The Herald Sun reports:
What's fascinating to me is that the legion of Western feminist campaigners who will scream about the supposed glass-ceilings in the west that stop women from earning the same as men and who become incandescent with rage when a man demeans all womankind by calling an employee 'love' or 'dear', have nothing to say about actual misogyny.
The way that 'feminists' ignore the very real and sometimes fatal misogyny that occurs in much of the Islamic world is somewhat distressing to me. Is it that they are racists who believe that Islamists should be held to a lower standard than the 'civilised West' or that they really believe that making alliance with Islamists to bring down patriarchal Western civilisation is a reasonable proposition?
'A SUDANESE woman says she's prepared to be flogged to defend the right to leave her hair uncovered in defiance of a Taliban-like law.
Amira Osman Hamed faces a possible whipping if convicted at a trial which could come on September 19.
Under Sudanese law, her hair - and that of all women - is supposed to be covered with a "hijab", but Ms Hamed refuses.
The 35-year-old's case has drawn support from civil rights activists and is the latest to highlight Sudan's series of laws governing morality, which took effect after the 1989 Islamist-backed coup by President Omar al-Bashir.
"They want us to be like Taliban women," Ms Hamed said in an interview with AFP, referring to the fundamentalist rebel movement in Afghanistan.
She is charged under Article 152 which prohibits "indecent" clothing.
Activists say the vaguely-worded law leaves women subject to police harassment and disproportionately targets the poor in an effort to maintain "public order".
Ms Hamed said she was visiting a government office in Jebel Aulia, just outside Khartoum, on August 27 when a policeman aggressively told her to cover her head.
"He said, 'You are not Sudanese. What is your religion?'"
"I'm Sudanese. I'm Muslim, and I'm not going to cover my head," replied Ms Hamed.
Her dark hair, tinged golden, is braided tight against her scalp with a flare of curls at the back.
In 2009 the case of Lubna Ahmed al-Hussein, a journalist, led to a global outcry and attention toward women's rights in Sudan.
Ms Hussein was fined for wearing slacks in public but she refused to pay. She spent one day behind bars until the Sudanese Journalists' Union paid the fine on her behalf.
Others rounded up with her in a restaurant were flogged.'
What's fascinating to me is that the legion of Western feminist campaigners who will scream about the supposed glass-ceilings in the west that stop women from earning the same as men and who become incandescent with rage when a man demeans all womankind by calling an employee 'love' or 'dear', have nothing to say about actual misogyny.
The way that 'feminists' ignore the very real and sometimes fatal misogyny that occurs in much of the Islamic world is somewhat distressing to me. Is it that they are racists who believe that Islamists should be held to a lower standard than the 'civilised West' or that they really believe that making alliance with Islamists to bring down patriarchal Western civilisation is a reasonable proposition?
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