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Sharia and Women -- Two Very Different Perspectives
One Obama advisor who has not gotten much attention to date is Dalia Mogahed, appointed earlier this year to serve on something called the President's Advisory Council on Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships. Mogahed, who claims Muslims in America have spent the last eight years "enduring religious racism," recently made a very disturbing joint appearance on British TV's "Islam Channel" with an official from Hizb un Tahrir -- the Sunni fundamentalist group that wants to impose sharia law as the foundation for establishing a global caliphate. (See here and here.) The theme of the program was that sharia doesn't really oppress women -- in fact, it's far better for them than Western notions of liberty. (Cinnamon Stillwell has details at the Middle East Forum, here.)A very different perspective is offered by the Syrian-born American psychiatrist Wafa Sultan in a bracing new book called A God Who Hates, about the bleak life of women in Islamic societies. Andrew Bostom reviews the book at the American Thinker. Posted by: Fred 2009-10-27 |
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