(Feb 12, 2009): "Allah's Rapists" (scragged.com) - an Iraqi woman confessed to arranging for 80 women to be raped to make it easier to recruit them as suicide bombers

[jamesstuart]

Now that she's Secretary of State and represents the United States anywhere in the world, it might be fruitful for her to address how women are treated in Muslim societies. The article

http://scragged.com/articles/allahs-rapists.aspx

says:


The Herald Sun, an Australian newspaper, received a story from their Baghdad correspondent which began:

A woman suspected of recruiting more than 80 female suicide bombers has confessed to organizing their rapes so she could later convince them that martyrdom was the only way to escape the shame.

Most Muslim rape victims would rather die than try to live with the shame. European women of Muslim descent, brought up in a rather more permissive culture but expected to marry in a traditional way, are signing up for hymen restoration surgery so that they can find husbands; many Islamic men are serious about wanting to marry virgins. In traditional Islamic culture, a non-widow non-virgin is essentially unmarriageable.


Mrs. Clinton might want to point out that destroying a woman's future to help persuade her to commit suicide seems a bit much. Shouldn't our nation at least TRY to mitigate some of the unacceptable ways in which women are treated in other countries?

[CGP]

Shouldn't our nation at least TRY to mitigate some of the unacceptable ways in which women are treated in other countries?

Yes, absolutely.

[LetsHelpAmerica]

This is so terrible, disgusting and eveil that women must endure this kind of terror! You better believe Hillary will be addressing these things! She has always been a STRONG and unrelenting advocate for women's rights.

[Mallory]

This is so terrible, disgusting and eveil that women must endure this kind of terror! You better believe Hillary will be addressing these things! She has always been a STRONG and unrelenting advocate for women's rights.

I don't know that Hillary IS addressing these issues. I know she spoke out for women and the suffering in 1995, but I haven't really heard her address this recently. Despite the things I fault George Bush for, Laura Bush championed Women's rights globally. She fought hard for improved health care in third world countries and for women in the middle east who are raped, murdered and mutilated all in the name of their culture and religions. I think Laura was a very classy first lady, who worked hard to improve women's plight.

I know Hillary has her plate full in her Secretary of State roll, and I have a feeling that she won't be able to focus on the injustices to women for fear of compromising her position with world leaders. Maybe this is something MICHELLE could take up. If she can find the time between shopping, checking out private schools for her children, hanging with Mamma and shopping. Oh, I already said shopping. Ok..then... dancing with Ellen.

[Laura Cereta]

We also wonder what American feminists think of this. Raping a woman to destroy her future and make it easier to recruit her as a suicide bomber would seem to fall under the feminists' definition of "chauvinist male exploitation," yet they appear utterly unconcerned.


Islamic neighborhoods are becoming no-go areas for non-Muslims in Britain and Canada. Genital mutilation continues, and "honor killings" occur in Europe when Muslim girls date non-Muslims. Muslims are serious about wanting to practice sharia law wherever they migrate.


Given that women would bear the brunt of any imposition of Muslim customs, why aren't prominent American women saying anything about it? Or do they simply think it can't happen here? It's already happening in Europe, that shining light which American liberals are always saying we should emulate.


If arranging rapes of innocent girls so as to con them into becoming suicide bombers isn't barbaric, evil, and inhuman, then the words have no meaning; and if we're not going to protest this horror, we have no right to protest anything at all.

The author makes some very good points. What is NOW's statement on this? Oh... they don't have one. We need to seriously re-evaluate the American feminist movement, IMO.

[rickya]

The author makes some very good points. What is NOW's statement on this? Oh... they don't have one. We need to seriously re-evaluate the American feminist movement, IMO.

NOW will never criticize this. It is against their nature to criticize Islam and Muslims. Christians however are fair game.

[CGP]

The author makes some very good points. What is NOW's statement on this? Oh... they don't have one. We need to seriously re-evaluate the American feminist movement, IMO.

I really don't know much about NOW's work. Do they focus solely on American-based concerns or do they also have a global focus? If they focus solely on events that go on in America, it would make sense they haven't commented on this. If they have a global focus, then a comment would be expected.