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Sunday, 1 March 2009
No Sisterhood in Islam

by Mary Jackson (March 2009) 

As a Muslim you really do feel part of a global community regardless of where you're from, the colour of your skin. The Islamic sisterhood makes Western feminism pale in significance.” Yvonne Ridley
 
I have heard it said by dreamy apologists for Islam that the religion is woman-friendly in one important respect: because men and women cannot mix freely, women are thrown in on each other’s company, producing a kind of “sisterhood” that Western feminists can only dream of. Do women in the Islamic world find comfort in each other’s society, or even unite against male oppression? more>>>
Posted on 03/01/2009 10:33 AM by NER
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1 Mar 2009
Send an emailHugh Fitzgerald

The adjective "dreamy" has been mine since 1977, when I began paying royalties for its use to the Estate of Vladimir Nabokov. It was he, of course, who in the phrase "dreamy misinformation" used the adjective in such an unforgettable way, thus compelling me to do the same. As I am still paying royaltiies, I now expect you to pay me, and the sum will be passed on, intact, to the Estate.



1 Mar 2009
Send an emailMary Jackson

Dream on.

I also used "liquid brown eyes", both of which (well, just the one wouldn't be half so dreamy) you claim as your own.



1 Mar 2009
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1 Mar 2009
Paul Blaskowicz

Ridley is a demented bint of the first water.  I wonder what her reaction to the film would be - on second thoughts, no I don't. She would justify anything and everything done by mussslim barbarians.

Shouldn't she have been stoned by now,  for living trussed up  in atent with men she was not related to?  And her sidekick -   the delapidated old rué Galloway -  should surely have  also been stoned for his well-publicised adulteries and promiscuity in e.g. Greece?  (Not that I'm against that sort of thing for non-hypocrites.)

What's with Galloway's weird Scotch-Iraqi accent and flowery  arabesque language these days?   Notice how he's never returned to the land of his indefatigable patron to address the people and tell them how he is still in mourning for their  deceased Leader..?



3 Mar 2009
Esmerelda Weatherwax

I don't think Ridley would last long in the aftermath of an islamic revolution. Neither would Galloway's other groupie Salma Yaqoob.
If they were lucky they would be shot; otherwise walled up as chief scrubbers ico latrine maintenance in a harem run by the supreme leader's mother and No 1 wife.



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