According to Mao Zedong, women uphold half the sky. Unfortunately, according to a narrow misogynistic interpretation of the Koran, they bear all the blame.
Ninety-two years old Muazzez Ilmiye Cig is a renowned archeologist in Turkey who has dedicated her professional life to studying Hittite and Sumerian civilizations and has contributed to the decoding of cuneiform writings on more than 3000 tablets.
During her research, Ms Cig has discovered that some ancient Sumerian women wore a scarf over their head, similar to the one worn by millions of women in Turkey today. These Sumerian women were half-prostitutes, half priestess whose role was to impart sexual education to young people in temples. Cig explained in her pamphlet published in 2005, My reactions as a citizen: «Head covering started long before the Christian era, but it was not for any religious purpose. It was used to indicate a woman’s social status. That’s just a historical fact.»
During her research, Ms Cig has discovered that some ancient Sumerian women wore a scarf over their head, similar to the one worn by millions of women in Turkey today. These Sumerian women were half-prostitutes, half priestess whose role was to impart sexual education to young people in temples. Cig explained in her pamphlet published in 2005, My reactions as a citizen: «Head covering started long before the Christian era, but it was not for any religious purpose. It was used to indicate a woman’s social status. That’s just a historical fact.»
[http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3214,36-829750,0.html]
Unfortunately, that historical fact was considered by Islamists to be derogative to their faith and Ms Cig and her publisher Ismet Ogutucu were sued in court for «inciting racial and religious hatred». Cig is the latest in a number of intellectuals, including Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk, to have been prosecuted over the past year over alleged insults to Turkey. Although predominantly Muslim, Turkey is a secular country where headscarves are banned in the public sector.
In a trial that lasted less than an hour, Cig rejected the charges. The court ruled in her favour. Her publisher was also acquitted. The trial took place a week before a crucial European Union report on Turkey’s progress toward membership, which is expected to chide Turkey for slipping in its reform program and not acting to change laws that have been used to curb freedoms in violation of EU human rights standards.
http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/01-11-2006/85321-archaeologist-0
Unfortunately, that historical fact was considered by Islamists to be derogative to their faith and Ms Cig and her publisher Ismet Ogutucu were sued in court for «inciting racial and religious hatred». Cig is the latest in a number of intellectuals, including Nobel prize winner Orhan Pamuk, to have been prosecuted over the past year over alleged insults to Turkey. Although predominantly Muslim, Turkey is a secular country where headscarves are banned in the public sector.
In a trial that lasted less than an hour, Cig rejected the charges. The court ruled in her favour. Her publisher was also acquitted. The trial took place a week before a crucial European Union report on Turkey’s progress toward membership, which is expected to chide Turkey for slipping in its reform program and not acting to change laws that have been used to curb freedoms in violation of EU human rights standards.
http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/01-11-2006/85321-archaeologist-0
Muazzez Ilmiye CigIn the second case, a Saudi woman victim of a gang rape was not so lucky.
The victim and her friend were followed by the assailants to their car, kidnapped and taken to a remote farm, where the raping occurred. A Saudi court has sentenced her to 90 lashes of the whip because she was alone in a car with a man to whom she was not married.
The sentence was passed at the end of a trial in which the Al Qateef high criminal court convicted four Saudis of the rape, sentencing them to prison terms and a total of 2,230 lashes…. Saudi courts take marital status into account in sexual crimes. The male friend of the rape victim was also sentenced to 90 lashes for being alone with her in the car.
Female victim of flogging and beating
Update 4 November 2006:
From David Goldstein [http://tinyurl.com/vrfof]
Colorado Springs' New Life Church just announced that it has fired Pastor Ted Haggard for his "sexually immoral conduct." The much publicized meth and gay hooker scandal has elicited a little bit of soul searching and a lot hemming and hawing from Haggard's fellow Evangelical leaders, but perhaps the most ridiculous response came yesterday from Pastor Mark Driscoll of Seattle's Mars Hills mega-church-wannabe.
Writing in his personal blog, Driscoll offers his fellow pastors "some practical suggestion" on how to avoid the type of temptation that consumed Pastor Haggard. And near the top of his list?"Most pastors I know do not have satisfying, free, sexual conversations and liberties with their wives. [...] A wife who lets herself go and is not sexually available to her husband in the ways that the Song of Songs is so frank about is not responsible for her husband's sin, but she may not be helping him either."
[...]
Or as the inimitable sex columnist Dan Savage so aptly put: "I'm sure Ted Haggard is saying something along these lines to his wife right now: 'Oh, honey... I wouldn't have been having those meth-fueled ass-banging sessions with that gay hooker if you hadn't have let yourself go like that!' "
SO HERE'S THE RULE : IT'S ALWAYS TEH WOMAN'S FAULT!!
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