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10 Oct 2012

Taliban Targets Children

Taliban assassins yesterday attacked 14-year-old Malala Yousufzai in Pakistan’s Swat Valley, leaving the girl with a bullet wound in the head. Yousufzai, winner of Pakistan’s first National Youth Peace Award, was targeted because she has been an outspoken advocate of education for girls. The attack occurred as she was making her way home from school in Mingora, the region’s largest city. Doctors at the hospital in Mingora said the young victim should recover, but Ehsanullah Ehsan, a spokesman for Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan — the Pakistani Taliban — vowed that the group would target her again if she survives. Two other girls also were injured.

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Here is a New York Times profile of Yousufzai and her family created in 2009, when she was only 11 years old. At the time, some 200 schools for girls were being closed across Pakistan in areas under control of the Taliban. The closures included a school run by Yousufzai’s father, who expressed great sadness over the edict while also refusing to leave the Swat Valley.

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09 Oct 2012

Afghan Actress Now In Hiding

Sahar Parniyan, 22, is Afghanistan’s most famous actress. She stars in the country’s number one comedy, “The Ministry,” patterned after the popular American TV show “The Office.” But because she’s perceived as a voice for women’s rights, Parniyan has begun receiving death threats. The threats snowballed after the murder of one of Parniyan’s colleagues, the 22-year-old actress Benafsha, who was accused of playing parts that were against Islamic values and morals.

Parniyan was told she would be next. Now, she is in hiding — her fame providing no protection from the extremists who mean to harm her. NBC’s Atia Abawi reports. H/T Bare Naked Islam

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08 Oct 2012

Women’s Kingdom

Visit the Mosuo, a culture in southwestern China that is one of the world’s last remaining matriarchal societies. Marriage is shunned among these people living near Shangri-La in Yunnan Province. Instead, women practice what they call “walking marriage.” Here’s how it works: “A man walks into the women’s bedroom at night and she decides if she wants him to stay. In the morning, he must leave.” H/T the ifilestv

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06 Oct 2012

Princess Lets Down Her Hair

What’s it like to be a princess and to be married to one of the world’s richest men? Princess Ameerah Al-Taweel of Saudi Arabia talks about her life with Lee Hawkins from the Wall Street Journal. Her husband, Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, has a personal wealth estimated at $18 billion, and owns a stake in News Corporation, parent company of the Wall Street Journal as well as Fox News. Among other issues, the princess discusses women’s rights in Saudi Arabia, the current unrest in the Islam world, and her many charitable campaigns.

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03 Oct 2012

Topless at the Louvre

Femen activists occupied the Louvre in Paris today, using the Venus de Milo as the backdrop for their topless protest against a controversial trial in Tunisia. Under the topsy-turvy perversion of justice associated with Sharia law, a Tunisian woman named Mariam, who was raped by policemen, now faces charges of being “immoral.”

The Femen activists view the trial as a travesty and called upon women worldwide to resist the spread of Sharia, arguing it permits rape victims to be treated like criminals. The protesters chanted “We have hands to stop rape,” referencing the armless Venus de Milo, an ancient Greek sculpture on permanent display at the Louvre Museum.

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29 Sep 2012

Taliban’s War on Women

A video of an Afghan woman being killed in front of cheering men shocked the world. Who was she? And how could it happen? Yalda Hakim from Australia’s SBS Dateline reports from Afghanistan.

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25 Sep 2012

More Boobery from Bloomberg

New York’s Nanny Mayor Michael Bloomberg can’t resist playing the role of “Father Knows Best.” Under his rule, New York leads the nation in imposing bans and limits on fast foods, cigarettes and sodas. Now, Bloomberg is also waging a paternalistic war to badger women into breastfeeding their children. Kennedy from Reason TV checks in with Susan Burger, a certified lactation consultant, on the mayor’s latest broad-stroke initiative.

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21 Sep 2012
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Go Naked Into the World

Ah, Femen resurfaces. When we last ran across these topless feminists from Ukraine, they were taking a chainsaw to an Orthodox cross in Kiev, protesting the two-year prison sentences handed down to three members of the punk rock band Pussy Riot in Moscow. Apparently things got so hot for Femen after that, they no longer could remain in Ukraine.

Now, they’ve jumped from the fire into the frying pan, relocating to Paris, just as irate Muslims are threatening to trash the headquarters of Charlie Hebdo, a satire magazine that published naked cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. True to form, staying in the eye of the storm, Femen marched nude this week through a predominantly Muslim quadrant of Paris, chanting the slogan, “Come, strip, win.”

Femen staged the march to celebrate the opening of a new training camp in Paris aimed at convincing other women to strip for the cause — advancing women’s rights. The group also renewed vows to expand its operations to New York, Sao Paulo and Montreal. Vive la Femen! Whether they are activists or agents provocateurs, they sure know how to shape the news! NSFW

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02 Sep 2012

Women Press to Go Topless

Last Sunday, a few dozen activists descended upon Washington, D.C., for the 5th annual Go Topless Day protests. Reason.TV’s Lucy Steigerwal reports live from the rally, supporting women’s rights to go topless in public.

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Meanwhile, Guyism commentator Katie Nolan supports the cause, but says the movement is missing a golden opportunity by not putting its best foot — er, breast foot — forward. In The Guyism Speed Round, she says, “A bit of advice, ladies, if you want people to support your made-up cause of clothing equality, maybe find some girls that people want to see with their shirt off.” Be sure to stick around for her coverage of a newly discovered Amazonian species nicknamed “the penis snake.”

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25 Aug 2012

Women and the 2012 Election

With the economy in the doldrums, the Democrats are trying to reshape the debate by building their convention around other issues, like the trumped-up War on Women. “Forget about birth control pills. It’s the economy that’s the real contraceptive now,” says Greg Gutfeld on the Fox talk show The Five. “Birth rates are dropping because no one’s having kids in a dying economy. You want free birth control. It’s called misery.”

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