Saturday 6 April 2013

Ukrainian Feminists Protest All Over Europe.

The Ukrainian women's empowerment group Femen have reacted to Tunisia's repression of women — as typified by the incarceration of Amina — by staging topless protests across Europe. This report comes from the German edition of the Local (hat-tip to The Religion of Peace):

Topless feminists protest Islamist oppression

Bare-breasted activists staged rallies in front of mosques and Tunisian embassies in Berlin and across Europe Thursday against what they called an Islamist crackdown on Arab women's rights.

Protesters from the Ukrainian women's power group Femen held "International Topless Jihad Day" in capitals such as Berlin, Kiev and Paris and painted their torsos with slogans including "Bare breasts against Islamism."

"We're free, we're naked, it's our right, it's our body, it's our rules, and nobody can use religion, and some other holy things, to abuse women, to oppress them," Femen member Alexandra Shevchenko said at a small demonstration in front of a Berlin mosque amid temperatures near the freezing point.

"And we'll fight against them. And our boobs will be stronger than their stones."

The rallies targeted in particular the case of a Tunisian activist calling herself Amina Tyler who sparked a scandal last month when she posted pictures of herself online with the words "My body belongs to me" and "Fuck your morals" emblazoned across her naked breasts.

Supporters fear she could face criminal prosecution.

Police in Kiev detained two young activists with "Free Amina" on their exposed chests immediately after their arrival in front of the city's sole mosque.

Around two dozen topless feminists in Paris whose bodies were tagged with "No Islamists" and "No sharia" tried to approach the Tunisian embassy but were deterred by police as they emerged from the subway, an AFP photographer said.

And in Brussels a small group of women stripped to the waist gathered in front of the Grand Mosque shouting "Fuck your morals" and "Free Amina", while three protested briefly outside the Tunisian consulate in Milan.

Tunisia was once seen as one of the Arab world's most progressive countries on women's rights.

But NGOs have accused the Islamist party Ennahda, which came to power after the revolution that overthrew Zine El Abidine Ben Ali's regime in 2011, of seeking to roll back women's rights. They say those rights must be enshrined in a new constitution expected this year.

The Femen group has been making headlines since 2010 for eye-catching protests against various causes since 2010.

It is a relief to see feminists wake up to the threat Islam poses to women's rights. Feminists from western Europe & the Anglo-sphere have been silent for too long about the heinous attitudes inherent in Islam toward women & girls, even going so far as to defend the disgusting practice of female genital mutilation as a legitimate cultural tradition.

As I have already speculated in this post, I fear that Amina's family are planning to kill her & claim suicide.

Here are some hadith concerning Mohammed's attitude to women:

Allah permits you to shut them in separate rooms & to beat them, but not severely. If they abstain, they have the right to food & clothing. Treat women well for they are like domestic animals & they possess nothing themselves. Allah has made the enjoyment of their bodies lawful in his Koran. Tabari IX:113

The Prophet said: 'I was shown the Hell Fire & the majority of its dwellers were women who are disbelievers or ungrateful.' When asked what they were ungrateful for, the Prophet answered, 'All the favours done for them by their husbands.' Sahih Bukhari 1:22:28

The Prophet said, 'Isn't the witness of a woman equal to half of that of a man?' The women said, 'Yes.' He said, 'This is because of the deficiency of a woman's mind.' Sahih Bukhari 3:48:826

'O womenfolk, you should ask for forgiveness for I saw you in bulk amongst the dwellers of Hell.' A wise lady said: 'Why is it, Allah's Apostle, that women comprise the bulk of the inhabitants of Hell?' The Prophet observed: 'You curse too much & are ungrateful to your spouses. You lack common sense, fail in religion & rob the wisdom of the wise.' Upon this the woman remarked: 'What is wrong with our common sense?' The Prophet replied, 'Your lack of common sense can be determined from the fact that the evidence of two women is equal to one man. That is a proof.' Sahih Muslim 1:1:142

Western feminists should hang their heads in shame & take a leaf out of Femen's book.

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