http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=tCeV9Fnj_I4

While it is very understandable to be concerned about the reprisals of the governments everywhere, not to condemn massive violations of human rights, in order to have a comfortable life away from the place of origin, is unprincipled!

http://www.amnesty.org/en/report/info/MDE13/002/2008

There are a lot of people, of different races, genders, nationalities and religions who are fighting crazy misinterpretations of their identities. Just because a screaming crazy moron claims to be part of the KKK, doesn’t mean that he or she is a good Christian. Just because another crazy screaming moron claims to be part of Wahabbi movement, doesn’t mean he or she is a good Muslim. I interpreted this comment as a joke, because at this point, I have no other option. I’ve had enough racist xenophobia for one lifetime. There are certainly many cultures and religions and races and nationalities out there. I don’t think anyone can claim to deeply know and understand all of them. But we can all have open minds and realize that there are crazies in each and every group of people–they may be screaming the loudest and acting the nastiest, but generally, they are NOT the majority, and for us to make induction from these specific individuals to the general population is the definition of ignorance. I imagine if you read Dissident Voice that at least you have somewhat of an open mind and can understand. I will fight for justice wherever I can, and I can tell you Iran and Iraq aren’t the only country where people need good legal representation. I hope you understand that and just forgot to say it because, like I said, I have had enough hatred, racism, ignorance and xenophobia for one lifetime. May God bless all of you and your families, so that maybe you can gain enough insight to learn the basic laws of logic and mathematics.

The following women are looking for a very good lawyer:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40510

http://www.hrw.org/photos/2007/iran03/index.html

Personally, I am horrified by the multitude of accounts of Muslim men killing/beating women in their own family for the sake of “family honor.” I am horrified not because I am a Jew, nor because I am a Zionist, but because I am a woman. I have many wonderful Muslim friends who do not prize family honor over the lives of their family members, and so I am well aware that this behavior is not omnipresent nor representative of Islam. However, it does exist, there’s no way of denying that.

You suggest searching for similar examples in Israel. Examples of Muslim men killing or mutilating women for “family honor” or disobedience are common in Israel, but I assume your comment refers not to Israel as a whole, but only to the Jewish population. I admit that I have not seen accounts of Jewish men killing family members for “family honor.” If such instances abound as you imply, please point me in the right direction as I am very interested in being educated on this topic.

I’ve often wondered how the average men (from short, to medium height and weight, to somewhat flabby, chunky, chubby or fat) would feel if they were *’forced’* at the supermarket checkout lanes — day after day after day after day, to walk between column racks of so-called “men’s” magazines, with only tall, slim, essentially naked (even in freezing winter!), buff, “6-pack”, airhead, blonde white men, in tight-fitting spandex swimtrunks, with always big bulges under the fabric in front, or very low-cut, teeny-tiny, ‘bikini’-style swimbriefs, with the fabric often provocatively pulled down at an angle by a thumb on one side.

This, constantly telling men that *this* is the kind of man you must be — this is the *right* kind of man — and that you’re really desirable for little else. And this, while women in the checkout lanes got to constantly scan at least the many magazine covers as their shopping errand eye-treat. And this, as little and teenage boys, even aside from young men, spent so much of their ‘reading’ time paging through those magazines to see the countless images that this is essentially how they should fit in, in society and even in grade and high school, to be considered popular and desirable.

That this, for Western women, is not considered impolite, disrespectful, and at least somewhat tasteless in polite society, to force even grocery-shopping women to endure this *daily, endless*, magazine covers guantlet — let alone the openly *topless or nude* women on magazine and news tabloid covers, and the salacious “page three” girl photos, in European grocery or newsstand stores — and those *constantly-imposed* images of what they should be (women who are rarely on the covers of *news* magazines), day after day after day, has eluded me. This, where even, to one degree or another, clothed women, though often in low-cut tops or what even white women sometimes call their “ho clothes”, in fashion ads (even on billboards) are often positioned standing, crouching, squating or sitting with their legs spread wide or in various quasi-’fuck-me’ semi-sexual positions.

And these constantly forced, and thus somewhat image-insulting, images of girls and young women are just where it *starts* in Western pop media and society. It’s even worse in the entertainment and sports (as Dallas/Denver/Laker/Raider/etc. “T&A”-cheerleader girls) industry. Girs/women must even put up with *Hooters* ads (that tell smaller-breasted women that they must implant health-endangering silicone *bags* in their breasts to really be desirable) on the ballfield walls — and these are supposed to be *family* entertainment venues. Yes, the delusions of women’s “liberation” in the West.

To me, as an African American, it would be like if I were daily and constantly barraged and assaulted with magazine cover photos of wide-smiling, bug-eyed, tap-dancing Black men — even in the grocery store checkout lanes — in the latest fashions, almost whenever you saw them on magazine or tabloid covers at all — and that these prevalences, assaults, and expectations of images, attire and behavior were considered “social liberation” for Blacks.

The saddest part is when these assumptions come from self-identified feminists as well.

– AS THOSE VERY SAME COLONIALIST, IMPERIALIST ZIONISTS PEPETRATE OR SUPPORT THE BRUTAL ETHNICAL CLEANSING (FOR OVER A HALF-CENTURY NOW) AND/OR USE F-16′S, HELICOPTER GUNSHIPS AND THE LATEST TANKS TO *MISSILE*, *BOMB*, *SHELL*, *MAIM* AND *KILL* ARAB WOMEN, THEIR DAUGHTERS, AND THE REST OF THEIR FAMILIES IN PALESTINE AND LEBANON.

I THINK THAT WOMEN IN THE ARAB WORLD HAVE MUCH LESS TO FEAR FROM THE HAJIB THAN FROM AMERICAN F-16′S, PHOSPHOROUS OR CLUSTER BOMBS, AND RAMPAGING AMERICAN (sometimes as even family-killing rapists) OR ISRAELI SOLDIERS.

IN FACT, WOMEN, THE WORLD OVER, HAVE LESS TO WORRY ABOUT FROM THE HAJIB THAN FROM U.S. FOREIGN POLICY AND/OR AMERICAN MALE SOLDIERS IN THIER COUNTRIES, WHETHER DURING ACTUAL IMPERIALIST U.S. WARS OR JUST NEAR OR ON AMERICAN MILITARY BASES (WHERE EVEN AMERICAN FEMALE SOLDIERS OFTEN FEAR AMERICAN MALE SOLDIERS, EVEN SQUAD LEADERS OR UNIT COMMANDERS, AS UNPUNISHED RAPISTS).

And if you’ve ever seen even an American 14 year-old girl, or a group of 13-16 year-old girls, in an American supermarket, looking at page after page of glossy photos of the latest, quite expensive, often fairly exposing, street and school(!!) attire worn by, indeed, photographically airbrushed, anorexic teen girls (now even some *Black* girls are starting to become anorexic) in the racks of fashion magazines there, then you know that those *American* girls (and later as young women) are not quite socioculturally free. Or as one older Polish female friend once told me in general, “We always knew that your American claims of, so-called, ‘freedom & democracy’ were rather exaggerated.”

Only prejudice people convict Muslims for Bhutto’s death with no evidence at hand and let the imperialists and their Puppets, Pakistan’s army off the hook who will gain the most from her death.
The writer of this article makes her analysis based on one afternoon observation in one of the Starbucks attached to a bookstore and tries to make her conclusion on hijab saying that people with hijab are not forced to cover their head by “some evil unseen masculine oppressor” which I think is not necessarily true in all cases. One thing is obvious from the scene described by her is that those women who made such a comment “I would never let a man do that to me” while looking at the products of the latest fashion of market economy where they have been made by cheap labor in far away places under inhuman conditions to make it “affordable” for some in the “North” to consume in exchange for their silence against massacre of other people in far away places to preserve their “life style” which is deathly to majority of the population on earth, they have already “let a man do that to them.” Many women choose head scarf not because they are religious rather to expressed their anti imperialist and Zionist stands.
At the time of the Iranian revolution many women chose to wear scarf to be united with the anti imperialist movement. Those who are prejudice against other religion and bring Taliban as an example must know that Taliban was the Imperialist creation with the Saudi’s money during Benazir Bhutto’s time as prime minister who viewed Taliban as a group that could stabilize Afghanistan and enable trade access to the Central Asian republics. Benazir Bhutto also wore hijab and was not oppressed and she was admired by majority of the imperialist and Zionist forces, including Bush and Shimon Peres, since she was willing to play the enemy’s game in order to be in power. Benazir Bhutto before being oppressed she was one of the puppets of the Zionist and imperialist camp and has gone to Israel to advance her position for future prime minister of Pakistan. Shimon Peres, Israel president, said:
“I had the chance to meet her (Benazir Bhutto) on several occasions, in which she expressed interest in Israel and said that she hoped to visit upon returning to power.”
http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/12/28/18469064.php
So if you are corrupt and willing to play the oppressor’s game with hijab or no hijab does not make a difference at all.
From the writer’s observation one can conclude that these women who see hijab as sign of women’s oppression, even those who choose to wear it, are kept oppressed and ignorant by western propaganda machine who are not able to see their own oppression and complicity in crimes of the imperialist and Zionist forces and let other men make the conclusion for them to without their own efforts in establishing the conclusion.
It is wrong, I think, that one establishes any firm conclusion based on one observation.

I’m not sure what point you are attempting to make or time period you live in but since the end of WWII there are international treaties that make such invasions illegal.