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March 29, 2006

Women's Rights: Islam a Violent and Inimical Force

According to the United Nations, between 113 million and 200 million women around the globe have gone demographically ``missing.'' Up to 3 million meet an untimely and unnecessary death due to violence or neglect. Muslim countries, where ``honor'' killings by male relatives and genital mutilation are common, count as the worse offenders.

``The Islamists are engaged in reviving and spreading a brutal and retrograde body of laws,'' wrote in the March 25 issue of the International Herald Tribune, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, co-author of the film ``Submission'' about Islam and women. Her partner on the film, Theo van Gogh, was murdered for that work in Nov. 2004 , and Ms. Ali lives under 24-hour protection due to death threats by Muslims.

``Wherever the Islamists implement Shariah, or Islamic law, women are hounded from the public arena, denied education and forced into a life of domestic slavery,'' added Ali. ``This mind-set needs to be broken. A culture that carves the genitals of young girls, hobbles their minds, and justifies their physical oppression is not equal to a culture that believes women have the same rights as men.''

``We need a worldwide campaign to reform cultures that permit this kind of crime. Let's start to name them and shame them. Just as we put an end to slavery, we must put an end to gendercide.''

The only problem with Ms. Ali's idea is that, as anyone familiar with Islam knows very well, the totalitarian sect cannot be reformed. If an ethnic Muslim chooses to follow the teachings of the 7th century Arabian warlord, Mohammed, he must ascribe not only to its call to behave properly toward other Muslims, but to act intolerantly and violently toward non-Muslims.

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