"ANTI-ZIONISM IS THE NEW ANTI-SEMITISM" - SAYS DR. PHYLLIS CHESLER BY: FERN SIDMAN Israel National News caught up with frequent op-ed contributor, Dr. Phyllis Chesler, as she delivered remarks at a first-of-its-kind conference in Toronto entitled, "When Middle East Politics Invade Campus" on February 16th. No stranger to the lecture circuit or to controversy, Dr. Chesler's appearance at this seminal intellectual forum served as the epicenter of the conversation on the continued and increasingly hostile demonization of Israel, both on the college campus and in the media. FS: Today, you addressed the escalating hatred of Israel in the realm of the Western academy. Can you tell us your observations of this phenomenon since your book, "The New Anti-Semitism" came about some years ago? PC: As I first wrote in 2001-2002, the new anti-Semitisim also consists of a rather frightening, genocidal anti-Zionism. The global demonization of Israel has gathered such speed and force that it could, potentially – it is certainly meant to – delegitimize and destroy the Jewish state. In 2005, Iran’s Ahmadinejad said that Israel must be “wiped off the map.” In 2006, he said that the Middle East would be better off “without the existence of the Zionist regime” and that Israel would “soon be wiped out.” In 2011, Many signs and placards in Cairo, including the many effigies of Hosni Mubarak, all bore Stars of David; Mubarak was accused of being a Zionist—the worst epithet imaginable. Predictably, on February 11, 2011, the anniversary of the so-called 1979 Iranian revolution, President Ahmadinejad congratulated the triumphant Egyptians. He said: “Despite all the West’s complicated and Satanic designs…a new Middle East is emerging without the Zionist regime and U.S. interference, a place where the arrogant powers will have no place.” Israel is under the most profound, even existential siege. On February 13, 2011, the Israeli government urged Israelis to return home from the Sinai for fear “that the peninsula will become a launching pad for terror attacks as Egyptian police abandon their posts.” Thus, Israel is now surrounded by Hamas in Gaza, Iran’s Hezbollah in Lebanon, potentially the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, and the various Islamist and jihadist groups on the West Bank. In addition, let’s not forget that in the early years of the Intifada, Israeli civilians were murdered and maimed in huge numbers. Had the equivalent happened in the United States it would have instantly launched World War IV. FS: Do you think the Egpytian people will eventually embrace a civilian government that is predicated on secular, democratic principles? PC: Please remember that the women in Tahrir Square were mainly wearing serious hijab and even niqab. They are already pro-Islamist. According to a June 2010 Pew Research opinion survey of Egyptians, it stated that, “Fifty nine percent said they back Islamists. Only 27% said they back modernizers. Half of Egyptians support Hamas. Thirty percent support Hizbullah and 20% support al Qaida. Moreover, 95% of them would welcome Islamic influence over their politics….Eighty two percent of Egyptians support executing adulterers by stoning, 77% support whipping and cutting the hands off thieves. 84% support executing any Muslim who changes his religion." What will it mean that such a population can vote? Will the vote be any different than the vote which elected Hamas in Gaza? Without the necessary precursors: the rule of law, a constitutional system of checks and balances, the separation of mosque and state, freedom of religion, a free press, education, women’s rights, human rights, a modern economic base, etc. the vote does not mean that true democracy exists. FS: Many speakers here today have spoken of the inherent danger of defending Israel against such accusations of the kind of racism that apartheid represents. You have, on many occasions, addressed audiences on various campuses about this very issue. Can you tell us your experience in doing so? PC: The campuses have become increasingly and aggressively anti-Israel and pro-Islam. Today, anti-Zionism is the new anti-Semitism. “Brownshirt” behavior rules the day. Muslim and ex-Muslim dissidents are met with menace, if they are invited to speak at all and pro-Israel truth tellers are not even invited to speak. Israel is not an apartheid nation. Muslim countries persecute non-Muslim minorities. The Arab Middle East is “judenrein,” Arab Christians are under siege. Say this on most campuses, as I have, and you will be jeered, booed, possibly physically menaced, certain demonized afterwards as a “racist” and “Islamophobe.” You will lose your publishing contacts and your former feminist political world. You will not be invited to speak by Women’s Studies programs. My work on Islamic gender apartheid has been attacked in these quarters. FS: You mentioned today that your former feminist associates have shunned you for documenting the horrors of Islamic gender apartheid. You also mentioned their reluctance to speak out on this issue. Why do you think that is the case? PC: Islamic gender apartheid is a human rights violation and cannot be justified in the name of cultural relativism, tolerance, anti-racism, diversity, or political correctness. The battle for women's rights is central to the battle for Europe and for Western values. FS: Do you have any statistics on the number of Israelis who have lost their lives due to the forces of radical Islam? PC: Based on an American population of approximately 310 million, the Israeli civilian death count is the equivalent of 48,700 Americans killed by terrorists on our own soil, in pizza parlors, on buses, at Passover sedorim, in our beds. According to the Israeli Foreign Ministry, between 2001 and 2007, 8,342 Israelis were wounded by terrorist attacks, including 5,676 civilians. This is the equivalent of 340,000 wounded Americans. FS: Do you believe that there are any Muslims who would publicly oppose the forces radical Islam if given the opportunity? PC: Yes, moderate, radical, and extremely brave anti-Islamist Muslims do exist. They are endangered in their birthplaces and mainly live in exile where Western governments do not call upon them for their views. Governments instead prefer the views of Islamists and terrorists whom they refer to as “moderates.” FS: In your opinion, who is in the forefront of disseminating the ubiquitous myths about Israel? PC: The politically correct line is that Israel, tiny Israel, is the “Nazi, Apartheid state.” Only Orwell would understand this misuse of language, this reversal of logic, which is meant to confuse and brainwash people. Such brainwashing has worked. Sixty years of Soviet and Arab League activism and Saudi monies have accomplished the unbelievable. Israel is not only the “bad guy,” it is the “very worst bad guy” in the entire universe. FS: What is your message for those who are indifferent to the growing scourge of Islamic propaganda and terrorism? PC: We, the world’s civilians, are now all Israelis. The same world which refused to stop the airplane hijackings and suicide killers which blew up countless Israeli civilians has now inherited this whirlwind. As they say: It may start with the Jews but it never ends there.
ADVOCATES FOR CIVIL LIBERTIES HOLDS HISTORIC CONFERENCE IN TORONTO BY: FERN SIDMAN On Wednesday February 16th, a most unique and historic colloquium was convened in Toronto by the Advocates For Civil Liberties (ACL), a new and dynamic organization of attorneys, professionals and concerned citizens dedicated to spotlighting the egregious manifestations of anti-Israel propaganda on university campuses across North America. The day long symposium that drew over 400 people was entitled, "When Middle East Politics Invade Campus" and was held at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Toronto. The forum featured a panoply of distinguished speakers including such vibrant and erudite intellectual personalities as Israel National News op-ed contributor, Dr. Phyllis Chesler, emerita professor of psychology and women's studies at CUNY, journalist, noted lecturer and author of 13 books including, "The New Anti-Semitism" and "The Death of Feminism". The other speakers included Dr. Catherine Chatterley, a research fellow at the University of Manitoba and founding director of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism, Judge Hadassa Ben Ito, an international jurist and past president of the International Association of Jewish Lawyers and Jurists, Dr. Gil Troy, professor of history at McGill University, renowned author and presidential historian, Elliot Chodoff, a Major in the Israel Defense Forces and a political and military analyst specializing in the Middle East conflict and the global war on terrorism, Dr. Richard Cravatts of Boston University and author of a forthcoming book entitled, "Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel", Andrew Roberts, founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative and a noted British historian, author and lecturer, and Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario. Spearheaded and organized by conference coordinator Meryle Kates, the ACL has been established to advocate for civil liberties protection in Canada, particularly in university settings. Their efforts have been devoted to countering unbalanced anti-Israel messages from organizations whose objectives are to promote propaganda against the State of Israel, with the result of inciting anti-Israel sentiment and hostilities. The directors of the ACL include Lorne Saltman, an attorney with the firm Cassels Brock & Blackwell, LLP, Stephen Posen of Minden Gross, LLP, and Robert Grant of FusionPro UK. According to their mission statement, "the ACL seeks to collaborate with academic officials to devise appropriate, enforceable ground rules for campus political activities. Increasingly, demonstrations such as, but not limited to the upcoming "Israeli Apartheid Week" on campus, create a hostile atmosphere, and one that stifles the genuine exchange of views on sensitive Middle East issues. Groups promoting Israeli Apartheid Week attack the very concept of dialogue and freedom of speech. Rather than engage in civil discourse, these groups become involved in hateful protests to delegitimize Israel's standing internationally, and create a climate of intimidation for many members of the university community." Serving as moderator for the proceedings was Jonathan Kay, a managing editor at Canada's National Post newspaper and a columnist on the newspaper's op-ed page. "The only way to disprove a lie is to establish the facts," declared Judge Hadassa Ben Itto as she delivered the opening remarks of the conference via video feed from Jerusalem. Judge Itto is best known for her scholarly monograph entitled, "The Lie That Wouldn't Die, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion" (2005), a text that has been used for a century to demonize Jews and delegitimize Israel. "In 1964, the Protocols were finally declared 'the hoax of the century, yet both the Jewish people and Israel are now targets of haters who still insist that there is a Jewish conspiracy to dominate the world", she ruefully observed. Referencing the tendentious climate on campuses as it pertains to Israel and the spurious "scholarship" that is being substituted for facts, Judge Itto said, "The organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week prove that they know nothing about Israel. Professors at some universities are guilty of presenting distorted information about Israel along with one-sided bias and slanderous rhetoric. Boycotts of academics and the assault on the free marketplace of ideas are replicas of the public square where public opinion is dictating policy today." Adding that she personally witnessed "real apartheid" in South Africa years ago, she condemned the concept of an Israeli Apartheid Week as "outrageous" and called for responsible educators to set the record straight. Students at such respected academic institutions as York University in Toronto are no stranger to the acrimony that is engendered during Israeli Apartheid Week as their campus has previously morphed into a hotbed of anti-Israel and anti-Jewish hatred during past events of this kind. In a very special panel dedicated to the voices of those who have experienced this phenomenon, Mr. Kay introduced five York students who articulated their views and expressed concerns about the future. Sara Akrami, an Iranian human rights activist and second year political science student at York said, "Clubs are established at York with the sole purpose of creating discord and promoting anti-Israel violence and the administration takes no action against them." Ms. Akrami noted that the November 2010 appearance of British parliamentarian George Galloway was opposed by a majority of the students at York. Galloway is a highly polemical figure who achieved notoriety as a rabid hater of the Jewish state, asserting that Israel created "conditions in the Arab countries and in some European countries to stampede Jewish people ... into the Zionist state." She decried the "inhumane and terrorist activities of the Islamic Republic of Iran" and added that those on campus who support the draconian regime of Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad have "treated her organization with hostility and disrespect". She angrily admonished Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and called upon him to "stop dealing with the Iranian government." Others such as Josee Chiasson, a fourth year student at York completing an honors BA in psychology has undertaken the task of uniting Christian and Jewish leaders on campus and has assumed the role of president of Christians United for Israel (CUFI). "I knew nothing of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict during my first year at college. It was only when I visited Israel and witnessed the truth firsthand, did I begin to understand that the insidious rhetoric of the organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week simply did not hold true." Declaring that the pernicious canards against Jews extolled by Hitler were tantamount to those spewed forth by George Galloway, Ms. Chiasson said, "Hitler promised world peace if only the Jews were eradicated and so did Galloway. He said that if Israel makes peace with the Palestinians then there would be world peace and we know that that is a complete falsehood." She exhorted students and faculty alike to, "challenge the radical beliefs that are rampant on our campuses" as she spoke of "students who have been targeted for abuse and threats" by vehemently anti-Israel organizations on campus. Other students such as Michael Payton, a cognitive science major at York, sociology major Afroza Mohammed and Noah Kochman also addressed the issue of students being subjected to verbal invective and physical assaults by members of the Muslim Student Association and other anti-Israel groups. Mr. Kochman, a member of the Canadian Association of Jewish Students spoke of the violent outbursts of Palestinian student groups that led to the cancellation of an address scheduled to be delivered by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ay Concordia University in Montreal in 2002. "Pro-Israel student demonstrators were trapped in their own space, unable to move, because of the overt aggression of the demonstrators who resorted to violence." Subsequent to the student panel forum, Andrew Roberts, noted British author, historian, lecturer and founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative took center stage and spoke of the aims of the relatively new organization. Established in August of 2010 to concretely challenge the British boycott of Israeli academia, Mr. Roberts said that among the goals of the Friends of Israel Initiative were to, "counter the growing efforts to delegitimize the State of Israel and its right to live in peace within safe and defensible borders. The Initiative arises out of a sense of deep concern about the unprecedented campaign of delegitimization against Israel waged by enemies of the Jewish state, and perversely, supported by numerous international institutions." Among the founding members of the Friends of Israeli Initiative is John Bolton, former US ambassador to the United Nations. Professor Richard Cravatts of Boston University and author of a forthcoming book entitled, "Genocidal Liberalism: The University's Jihad Against Israel", which documents the extensive web of Islamist influence that pervades the university campus, spoke of "brand hijacking" in terms of Israel's global image. "Those who would re-write the history of Israel and the narrative of the Palestinians in the Middle East have hijacked Israel's branding", he intoned adding that we live in a "world turned upside down in its relationship to the interpretation of the reality in the Middle East." Dr. Cravatts illustrated his assertions by pointing out the sheer hypocrisy of the worldview shared by the international community as it pertains to standards of equity and justice in Israel. "We ignore the fact that Arabs in the territories would receive the death penalty for selling an apartment to a Jew, but we never raise our voices when Israel is roundly condemned for building 1300 apartments in East Jerusalem; a right that any other nation takes for granted." Warning of the existential threat that Israel faces from the burgeoning Muslim Brotherhood, Eliot Chodoff, a political and military analyst and lecturer on the history and challenges of the Middle East said, "There is an all out assault on Israel taking place" and reminded his audience of the parallel between the recent revolution in Egypt and the Iranian revolution that took place in 1979. "It was students, intellectuals and shopkeepers that led the revolution against the Shah of Iran," he intoned, adding that the teachings of the Muslim Brotherhood were predicated upon a Nazi-like ideology and it is precisely these beliefs that provide their basis for launching a global jihad. "The campuses have become increasingly and aggressively anti-Israel and pro-Islam", declared Dr. Phyllis Chesler, prolific author, emerita professor of psychology and women's studies at CUNY and a foremost expert on gender and religious apartheid in the Muslim world. "Pro-Israel students are verbally humiliated and physically attacked. Professors in Middle East Studies teach students only one point of view -- the pro-Palestinian and anti-Israel point of view", she said, adding that, "this has been the case at York University, Concordia University and the University of California at San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Berkeley and Irvine." Speaking at length on the history of the progenitors of genuine apartheid in the Middle East, Dr. Chesler said, "Israel is not an apartheid nation. Islam is the world's largest practitioner of both religious and gender apartheid. Muslims have persecuted, murdered, and forcibly converted the entire Middle East, India, parts of Africa, Asia and now Europe." Dr. Chesler outlined her important work on the phenomenon of "honor killings" of Muslim women throughout the world that was published in 2009 and 2010 in the Middle East Quarterly. "Islamic gender apartheid is a human rights violation and cannot be justified in the name of cultural relativism, tolerance, anti-racism, diversity or political correctness", she said. "We are facing two jihads", said Dr. Gil Troy, professor of history at McGill University in Montreal and author of the book, "Why I am A Zionist." "As we've discussed today, there is the jihad on campus and a jihad in the classroom, in our textbooks and emanating from our professors", he said. Exhorting students and parents to become more involved in the sphere of academia, Professor Troy said, "we are living in a golden age for Jews on campus, but we must raise the standards of teaching and rescue academia from corrupt academics and fight educational malpractice." Attacking the pervasive trend of multiculturalism, Salim Mansur, professor of political science at the University of Western Ontario said, "The right of Israel to remain a safe and secure state must be defended against the ideology of multiculturalists", adding that "multiculturalism is a big, odious, disgusting lie. China, Japan and the Arab nations are not practicing multiculturalism so why are we?" Dr. Catherine Chatterley of the Canadian Institute for the Study of Anti-Semitism spoke of the historical basis of Israeli Apartheid Week saying, "The ideology behind Israeli Apartheid Week is not a new one. The former Soviet Union was a leading proponent of this anti-Zionist philosophy. This was the ideology that declared that Zionism is tantamount to imperialism, racism, discrimination and organically linked to the repression of the human being." She also addressed the broader global machinations of those orchestrating Israeli Apartheid Week. "The concept of Israeli Apartheid Week is part of a global, political strategy to dismantle the Jewish state. It began as a Canadian invention and now takes place in over 55 cities worldwide." She added that the organizers of Israeli Apartheid Week are making concerted efforts to build alliances with the disenfranchised in general, thus furthering their anti-Zionist distortions.
 An Australian is trapped with her children in Saudi Arabia while her husband languishes in jail, both victims of a campaign by her former husband. Rick Feneley and Tim Elliott report. At first glance Jennifer Birrell is a free woman living a privileged life in the Saudi capital, Riyadh. "It's a weird prison," she concedes. "A big house with a pool and a nice new car, all behind massive concrete walls that no one can see inside of. That's the prison. So I live here with my maid and my kids and my driver." But here the 33-year-old Muslim convert is trapped, unable to obtain an exit visa to return to Australia, and with no right to visit her husband, Mohammed Ahmed Nagi, in jail. Also 33, he has been held in the Malaz prison for more than 15 months. He has another 21 months to serve. He has endured 200 lashes, 50 at a time, and will be subjected to 100 more. Why? The couple's hellish predicament – detailed in Birrell's pleading letter to the Saudi king – rests on several flimsy pieces of paper, all wielded by her abusive former husband.
This is the Yemeni man she married in Australia in 1998 and who fathered three of her children, all Australian citizens.
They moved to Saudi Arabia in 2004, but she fled from him two years and three months ago, fearing for her life, after he allegedly threatened to kill her and bashed her three times with a candle stick, caving in her forehead. Among his pieces of paper was an old mobile phone bill. He had her account redirected to him while they were separated, and he took the bill to police in July last year, five months after he granted her a divorce in court. By now Birrell's colleague Mohammed Nagi had offered to become her guardian, or mahram.
In accordance with Muslim custom, he had asked her father's permission and they married in June last year, in accordance with Sharia law, at the Egyptian embassy in Riyadh.
Their marriage certificate was legalised in the Saudi Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Saudi Ministry of Justice. After all, the law in the kingdom requires a woman have a male guardian. Read more at SMH H/T: David F. 
 By Ashley Herzog If you’ve ever wondered why radical leftists—who supposedly care about women’s rights—feel compelled to justify Islam’s violent oppression of women, you should read United in Hate by Jamie Glazov. Glazov does an excellent job of examining the love affair between leftists in the West and radical Muslims who treat women as “less worthy than cows and sheep,” as Palestinian writer Souad says in the book. While some liberals in the U.S. and Europe have no problem telling the truth about Islamic gender apartheid, others fanatically defend it. Consider the issue of rape. Rape is common in Muslim countries, and often results in a death sentence—for the victim. “In 2004, a sixteen-year old girl, Atefeh Rajabi, was hanged in a public square in Iran,” feminist writer Phyllis Chesler wrote in her book The Death of Feminism. “Her crime? Rajabi was charged with adultery—which probably means she was raped. Her rapist was not executed.” Rape victims are frequently stoned to death with the approval of Muslim courts, and it is estimated that 75 percent of female prisoners in Pakistan are behind bars because they were raped. Read more ...Source: Townhall.com
 L’Islam radicale fondamentalista è il più gran praticante sia dell’Apartheid di genere che di quello religioso al Mondo.
Altri parlano qui oggi dell’Apartheid islamico religioso. Mi è stato chiesto di focalizzarmi sull’Apartheid islamico di genere.
Noi che viviamo in Occidente, e che abbiamo imparato come analizzare l’Ineguaglianza di genere qui, e protestarvi, semplicemente ignoriamo totalmente quanto le donne siano molto più libere e più al sicuro in Occidente che nei Paesi islamici.
Un tempo ho vissuto nel mondo islamico, in Afghanistan. Quel che ho imparato a Kabul mi ha reso immune dalla romanticizzazione del Terzo Mondo o dalla fascinazione verso i tiranni e i terroristi che hanno definito la mia Generazione degli anni Sessanta e Settanta come radicali.
Nascere femmina e islamica, specialmente Oggi, sotto il Regime islamico, è potenzialmente un Crimine (a cui viene applicata la Pena) capitale. Gli Avvertimenti e le Punizioni iniziano presto e sono tanto implacabili quanto normalizzati.
Le donne sono viste come sub-umane, semi-demoni, pericolose, sessualmente ‘selvagge’ – da uomini il cui Desiderio (sessuale) e la cui Progenie sono senza limiti. Sebbene ci siano molte eccezioni, in generale le ragazze islamiche (e arabe) sono disprezzate e regolarmente maledette, picchiate, trattate come serve o schiave dai loro padri e fratelli più anziani. Le donne vengono nascoste, letteralmente soffocate sotto veli facciali e corporali, avvolte, otticamente bruciate vive mentre sono ancora vive.
Se aveste mai indossato un burqa capireste che è diverso dal coprirvi i capelli con un foulard o una parrucca. Vi manca la visuale periferica. Non potete mai sentire il sole sul vostro viso. La gente è impossibilitata a vedere i vostri occhi, la vostra faccia, le vostre espressioni, e voi siete impossibilitati a relazionarvi veramente con qualcuno. Siete condannati a muovervi nell’Universo come se foste dei fantasmi.
Oggi, bambine di 8 anni sono date in sposa dai loro padri, a uomini di anche 50 anni, al fine di pagare i loro Debiti di gioco. Questo succede mentre siamo qui – è successo nei mesi appena passati, sia in Afghanistan che in Arabia Saudita. Le ragazze sono forzate a sposare i loro primi Cugini contro la loro Volontà e se rifiutano – esse vengono ammazzate per motivi d’onore.
Le donne islamiche vengono legalmente lapidate a morte in Iran e in Afghanistan; sgozzate, sia legalmente che per motivi di Costume, in Iraq, Arabia Saudita e Pakistan; per motivi di Costume accecate da Attacchi d’acido in Pakistan e Afghanistan – e né da ebrei, né da israeliani o da americani, ma da altri islamici.
Le donne islamiche vengono bruciate vive (letteralmente, aldilà della metafora dei veli facciali e corporali) in Algeria, in Pakistan, e sotto i Regimi di AlQaeda e dei talebani. Le donne islamiche sono sessualmente insinuate da Partiti reazionari in Egitto e in Algeria, e fatte oggetto di stupri di Gruppo e poi frustate praticamente a morte in Arabia Saudita, Egitto, Algeria. Sono picchiate a scopo normativo in casa, in tutto il mondo islamico – sì a Gaza e nel West Bank, e in Giordania e in Egitto pure, e normativamente uccise tramite Delitti d’onore/dis-onore. L’Abuso fisico e sessuale dei bambini è sia dilagante che fortemente negato, così come lo è la Pederastia omosessuale.
Secondo Studi recenti, in Pakistan il 90% delle donne vengono picchiate durante tutto il corso della loro Vita. 1 milione di donne in Pakistan viene picchiato ogni anno mentre è incinta. I Delitti d’onore sono una Pandemia ma gli omicidi vengono raramente proseguiti. Al contrario. Essi sono abitualmente glorificati, resi degli eroi.
In Occidente, Pestaggi e Feminicidi sono Crimini, e vengono spesso (non sempre) proseguiti. Pestaggio e Assassinio di una donna sono né glorificati né ritenuti accettabili in Occidente, e nemmeno lo è la collaborazione familiare in ciò.
I Delitti d’onore sono un Crimine islamico-verso-islamico, una collaborazione di un’intera Famiglia contro il loro proprio Sangue femminile. Così è per la Mutilazione genitale femminile, per la Poligamia e per i Matrimoni combinati e dei bambini.
Queste Atrocità a danno dei Diritti umani succedono in tutto il mondo islamico. Evitate di fare errori: queste Pratiche hanno penetrato l’Occidente con successo. Se una ragazza o una donna, in Europa o in America del nord, vuole andare al College; rifiuta il velo; lascia un marito imposto; rifiuta un Matrimonio combinato; sceglie di avere un amico non-islamico; agisce in modo che è considerato troppo ‘occidentale’, la sua propria Famiglia (padre, madre, fratello, a volte marito) la ucciderà. Nello scorso anno questo è successo a Dallas, a Toronto, ad Atlanta, e ad Henrietta, New York. Gli Assassini d’onore succedono molto più spesso in Europa, perché la popolazione islamica è molto di più che qui.
Di recente, un uomo islamico-pakistano ha sgozzato la sua moglie islamica-pakistana a Buffalo. La Decapitazione richiede grande forza e pianificazione. Il Crimine commesso dalla moglie? Dopo essere stata picchiata e aver vissuto nella Paura per anni, lei si è finalmente permessa di lasciarlo. E di più: lei si è permessa di tenere i figli e la casa. Un Ordine di protezione ha costretto lui a star fuori dal suo castello. In Pakistan, lui l’avrebbe semplicemente uccisa per Insubordinazione. Non sarebbe nemmeno stato proseguito. Qui, le Femministe americane e gli Operatori nel campo della Violenza domestica si rifiutano di vedere in ciò un Delitto d’onore, si rifiutano di capire che una Decapitazione è relativa all’Islam radicale fondamentalista e alla Jihad, e pensano che se lo facessero, ciò li renderebbe vulnerabili ad essere chiamati ‘razzisti’.
Sebbene l’America sia lontano dall’essere perfetta, è comunque un Paese più democratico, più legale, più femminista e più compassionevole rispetto a qualsiasi altro Paese islamico, ovunque nel Mondo - indipendentemente da quanto affascinanti o ospitali i suoi Cittadini possano anche essere. (Come per l’America,) lo stesso vale per il piccolo, imperfetto, stupefacente e tanto diffamato Israele. Sta dritto sui suoi piedi, sovrastando i suoi vicini arabi e islamici in termini di Diritti umani. È questa la ragione per cui è tanto demonizzato.
Con mio dispiacere, molti Accademici occidentali, Attiviste femministe, e Giornalisti di Media principali fanno resistenza attiva a questo punto di vista. Essi sostengono che il Terrorismo di bombe-umane, i Discorsi d’odio, i bambini bombe-suicide, i Delitti d’onore pensati, finanziati e commessi da islamici, abbiano niente a che vedere con l’Islam; che le Pratiche barbariche quali la Lapidazione, la Decapitazione, l’Amputazione degli arti e i Delitti d’onore siano Costumi ‘pre-islamici’ e abbiano niente a che fare con l’Islam; e che paragonare l’Islam con quanto viene fatto in suo nome dai suoi seguaci, o dai suoi Leaders nazionali o religiosi – ciò sarebbe un esempio di ‘Razzismo’ occidentale e di Islamofobia.
A noi in Occidente è pure stato insegnato che il Barbarismo islamico è dovuto al Colonialismo occidentale, all’Imperialismo, al Razzismo. Nessuno ci ha insegnato a guardare l’Islam quale la Cultura imperialista, genocidale, schiavista e misogina che è. Oggi, persino dire ciò è presto etichettato di ‘islamofobico’ e censurato quale Discorso d’odio.
Se ci rifiutiamo di proteggere le ragazze e donne islamiche in Occidente, dall’essere assassinate per onore – allora il loro sangue macchierà pure le nostre mani.
Finanziare Rifugi, in tutto il Mondo, per donne islamiche martoriate, sarebbe da tempo dovuto. Sfido i Principi sauditi a finanziare questa valida Causa in opposizione al loro finanziamento di ulteriori Madrassah o ulteriori Programmi mediorientali di Studio anti-americani e anti-israeliani.
Credo che dobbiamo rimanere uniti da una visione di Diritti umani che siano universali. Credo che gli induisti da tempo perseguitati hanno molto da insegnare all’Occidente in merito alla Jihad, e così possono fare i cristiani, gli ebrei (specialmente gli ebrei arabi e nordafricani), i buddisti, gli zoroastriani, i ba’hai, eccetera, che sono stati perseguitati, forzati a convertirsi, assassinati e esiliati dagli islamici, in Asia e in Medio Oriente.
Il nostro Paese e il nostro Mondo è sotto il più profondo Assedio. Questa Maratona è il primo passo che i Civili hanno intrapreso per contrattaccare l’Islam radicale e fondamentalista.
Faccio i complimenti alla Coalizione e ai suoi Leaders per la loro brillante Visione e per il loro Attivismo.
[*] Manifestazione organizzata da Human Rights Coalition Against Radical Islam
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E-mail: info@hrcari.org. Source: Pajamas MediaTranslated into Italian by FFFFF
We are holding a Washington DC public rally in mid-May, on Sunday, May 17 from 2 to 4 PM for those Responsible for Equality And Liberty at the Washington DC Capitol Reflecting Pool to address the global human rights challenge of Islamic supremacism to equality and liberty and the Islamic supremacist war on women in America and around the world. We will demand that our legislators acknowledge this supremacist threat to our freedoms and call for action to fight it. Sign our petition on this today! For directions to the May 17 rally, see map of the Capitol compound and nearby Washington DC metro stops. Like most Washington DC events, the way to get there is via the subway. Parking on the weekends in downtown DC is very difficult. The Washington DC subway is fast and efficient, and you will be able to park at a stop in Maryland and Virginia to come into the city. Read more ...Source: REAL
By Phyllis Chesler My Speech for the Human Rights Rally Against Radical Fundamentalist Islam Today in Times Square, New York Radical, fundamentalist Islam is the world’s largest practioner of both gender and religious apartheid. Others are speaking here today about Islamic religious apartheid. I have been asked to focus on Islamic gender apartheid. We who live in the West, and who have learned how to analyze and protest gender inequality here, simply have no idea how much free-er and safer women are in the West than in Muslim countries. I once lived in the Islamic world, in Afghanistan. What I learned in Kabul rendered me immune to the romanticization of the Third World or to the glamorization of tyrants and terrorists that defined my generation of 1960s and 1970s radicals. Being born female and Muslim, especially today, under radical Islamic rule, is potentially a capital crime. The warnings and the punishment begin early on and are both relentless and normalized. Read more ...Source: Pajamas Media
By Phyllis Chesler and Marcia Pappas The issue of Islamic/Islamist gender apartheid is one of epidemic and global proportions. Although it has reached American shores, the feminist establishment here remains tragically ambivalent about how to deal with forced veiling, arranged marriage, separatism, and honor-related violence, including honor killings. Many feminists fear that, were they to tie the subordination of women to a particular religion or culture, especially to Islam, that they would be perceived as “racists,” or “Islamophobes.” This fear trumps their sincere concern for womens’ rights and womens’ lives. The issue, quite simply, is whether or not non-Muslim white folks can discuss Muslim-on-Muslim crime or black-on-black crime or whether only people who share the same faith and skin-color are allowed to raise this issue. Read more ...Source: Pajamas MediaPhyllis Chesler
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