VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH
Volume 56, November 30, 2008
St. Louis, Missouri
Editors: Mohamed and Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
St. Louis, Missouri
Editors: Mohamed and Rashida Ziauddin
In the Name of Allah, the Most Beneficent and the Most Merciful
PLEASE DON'T BLAME ISLAM: Last & Final Part (III)
CONTENTS:
(1) Editorial - A Bird's eye-view of the above three part series.
(2) PLEASE DON'T BLAME ISLAM: Last and Final Part (III)
(2 a) SECTION A: (STATUS OF FEMALES BEFORE BIRTH OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER)
Gruesome murderous attack on females even before they are born or shortly thereafter - TWO HUNDRED MILLION FEMALES THAT WERE DESTINED TO INHABIT PLANET EARTH ARE MISSING. For example, according to learningpartnership.org, of 8,000 aborted fetuses from a single Bombay abortion clinic, females accounted for 7,999. Are anyone raising their voices against such atrocities and huge loss of lives? Is a female life that dispensable ?
(3) SECTION B:
(STATUS OF FEMALES WHO HAD LIVED OR CURRENTLY LIVING IN THIS WORLD)
(STATUS OF FEMALES WHO HAD LIVED OR CURRENTLY LIVING IN THIS WORLD)
SAFETY INDEX: CODE: RED ALERT - 24 hours a day, 7 days a week and 365 days a year.
EVERY SECOND OF OUR LIVING, THERE IS AT LEAST ONE WOMAN BEING RAPED, ASSAULTED OR ABUSED SOMEWHERE IN THIS GLOBE. What is the world doing about it ? We are aware of the painful fact that "THE UNIMPORTANT DOES NOT GET PRIORITY". It is high time people of all faiths, colors, nationalities and ethnicities UNITE to come to the defense of our sisters and transform the Unimportant to EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
(a) Global Status of Women:
The book "WOMEN IN AN INSECURE WORLD" indicates that according to a study based on 50 surveys from around the world, "AT LEAST ONE OUT OF EVERY THREE WOMEN HAS BEEN BEATEN, COERCED INTO SEX, OR OTHERWISE ABUSED IN HER LIFETIME.
(b) Commercialization of Women's Bodies:
Every year nearly 2 million girls between the ages of 5 and 15 are moved into the sex trade according to www.helpsavekids.org.
(c) Breast Ironing
Four million girls in Cameroon have already undergone this procedure which is a culturally sanctioned physical and sexual abuse act. The mothers fear that if their daughters have a blossoming breast, they are most vulnerable to the sexual predators, as full breasted girls are the main target of these HUNTERS.
While a lot of American women voluntarily go under the knife to enlarge their breasts, many young girls in Cameroon are INVOLUNTARILY undergoing "breast ironing" to make their breasts go away. According to the BBC News, breast ironing requires pounding and massaging a young girl's developing breasts with hot objects in an effort to make them disappear.
(d) Giraffe Necked Women displayed in human zoo:
Culturally sanctioned display of giraffe necked women to the public in the HUMAN ZOO. These brass coils are first applied to young girls when they are around five years old. Each coil is replaced with longer coils as the weight of the brass pushes the collar bone down and compresses the rib cage. The brass circular collar feels like an integral part of the body after ten or more years of continuous wear.
(e) WOMEN IN THE MILITARY SERVICE:
Women in the Military Service: Carol Burke in her book about the military culture cites this Naval Academy chant:
"Who can take a chainsaw
Cut the bitch in two
Fu'k the bottom half
And give the upper half to you".
(f) How Culture hyper sexualizes the female youth:
Prof. Gail Dines, Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Whelock College in Boston stated:
“It's time to end a corporate driven effort to promote “SLUT CULTURE” in the United States.".
(g) Women as commercial commodity for export:
The U.S is the largest supplier of arms in the world. Russia is the largest supplier of female prostitutes in the world. Brazil is the largest supplier of female sex slaves in Latin America.
(h) Culturally sanctioned sexual abuse of women for the COMFORT of MILITARY MEN: Female victims: Two hundred thousand (200,000)
(i) Atrocious abuse of women in Russia:
Every fourth family in Russia experiences some form of Domestic violence with 82 percent of such crimes being committed by husbands.
Example 1:
A husband broke his wife's jaw because the omelet she served him was white. "She covered the omelet while cooking it, so it turned white, that's all".
Example 2:
In another family, the wife was left with a broken tooth and a cut brow, because she gave her husband soup that was "not hot enough".
(j) Mail Order Brides: Where women become a product of a catalog.
PRODUCT# 1:
“HER LIFE IS CENTERED AROUND HER FAMILY, HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN. THESE WOMEN WOULD RATHER COMPLIMENT HER MAN THAN COMPETE WITH HIM". PRODUCT# 2:
Adorned with photos of bikini-clad women (in the catalog), another entry promises that:
“SINGLE LATIN WOMEN ARE RENOWNED FOR THEIR WARMTH, FRIENDLINESS AND FEMININE NATURE. THEY ARE NOT UNCOMFORTABLE IN THE PRESENCE OF A "STRONG MAN".
“THIS INDUSTRY PREDOMINANTLY PLACES WOMEN AT A DISADVANTAGE WHERE THE MAN IS THE PAYING CLIENT AND THE WOMAN ADVERTISED AS A PRODUCT, A COMMODITY, “ SAYS Layli Miller-Muro, Executive Director of the Tahirih Justic Center, based in Falls Church, Virginia. This creates a “presumption of power and a potentially very dangerous receipe for abuse”.
(k) ROMANCE TOURS: Where men go overseas to inspect their potential commodity (BRIDE) from a group of women.
(l) WHY PRACTICING MUSLIM WOMEN DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY IF A VOYEUR HAS AUDIO ALERT OR NOT IN HIS CELL PHONE CAMERA
Thanks to the HI-Tech industry, there are new ways in the iphone 3G to alert a Japanese women when voyeurs secretly attempt to take sneaky pictures up their skirts or down their tops.
(m) Lactation Prostitution: Where some men argue, if we can buy cow's milk, what is wrong with buying a woman's milk and its products?
(n) When even plastic inflatable female breasts were sought after and stolen.
(o) History of culturally sanctioned physical abuse and murder of women:
(1) Case Study of Sati: A historical cultural practice where the living widow is burned along with the deceased husband. “After the death of her husband, she is especially dangerous and must shave her head, cake it with mud, sleep on a bed of stones…If a widow is chaste and young, she is so infected with magic power that she must take her own life” (Stein 468).
(1) Case Study of Sati: A historical cultural practice where the living widow is burned along with the deceased husband. “After the death of her husband, she is especially dangerous and must shave her head, cake it with mud, sleep on a bed of stones…If a widow is chaste and young, she is so infected with magic power that she must take her own life” (Stein 468).
(2) Case Study of 1000 year old custom of foot binding:
"In its most extreme form, foot binding was the act of wrapping a three- to five-year old girl's feet with binding so as to bend the toes under, break the bones and force the back of the foot together. Its purpose was to produce a tiny foot, the "golden lotus", which was three inches long and thought to be both lovely and alluring ..The practice apparently BECAME THE STANDARD OF FEMININE BEAUTY in the imperial court, spreading downward socially and geographically as the lower classes strove to imitate the style of the elite". Normal female foot was considered ugly and it would be difficult for such nonfootbinded women to get a husband.
Bound feet, and the women who had them, were considered beautiful and highly desirable, and natural, so-called big feet were considered ugly, as were the women who possessed them.
(4) SECTION C:
How some females are not spared even after their death. Sex with dead women, the fastest growing secret, sick and illegal practice. Perpetrators are free of worrying about her screaming and they getting caught, making her pregnant, paying child support et.c. All they have to do is break into the grave at night when no one is around and do what they please with her helpless body. What is more scarier than the real events is some of the readers responses on such issues, such as "if her body was warm, I would have no problem" or "if she was young and beautiful, it would be okay with me".
(a) Our Dear Global Ummah and Citizens of the World: Watch Out, the Necrophiliacs are gaining ground:
(b) Necrophilia:
Historical Perspective
Egypt: It was mentioned in "The Histories" that, to discourage intercourse with a female corpse, Ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women to decay for "three or four days" before giving them to the embalmers.
Contemporary Perspective:
PHILLIPINES:
Philippine Senate President Manny Villar had in 2006 announced his plan to outlaw necrophilia. According to Villar, NECROPHILIA IS AN URGENT THREAT TO THE NATION'S DEAD WOMEN.
NEW YORK:
"A 24-year-old New York City man remains jailed after he was found allegedly having sex with a 92-year-old woman's corpse inside the morgue of the hospital where he worked.
WISCONSIN:
The twin brothers, Alex and Nicholas Grunke, and Dustin Radke are alleged to have attempted to remove the body of a 20 year-old woman killed a week previously in a motorcycle crash. The three decided on the woman AFTER SEEING HER PHOTO IN AN OBITUARY in the local newspaper.
(c) When selfish commercial financial interests super cede basic rights and respects of the deceased female:
These images from WRANGLER JEANS capture the look of corpses dumped into rivers and lakes, a sort of murder chic that appears to not just promote corpses as fashion models but to sexualize them as well". This evokes nothing but the unfortunate women who have been victimized by serial killers and rapists, and having their bodies dumped in woods, lakes, and rivers. Wrangler uses them to make death sexy and to exploit a fascination with death to make a few bucks. Someone should be ashamed"
(d) How Broad minded should one be: Let's review the perspective of one Necrophiliac who is championing the cause of Necrophiliac Marriage:
"The time has come for the marriage reform movement to welcome necrophiliacs into their hearts and scout troops. In particular, we object to that part of the marriage vow that states, UNTIL DEATH DO US PART. What kind of bigotry is that (ED NOTE: Because the Necrophiliac partner is ALREADY DEAD).
"There are other oppressed minorities in America in need of recognition and sympathy, including other groups stigmatized by bigots as practicing abnormal sexual habits. We represent the members of the last sexually-repressed sexual minority in America, the necrophiliacs. We are mad and we are tired of being victimized and discriminated against".
"Necrophilia activist groups have been spouting up all over, and signal the emergence of the last great oppressed sexual minority from the closet. Since necrophilia activism has emerged on the American scene, MANY OF US ARE COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET, OR --AS WE PREFER -- OUT OF THE MORGUE.
"Why should we not be free to marry whom we choose?" (ED NOTE: This includes choosing a dead person to marry) asks our spokesperson Roger Mortis, who heads a necrophilia encounter group in Tombstone, Arizona. "Remember there was a sorry time in America when cross-racial marriage was illegal? Who says a person's lover must be ALIVE?"
"Necrophilia activist groups have been spouting up all over, and signal the emergence of the last great oppressed sexual minority from the closet. Since necrophilia activism has emerged on the American scene, MANY OF US ARE COMING OUT OF THE CLOSET, OR --AS WE PREFER -- OUT OF THE MORGUE.
"Why should we not be free to marry whom we choose?" (ED NOTE: This includes choosing a dead person to marry) asks our spokesperson Roger Mortis, who heads a necrophilia encounter group in Tombstone, Arizona. "Remember there was a sorry time in America when cross-racial marriage was illegal? Who says a person's lover must be ALIVE?"
(5) CONCLUSION:
(1) EDITORIAL:
A BIRD'S EYE-VIEW OF ABOVE THREE PART SERIES:
It is a globally accepted reality that the historical cultural baggage has lot of negativity towards women in various forms. Such negativity surpasses any specific religion, nation, ethnic group or a specific community. We as HUMANS should avoid falling in the trap of BLAME GAME with US as good VS THEM as bad. We all are HUMANS first.
An appeal is made to the global community to work tirelessly to substitute the past negatives about women with positives and regard women on equal footing as a human partner and let the people of both genders work together peacefully towards the common good at every level be it marital, family, occupational, community, religious, national and international.
An appeal is made to the global community to work tirelessly to substitute the past negatives about women with positives and regard women on equal footing as a human partner and let the people of both genders work together peacefully towards the common good at every level be it marital, family, occupational, community, religious, national and international.
For too long, the beautiful religion of Islam has been unnecessarily attacked as it relates to treatment and status of its women. As Editors of VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH, we humbly state that above attacks are wrong and uncalled for and it is hoped that this three part series which highlighted negatives of women from a global perspective had nothing to do with ISLAM and remains as we earlier stated PART OF HISTORICAL CULTURAL BAGGAGE that the world must unite to discard.
Having stated the above, we should fully acknowledge that there are tremendous areas of improvement for Muslims in their treatment of fellow Muslim sisters. However we argue that it is NOT because of their following ISLAM, but because of their following the same PAST HISTORICAL CULTURAL ANTI-FEMALE BAGGAGE wrapped under the guise of ISLAM. It is extremely important to distinguish between the above two opposite variables that falsely masquerade under the Umbrella of Islam.
We further acknowledge that human behavior is extremely complex and narrowing it down to few concepts may not be the most accurate, however this E-Zine is focused not for the Ph.D's and Social Scientists but for the common Joe, Rahim, Parvathy, Reitz and Chang from the community who can easily understand the model in terms of few basic concepts.
In the cross roads of the contemporary tumultuous times, we Muslims of the world have a historical responsibility to actively work on removing the historical cultural toxins and pollutants that has unfortunately been wrapped around the beautiful religion of Islam. Muslim women who follow Islam to their best of their ability in terms of practicing Islam in their dress and day to day life is very much appreciated. However we need more Muslim women to actively participate and contribute in the intellectual aspects of Islam from a WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE.
Having stated the above, we should fully acknowledge that there are tremendous areas of improvement for Muslims in their treatment of fellow Muslim sisters. However we argue that it is NOT because of their following ISLAM, but because of their following the same PAST HISTORICAL CULTURAL ANTI-FEMALE BAGGAGE wrapped under the guise of ISLAM. It is extremely important to distinguish between the above two opposite variables that falsely masquerade under the Umbrella of Islam.
We further acknowledge that human behavior is extremely complex and narrowing it down to few concepts may not be the most accurate, however this E-Zine is focused not for the Ph.D's and Social Scientists but for the common Joe, Rahim, Parvathy, Reitz and Chang from the community who can easily understand the model in terms of few basic concepts.
In the cross roads of the contemporary tumultuous times, we Muslims of the world have a historical responsibility to actively work on removing the historical cultural toxins and pollutants that has unfortunately been wrapped around the beautiful religion of Islam. Muslim women who follow Islam to their best of their ability in terms of practicing Islam in their dress and day to day life is very much appreciated. However we need more Muslim women to actively participate and contribute in the intellectual aspects of Islam from a WOMEN'S PERSPECTIVE.
Inshallah (Allah Willing) we all should work together to assist in elevating the status of women on equal footing with that of men in all feasible and realistic areas. What better way to start this campaign at a micro level in terms of our own interaction with females at the level of our spouse, daughters, female relatives, friends and female colleagues at work et.c.
(2) PLEASE DON'T BLAME ISLAM - PART III
(2) SECTION A:
GRUESOME MURDEROUS ATTACKS ON FEMALES EVEN BEFORE THEY ARE BORN OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER:
GRUESOME MURDEROUS ATTACKS ON FEMALES EVEN BEFORE THEY ARE BORN OR SHORTLY THEREAFTER:
HAVE YOU EVER HEARD IN THE NEWS A FACT THAT :
"TWO HUNDRED MILLION WOMEN ARE MISSING":
Yes they are missing because of gross violations of two injunctions that were commanded by Almighty Allah in the Holy Quran. The cause of it is NOT ISLAM but past toxic cultural baggage in the form of GENDERCIDE.
According to a United Nations Report
There is a shortfall of some 200 million women in the world -- "MISSING' due to what a three-year study on violence against women calls "gendercide."
(1) Abortions and (2) infanticides were the leading causes for the shortfall in the female population.
Needless to say that Holy Quran advises us against both of the above. In fact, Prophet Mohammed (SAW) goes on record to be the only person in the world who single handedly prevented hundreds of thousands of new born females to be buried alive by personally ordering a ban on the practice of infanticide.
How sad that 1400 years plus later, TWO HUNDRED MILLION INNOCENT SISTERS MAY HAVE BEEN ALIVE TODAY BUT FOR THE ABOVE TWO DESTRUCTIVE ACTS perpetrated primarily by the non-Muslims. To add insult to injury, we Muslims who oppose the above are called INTOLERANT.
Winkler in his book "WOMEN IN AN INSECURE WORLD" stated: "We are confronted with the slaughter of EVE, a systematic gendercide of tragic proportions".
He added that violence against women was the FOURTH LEADING CAUSE OF PREMATURE DEATH ON THE PLANET, ranking behind only disease, hunger and war. He continues: "It starts in the womb. There are societies where male births are preferred, particularly if the number of births are limited. That's where abortion for gender reasons starts," he said.
Discrimination against women frequently starts before birth. Females are so undesirable that they are frequently aborted or killed just after birth. According to www.learningpartnership.org, of 8,000 aborted fetuses from a single Bombay abortion clinic, females accounted for 7,999.
Besides the innocent females being slaughtered during their incubation in the womb, even before they are fully developed into a newborn, those that do survive go through the life facing discrimination, injustice, oppression, and worse, it is pathetic that some of them are even not spared after their death as indicated in below.
(www.socialpositionofwesternwomentoday.com)
It is said that 20th century has seen the greatest advancement in equality for women. In particular, the period after the Second World War, from the late 1940s until the present, is hailed as a golden era.
But during above period, atrocities of all kinds against women has increased by more than 25%. www.islamiska.org.
(Ed Note: Most of it as a result of gross violations of Holy Quran which was sent down for the entire humanity).
At least SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND WOMEN are sold into prostitution annually". Winkler added: "The deeply rooted phenomenon of the violence against women is one of the great crimes of humanity. We cannot close our eyes to it and hope it simply goes away".
"IN THE UNITED STATES, ONE IN FOUR GIRLS HAD A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE. WE ARE NOT DOING IT RIGHT. WE ARE NOT GIVING THESE GIRLS WHAT THEY NEED" said Dr. Tarshia Stanley. (Ed Note: Above translates to 25 % of girls in the US having STD. In the United States, (while we were not able to find similar statistics for American Muslim Girls), it is our guess estimate that the percentage of practicing Muslim girls having STD would probably be 0.001 %. The real question is NOT which parent would ever want to have their daughter have STD, but rather which parent is willing to guide their daughter in a religious lifestyle that ensures such a negligible probability)
Female genital mutilation, which afflicts 130 million women and thousands of our little sisters are still undergoing the same horrible sexual mutilation every single day, and what is the world including the Global Ummah doing about it ?
According to "Network for Good", 75% of the casualties of war are women and children. Let's translate that in numbers, which indicate loss of two hundred thousand lives in just past thirty years. Now it should not be difficult to figure out the loss of female lives for brutal action taken on by the male species in the form of WAGING WARS as their way to deal with DIFFERENCE OF OPINIONS on a SECTERIAN OR NATIONAL LEVEL.
While wars are still predominantly fought be men, this fact demonstrates how vulnerable women and children are exposed to violence beyond their control
Women are used for their bodies. Every year nearly 2 million girls between the ages of 5 and 15 are moved into the sex trade according to www.helpsavekids.org.
According to Human Rights Watch between 200,000 and 300,000 women and girls are trafficked to Europe each year for the sex trade. Trafficking in women for the sex trade is a $7 Billion industry. (www.syl.com)
According to UN estimates:
(a) Up to 3 million women a year lose their lives to gender-based violence or neglect.
(b) Some 600,000 die in childbirth, many for lack of medical attention or sanitation.
(c) Millions more are victims of infanticide in countries that value male over female children.
(d) Women account for almost half of all HIV/AIDS cases worldwide, and in Africa, close to 70 per cent of infected people are women.
(e) Elderly women, often the poorest, are left to care for the children of AIDS victims.
(f) As many as 4 million girls and women a year are sold into prostitution.
(g) Two million suffer genital mutilation, often in conditions that lead to lifelong pain, infection and premature death.
(h) One woman in five is a victim of rape or attempted rape during her lifetime.
UN SOCIAL STATISTICS ARE ALSO DAUNTING:
(a) The number of women over 60 is growing, but they are more likely than men to end their days in poverty.
(b) Women are more insecure in the working world, unemployed longer and more frequently than men.
(c) They are educationally handicapped; two-thirds of the world's 876 million illiterates are women.
(d) Between 15% and 71% of women around the world have suffered physical or sexual violence committed by an intimate male partner at some point in their lives. The abuse cuts across all social and economic backgrounds. This has serious consequences for women's health (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION).
(e) Some studies show that up to 1 in 5 women reports being sexually abused before the age of 15.
(f) Every day, 1600 women and more than 10 000 newborns die from preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
Breast ironing is a form of body modification practiced in parts of Cameroon. A pubescent girl's breasts are flattened, usually by the girl's mother, in an attempt to make her less sexually attractive to men. This practice is believed to help prevent rape and early marriage. Grinding stones, pestles, belts, heated objects and breast bands are used to press or beat down the forming breasts.
While there is little research on the health effects of breast ironing, it is generally believed that the practice can cause tissue damage in addition to the pain of the ironing process. Other possible side-effects include breast infections, the formation of abscesses, breast cancer, malformed breasts and the possible complete eradication of one or both breasts. In addition, the practice can inhibit or prevent successful breastfeeding.
Statistics show that 26% of Cameroonian girls at puberty undergo it, as many mothers believe it protects their daughters from the sexual advances of boys and men who think children are ripe for sex once their breasts begin to grow.
"The mothers fear that if their daughters have a blossoming breast, they are most vulnerable to the sexual predators, as full breasted girls are the main target of these hunters".
"My mother took a pestle, she warmed it well in the fire and then she used it to pound my breasts while I was lying down. She took the back of a coconut, warmed it in the fire and used it to iron the breasts. I was crying and trembling to escape but there was no way".
(2) Another woman from Mamfe in south-west Cameroon told me she ironed her own breasts as a girl so that she would not be forced into early marriage as is the practice in her village.
www.stolenchildhood.net
(The most widely used instrument to flatten the breasts is a wooden pestle, used for pounding tubers in the kitchen. Heated bananas and coconut shells are also used).
Additionally, the collar feels like an integral part of the body after ten or more years of continuous wear.
Soldiers are taught to regard one another as family, so military rape resembles incest. And most of the soldiers who rape are older and of higher rank than their victims, so are taking advantage of their authority to attack the very people they are supposed to protect. Department of Defense reports show that nearly 90 percent of rape victims in the Army are junior-ranking women, whose average age is 21, while most of the assailants are non-commissioned officers or junior men, whose average age is 28.
One recent Iraq War veteran reflected this misogyny when he described his Marine Corp training for a collection of soldiers' works called Warrior Writers, published by Iraq Veterans Against the War in 2008: Two seminal studies have examined military culture and its attitudes toward women:
(a) By Duke University Law Professor Madeline Morris in 1996, which was presented in the paper "By Force of Arms: Rape, War, and Military Culture" and published in Duke Law Journal;
(b) The other by University of California Professor and folklorist Carol Burke in 2004 and explained in her book, Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane and the High-And-Tight: Gender, Folklore and Changing Military Culture (Beacon Press).
For example, Burke's book cites this Naval Academy chant:
Who can take a chainsaw
Cut the bitch in two
Fuck the bottom half
And give the upper half to you.
In 2007, Sgt. Sarah Scully of the Army's 8th Military Police Brigade wrote in an e-mail from Kuwait, where she was serving: "In the Army, any sign that you are a woman means you are automatically ridiculed and treated as inferior."
Army Spc. Mickiela Montoya, who was in Iraq for 11 months from 2005-2006, put it another way: "There are only three things the guys let you be if you're a girl in the military: a bitch, a ho or a dyke. One guy told me he thinks the military sends women over to give the guys eye candy to keep them sane. He told me in Vietnam they had prostitutes, but they don't have those in Iraq, so they have women soldiers instead".
....Indeed, civilian women have been seen as sexual booty for conquering soldiers since the beginning of human history.
A 2004 study of veterans from Vietnam and all wars since, conducted by psychotherapist Maureen Murdoch and published in the Journal of Military Medicine, found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving.
And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, also conducted by Murdoch and published in Archives of Family Medicine, reported that 90 percent had been sexually harassed, which means anything from being pressured for sex to being relentlessly teased and stared at.
A 2007 survey by the Department of Veterans Affairs found that homelessness among female veterans is rapidly increasing as women soldiers come back from Iraq and Afghanistan. Forty percent of these homeless female veterans say they were sexually abused while in the service. The [Drill Instructor's] nightly homiletic speeches, full of an unabashed hatred of women, were part of the second phase of boot camp: the process of rebuilding recruits into Marines.
Morris and Burke both show that military language reveals this "unabashed hatred of women" all the time. Even with a force that is now 14 percent female, and with rules that prohibit drill instructors from using racial epithets and curses, those same instructors still routinely denigrate recruits by calling them "pussy," "girl," "bitch," "lady" and "dyke."
The everyday speech of soldiers is still riddled with sexist insults.
"Last fall, during a program about emotional abuse, Oprah Winfrey noted that one-third of all American women are "emotionally tortured" by the men in their lives through insults, blame, humiliation and ridicule. This type of abuse is not illegal and experts say many women who suffer from it are not taken seriously"
www.abcnews.go.com
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.
Last month, ABC News reported that a former Halliburton/KBR employee, Jamie Leigh Jones, had been gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Baghdad. She was then left by the company in a "shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water."
Shortly after the news broke, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "requesting details on how many Americans in Iraq had reported being sexually assaulted or abused, how they were investigated, and if any had been recommended for prosecution." He gave the State Department a deadline of Dec. 21 to respond. Yet according to Nelson's office, the senator has not yet received any response:
He has not received a reply, a spokesman confirmed. ... Nor has Nelson received replies from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates or Attorney General Michael Mukasey, to whom he also wrote asking for information and assistance, according to the lawmaker's spokesman.
Asked about missing that deadline, a State Department spokesman told ABC News, "If the senator has asked questions, I'm quite sure we will provide answers. But it's not something I could discuss with you."
Former Halliburton/KBR employees have described an atmosphere of "rampant sexual harassment." Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) has also confirmed that his office has heard from multiple other women who were victims of sexual assault while working for KBR in Iraq.
The refusal of the Bush administration to respond to Nelson's request mirrors its foot-dragging on Jones's case over the past two years. Despite Poe's involvement in the case, the Justice Department has refused to bring criminal charges against anyone, and it appears that no "federal agency [is] investigating the case."
* 25 % of women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.
* 12 % of women will be raped while in college.
* 28-66 % of women in the military REPORT sexual assault *
* 27 % of women are REPORTED raped in the military
Last month, the Justice Department also refused to send a representative to answer questions on the case before the House Judiciary Committee. "This is an absolute disgrace," remarked chairman John Conyers (D-MI).
Amanda Terkel is Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Deputy Editor for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.(alternet.org)
The young women feel isolated and alone because they refuse to degrade themselves in exchange for male companionship, said the Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Whelock College in Boston.
“It’s time to end a corporate-driven effort to promote “SLUT CULTURE” in the United States, Prof. Gail Dines said.
Negative messages solely concerned with “hotness” and sex appeal are also being pushed on adolescents and younger girls in a dangerous way, advocates warn.
(ED NOTE: It is precisely here that the role of Islam is extremely important to all females regardless of their ethnicity, religion, nationality or culture. Islam by its various edicts on females including dressing modestly and having self-discipline in one's verbalization and actions significantly reduces the HOTNESS and SEX APPEAL and in fact redirects and forces the attention of the visual observer to her other non-sexual positives. NOTE: We are not referring to the deviated form of Islam as practiced by the ignorant Taliban of Afghanistan).
ADOLESCENCE is the time when girls form an identity based on messages from society, said Prof. Dines. If the messages focus on physical attributes and access to men, the young girls are not growing in a healthy way, she said.
THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, in a study released last year, reported that girls and young women suffered intellectual, psychological and physical problems as a result of messages that push sexualization, which is defined as a “person’s value coming only from his or her sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characterstics, a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness (narrowly defined) being with being sexy, a person is sexually objectified, that is, made into a thing for others sexual use, rather than seen as person with the capacity for independent action and decision making, and/or: sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon a person”.
("America's Sex Mad Culture":Richard and Nisa Islam Muhammad-May 28, 2008)
(g) WOMEN AS COMMERCIAL COMMODITY:
(3) The U.S is the largest supplier of arms in the world. BRAZIL IS THE LARGEST SUPPLIER OF FEMALE SEX SLAVES IN LATIN AMERICA, ACCORDING TO THE UN OFFICE ON DRUGS AND CRIME.
THE UN and HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION for HUMAN RIGHTS say 75,000 Brazilian women are being forced to work as prostitutes in the European Union. Another 5000 in Latin America, in the US an Annual Congressional Reports has estimated as low as 900 per year. Sadly 50 percent of the slave victims are children.
“Recruiters convince poor, humble women to go abroad with false promises, Says Paulo Marchins da Cunha, Chief of the Policing section of Sao Paulo’s Federal Highway Police. “They are usually made promises of work and riches from a job abroad, sometimes even promises of marriage. But when they arrive, they are made to work in the sex trade”.
“We’ve seen cases where women have been imprisoned in a house abroad for years, without even knowing what street it was on, “ says da Cunha./ “That’s why we characterize it as sexual salvery”.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS THE THIRD MOST LUCRATIVE CRIME IN THE WORLD, TRAILING ONLY DRUGS AND THE ILLEGAL ARMS TRADE.
According to…Alexandra Poolos, … the women are put to work as sex slaves, servicing dozens of men each week, their pay going into the pockets of the traffickers. The women are abused by both their clients and their traffickers and are terrified to escape or seek help for fear that they will be further penalized by police who see them as little more than prostitutes or that their family members will be attacked back home.
A 30 year old journalist remarked about her husband: “He’s successful, earns a good salary, so he thinks he owns me and has a right to beat me. And I am supposed to worship him”. She stated that she has had it enough and was in the process of divorce.
Every fourth family in Russia experiences some form of Domestic Violence with 82 percent of such crimes being committed by husbands.
‘WE HAVE A CASE WHEN THE HUSBAND BROKE HIS WIFE’S JAW JUST BECAUSE AN OMELET SHE SERVED HIM WAS WHITE”, Says Alexandra Kraeva, Coordinator of the Russian Association of Crisis Centers. “She covered the omelet while cooking it, so it turned white, that’s all".
In another family, the wife was left with a broken tooth and a cut brow, because she gave her husband soup that was not hot enough.
A husband of a young female pianist broke all of her fingers in a jealous rage. The court found him guilty of “SLIGHT” physical damage and gave him a suspended sentence. For the victim, it was more than a SLIGHT harm, it ended her career as a pianist. (By Mariya Rasner)
Many women in Russia suffer thorugh beatings in silence to preserve a social status of a happily married women.
"TWO HUNDRED MILLION WOMEN ARE MISSING":
Yes they are missing because of gross violations of two injunctions that were commanded by Almighty Allah in the Holy Quran. The cause of it is NOT ISLAM but past toxic cultural baggage in the form of GENDERCIDE.
According to a United Nations Report
There is a shortfall of some 200 million women in the world -- "MISSING' due to what a three-year study on violence against women calls "gendercide."
(1) Abortions and (2) infanticides were the leading causes for the shortfall in the female population.
Our most beloved Prophet Mohamed (SAW) stated:
"Whosoever has a daughter and he does NOT bury her alive, does NOT insult her, and does NOT favor his son over her, GOD WILL ENTER HIM IN PARADISE". (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal 1957)
"Whosoever has a daughter and he does NOT bury her alive, does NOT insult her, and does NOT favor his son over her, GOD WILL ENTER HIM IN PARADISE". (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal 1957)
"WHEN NEWS IS BROUGHT TO ONE OF THEM, OF THE BIRTH OF A FEMALE CHILD, HIS FACE DARKENS AND HE IS FILLED WITH INWARD GRIEF. WITH SHAME DOES HE HIDE HIMSELF FROM HIS PEOPLE BECAUSE OF THE BAD NEWS HE HAD. SHALL HE RETAIN HER ON (SUFFERANCE) AND CONTEMPT, OR BURY HER IN THE DUST ? AH, WHAT A EVIL CHOICE THEY DECIDE ON"
Holy Quran 16:58:59
Holy Quran 16:58:59
Needless to say that Holy Quran advises us against both of the above. In fact, Prophet Mohammed (SAW) goes on record to be the only person in the world who single handedly prevented hundreds of thousands of new born females to be buried alive by personally ordering a ban on the practice of infanticide.
How sad that 1400 years plus later, TWO HUNDRED MILLION INNOCENT SISTERS MAY HAVE BEEN ALIVE TODAY BUT FOR THE ABOVE TWO DESTRUCTIVE ACTS perpetrated primarily by the non-Muslims. To add insult to injury, we Muslims who oppose the above are called INTOLERANT.
Winkler in his book "WOMEN IN AN INSECURE WORLD" stated: "We are confronted with the slaughter of EVE, a systematic gendercide of tragic proportions".
He added that violence against women was the FOURTH LEADING CAUSE OF PREMATURE DEATH ON THE PLANET, ranking behind only disease, hunger and war. He continues: "It starts in the womb. There are societies where male births are preferred, particularly if the number of births are limited. That's where abortion for gender reasons starts," he said.
Discrimination against women frequently starts before birth. Females are so undesirable that they are frequently aborted or killed just after birth. According to www.learningpartnership.org, of 8,000 aborted fetuses from a single Bombay abortion clinic, females accounted for 7,999.
Besides the innocent females being slaughtered during their incubation in the womb, even before they are fully developed into a newborn, those that do survive go through the life facing discrimination, injustice, oppression, and worse, it is pathetic that some of them are even not spared after their death as indicated in below.
(www.socialpositionofwesternwomentoday.com)
(3) SECTION B:
STATUS OF FEMALES WHO HAD LIVED OR CURRENTLY LIVING IN THIS WORLD:
THOSE WOMEN WHO WERE LUCKY ENOUGH NOT TO BE ATTACKED BY THE MEDICAL TERRORISTS, HAVE STILL TO GO THROUGH HUNDREDS OF HOOPS OF INJUSTICE AT VARIOUS LEVELS DURING THEIR LIFE TIME:
(Rape, Incest (majority of victims being females), Dowry Deaths, Bride Burnings (In India, it is estimated that more than 5,000 women are killed each year because their in-laws consider their dowries inadequate), Acid Attacks (throwing of sulfuric acid on the face and body of young females has become an increasingly popular way of expressing anger or frustration by jilted men, some being jilted lovers, ex-husbands, prospective bridegroom who was rejected for marriage), honor killing (cultural custom) , Breast ironing of young girls, (cultural custom) Giraffe Necked Women, Female Genital Mutilation (cultural custom impacting more than 130 million female victims, many of whom depending on the severity of FGM had permanently lost their important source of sexual pleasure, (NOTE: The clitoris has 8000 nerve endings, twice the number in the penis), Stalking, Sexual Harassment at schools, at work from both colleagues and men in higher authority, Assault/Battery, Sexual Slavery et.c.)
(Rape, Incest (majority of victims being females), Dowry Deaths, Bride Burnings (In India, it is estimated that more than 5,000 women are killed each year because their in-laws consider their dowries inadequate), Acid Attacks (throwing of sulfuric acid on the face and body of young females has become an increasingly popular way of expressing anger or frustration by jilted men, some being jilted lovers, ex-husbands, prospective bridegroom who was rejected for marriage), honor killing (cultural custom) , Breast ironing of young girls, (cultural custom) Giraffe Necked Women, Female Genital Mutilation (cultural custom impacting more than 130 million female victims, many of whom depending on the severity of FGM had permanently lost their important source of sexual pleasure, (NOTE: The clitoris has 8000 nerve endings, twice the number in the penis), Stalking, Sexual Harassment at schools, at work from both colleagues and men in higher authority, Assault/Battery, Sexual Slavery et.c.)
It is said that 20th century has seen the greatest advancement in equality for women. In particular, the period after the Second World War, from the late 1940s until the present, is hailed as a golden era.
But during above period, atrocities of all kinds against women has increased by more than 25%. www.islamiska.org.
(Ed Note: Most of it as a result of gross violations of Holy Quran which was sent down for the entire humanity).
EVERY SECOND OF OUR LIVING, THERE IS AT LEAST ONE WOMAN BEING RAPED, ASSAULTED OR ABUSED SOMEWHERE IN THIS GLOBE. What is the world doing about it ? We are aware of the painful fact that "THE UNIMPORTANT DOES NOT GET PRIORITY". It is high time people of all faiths, colors, nationalities and ethnicities UNITE to come to the defense of our sisters and transform the Unimportant to EXTREMELY IMPORTANT.
(a) GLOBAL STATUS OF WOMEN:
SAFETY INDEX: RED ALERT: 24 hours a day/7 days a week /365 days a year.
SAFETY INDEX: RED ALERT: 24 hours a day/7 days a week /365 days a year.
In the United States, The chances of being raped for a woman are far greater than getting breast cancer or getting killed in a car crash combined.
The book "WOMEN IN AN INSECURE WORLD" indicates that according to a study based on 50 surveys from around the world, "AT LEAST ONE OUT OF EVERY THREE WOMEN HAS BEEN BEATEN, COERCED INTO SEX, OR OTHERWISE ABUSED IN HER LIFETIME.
In the 20th century, 60,000 to 70,000 mentally ill women were sterilized in the United States. (NPR 10/01/08).
At least SEVEN HUNDRED THOUSAND WOMEN are sold into prostitution annually". Winkler added: "The deeply rooted phenomenon of the violence against women is one of the great crimes of humanity. We cannot close our eyes to it and hope it simply goes away".
"IN THE UNITED STATES, ONE IN FOUR GIRLS HAD A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED DISEASE. WE ARE NOT DOING IT RIGHT. WE ARE NOT GIVING THESE GIRLS WHAT THEY NEED" said Dr. Tarshia Stanley. (Ed Note: Above translates to 25 % of girls in the US having STD. In the United States, (while we were not able to find similar statistics for American Muslim Girls), it is our guess estimate that the percentage of practicing Muslim girls having STD would probably be 0.001 %. The real question is NOT which parent would ever want to have their daughter have STD, but rather which parent is willing to guide their daughter in a religious lifestyle that ensures such a negligible probability)
Female genital mutilation, which afflicts 130 million women and thousands of our little sisters are still undergoing the same horrible sexual mutilation every single day, and what is the world including the Global Ummah doing about it ?
While wars are still predominantly fought be men, this fact demonstrates how vulnerable women and children are exposed to violence beyond their control
(b) COMMERCIALIZATION OF WOMEN'S BODIES AND OTHER NEGATIVE FACTORS:
Women are used for their bodies. Every year nearly 2 million girls between the ages of 5 and 15 are moved into the sex trade according to www.helpsavekids.org.
According to Human Rights Watch between 200,000 and 300,000 women and girls are trafficked to Europe each year for the sex trade. Trafficking in women for the sex trade is a $7 Billion industry. (www.syl.com)
According to UN estimates:
(a) Up to 3 million women a year lose their lives to gender-based violence or neglect.
(b) Some 600,000 die in childbirth, many for lack of medical attention or sanitation.
(c) Millions more are victims of infanticide in countries that value male over female children.
(d) Women account for almost half of all HIV/AIDS cases worldwide, and in Africa, close to 70 per cent of infected people are women.
(e) Elderly women, often the poorest, are left to care for the children of AIDS victims.
(f) As many as 4 million girls and women a year are sold into prostitution.
(g) Two million suffer genital mutilation, often in conditions that lead to lifelong pain, infection and premature death.
(h) One woman in five is a victim of rape or attempted rape during her lifetime.
UN SOCIAL STATISTICS ARE ALSO DAUNTING:
(a) The number of women over 60 is growing, but they are more likely than men to end their days in poverty.
(b) Women are more insecure in the working world, unemployed longer and more frequently than men.
(c) They are educationally handicapped; two-thirds of the world's 876 million illiterates are women.
(d) Between 15% and 71% of women around the world have suffered physical or sexual violence committed by an intimate male partner at some point in their lives. The abuse cuts across all social and economic backgrounds. This has serious consequences for women's health (WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION).
(e) Some studies show that up to 1 in 5 women reports being sexually abused before the age of 15.
(f) Every day, 1600 women and more than 10 000 newborns die from preventable complications during pregnancy and childbirth.
(c) Breast ironing
Breast ironing is a form of body modification practiced in parts of Cameroon. A pubescent girl's breasts are flattened, usually by the girl's mother, in an attempt to make her less sexually attractive to men. This practice is believed to help prevent rape and early marriage. Grinding stones, pestles, belts, heated objects and breast bands are used to press or beat down the forming breasts.
While there is little research on the health effects of breast ironing, it is generally believed that the practice can cause tissue damage in addition to the pain of the ironing process. Other possible side-effects include breast infections, the formation of abscesses, breast cancer, malformed breasts and the possible complete eradication of one or both breasts. In addition, the practice can inhibit or prevent successful breastfeeding.
Statistics show that 26% of Cameroonian girls at puberty undergo it, as many mothers believe it protects their daughters from the sexual advances of boys and men who think children are ripe for sex once their breasts begin to grow.
"The mothers fear that if their daughters have a blossoming breast, they are most vulnerable to the sexual predators, as full breasted girls are the main target of these hunters".
"My mother took a pestle, she warmed it well in the fire and then she used it to pound my breasts while I was lying down. She took the back of a coconut, warmed it in the fire and used it to iron the breasts. I was crying and trembling to escape but there was no way".(1) I wanted to go to school like other girls who had no breasts," Emilia said. (news.bbc.co.uk)"
(2) Another woman from Mamfe in south-west Cameroon told me she ironed her own breasts as a girl so that she would not be forced into early marriage as is the practice in her village.
www.stolenchildhood.net (3) A survey by the German development agency GTZ from June, 2006 of more than 5,000 girls and women between the ages of 10 and 82 from Cameroon, estimated that nearly one in four, or four million girls in Cameroon alone, had been subjected to the procedure. (Ruth Gidley and Megan Rowling - 7/7/06)
(The most widely used instrument to flatten the breasts is a wooden pestle, used for pounding tubers in the kitchen. Heated bananas and coconut shells are also used).(4) Most tools are warmed before pounding the girls' chests "Breast ironing is not a new thing. I am happy I protected my daughter. I could not stand the thought of boys spoiling her with sex before she completed school," one woman explained. "Unfortunately, television is encouraging all sorts of sexual immorality in our children."
(d) GIRAFFE NECKED WOMEN DISPLAYED IN HUMAN ZOO:
The Kayan are a group of the Karenni people, a Tibeto-Burman ethnic minority of Burma (Myanmar). They are also known as Padaung . In the 1990s, due to conflict with the military regime in Burma, many Kayan tribespeople fled into neighbouring Thailand. There they live with an uncertain legal status in the border area, in villages set up to display them to tourists who are willing to pay to admire their particular body modification, which consists of coiling lengths of brass around the necks of the women. There are around 7,000 members of the Kayan tribe.
These coils are first applied to young girls when they are around five years old. Each coil is replaced with longer coils as the weight of the brass pushes the collar bone down and compresses the rib cage.
Additionally, the collar feels like an integral part of the body after ten or more years of continuous wear.
(e) WOMEN IN THE MILITARY SERVICE
Before we proceed, we honor and respect every single American soldier who has put his or her life on the line. Below is discussed only in context of status of females in the military. "In the military, the situation of violence against women is worse than the national average. Rape is almost twice as frequent as it is among civilians, especially in wartime".
Soldiers are taught to regard one another as family, so military rape resembles incest. And most of the soldiers who rape are older and of higher rank than their victims, so are taking advantage of their authority to attack the very people they are supposed to protect. Department of Defense reports show that nearly 90 percent of rape victims in the Army are junior-ranking women, whose average age is 21, while most of the assailants are non-commissioned officers or junior men, whose average age is 28.
One recent Iraq War veteran reflected this misogyny when he described his Marine Corp training for a collection of soldiers' works called Warrior Writers, published by Iraq Veterans Against the War in 2008: Two seminal studies have examined military culture and its attitudes toward women:
(a) By Duke University Law Professor Madeline Morris in 1996, which was presented in the paper "By Force of Arms: Rape, War, and Military Culture" and published in Duke Law Journal;
(b) The other by University of California Professor and folklorist Carol Burke in 2004 and explained in her book, Camp All-American, Hanoi Jane and the High-And-Tight: Gender, Folklore and Changing Military Culture (Beacon Press).
For example, Burke's book cites this Naval Academy chant:
Who can take a chainsaw
Cut the bitch in two
Fuck the bottom half
And give the upper half to you.
In 2007, Sgt. Sarah Scully of the Army's 8th Military Police Brigade wrote in an e-mail from Kuwait, where she was serving: "In the Army, any sign that you are a woman means you are automatically ridiculed and treated as inferior."
Army Spc. Mickiela Montoya, who was in Iraq for 11 months from 2005-2006, put it another way: "There are only three things the guys let you be if you're a girl in the military: a bitch, a ho or a dyke. One guy told me he thinks the military sends women over to give the guys eye candy to keep them sane. He told me in Vietnam they had prostitutes, but they don't have those in Iraq, so they have women soldiers instead".
....Indeed, civilian women have been seen as sexual booty for conquering soldiers since the beginning of human history.
A 2004 study of veterans from Vietnam and all wars since, conducted by psychotherapist Maureen Murdoch and published in the Journal of Military Medicine, found that 71 percent of the women said they were sexually assaulted or raped while serving.
And a 1995 study of female veterans of the Gulf and earlier wars, also conducted by Murdoch and published in Archives of Family Medicine, reported that 90 percent had been sexually harassed, which means anything from being pressured for sex to being relentlessly teased and stared at.
A 2007 survey by the Department of Veterans Affairs found that homelessness among female veterans is rapidly increasing as women soldiers come back from Iraq and Afghanistan. Forty percent of these homeless female veterans say they were sexually abused while in the service. The [Drill Instructor's] nightly homiletic speeches, full of an unabashed hatred of women, were part of the second phase of boot camp: the process of rebuilding recruits into Marines.
Morris and Burke both show that military language reveals this "unabashed hatred of women" all the time. Even with a force that is now 14 percent female, and with rules that prohibit drill instructors from using racial epithets and curses, those same instructors still routinely denigrate recruits by calling them "pussy," "girl," "bitch," "lady" and "dyke."
The everyday speech of soldiers is still riddled with sexist insults.
"Last fall, during a program about emotional abuse, Oprah Winfrey noted that one-third of all American women are "emotionally tortured" by the men in their lives through insults, blame, humiliation and ridicule. This type of abuse is not illegal and experts say many women who suffer from it are not taken seriously"
www.abcnews.go.com
Jamie Leigh Jones, now 22, says that after she was raped by multiple men at a KBR camp in the Green Zone, the company put her under guard in a shipping container with a bed and warned her that if she left Iraq for medical treatment, she'd be out of a job.
Last month, ABC News reported that a former Halliburton/KBR employee, Jamie Leigh Jones, had been gang-raped by her co-workers while working in Baghdad. She was then left by the company in a "shipping container for at least 24 hours without food or water."
Shortly after the news broke, Sen. Bill Nelson (D-FL) wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice "requesting details on how many Americans in Iraq had reported being sexually assaulted or abused, how they were investigated, and if any had been recommended for prosecution." He gave the State Department a deadline of Dec. 21 to respond. Yet according to Nelson's office, the senator has not yet received any response:
He has not received a reply, a spokesman confirmed. ... Nor has Nelson received replies from Secretary of Defense Robert Gates or Attorney General Michael Mukasey, to whom he also wrote asking for information and assistance, according to the lawmaker's spokesman.
Asked about missing that deadline, a State Department spokesman told ABC News, "If the senator has asked questions, I'm quite sure we will provide answers. But it's not something I could discuss with you."
Former Halliburton/KBR employees have described an atmosphere of "rampant sexual harassment." Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) has also confirmed that his office has heard from multiple other women who were victims of sexual assault while working for KBR in Iraq.
The refusal of the Bush administration to respond to Nelson's request mirrors its foot-dragging on Jones's case over the past two years. Despite Poe's involvement in the case, the Justice Department has refused to bring criminal charges against anyone, and it appears that no "federal agency [is] investigating the case."
* 25 % of women will be sexually assaulted on a college campus.
* 12 % of women will be raped while in college.
* 28-66 % of women in the military REPORT sexual assault *
* 27 % of women are REPORTED raped in the military
Last month, the Justice Department also refused to send a representative to answer questions on the case before the House Judiciary Committee. "This is an absolute disgrace," remarked chairman John Conyers (D-MI).
Amanda Terkel is Deputy Research Director at the Center for American Progress and serves as Deputy Editor for The Progress Report and ThinkProgress.org at the Center for American Progress.(alternet.org)
(f) HOW CULTURE HYPER SEXUALIZES THE FEMALE YOUTH:
College age women often come to Professor Gail Dines in tears after she lectures about how popular culture has become poisoned with a a hyper sexuality that demands women offer themselves to any man who asks.The young women feel isolated and alone because they refuse to degrade themselves in exchange for male companionship, said the Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies at Whelock College in Boston.
“It’s time to end a corporate-driven effort to promote “SLUT CULTURE” in the United States, Prof. Gail Dines said.
Negative messages solely concerned with “hotness” and sex appeal are also being pushed on adolescents and younger girls in a dangerous way, advocates warn.
(ED NOTE: It is precisely here that the role of Islam is extremely important to all females regardless of their ethnicity, religion, nationality or culture. Islam by its various edicts on females including dressing modestly and having self-discipline in one's verbalization and actions significantly reduces the HOTNESS and SEX APPEAL and in fact redirects and forces the attention of the visual observer to her other non-sexual positives. NOTE: We are not referring to the deviated form of Islam as practiced by the ignorant Taliban of Afghanistan).
ADOLESCENCE is the time when girls form an identity based on messages from society, said Prof. Dines. If the messages focus on physical attributes and access to men, the young girls are not growing in a healthy way, she said.
THE AMERICAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION, in a study released last year, reported that girls and young women suffered intellectual, psychological and physical problems as a result of messages that push sexualization, which is defined as a “person’s value coming only from his or her sexual appeal or behavior, to the exclusion of other characterstics, a person is held to a standard that equates physical attractiveness (narrowly defined) being with being sexy, a person is sexually objectified, that is, made into a thing for others sexual use, rather than seen as person with the capacity for independent action and decision making, and/or: sexuality is inappropriately imposed upon a person”.
("America's Sex Mad Culture":Richard and Nisa Islam Muhammad-May 28, 2008)
(g) WOMEN AS COMMERCIAL COMMODITY:
THE UN and HELSINKI INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION for HUMAN RIGHTS say 75,000 Brazilian women are being forced to work as prostitutes in the European Union. Another 5000 in Latin America, in the US an Annual Congressional Reports has estimated as low as 900 per year. Sadly 50 percent of the slave victims are children.
“Recruiters convince poor, humble women to go abroad with false promises, Says Paulo Marchins da Cunha, Chief of the Policing section of Sao Paulo’s Federal Highway Police. “They are usually made promises of work and riches from a job abroad, sometimes even promises of marriage. But when they arrive, they are made to work in the sex trade”.
“We’ve seen cases where women have been imprisoned in a house abroad for years, without even knowing what street it was on, “ says da Cunha./ “That’s why we characterize it as sexual salvery”.
HUMAN TRAFFICKING IS THE THIRD MOST LUCRATIVE CRIME IN THE WORLD, TRAILING ONLY DRUGS AND THE ILLEGAL ARMS TRADE.
According to…Alexandra Poolos, … the women are put to work as sex slaves, servicing dozens of men each week, their pay going into the pockets of the traffickers. The women are abused by both their clients and their traffickers and are terrified to escape or seek help for fear that they will be further penalized by police who see them as little more than prostitutes or that their family members will be attacked back home.
(h) COMFORT WOMEN
(Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia)
Comfort women is a euphemism for women forced into sexual slavery involved in prostitution for Japanese military brothels during World War II. Around 200,000 are typically estimated to have been involved.
Historians and researchers have stated that the majority of the comfort women were from Korea, China and Japan, but women from the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia, and other Japanese-occupied territories were also used in "comfort stations". Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, then Burma, then New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and what was then French Indochina.
Historians and researchers have stated that the majority of the comfort women were from Korea, China and Japan, but women from the Philippines, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia, and other Japanese-occupied territories were also used in "comfort stations". Stations were located in Japan, China, the Philippines, Indonesia, then Malaya, Thailand, then Burma, then New Guinea, Hong Kong, Macau, and what was then French Indochina.
Young women from countries under Japanese Imperial control were reportedly abducted from their homes. In some cases, women were also recruited with offers to work in military. It has been documented that the Japanese military itself recruited women by force. The size and nature of sexual slavery by the Japanese military during World War II is still being actively debated, as the matter is still highly political in both Japan and Far East Asia.
Many military brothels were run by private agents and supervised by the Japanese Army. Some Japanese historians, using the testimony of ex-comfort women, have argued that the Imperial Japanese Army and Navy were either directly or indirectly involved in coercing, deceiving, luring, and sometimes kidnapping young women throughout Japan's Asian colonies and occupied territories. (WIKIPEDIA)
(i) ATROCIOUS ABUSE OF WOMEN IN RUSSIA
A 30 year old journalist remarked about her husband: “He’s successful, earns a good salary, so he thinks he owns me and has a right to beat me. And I am supposed to worship him”. She stated that she has had it enough and was in the process of divorce.
Every fourth family in Russia experiences some form of Domestic Violence with 82 percent of such crimes being committed by husbands.
‘WE HAVE A CASE WHEN THE HUSBAND BROKE HIS WIFE’S JAW JUST BECAUSE AN OMELET SHE SERVED HIM WAS WHITE”, Says Alexandra Kraeva, Coordinator of the Russian Association of Crisis Centers. “She covered the omelet while cooking it, so it turned white, that’s all".
In another family, the wife was left with a broken tooth and a cut brow, because she gave her husband soup that was not hot enough.
A husband of a young female pianist broke all of her fingers in a jealous rage. The court found him guilty of “SLIGHT” physical damage and gave him a suspended sentence. For the victim, it was more than a SLIGHT harm, it ended her career as a pianist. (By Mariya Rasner)
Many women in Russia suffer thorugh beatings in silence to preserve a social status of a happily married women.
(j) MAIL ORDER BRIDES:
Attack on arranged marriages, but the same statements of attack don’t apply to mail order brides: For decades, foreign mail-order brides have been marketed as quiet, submissive and easily controlled.One of the ad on the web site of TLC Worldwide states: “HER LIFE IS CENTERED AROUND HER FAMILY, HER HUSBAND AND CHILDREN (SIMILAR TO AMERICAN WOMEN FROM GENERATIONS PAST). THESE WOMEN WOULD RATHER COMPLIMENT HER MAN THAN COMPETE WITH HIM, “.
Adorned with photos of bikini-clad women, another entry promises that: “Single Latin Women are renowned for their warmth, friendliness and feminine nature. They are not uncomfortable in the presence of a “strong man”.
Such women have also frequently fallen prey to SERIAL ABUSERS who relied on an unregulated industry to secure a continuous supply of women. … One example of a high profile case: Near Seattle, a 20 year old Anastasia Solovieva King from the former Soviet Republic of Kyrgystan was strangled to death. Her husband Indle Kind Jr had assaulted his previous mail-order bride and was in the application process of obtaining another fiancés visa petition at the time of Anastasia’s death. The perpetrator is currently serving prison sentence.
A jury in Baltimore awarded $433,500 to Nataliya Derkach, who was beaten by her husband James while she was breastfeeling her child.
(k) ROMANCE TOURS:
(Where a man flys overseas to inspect his potential commodity from a group of women - BRIDE)
FOREIGN AFFAIR: a Phoenix-based company operates “ROMANCE TOURS” to South American and Eastern Europe. During such tours, a dozen or so American men typically travel to the home country of the prospective brides for few days to a week. They often participate in social events where women outnumber men, sometimes by as much as 20 to 1, allowing men to prospect for their wives. (Above by Juliette Terzieff)
(l) WHY PRACTICING MUSLIM WOMEN DO NOT HAVE TO WORRY IF A VOYEUR HAS AUDIO ALERT OR NOT IN HIS CELL PHONE CAMERA
THANKS TO ISLAMIC EMPHASIS ON MODEST AND FULLY COVERED DRESS, VOYEUR'S DON'T WANT TO WASTE THEIR TIME ON FULLY CLOTHED WOMEN AND USUALLY LEAVE THEM ALONE:
Finally some relief to Japanese women in the form of audio deterrance to voyeurs who prey and visually feast upon women with scantily covered dresses. Part of the feast involves secretly taking photos of their intimate body parts that may be used later either for commerical purposes or for personal gratification when they relieve their pent up sexual tension just observing the photoes. The real woman is OUT OF SIGHT but their intimate photo is now WITHIN THE VOYEUR's SIGHT.
Thanks to the HI-Tech industry, "there are new ways in the iphone 3G to alert a Japanese women when voyeurs secretly attempt to take sneaky pictures up their skirts or down their tops. In Japan, upskirt and downblouse shots have become increasingly popular with the advent of high-resolution camera phones. All cell phones sold in Japan now make a conspicuous shutter sound or say the word CHEESE when a snap is taken. This shutter sound cannot be muted, even when the phone is set to SILENT mode. Some manufacturers have even put louder shutter sound".
("To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3 G always alerts when taking photos" - Leander Kahney July 20, 2008)
Finally some relief to Japanese women in the form of audio deterrance to voyeurs who prey and visually feast upon women with scantily covered dresses. Part of the feast involves secretly taking photos of their intimate body parts that may be used later either for commerical purposes or for personal gratification when they relieve their pent up sexual tension just observing the photoes. The real woman is OUT OF SIGHT but their intimate photo is now WITHIN THE VOYEUR's SIGHT.
Thanks to the HI-Tech industry, "there are new ways in the iphone 3G to alert a Japanese women when voyeurs secretly attempt to take sneaky pictures up their skirts or down their tops. In Japan, upskirt and downblouse shots have become increasingly popular with the advent of high-resolution camera phones. All cell phones sold in Japan now make a conspicuous shutter sound or say the word CHEESE when a snap is taken. This shutter sound cannot be muted, even when the phone is set to SILENT mode. Some manufacturers have even put louder shutter sound".
("To Prevent Upskirts, Japanese iPhone 3 G always alerts when taking photos" - Leander Kahney July 20, 2008)
(m) LACTATION PROSTITUTION:
(Where some men argue, if we can buy cow's milk, what is wrong with buying a woman's milk and its products?)
As it sounds, it is breastfeeding for pay. There is a brothel in New Zealand that offered lactation services to its clients. Though not strictly prostitution, a Beijing restaurant offered breast milk-based dishes on its menu.
(n) WHEN EVEN PLASTIC INFLATABLE FEMALE BREASTS WERE SOUGHT AFTER AND STOLEN:
http://www.watoday.com.au/
Australian Men's magazine Ralph was planning to give away inflatable breasts as a free gift with it's January issue. So they put in a massive order for 130,000. Unfortunately the shipment has been lost. Apparently the cargo, worth about $200,000, left Beijing in a container that turned up empty when the ship pulled into Sydney harbor about two weeks later. Ralph's editor is stumped: "Unless Somali pirates have stolen them its difficult to explain where they are," Pintado said. "If anyone finds any washed up on a beach, please let us know." (CURRENT.COM)
Australian Men's magazine Ralph was planning to give away inflatable breasts as a free gift with it's January issue. So they put in a massive order for 130,000. Unfortunately the shipment has been lost. Apparently the cargo, worth about $200,000, left Beijing in a container that turned up empty when the ship pulled into Sydney harbor about two weeks later. Ralph's editor is stumped: "Unless Somali pirates have stolen them its difficult to explain where they are," Pintado said. "If anyone finds any washed up on a beach, please let us know." (CURRENT.COM)
(o) HISTORY OF WOMEN'S CULTURALLY SPONSORED PHYSICAL ABUSE AND MURDER:
SATI:
According to experts, in most cases a woman in driven to immolation by her husband’s relatives who either seek to take possession of her husband’s property or hate the prospect of taking care of a widow, Asia News reports.
At times attempts by the police to prevent a ritual self-burning of a widow cause strong discontent and protest of Hindus. In May last year violent protests broke out in a village of Rajasthan, western part of India following the police action to prevent immolation. A few dozen supporters of the Sati ritual pelted the police with rocks, they also smashed windows in nearby buildings and cars. More than 20 people were injured and about 30 arrested during the clashes.
At times attempts by the police to prevent a ritual self-burning of a widow cause strong discontent and protest of Hindus. In May last year violent protests broke out in a village of Rajasthan, western part of India following the police action to prevent immolation. A few dozen supporters of the Sati ritual pelted the police with rocks, they also smashed windows in nearby buildings and cars. More than 20 people were injured and about 30 arrested during the clashes.
On May 18th 2006, the 35-year-old widow immolated herself in a village of the northern state of Uttar Pradesh. The woman is survived by three children. “The relatives of the deceased husband persuaded the woman that her life would have been unbearably disgraceful and she’d be better off dead by fire,” said a police spokesman. "(Some) Hindu wives still burn themselves alive when their husbands die" PRAVDA 7/6/2006)
If a married woman were to lose her husband to death she was not permitted to remarry under any circumstances. She was considered uncontrolled and dangerous, as her energy was no longer harnessed to a man, thus justifying the ritual of sati. “After the death of her husband, she is especially dangerous and must shave her head, cake it with mud, sleep on a bed of stones…If a widow is chaste and young, she is so infected with magic power that she must take her own life” (Stein 468).
ONE THOUSAND YEARS OF PHYSICAL TORTURE OF CHINESE FEMALES THROUGH THE CULTURALLY SANCTIONED PRACTICE OF FOOT BINDING:
"Mothers impressed upon their daughters that the mark of a woman's attraction resided more in her character as revealed in the bind of her feet than in the face or body which nature had given her. Her selection in marriage was the responsibility of her prospective mother-in-law, whose criterion for a good daughter-in-law was the discipline that the bound foot represented, thus a daughter learned that she carried the reputations of both her natal family and the family into which she married in the bind of her feet".
Within the areas and classes in which footbinding was widely accepted, a girl of marriageable age with natural feet had only limited prospects for making a "good" marriage, one which reflected well on her family's ability to raise her properly.
For Chinese men, bound feet were associated with higher-status love and sex, carrying strong connotations of both modesty and lasciviousness. Bound feet became a sexual fetish and were said to be conducive to better intercourse. It was accepted that these golden lotuses had developed not only an aesthetic appeal for the Chinese male, but also a sexual one. The beauty of bound feet was a value deeply rooted in the Chinese aesthetic and sexual psyche.
(Marie Vento: One Thousand Years of Chinese Footbinding: Its Origins, Popularity and Demise)For Chinese men, bound feet were associated with higher-status love and sex, carrying strong connotations of both modesty and lasciviousness. Bound feet became a sexual fetish and were said to be conducive to better intercourse. It was accepted that these golden lotuses had developed not only an aesthetic appeal for the Chinese male, but also a sexual one. The beauty of bound feet was a value deeply rooted in the Chinese aesthetic and sexual psyche.
(3) SECTION III:
(a) OUR DEAR GLOBAL UMMAH AND THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, WATCH OUT:
THE NECROPHILIACS ARE GAINING GROUND:
Some people assume that atleast once a female is dead, she is left at peace, but increasingly this may not be so. SOME FEMALES ARE NOT SPARED EVEN AFTER THEIR DEATH:
(a) OUR DEAR GLOBAL UMMAH AND THE CITIZENS OF THE WORLD, WATCH OUT:
THE NECROPHILIACS ARE GAINING GROUND:
SCARY NEW WORLD ORDER OF THIS 21ST CENTURY IF NECROPHILICS SUCCEED IN THEIR DEMANDS
There are some men who prefer having sex with a dead women for they are sure they will face no resistance nor rejection which they may have otherwise faced in their real life.
Unfortunately Necrophilia is a fast growing secret practice that the common man has no clue to its magnitude. To find out how active are the necrophiliacs one need to visit the graveyards in the night to see how some graves are being rummaged. But how many sane individuals would take such a initiative to confirm their suspicions ? Like ALCOHOLICS ANNONYMOUS, COCAINE ANNONYMOUS, they now have an INTERNET NECROPHILIACS ANNONYMOUS.
ISLAM IS AGAINST THIS DEVIOUS ACT OF NECROPHILIA TOO.
(b) NECROPHILIA:Unfortunately Necrophilia is a fast growing secret practice that the common man has no clue to its magnitude. To find out how active are the necrophiliacs one need to visit the graveyards in the night to see how some graves are being rummaged. But how many sane individuals would take such a initiative to confirm their suspicions ? Like ALCOHOLICS ANNONYMOUS, COCAINE ANNONYMOUS, they now have an INTERNET NECROPHILIACS ANNONYMOUS.
ISLAM IS AGAINST THIS DEVIOUS ACT OF NECROPHILIA TOO.
HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE:
EGYPT:
According to www.en.wikipedia.org:
In ancient Egypt, there is record of the treatment of the bodies of young women that were set out to decompose for a few days before being delivered to embalmers. This practice originated from the need to discourage the men performing the funerary customs from having sexual interest in their charges.
Herodotus writes in "The Histories" that, to discourage intercourse with a corpse, Ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women to decay for "three or four days" before giving them to the embalmers.
According to www.en.wikipedia.org:
In ancient Egypt, there is record of the treatment of the bodies of young women that were set out to decompose for a few days before being delivered to embalmers. This practice originated from the need to discourage the men performing the funerary customs from having sexual interest in their charges.
Herodotus writes in "The Histories" that, to discourage intercourse with a corpse, Ancient Egyptians left deceased beautiful women to decay for "three or four days" before giving them to the embalmers.
In some societies the practice was enacted owing to a belief that the soul of an unmarried woman would not find peace; among the Kachin of Myanmar and the Nambudri of India, versions of a marriage ceremony were held to lay a dead virgin to rest, which would involve intercourse with the corpse. Similar practices obtained in some pre-modern Central European societies when a woman who was engaged to be married died before the wedding.
In one study done by Katherine Ramsland, she found that 90 to 99 percent of Necrophiliacs are males. (Katherine Ramsland. “All About Necrophilia” -Updated 2007)
CONTEMPORARY PERSPECTIVE:
Philippine Senate President Manny Villar had in 2006 announced his plan to outlaw necrophilia. According to Villar, NECROPHILIA IS AN URGENT THREAT TO THE NATION'S DEAD WOMEN. “There are still lawless elements out there who disrespect and desecrate the dead. We should put a stop to their detestable and heinous acts against our dearly departed,” he said. Villar recently modified through another bill, SB 2267, the penalty for necrophilia or the crime committed by a person who engages in sexual intercourse with a female corpse. Under the said bill, the penalty for necrophilia shall be reclusion perpetua to death and a fine of P100,000 to P500,000 at the discretion of the court.
NEW YORK:
According to abcnews.go.com:
"A 24-year-old New York City man remains jailed after he was found allegedly having sex with a 92-year-old woman's corpse inside the morgue of the hospital where he worked.
The twin brothers, Alex and NicholasGr unke, and Dustin Radke (all pictured below) are alleged to have attempted to remove the body of a 20 year-old woman killed a week previously in a motorcycle crash. The three decided on the woman after seeing her photo in an obituary in the local newspaper.
"A lower court originally found that there was nothing in the state that banned the boys having their way with the corpse, but the State Supreme Court over-ruled that decision in July".
(ED NOTE: Some feminists argue that the male dominated media is not telling the whole story and they believe that the three perpetrators had actually planned to gang rape the corpse. The fact that the three brought condoms to the scene to protect themselves (from corpse maggots) was not taken into account by the court).
(ED NOTE: Some feminists argue that the male dominated media is not telling the whole story and they believe that the three perpetrators had actually planned to gang rape the corpse. The fact that the three brought condoms to the scene to protect themselves (from corpse maggots) was not taken into account by the court).
"The complaint said Radke told police that Nicholas Grunke had asked him to help dig up the Cassville woman’s body and take it to Grunke’s house, so that Grunke could have sex with it". On the way to the cemetery, Radke said, they stopped by a Dodgeville Wal-Mart to buy condoms ‘because Nick wanted to use them when he had sex with a corpse,’ the complaint added. (www.speakoutonmaleviolence.wordpress.com)
(C) (ED NOTE: WHEN SELFISH COMMERCIAL FINANCIAL INTERESTS SUPERCEDE BASIC RIGHTS AND RESPECT OF THE DECEASED FEMALE)
Necrophiliac fashion for Wrangler
August 18, 2008 by
Ed Morrissey
August 18, 2008 by
Ed Morrissey
PHOTO:WRANGLER:
"As Mitch Berg, Jeff Fecke, and Melissa McEwan point out, this is something on which conservatives and liberals can agree. These images capture the look of corpses dumped into rivers and lakes, a sort of murder chic that appears to not just promote corpses as fashion models but to sexualize them as well".
The pallid skin of the back crests at the woman’s buttocks in the second picture here as the jeans get dragged off by the weight of the water and the movement of the corpse. This evokes nothing but the unfortunate women who have been victimized by serial killers and rapists, and having their bodies dumped in woods, lakes, and rivers. Wrangler uses them to make death sexy and to exploit a fascination with death to make a few bucks. Someone should be ashamed". (hotair.com)
(D) (Ed Note: How broad minded should one be: Let's review the perspective of one Necrophiliac who is championing the cause of NECROPHILIAC MARRIAGE):
"We necrophiliacs are demanding that our freedom to choose our own partners be recognized in law. Our leading militant activist group, PROP UP, has been lobbying for necrophiliac marriage to be recognized in all states. In particular, we necrophiliacs demand to have our rights recognized in all that is involved in pensions, insurance, and employee benefits. "How come Social Security only grants benefits to insure SURVIVORS? What kind of arbitrary discrimination is that?," asks Mortis. "
We necrophiliacs claim we are victims of long-time prejudice and misinformation. We are often called nasty names and regarded as mentally unstable. But who is to say what is normal? The fight against necrophobia has been adopted by all politically correct movements and progressive individuals. Since necrophilia activism has emerged on the American scene, many of us are coming out of the closet, or -- as we prefer -- out of the morgue.
Including some Hollywood celebrities. Meanwhile, necrophilia activists have been approaching various religious communities with the request that their rights be recognized. Already radical Unitarians agree to officiate at necrophiliac marriage ceremonies. The Episcopalians will debate later this month whether necrophiliacs, or those romantically involved with the Life-Challenged -- as many prefer to be known, can serve as Church ministers.
(ED NOTE: The Global Ummah should be prepared and on ONE PAGE and have a united single approach when dealing with Necrophiliacs who may come and knock at the door of Islam to see if they can garner some support from any of us.)
We also expect the PC branch of the Reform Synagogue movement to join in and to officiate at marriage ceremonies for the unliving, as well as some more radical Jewish groups. When asked how such a position could be advocated in light of traditional Jewish opposition to such abominations, Rabbi Michael Moonbeam, author of the scholarly Tikkun Guide to Great LSD Trips in the Bible (it explains the REAL meaning of that Biblical story about how Moses DROPPED two tablets), has observed, "Since when does being a good Rabbi have anything to do with Judaism?"
Meanwhile, assorted services and institutions are cropping up to serve this long-neglected community. Some lawyers are now offering a package deal in which they do probate for clients and get a marriage license at the same time. Assorted Las Vegas chapels have cropped up to perform necrophiliac weddings.
Other cultural impacts of necrophiliacs are being felt, along with a revival of 1960's rock and roll music, specially adopted for those with romantic ties to the Non-Living. Necrophiliacs have become welcome guests on all the popular TV chat shows. We have also taken on the medical and psychological communities. "Who are they to prejudge us?" says Mortis indignantly.
Necrophiliac activists have adopted a different use of the term "straight" and use it to describe those who have relations with the living. So for a necrophiliac, a regular homosexual is called "straight gay" and a heterosexual is "straight straight." We have also been lobbying the medical research community to change its priorities. "After all," says Mortis, "they are spending hundreds of billions on finding a cure for AIDS, but hardly a dime for finding a cure for rigor mortis."
Necrophiliacs claim they are the sixth gender and they are tired of being overlooked. For now, insists Mortis, I will just live a quiet life with my partner, and in order to keep a bit of her presence with me wherever I go, I intend to keep a stiff upper lip. We therefore demand that the State of Massachusetts end its intolerable bias and bigotry and recognize necro-marriages at ONCE"
(www.intellectualconservative.com)
We necrophiliacs claim we are victims of long-time prejudice and misinformation. We are often called nasty names and regarded as mentally unstable. But who is to say what is normal? The fight against necrophobia has been adopted by all politically correct movements and progressive individuals. Since necrophilia activism has emerged on the American scene, many of us are coming out of the closet, or -- as we prefer -- out of the morgue.
Including some Hollywood celebrities. Meanwhile, necrophilia activists have been approaching various religious communities with the request that their rights be recognized. Already radical Unitarians agree to officiate at necrophiliac marriage ceremonies. The Episcopalians will debate later this month whether necrophiliacs, or those romantically involved with the Life-Challenged -- as many prefer to be known, can serve as Church ministers.
(ED NOTE: The Global Ummah should be prepared and on ONE PAGE and have a united single approach when dealing with Necrophiliacs who may come and knock at the door of Islam to see if they can garner some support from any of us.)
We also expect the PC branch of the Reform Synagogue movement to join in and to officiate at marriage ceremonies for the unliving, as well as some more radical Jewish groups. When asked how such a position could be advocated in light of traditional Jewish opposition to such abominations, Rabbi Michael Moonbeam, author of the scholarly Tikkun Guide to Great LSD Trips in the Bible (it explains the REAL meaning of that Biblical story about how Moses DROPPED two tablets), has observed, "Since when does being a good Rabbi have anything to do with Judaism?"
Meanwhile, assorted services and institutions are cropping up to serve this long-neglected community. Some lawyers are now offering a package deal in which they do probate for clients and get a marriage license at the same time. Assorted Las Vegas chapels have cropped up to perform necrophiliac weddings.
Other cultural impacts of necrophiliacs are being felt, along with a revival of 1960's rock and roll music, specially adopted for those with romantic ties to the Non-Living. Necrophiliacs have become welcome guests on all the popular TV chat shows. We have also taken on the medical and psychological communities. "Who are they to prejudge us?" says Mortis indignantly.
Necrophiliac activists have adopted a different use of the term "straight" and use it to describe those who have relations with the living. So for a necrophiliac, a regular homosexual is called "straight gay" and a heterosexual is "straight straight." We have also been lobbying the medical research community to change its priorities. "After all," says Mortis, "they are spending hundreds of billions on finding a cure for AIDS, but hardly a dime for finding a cure for rigor mortis."
Necrophiliacs claim they are the sixth gender and they are tired of being overlooked. For now, insists Mortis, I will just live a quiet life with my partner, and in order to keep a bit of her presence with me wherever I go, I intend to keep a stiff upper lip. We therefore demand that the State of Massachusetts end its intolerable bias and bigotry and recognize necro-marriages at ONCE"
(www.intellectualconservative.com)
(5) CONCLUSION:
As evidenced from above, Allah had out of his Mercy for Mankind revealed the noble book of Holy Quran that was meant for all humanity including both males and females.
Prophet Mohamed (SAW) stated:
"Women's rights are Sacred".
"Women's rights are Sacred".
Prophet in his life time never abused any of his wives or family members. and he repeatedly encouraged us to be KIND towards women. He also elevated the status of women by stating that the Paradise lies under the feet of one's mother".
Holy Quran has given directives to be kind, caring, campassionate towards women, for parents to take good care of their children and also advised the Children to take good care of their elderly parents, and even highlighted special care for orphans. In short, Islam emphasizes on being kind, exercising maximum patience and tolerance towards all and in particular towards females.
If the original, cultural toxin free and unpolluted Islamic teachings were implemented today, women in general would have a lot to benefit, besides the lives of millions of females which would have been saved and they would have seen the LIGHT OF THE DAY instead of being brutally chopped within the womb.
In short, sufferings of the female before birth (Section I above) - abortion, infanticide; during her life (Section II above) various injustices culturally perpetrated against women triggered through various forms of sexual objectification, centuries old anti-female cultural norms, rampant commercialization of their bodies, transformation of their status to that of a commodity that is available 24/7 via a business transaction (to meet males biological need (instant gratification) without the need to have any elaborate ritual, legal paperwork, long term commitment, worry about taking on the responsibility of parent should she have a unplanned child et.c) would have been avoided through following Islamic teachings.
Last but not the least, even abuse of women after their death Section III (above) would also have been avoided thorugh Islam's teaching which focuses on the special status of dead. Islam clearly prohibits necrophilia which would prevent attacks on her after her death. In fact, even the basic ritual of washing a deceased female's body must be done only by a female and not a male.
TO SUMMARIZE:
"ISLAM IS COMMITTED TO PRESERVE THE DIGNITY AND RESPECT FOR WOMEN EVEN BEFORE THEY ARE BORN (BY PROHIBITING ABORTION AND INFANTICIDE), ENCOURAGES TO FIGHT AGAINST INJUSTICE INCLUDING INJUSTICE AGAINST WOMEN AND LAST BUT NOT THE LEAST, MANDATES RESPECT TO THE FEMALE EVEN AFTER HER DEATH".
Having said the above, we as Editors of VOICE OF GLOBAL UMMAH are not here to preach about Islam. Holy Quran clearly states: "There is no compulsion in Islam". We realize and respect the existence of non-Muslims and their commitment to their respective religions.
However what we do seek is their hand of partnership in the form of INTERFAITH BONDING AND NETWORKING with ultimate goal to help all human beings on this planet Earth.
ISLAM - OUR RELIGION OF LOVE AND PASSION:
Islam declared women and men equal
Islam condemned pre-Islamic practices degrading and oppressing women
The same injunctions and prohibitions of Islam equally apply to both sexes
Islam gave woman the right of inheritance and the right of individual independent ownership unhampered by father, husband, brother, son or anyone else.
Islam gave women the right to accept or reject a marriage proposal free from pressure and by mutual agreement to specify in the marriage contract that she has the right to divorce (if she misses that option she has the right to seek court divorce if she deems the marriage has failed beyond repair).
Islam does not require woman to change her name at marriage
Islam protects the family and condemns the betrayal of marital fidelity. It recognizes only one type of family: husband and wife united by authentic marriage contract
"HEAVEN IS AT THE FEET OF MOTHERS" is a basic Islamic teaching
"THE BEST OF YOU ARE THE KINDEST TO THEIR WIVES.." is a teaching by Prophet Mohammad..
"Islam enjoins sounds morality in thinking, behavior and appearance. Dress fashions and social patterns that reduce woman to sex object and exploit her as such are NOT acceptable to Islam".
"Men shall have the benefit of what they earn and women shall have the benefit of what they earn; and ask Allah of His grace; surely Allah knows all things"
Holy Quran 4:32
Ibni Abbaas reported that a girl came to Prophet Mohamed (SAW) and she reported that her father had forced her to marry without her consent. Prophet gave her the CHOICE between accepting the marriage or INVALIDATING it. (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal 2469).
....the girl said: "Actually I accept this marriage but I WANTED TO LET WOMEN KNOW THAT PARENTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO FORCE A HUSBAND ON THEM. (Sunan Ibn Maja 1873)
....And do not treat them (wife) with harshness that you may take away what you have given them...." (Holy Quran 4:19)
"BEHOLD:
MEN WHO SURRENDER TO ALLAH & WOMEN WHO SURRENDER TO ALLAH, AND
MEN WHO BELIEVE AND WOMEN WHO BELIEVE, AND
MEN WHO OBEY AND WOMEN WHO OBEY, AND
MEN WHO SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND WOMEN WHO SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND
MEN WHO PERSEVERE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS & WOMEN WHO PERSEVERE, AND
MEN WHO ARE HUMBLE AND WOMEN WHO ARE HUMBLE, AND
MEN WHO GIVE ALMS AND WOMEN WHO GIVE ALMS, AND
MEN WHO FAST, AND WOMEN WHO FAST, AND
MEN WHO GUARD THEIR MODESTY AND WOMEN WHO GUARD THEIR MODESTY, AND
MEN WHO REMEMBER ALLAH MUCH AND WOMEN WHO REMEMBER,
ALLAH HAS PREPARED FOR THEM FORGIVENESS AND A VAST REWARD".
Holy Quran 4:32
Ibni Abbaas reported that a girl came to Prophet Mohamed (SAW) and she reported that her father had forced her to marry without her consent. Prophet gave her the CHOICE between accepting the marriage or INVALIDATING it. (Musnad Ahmad ibn Hanbal 2469).
....the girl said: "Actually I accept this marriage but I WANTED TO LET WOMEN KNOW THAT PARENTS HAVE NO RIGHT TO FORCE A HUSBAND ON THEM. (Sunan Ibn Maja 1873)
....And do not treat them (wife) with harshness that you may take away what you have given them...." (Holy Quran 4:19)
"I went to Prophet Mohamed (SAW) and asked him: What do you say about our wives ? He replied: GIVE THEM FOOD WHAT YOU HAVE FOR YOURSELF, CLOTHE THEM BY WHICH YOU CLOTHE YOURSELF, DO NOT BEAT THEM, AND DO NOT REVILE THEM. (Sunan Abu Dawud 11:2139)
Prophet Mohamed (SAW) stated in his FAREWELL SERMON:
"O People, accept the advice regarding GOOD TREATMENT of women......Indeed you have rights over women and they also have rights over you"
"Never will I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female; you are members, one of another"
Holy Quran 3:195
"Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has Faith, verily to him will We give a new Life, and life that is good and pure, and We will bestow on such their reward according to the BEST IN THEIR ACTIONS"
Holy Quran 16:97)
"O People, accept the advice regarding GOOD TREATMENT of women......Indeed you have rights over women and they also have rights over you"
"Never will I suffer to be lost the work of any of you, be he male or female; you are members, one of another"
Holy Quran 3:195
"Whoever works righteousness, man or woman, and has Faith, verily to him will We give a new Life, and life that is good and pure, and We will bestow on such their reward according to the BEST IN THEIR ACTIONS"
Holy Quran 16:97)
The Muslim woman's soul is filled with happiness,contentment, pride and her status and position are raised by the fact that ISLAM GIVES THE MOTHER A HIGHER STATUS THAN THE FATHER.
A man came to the Prophet Mohamed (SAW) and asked him: O' Messenger of Allah, who among people is most deserving of my good company?
"The Prophet said, "Your mother".
The man asked, "Then who".
The Prophet (SAW) said:"Your mother".
The man asked, "Then who"?.
The Prophet (SAW) said (for the third time) "Your mother".
The man asked, "Then who?".
The Prophet (SAW) said" Than your father".
A man came to the Prophet Mohamed (SAW) and asked him: O' Messenger of Allah, who among people is most deserving of my good company?
"The Prophet said, "Your mother".
The man asked, "Then who".
The Prophet (SAW) said:"Your mother".
The man asked, "Then who"?.
The Prophet (SAW) said (for the third time) "Your mother".
The man asked, "Then who?".
The Prophet (SAW) said" Than your father".
Prophet Mohamed (SAW) stated:
The likeness of a believer who reads the Quran is like a citron, whose smell is pleasant and whose taste is pleasant,
The likeness of a believer who does NOT read the Quran is like a date, which has no smell, but its taste is sweet,
The likeness of the hypocrite who reads the Quran is like a fragnant flower which has a pleasant smell but whose taste is bitter and
The likeness of a hypocrite who does not read the Quran is like a colocynth (bitter-apple), which has no smell and its taste is bitter"....
"READ THE QURAN, FOR IT WILL COME FORWARD ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION TO INTERCEDE FOR ITS READERS"..."The one who reads the Quran is with the honorable pious scribes and the one who reads the Quran AND STRUGGLES TO READ IT EVEN THOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT FOR HIM, WILL RECEIVE A DOUBLE REWARD".
The likeness of a believer who reads the Quran is like a citron, whose smell is pleasant and whose taste is pleasant,
The likeness of a believer who does NOT read the Quran is like a date, which has no smell, but its taste is sweet,
The likeness of the hypocrite who reads the Quran is like a fragnant flower which has a pleasant smell but whose taste is bitter and
The likeness of a hypocrite who does not read the Quran is like a colocynth (bitter-apple), which has no smell and its taste is bitter"....
"READ THE QURAN, FOR IT WILL COME FORWARD ON THE DAY OF RESURRECTION TO INTERCEDE FOR ITS READERS"..."The one who reads the Quran is with the honorable pious scribes and the one who reads the Quran AND STRUGGLES TO READ IT EVEN THOUGH IT IS DIFFICULT FOR HIM, WILL RECEIVE A DOUBLE REWARD".
According to Yahya M, American Convert to Islam:
"The women of the Prophet's time enjoyed the full range of rights and freedom that Allah and the Prophet allowed them. There were many prominent Muslim women in that generation who were outspoken and contributed to building the Islamic society, whose names have been recorded".
"The women of the Prophet's time enjoyed the full range of rights and freedom that Allah and the Prophet allowed them. There were many prominent Muslim women in that generation who were outspoken and contributed to building the Islamic society, whose names have been recorded".
"Wearing hijab is woman's assertion that JUDGEMENT OF HER PHYSICAL PERSON IS TO PLAY NO ROLE WHATSOEVER IN SOCIAL INTERACTION"
Canadian Muslimah, Naheed Mustafa
Canadian Muslimah, Naheed Mustafa
Having read all of the above, would you be surprised to know that:
"FOUR OUT OF EVERY FIVE WESTERN CONVERTS TO ISLAM ARE WOMEN".
In fact, as Editors of VOGU, we argue that when a non-Muslim female (whose lifestyle before conversion was contradictory to Islamic teachings on many levels), once she converts to be a practicing Muslim in a western society, then her chances to get into problems associated with alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, rape et.c is significantly reduced besides attaining other positive physical, mental and spiritual benefits that are too many to list here.
This E-Zine ends with our favorite verse from the Holy Quran that is yet another evidence that Islam treats MEN and WOMEN as the same:
"FOUR OUT OF EVERY FIVE WESTERN CONVERTS TO ISLAM ARE WOMEN".
In fact, as Editors of VOGU, we argue that when a non-Muslim female (whose lifestyle before conversion was contradictory to Islamic teachings on many levels), once she converts to be a practicing Muslim in a western society, then her chances to get into problems associated with alcohol, drugs, promiscuity, sexually transmitted diseases, AIDS, rape et.c is significantly reduced besides attaining other positive physical, mental and spiritual benefits that are too many to list here.
This E-Zine ends with our favorite verse from the Holy Quran that is yet another evidence that Islam treats MEN and WOMEN as the same:
"BEHOLD:
MEN WHO SURRENDER TO ALLAH & WOMEN WHO SURRENDER TO ALLAH, AND
MEN WHO BELIEVE AND WOMEN WHO BELIEVE, AND
MEN WHO OBEY AND WOMEN WHO OBEY, AND
MEN WHO SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND WOMEN WHO SPEAK THE TRUTH, AND
MEN WHO PERSEVERE IN RIGHTEOUSNESS & WOMEN WHO PERSEVERE, AND
MEN WHO ARE HUMBLE AND WOMEN WHO ARE HUMBLE, AND
MEN WHO GIVE ALMS AND WOMEN WHO GIVE ALMS, AND
MEN WHO FAST, AND WOMEN WHO FAST, AND
MEN WHO GUARD THEIR MODESTY AND WOMEN WHO GUARD THEIR MODESTY, AND
MEN WHO REMEMBER ALLAH MUCH AND WOMEN WHO REMEMBER,
ALLAH HAS PREPARED FOR THEM FORGIVENESS AND A VAST REWARD".
Holy Quran 33:35
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