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Women's Rights and the New U.S. Sudan Policy
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyMore power to Christine in her rallying cry to make women's rights THE issue of the 21st Century. It couldn't come at a better time. The Prez and Secretary of State today unveiled the new US policy on Sudan, a country with some hefty and heinous women's rights violations to its name. Somali author Ayaan Hirsi Ali mentions the Sudanese woman who wore trousers -- Lubna Hussein -- and her courageous stand against a Sudanese court bent on lashing her for the indiscretion. But what of the thousands (some say, hundreds of thousands) of women raped during what the US describes as a genocide in ...
How to Make Women's Rights THE Issue of the 21st Century
By Christine Wicker - Politics Daily"The big problem is [how] to define the protection of women's rights as the problem of the 21st century. If the world does that, [women's inequality] will become like the eradication of apartheid -- people will insist that it's wrong, it's wrong, it's wrong, and that's when change happens."Those words come from Ayaan Hirsi Ali, a Somali victim of genital mutilation who wrote a screenplay about the mistreatment of Islamic women. Theo van Gogh turned the screenplay into the film "Submission." Two months later he was assassinated. Ali, whose life was threatened, has lived under guard for the past ...
Is Islam Evil?
By David Knowles - Politics DailyCertainly, since 9/11, this is a question that many in the western world have been struggling to answer. Our own president continually takes pains to separate the acts of extreme elements within Muslim world from the tenor of the religion as a whole, describing Islam as a religion of peace. Yet, many people in the United States firmly believe just the opposite. Consider but a sampling of the comments left on Matt Singer's recent Political Machine article about Mitt Romney declaring that he would not appoint a Muslim to a cabinet level position in his administration.A reader named Robert ...
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