Women’s Day
Submitted by Jahanshah Rashidian on Tue, 03/10/2009 - 07:12
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In 1910, International Women's Day (March 8th) was celebrated for the first time in many industrial nations. As a proposal of the Socialist International, the day demanded the right for women to vote and to hold public office, right to work, to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.
Since then, the International Women's Day is commemorated and is a national holiday in several countries around the world. It symbolises a long struggle of all women on all continents, with different ethnics, religions, cultures and social classes, who have been deprived from the equal right with men.
International Women's Day is a symbol of women as integral partner-makers of history. It is a denial of all form of religious gender discrimination considering women less worthy than men, as stipulated by Islam.
International Women's Day is a symbol of women as integral partner-makers of history. It is a denial of all form of religious gender discrimination considering women less worthy than men. The day is rooted in the historical struggle against the Dark Ages of the European Church, a demand for "liberty, equality, fraternity" during the French Revolution.
The International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike. Nevertheless, the growing international political Islam, which has been strengthened by the Islamic Republic of Iran, is a new serious barrier in the way. Today, despite many coordinated efforts in the world, the international community along with the United Nations practically ignore the fate of hundreds of millions of women who are conscious or unconscious victims of Islamic misogyny. Today, we know that struggle for equality, justice, peace, democracy, secularism, and development is not separated from the struggle against misogyny.
While 8 March was historically a secular symbol against the dominance of the Catholic Church in the West, it should now become a worldwide struggle against the current misogyny of the Islamic Mosque. Today, the horrendous shadow of Islamomisogyny has spread its wings over a great sphere of our world, where hundred of millions of women are to fall into its clutches.
According to the World Health Organization, 85 million to 115 million girls and women have undergone some form of female genital mutilation; this practice is carried out in many Islamic countries, including 28 African nations, despite the fact that it is outlawed and condemned by the international community. More than 90% of women in Egypt are the victims of this barbaric practice.
In a number of countries, women who have been raped are sometimes killed by their own families to preserve the family's honour. Honour killings as a legacy of Islamic traditions have been reported in Jordan, Pakistan, Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Turkey and other Persian Gulf countries. Rape as a means of humiliation, confession and torture has been used against women in Iranian political prisons. Rape of girls before execution is systematically committed, interpreted as an Islamic principle.
Since 1979, the installation of the Islamic regime in Iran, a very fast growing majority of the Iranian women identified as "bad- hijab" (mal-veiled) are, in their day-to-day lives suffering from the atrocity of IRI’s fanatics and recently from the organised Islamic “Morality Police”.
Since 1979, not a day has passed without attack, physical assault, arrest, acid throwing, harassment and psychological pressure of women in Iran. The Islamic Republic of Iran has clearly specified that, for women, no other sort of dress is acceptable except the Islamic hijab.
The first public demonstration of Iranian women was short lived after the Iranian revolution. On 7 March 1979, on the eve of International Women’s Day, Khomeini decreed that all women employed by the government must wear the “chador” (an all-enveloping black veil), an extension of the four walls of the home.
Thousands of women filled the streets in protest. For three days they marched and rallied; on the third day staged a sit-in at the Palace of Justice, demanding a legal guarantee for their right to choose what to wear and where to work, at home and in society at large.
The women were attacked by Khomeini’s supporters, armed with knives, who cursed them, yelling “Wear your head or get your head rapped.” They stood at windows along the parade route and exposed their genitals: “This is what you want, you whores!”
And the last time Iranian women celebrated International Women's Day was peacefully in front of Iranian parliament on 8, March, 2007. Morality Police attacked a gathering of some 700 women's rights activists and hit them, while security forces arrested a number of them.
The above examples of women's rights in Iran show that International Women’s Day is not tolerated by the misogynistic IRI. Furthermore, contrary to some reformists of the regime, who claim that women and men have equal rights, opportunities and responsibilities in all aspects of life, a gap always remains between Islam and the reality of women's rights. Many obstacles from the traditional influences cannot be removed in the framework of Islam.
Over the years, conferences, demonstrations and commemorations have been held to reflect on progress made. It is now time to call for what has not been made. International Women's Day should be now an occasion to a rallying point for effective efforts against Islamomisogyny, which looms to damage the achievements gained in the history of women's rights.
Rape as a means of humiliation, confession and torture has been used against women in Iranian political prisons.
Although the Charter of the United Nations proposes gender equality as a fundamental human right, the Organisation cannot create standards, programmes and goals to equally advance the status of women worldwide. For example the UN avoids condemning the forced hijab in Iran.
Of course the Charter of the UN, signed in 1945, was the first agreement to affirm the principle of equality between women and men. However, the Charter was prepared before the advent of the international political Islam. Today, the international community is affected by political Islam and consequently demands the UN to adopt new resolutions defending the status of women in the Islamic societies. Women in the Islamic societies need international support. The UN, in accordance with the conclusive account of many misogynistic reports, must now effectively react.
The UN, which fairly condemned the Apartheid regime before, is now expected to condemn the gender apartheid of Islamic regimes by supporting for women’s full and equal right. It is time to internationally challenge the misogynous Islamists across the world. Violation of basic rights of women in the Islamic world is an issue that has been long overdue but ignored. Safeguarding of women’s rights is now essential to regaining the sense of International Women’s Day.
Many daily misogynistic examples in Iran show that the IRI by imposing different status for men and women reduced the women’s role to a means of reproduction. Since the regime is aware of women’s backlash against the ongoing misogyny, it has demagogically managed that Islamic women’s organisations mushroomed up in the society. Through the tortured sense of women’s freedom and origin of women’s rights, their real role is to propagate the IRI’s misogynistic policy, especially to impose Islamic hijab on Iranian women.
Soon after the revolution, Mr. Abolhassan Banisadr, the first Iranian President, who had lived 15 years in France, was asked by a television interviewer if it was true that women’s hair emits sexually enticing rays and if this is why Islam requires the veil. “Yes, it is true”, was his reply.
The regime responded by forming its own women’s group, which produced a newspaper, “The Moslem Women,” which the main task was to inculcate misogynistic norms and pseudo scientific arguments into the mind of women.
The international community must reject and denounce these kinds of state-run women’s organisations in Iran. These “yellow” organisations are even more hated than the male fanatics who govern-- real activists working to defend women’s rights risk their safety to bring about real changes. IRI’s authorities have been harassing, detaining and intimidating them during the last three decades.
In the 21st. century, the international community should not accept that women’s rights be crippled by shari’a, a series of 14-century old Islamic laws. It is time to internationally outlaw shari’a because it considers women as the second-class citizens of a male dominated society. It is time to worldwide condemn archaic values of a belief system that reduces women to half-human with half-rights in today’s society.
Promotion of gender equality is not only women’s responsibility, but a social responsibility of all humanity. Not only it is an important participation and an indicator of social and economic national growth, but more effectively, and based on some psychological, can also result into a factor of normal development of the society. Gender separation creates frustrations, perversities and aggressiveness with blind obedience, the typical attitudes appeared in the oppressed societies.
On this International Women’s Day, let us re-dedicate ourselves to the hundreds of millions of women who are conscious or unconscious victims of Islamomisogyny. Much should be accomplished to put into place legal foundations to urge the international community to remember that it is the responsibility of all of us to defend the right to live in dignity, freedom and gender equality.
What is this fuss about woman
What is this fuss about woman equality? Does nature make man and woman equal. Does man get pregnant for 9 months to bear the pains of childbirth?
Women need to be looked after well like Qu`ran expects from menfolk. This article is silly missionary propoganda.
Yeah! sure for salim, his
Yeah! sure for salim, his mother and sister are domestic animals who cannot fend for themselves and are supposed to be looked after.
By the way Salim, if you
By the way Salim, if you think this site is "silly missionary propaganda" then why do you keep coming back to this site?
Salim you are right. Thats
Salim you are right.
Thats the reason the your fellow muslims raped 80 muslims women in Iraq for recruitment of bomber.
Wake up (if you have some feeling for you women) they may knock your door too.
Raja Says:"" fellow muslims
Raja Says:"" fellow muslims raped 80 muslims women in Iraq---""
That is called the Sunnah of Pedo.Mo. Rape and breed like Bacteria. What's wrong in that?? When a Muslim rapes a woman , he does not bother if the woman is a Muslimah or an infidel. Rape is what matters for all devout Muslims, as that is Sunnah. The following Shahada is the proof.
أشهد أن لا إله إلاَّ الله و أشهد أن محمد رسول الله Romanization: ʾašhadu ʾal lā ilāhaDallal-Lāh, wa ʾašhadu ʾanna muḥammadar rasūlu Lulla Chode Pilla.
A single honest recitation of the Shahadah in Arabic is all that is required for a person to become a Muslim ---
The English version is as followed--
"I witness that there is no Pimp but Allah and I witness that MoHamMad is his servant and messenger is a pedophile who sodomizes kids."
By the way Salim, if you
In the hope that somebody sees light at the end of tunnel and repents for wrongdoing. But you are gone case, so don`t bother.
Brothers watch this link.This
Brothers watch this link.This lady GHADA JAMSHEER is a women rights activist.Please listen to her interview.As usual muslims are not logical in debate. The interviewer subtly suggests that she could be a , hold your breath --Lesbian. please forward this link to friends & relatives. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bynld68XNB0
On the occasion of
On the occasion of International womens day,let us not forget few brave muslim women.Links- Marym namazie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JUBLfcGcN5Y&feature=related & Wafa sultan-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM4ODjVMc2s
guys careful before giving links,that prick naik pops up under wafa sultan's name very often.I think he underwent sex change operation,to meet the needs of his arab masters.
Salim Women are impregnated
Salim
Women are impregnated by men. Now we dont have to allow you to come into the world. When GOD made the woman, he said she was a companion as it was not good for man to be alone. All of the animals had companions and surely the highest earthly creation would need a companion to procreate. I dont claim to be equal to a man as I have different internal organs and look different from a man. But that does not make me any less intelligent. Since woman was created from man's rib and called wo-man, (man with a womb) I have intelligence as you. Look what you men have accomplished since creation. Enslavement of other men and all women and children. In Islam allah said he made your WOMEN equal to a dog, and created STUPID, and can be used as a tilth, a field to be ploughed, in other words, orally, vaginally, or anally. That is what Allah and Muslim men think of their mothers, wives and daughters. You can keep your degenerative, psychotic, inferior diseased based cult of Muhammad who was Allah of Arabia. The real Allah belongs to Hindus.
salim is right if u ponder on
salim is right if u ponder on these words ...
"What is this fuss about woman equality? Does nature make man and woman equal. Does man get pregnant for 9 months to bear the pains of childbirth?"
infact it shud be men wanting to be considered equal as woman, there shud be men rights day rather than womans day....
a noted scholar in hare rama hare krishna temple(outside the premises of temple) said...
in islam woman are lying at their feet...that the status of woman in islam...
in christainity woman and men are equal... that the status of woman in christanity...
in hinduism...men can never achieve where women belong...i mean they are way above men as per hindu texts...
on the other hand noted scholars like chanakya said woman are responsible for all wars in the world.....i wonder which woman was responsible for war against afghanistan and iraq
Salim you are funny man. You
Salim you are funny man. You don't even understand Islam and you wish to convert people to your faith.
Salim, I challange you to
Salim, I challange you to come to the Forum and deabte us on any of the challanges put forth by FFI. If you win, atleat the 500 ex-muslims I know on this site will convert back to Islam. Gee! that's a lot of hasanath fo you man....
Ahh this cretin knows that in
Ahh this cretin knows that in house all the women ( his mother, sisters, daughters, wives) are just farts, as so eloquently described by the the rapist pedophie prophet the mohammad .Women, donkey, farting anulls the prayer!
women in his house are just tilth, for him to go in and come out.Such is the enlightened spiritualism of this islamic cretin, I have no words to describe this barbarian, just call him sunnah moslem that says it all!
Muslim apologists always
Muslim apologists always claim that Islam is the only religion that has given women equal rights. So why are they not demonstrating in their millions all around the world at all of these vile deeds by their fellow Muslims? The only reason why they don't is because they know that this is real Islam in action and practice. They like it that way and see no reason to reform or change anything.
Salim, I challange you to
Challenge someone who understands fully. I am still trying to understand by reading pros (directly from Qu`ran) and cons (from this site and one another). Someday, when I feel I am ready and crystallized, I may accept your challenge.
thats a reasonable answer
thats a reasonable answer from salim.Good.
It seems Salim has a change
It seems Salim has a change of heart and come up with a very reasonable answer.
He is not like amim.He grew
He is not like amim.He grew up.!!!
It is about time for you two
It is about time for you two morons to grow up develop some IQ, else one must escape to forest with some cows, while the other stay "focussed" on idiosyncracies.
Challenge someone who
Challenge someone who understands fully. I am still trying to understand by reading pros (directly from Qu`ran) and cons (from this site and one another). Someday, when I feel I am ready and crystallized, I may accept your challenge.
Very well Salim, till then stop being opinionated. Try and study first without giving your opinions about this wesbite. I ve been here for a very long, and I was still a Muslim then. But unlike you I did not write anything that came to my head, rather I verified stuff written in this site.
Try and study first without
That may have been your approach, may be you are terribly intelligent, who knows really. It is possible that my approach is different, like I want to continue testing waters while still in learning mode and do timely course corrections with appropriate feedbacks wherever necessary, rather than waiting for the whole exercise to end. People are different you see, so are their approaches.
Salim, you still have too
Salim,
you still have too much poison in your mind and that is why you speak with hatred. Calling others names is a sign of frustration. Maybe with time you will come out of it. if not, you will anyway be consumed by it.
salim says-People are
salim says-People are different you see, so are their approaches. By your language we can understand!!
Ah Salim a little bit of
Ah Salim a little bit of sugesstion. Try to read both pros and cons from the quran. They are all there!
Amim, you should simply FO.
Amim,
you should simply FO. You have pasted that article innumerable times. If you are trying to show islam in good light, i am afraid you are not. Instead, you are showing how foolish and stupid you are, that is if you know what foolish and stupid mean
Focussed, dnt worry about
Focussed, dnt worry about Amin, her comments will soon be taken off by the Moderator.
focussed,where is cheaper
focussed,where is cheaper than islam.he he he.Poor guy must be kicking himself for that comment.
Hi Salim, It is a good sign
Hi Salim,
It is a good sign atleast you showed some inclination to to look for good and bad things and give a thought over the Islam as religion and Koran. I congratulate you for your decision. We don't say that you should believe what ever Sina or any other says. Read what they wish to say, verify with your own sources and think on your own. If you find anything wrong our thinking, then tell us. We would be glad to accept our mistake, but convince us that's all. So unnecessarily commenting like AMIM scum with zealous mind bring no help to you and us.
We don't say all Muslims are bad. They may be good, but is their goodness compatible with the religion or belief they follow? Does it make sense or is it allowed to follow the religion which in cuts and pieces? Besides the main figure of a pedo in Islam is it a real religious figure? Is it acceptable to commit all crimes what MoHamMad committed against some people, just because they are of other belief? What crime is it, if they believe something else? History is always written be conquerors and it has other side, which is not made public and open. Try to read other side also and verify their references.
Ibrahim, Don't say "why
Ibrahim,
Don't say "why coming back". For anyone one it is hard to accept free thinking society right from brainwashed cult. It takes time to adopt to a new process. They will show arrogance, anger, superiority and disbelief. They will read and then discuss/ask others among them. With some illogical answers post here those hackneyed answers and once they find those getting refuted, they will check the sources themselves and then will have to believe it.
Our mission is to spread word and break shackles of Islam. So just like their prophet lets invite all, argue them, convince them and spread the word. Use the same technique, but this time let the word be freedom.
islam is a very horny
islam is a very horny religion... i wish i cud live life like mummad...dont want fame/worship that sort of stuff...only woman....looks like plot of porn movie
Happy holi everyone, I might
Happy holi everyone, I might not be able to make it 2mrw for I might be high on bhang and too busy with colors, so have fun everyone especially my Indian brothers and sisters............
yes we are celebrate women's
yes we are celebrate women's day which is symbolize a women come out from struggls , we can say that WOMEN IS IN THE AIR ... but thats excatily true ? no NOT, we are not safe till today .. somewhere it has been totlly black envoirment and very much shamefull ...in muslim culture womens is part of sex machine ......... muslims raped 80 muslims women in Iraq for recruitment of bomber.
haha woman are not safe till
haha woman are not safe till today wtf!!! my dear just read dva 498 (a) to see if men are safe anymore...fu#$%$ bas%#$ whoever introduced this law..
can you believe it? you can be in jail just for calling ur wife with words like dumb or stupid....
in sum ways sharia laws protect mens interest much better than our democratic laws...
MAY THE COLOUR OF PEACE
MAY THE COLOUR OF PEACE PROSPERITY AND JOY COVER YOUR ENTIRE LIFE,WISHING EVERYBODY A VERY SPECIAL AND COLOURFUL HOLI..,.,.
Dawah to all muslims on the
Dawah to all muslims on the face of the earth, on the special ocassion of 'women's day'.
Vedas ( The light of knowledge, given at the first instance, to all the mankind. Because the God Almighty is merciful to all people & at all times).
Vedas(The first words of God' for the mankind') clearly mention 'Monogamy' as the best marraige practice, which is very much related to gender equality, where both husband & wife will indulge in religious & pious activities leading a vedic way of spiritual life'.
Vedas clearly mention that a physically & mentally stable man should 'have only one wife in his life', or practice celibacy in the rarest of rare cases, for the welfare of the society.
'Even according to all the abrahamic faiths, the first man to step on this earth, The 'ADAM' also had only one wife 'EVE'. Even if he wanted also God didnt create any additional woman for satisfying his lust.
Even for this modern day (21st century), the male to female sex ratio (taking out Indian subcontinent out of it, as there is rampant female infanticide here),
is approximately 1.07:1 , which is absolutely compatible with Vedic definition...
So I urge muslims, to give up their following for 'Profit Muhammad' whose ideas were only suitable only for 7th century southern arabia, who practiced forced polygamies( giving false reasons & lame excuses, such as political purposes, to establish peace among different tribes, to save the poor widows, for which he was solely responsible, & so on silly reasons), which was denouncing the almighty God's commands in the first place. I urge you people to accept the Vedas ( & Bhagavad Gita) as the ultimate truth for all time & all places....
Because God doesnt need any mediator to talk to you. Be rightful & truthful, God will reward you. TRY TO FOLLOW YOUR FIRST PROPHET 'ADAM'. NOT THE LAST PROFIT 'MUHAMMAD'.
i agree mahesh jain... they
i agree mahesh jain... they speak of miracles in quran and some other religion..but if usee miracles in sanatan dharma...even till now many unsolved mysteries are there..like sri sri ravi shankar pointed out in his debate with zakir naik that scientifcally u need to look into vedas..for eg:- kunti had given birth through test tube baby almost 5000 yrs ago..can u imagine?
the foetus can hear like the case of abhimanyu who received the training in his mother womb...and onyl recently science approve that foetus can hear..imagnie this metnioned almost 5000 yrs ago..
there are nine planets in our holy scripts..and i guess westerners disovered 9th planet i guess only recently like may be 500 yrs ago...
many ohter discoveries like earth is round, the moon waxes and grows in 28 days(for that read curse of lord ganpati to moon), the distance between sun and saturn,and many many more stuff...
i find it funny when read about miracles when mentioned in other relgion and they brag about it...hehe...
#36 The Jews said the earth
#36
The Jews said the earth was round in the Bible Isaiah 40:22. Isaiah covered
778-732 BCE.
If test tube babies were created back then, what happened?
Babies in the womb were heard in the Bible under the OT.
Since Hindus were responsible for many inventions, and Indians ruled Arabic once, how can Muslims claim all of the inventions created by Indians. I am glad Indians are finally speaking out. Fear is how Muslims have kept Indians from telling about the evils done to India by Muslims. Africans are waking up also. Thank you for finally telling the truth. Muslims in Pakistan are teaching their kids that India was a part of Pakistan. (smile)
yeah raisin dick...even i
yeah raisin dick...even i heard that one....that india was part of pakistan....cudnt stop laughin ..even this one was there in paki textbooks..that indian invited britishers so that brits can rule them and also the muslims as indians were unable to do so...hehe....
problem with hindu religion is they are very relaxed and many times they beleive that when their religion will be there on the last stage,some god will come in form of human and save the religion...it has happened in past,n they believe it will happen again...
furthermore, the religious authorities who are suppose to safeguard the religion, they have made religion a hot selling product and earn money,by twisting and modifying it in the way it wud appeal their customer(person who wants to perform rituals)...
further invention like astrology, if u consult a good astrologer, they can tell u in detail with everything wuts goin in ur life...forget wut u read in daily newspaper, get a personalized horoscope,if u feel ur life is in a mess....
black magic,its there even more than 5000 yrs ago...such evil stuff...
there are temples in india,in which water catches fire, if u bring your own water from sumwhere else,even that will catch fire..
temple in india,where there is a flame burining 24/7 for i guess last more than 5000 yrs...even science in india unable to understand how it can burn since it has no fuel in any form to it....
for water catch fire and how flame is burning..text is written in hindu scriptures,and too detailed to explain how it happned....
but one thing is there everyone will agree...Hinduism is the most interesting and in many cases entertaining religion in the world,,,,and after u read stories like Ramayana and specially Mahabharata, u will find quran,bible and other religious text very very boring..hehe
24/7 fire burning was
24/7 fire burning was Zoroastarianism from Persia/Iran. The Persian converts to Islam were once Zoroastarians and they helped Arabs kill 80 million Hindus and Buddhist.
I think Greek Myths are exciting, even though I know they are just that tales of Greeks. Flying carpets of Alladin are myths from Muhammad's flying days to Paradise on the back of a female horse.
Greek history is not boring as Superman, Batman, Zena, Aquaman, Voodoo, Catholicism, Puskin, DRACULA are all exciting. (smile).
voodoo and any other form of
voodoo and any other form of black magic is exciting...encounters with ghosts(so called) in any form is thrilling
#38. Water catching fire...
#38.
Water catching fire... Unbelievable. Please forward the references. See I do think sometimes once in a while some miracle may happen ( poosible ), but I don't believe that miracle can happen everytime and by hands of everyne. I will personally visit the place to see it by myself.
Only fire that is burning on
Only fire that is burning on this planet so long is from the earth's molten juice. It is also hard to believe without any fuel anything will burn. Send me the references.
If this is the case, then we should adopt to this power sources. Muslims are getting their propoganda from oil-petroleum money. We make them reach and provided finds for their lunacies. If we could find alternate resource, then we will be helping a lot to get rid of Islam.
samirbro, assuming your a
samirbro, assuming your a hindu.. ask ur mom about naina devi(parvati maa), for fire burning 24/7..
for water catching fire i will ask my mom the place where she took us and revert back to you....(if u give ur mail wud be better to give u details)
one more miracle...go to bithur in kanpur, over there there is a lake in which a stone floats on water,and doesnt sinks at hte bottom...mystic story is about hanuman lord bringin water from lanka shores,where stone didnt sink while building the so called raam setu bridge for lord rama to cross into lanka...
Fire burning 24/7 is in
Fire burning 24/7 is in Iran.
Ahmadinejah was called an ape on Iran TV. Now the show was cancelled.