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POPSWhy Jimmy Carter left the Southern Baptist Convention Subservience of women to men is a false argument, dependent upon selection of certain verses of the Bible and the exclusion of many others. Suppressing female leadership is a cultural decision of male leaders, not an accurate reading of Scripture.
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POPSIt's an injustice to NOT marry girls aged 10, says Saudi cleric Würde- und verantwortungslos, dieses Verständnis von Sexualität und diese Missachtung der Menschenrechte junger Mädchen! Man muss deutlich sagen, worum es sich handelt: um die moraltheologisch verbrämte Erniedrigung von Kindern zum Sexualvieh. Ob die Überlieferungen der Worte und Handlungsweisen des islamischen Propheten nach al-Bukhari nun authentisch sind oder nicht, ist völlig belanglos in Anbetracht der Tatsache, dass das Islam- und Mohammedverständnis des Überlieferers das mitprägt, was sich heute in muslimischen, ja islamgelehrt-geistlichen Köpfen befindet.
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POPSYemen: 8-year-old girl forced to marry, demands divorce Nujood’s case is considered the first of its kind where a minor prosecutes her father for marrying her off at a young age and subjecting her to harm . Early marriage is “one of the biggest development challenges in Yemen,” said Naseem Ur Rehman, chief information officer for UNICEF in Sana’a . A 2006 field study revealed that child marriage among Yemeni girls reached 52.1%, compared to 6.7% among males. The study, conducted by the Woman and Development Study Center, affiliated to Sana’a University, disclosed that marriage age raised gradually from an average of 10.24 years to 14.70 years for women and from 20.97 to 21.54 years for men. It indicated that the average marriage age varies from one geographical area to another; for example, it showed that girls in Hodeidah and Hadramout married at the average age of eight, while in Mukalla the average age was 10. Meldung in Deutsch: stern.de
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POPSAfghanistan: Women's lives worse than ever International Women's Day is March 8 this year, and it is an occasion which the president will certainly use, once again, to claim success on behalf of the women in Afghanistan and Iraq. This will be a lie. It is a lie every year. AlterNet: Blogs: PEEK: Women's Lives Are Worse Than Ever, Thanks George W.
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POPSBoys Treat Girls Like People: Thanks to Feminism Masculine stereotypes still do all kinds of harm to men and women and girls and boys alike, and there's a good argument to be made for the idea that men are much further behind women when it comes to embracing feminist ideals. But feminism has had some successes, and it's been good for all involved -- this is just one example of that. There's still a long way to go, but hopefully studies like this will serve as reminders of who actually has the interests of human beings in mind, and who is solely dedicated to a dogma that doesn't fit into most peoples' realities or ideals.
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POPSHijab is a personal choice not state law in Turkey In the early eighties, Iran imposed the hijab on its female citizens, while Syria banned it from schools during the same period. Syria gradually came to terms with the hijab, as the number of Syrian women who chose to wear it increased drastically during the nineties. The hijab is enforced today in Iran and Saudi Arabia, and banned in Tunisia . France banned the hijab in 2004, and far right politicians and pundits are calling for similar bans in other European countries . The Turkish parliament passed a constitutional amendment that practically repealed early constitutional provisions that allowed the Turkish government to ban the hijab from government buildings, universities, and schools. Although the lifting of the ban is not in force yet, the confrontation over this issue with secularists who control the military and the courts has already started. Secularist Turks are up in arms, protesting the new amendment .
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POPS'Tragic protest' of Iraqi Kurdish women "When Saddam's regime was in power he did everything to subordinate women" "The Anfal Campaign against the Kurds was exactly like that. He actually killed all the men but let the women stay and live that sort of misery with their children. There was 30 years of that kind of rule. It will take a long, long time for that to change. It is a very slow and painful process." The human rights minister in the Kurdistan region admits that immolation is a problem that his government is struggling to deal with There have been attempts to improve education and women's shelters have been built, but it will take years to change long-held customs.
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POPSStephan Hallmann: "Nur mehr Demokratie zerreißt den Schleier" Aber Vorsicht! Auch die Gefahren eines aggressiven Islam sollten nicht verharmlost werden. Natürlich gibt es viele, für die die Aufhebung des Kopftuch-Verbots nur ein erster Schritt ist, nicht hin zu mehr Freiheit für Gläubige, sondern zu einer anderen - religiös verbrämten - Diktatur. Aber das kann kein Argument dafür sein, die Freiheit muslimischer Frauen und ihr Recht auf Bildung einzuschränken. Nur mehr Demokratie wird letztlich den Schleier zerreißen, hinter den ein traditionelles Islamverständnis die Frauen verbannt. Mehr Demokratie, das bedeutet auch die Stärkung der Stellung der Frau, wobei Aufklärung und Bildung eine wichtige Rolle spielen.
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POPSIrmtraud Morgner († 1990) über Pornografie und Macht Irmtraud Morgner, die visionärste deutsche Schriftstellerin, ist 1990 mit nur 56 Jahren jäh aus ihrem Denken und Schreiben gerissen worden. Die DDR-Autorin galt als die "erotischste Schriftstellerin" im deutsch-sprachigen Raum. Ihre in jeder Hinsicht subversiven Texte durften in der Sowjetunion nicht veröffentlicht werden, Argument: Morgner schreibe "Pornografie". Was die Ostberliner Schriftstellerin und Philosophin 1990 über Pornografie zu sagen hatte, ist hellsichtig und aktuell . Es lohnt sich, mal wieder Morgner zu lesen.
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