you everything you’ll ever need to know about him.” How very sexist of him. For, as Jessica Valenti has rightly pointed out in the Guardian, sexism isn’t just about

“You might think after 50 years and hundreds of millions of women taking various incarnations of the pill, there would be a large and cohesive and impressive body of evidence on it, but there’s next to nothing,” one researcher says in amazement.

Indonesia is facing international backlash after it was revealed the government requires female military recruits to undergo virginity tests. It is the second time in the past 6 months human rights organizations put pressure on the country to drop these tests.

GOP presidential candidate Carly Fiorina argued that Hillary Clinton, and many other liberals believe that “unless you fit their orthodoxy, you don’t count as a woman” on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. Host Sean Hannity asked Fiorina about

As she gets set to announce a presidential bid, Carly Fiorina talks about her thoughts on the Democrats’ “war on women” strategy and how they had been successful, to at least some extent, in branding the Republican party and its candidates as antagonistic to women.

Actor and director Robert Redford, who has stated on multiple occasions he believes it is partially up to women to save America from conservatives, admitted this week he has absolutely no idea where Hillary, or Texas Senator Ted Cruz, stand on the issues.

Sharmila Seyyid, a Muslim woman journalist and human rights activist from Sri Lanka, received so much backlash from a comment in a BBC appearance that she left her home country. She did not receive a warm welcome in India, which forced her into hiding. Now outlets are pressuring both countries to protect Seyyid.

Carly Fiorina, former Hewlett Packard CEO, just left Iowa on Sunday, and she is already on her way to New Hampshire this week.

Saudi Arabia’s Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice, known as “Haia” in the Wahhabi Kingdom, has arrived on Twitter under the verified username @PvGovSa.

Hillary Clinton offers a compelling case, as if more evidence was needed, that her and Obama’s brand of coercive liberalism is utterly incompatible with American ideals of religious freedom. She’s rather directly stating that almighty government leaves very little room for individual conscience.

During a tour of Iowa, Carly Fiorina hints she’ll become the second woman, and first Republican, in the 2016 presidential race.

Carly Fiorina, speaking with FOX News Radio’s Jared Halpern, said she is getting closer than 90 percent to running for president. “We’re getting closer – I’ll make a final decision and a formal announcement probably in the next several weeks,” said Fiorina.

As former Hewlett-Packard CEO and California Senate candidate Carly Fiorina nears a decision to run for president in 2016, she blasted Hillary Clinton’s recent attack on CEO pay and the “selective outrage of the left.”

Human Rights Watch (HRW) interviewed 20 Yazidi women and girls at a refugee camp in Dohuk, a governorate in Iraqi Kurdistan. These women described the horrific treatment they endured from the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). Rashida, 31, told the group about a lottery ISIS set up for the fighters to receive a woman.

April 14 marks the one-year anniversary of the Boko Haram kidnapping of almost 300 young female Christians in Chibok in Borno State, Nigeria. The terrorist group only released 59 girls in the past year– most accidentally. Witnesses tell BBC that groups of those remaining missing have been spotted.

Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) responded to former First Lady and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s anticipated announcement that she is running for president via social media by asking, “Is she trying to hide this thing?”

The Guardian published a damning report on recruitment agencies selling women as slaves in Kuwait. These agencies lure women to the tiny country with promises of work, but are “sold like slaves” and resold numerous times. The publication interviewed women from Sierra Leone, but research suggests this is a long-term problem in Kuwait affecting women from other countries, as well.

Massive protests broke out in Afghanistan after a woman was wrongly killed for burning the Koran. The protesters demanded those responsible be prosecuted for the murder.

Senate Democrats filibustered a sex trafficking bill this week—one they put their full support behind the week before—when major abortion industry groups suddenly discovered the bill would cause taxpayer funding of abortion to be at risk.

Police in India released images of four men who allegedly gang-raped a 71-year-old nun inside her convent at the Convent of Jesus and Mary. Authorities arrested ten people possibly connected to the rape.

According to a New York-based psychiatrist, at least one of every four women in America is now on psychiatric medication, as opposed to one of every seven men. Dr. Julie Holland says this is nothing less than “insane.” Holland’s recent

Over 4,000 people broke into a high-security prison in India and dragged an alleged rapist into the street. They proceeded to beat to death the 35-year-old suspect.

Women’s rights activist Sara Khan penned a letter to reach out to young Muslim girls who want to join the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL). Women and men in the terrorist group reach out to young girls via social media with promises of a great life to serve Allah. Khan provides the girls with a huge dose of reality.

“Don’t tell me that there’s no war on women, and don’t bother asking for a truce,” the head of EMILY’s List tells supporters of her pro-abortion rights PAC.

Former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina stated that “Hillary Clinton has tried to wage a war on women. She tries to use identity politics to divide the electorate” and “if she were facing a woman as her general election opponent, that

Conservatives at CPAC 2015 cheered and gave a standing ovation to Carly Fiorina as she aggressively called out presumptive Democrat presidential nominee Hillary Clinton for using Twitter as a means to campaign while hiding from challenges to her dismal record as a former Secretary of State.

The monumental hypocrisy of Hillary Clinton emerged full-blown on Tuesday as she spoke in Silicon Valley about “shocking” pay disparities between men and women. Speaking at the Lead On Watermark Conference for Women at the Santa Clara Convention Center before a crowd of 5,000 people, Clinton intoned that data on women’s pay inequity was “sobering” and “shocking,” according to the San Francisco Chronicle.

Patricia Arquette fended off attacks from a swarm of grievance-mongers who castigated her for not bringing up their social-justice complaints too, during an Oscar speech they evidently thought was supposed to last longer than the movie she appeared in.

Myriam, a young Christian girl in Iraq, and her family fled their village near Mosul before the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) reached them. Now they live in a refugee camp located in an unfinished mall with only the bare necessities. Despite the hardship, Myriam hopes God forgives the terrorist group.

Women living under control of the Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) revealed to The Guardian the militant group has imposed more restrictions on females since taking over new territories. The terrorist group forces people to live under strict Sharia law, which treats women like second-class citizens. Rules include double-layered veils and marrying off girls as young as 9.

Democrats are preparing to rework the “war on women” meme for Hillary Clinton’s likely 2016 presidential run.

President Barack Obama may publicly acknowledge a highly suspect alleged rape victim, Columbia senior Emma Sulkowicz, in his State of the Union address.