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Gilead Resembles an Islamic Theocracy, not Trump’s America by Phyllis Chesler (Quillette via M.E. Forum)

By   /  October 8, 2019  /  Human Rights, International, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism, Mid. East news  /  No Comments

Oct. 2, 2019 Margaret Atwood, whose work I have long admired, is now being hailed as a prophet. It is quite the phenomenon. According to the pundits, Atwood’s 1985 work, The Handmaid’s Tale, which Mary McCarthy once savaged, and the recently-published 2019 sequel, The Testaments, are dystopias which aptly describe the contemporary climate change crisis, toxic environments, the […]

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NIQAB, BURQA, HIJAB – AFGHANISTAN COMES TO THE WEST, by Phyllis Chesler (FPM)

By   /  March 8, 2019  /  International, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism  /  No Comments

Mar. 8, 2019 There are women shrouded in burqas, hidden by niqab – and set apart wearing hijab on the streets of so many American cities. Click here for article

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How Do You Acknowledge a Woman You Can’t See? by Phyllis Chesler (Tablet Magazine via M.E. Forum)

By   /  October 24, 2018  /  Human Rights, International, Islam, Islamic fundamentalism  /  No Comments

Oct. 19, 2018 Click here for full article on veiling – both the right to veil & the compulsory veil

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Danish Government Plans Face Veil Ban, by Jacob Gronholt-Pedersen (Reuters via Daily Alert)

By   /  February 7, 2018  /  Human Rights, International, Islamic fundamentalism  /  No Comments

Feb. 8, 2018 Denmark’s government said on Tuesday it planned to fine people who covered their face in public, restricting the burqa and the niqab worn by some Muslim women. “It is incompatible with the values of the Danish society or the respect for the community to keep the face hidden when meeting each other in the public space,” Justice Minister […]

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