Feel the Hope. -- Egypt Islamists want ‘family’ not women’s council A women’s conference organized by the dominant Islamist bloc in the Egyptian parliament has called for a council for families to replace the existing National Council for Women, a state-owned daily reported on Friday. The conference, held Thursday on International Women’s Day, also condemned the 1978 U.N. convention against gender discrimination saying it was “incompatible with the values of Islamic sharia” law, the Al-Ahram newspaper reported. The Freedom and Justice Party conference called for the formation of a national council for the family to “truly express the complementary roles of men and women,” the newspaper said. The current National Council for Women has been heavily criticized for its association with former first lady Suzanne Mubarak, whose husband, veteran strongman Hosni Mubarak, was overthrown in a popular revolt a year ago. The Freedom and Justice Party, political arm of the Muslim Brotherhood, says it does not endorse gender discrimination, although the Brotherhood argues women should not be allowed to rule the country. The party is the dominant bloc in both houses of parliament after a sweeping victory in a multi-phase general election that began in November. Women hold just two percent of the seats in parliament.
The current GOP primary session is just yet another indicator that you can have advanced democratic systems ruined by primitive biases. Give the Arab Spring time, and maybe they can evolve to a state with, God willing, 16.8% female representation, below fellow Islamic stalwarts Pakistan (at 22.5%) and Tunisia (26.7%). http://www.ipu.org/wmn-e/classif.htm Ranked 78 in the world: United States of America 16.8% representation of women. of course---whodathunk it--- Ranked 4 in the world: Sweden 44.7% representation of women.
Northside Storm, if you compare this situation with that of another country to bring things into perspective, then you must be defending hatred of women.
ATW, apart from the fact that you love to derail threads with personal assertions, do you have anything to actually contribute? Or do you want me to detail how your reading comprehension is lacking? For you to think that I am defending the oppression of women is hilarious though. thanks bro for the laughs.
Egypt contemplates law that would allow husbands to have sex w/ their wives w/in 6 hours of her death: http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/04/25/210198.html Thanks Obama!
Posts like this---and you have many---simply underscore that something is wrong with you. Your posts tend toward the awful, but this verges on comedy. Wake me up when you blame Obama for the not-thick-enough milkshake that the poorly-paid minority teenager hands you at the Jack-in-the-Box drive-thru: "And I also said NO WHIP CREAM, NO CHERRY. What the hell?!"
freedom's flown. Spoiler <iframe width="640" height="480" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/ws7iWxvl6sY" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/04/we-all-hate-our-women-ctd-3.html Crap was apparently made up by local wacko tv guy and passed along without verification.
Well, it wouldn't be the first time someone got egg on their face trying too hard to press home their ideologically predictable agenda.
"We need more evidence, unless it's the Muslims. They're just ****ing weird." seriously, a necrophilia law. You probably need Snopes as your home page at this point.
