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Malaysia starts caning women for adultery

Vanessa Valenti - Feb 18, 2010 - 10:50 am

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For the first time in the country, Malaysia has begun caning women for adultery under Islamic law.

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Male Monsters -- Girl Buried Alive for Being a Girl and the World Shrugs (Trigger Warning)

Peter Daou - Feb 5, 2010 - 10:12 am

Women - Violence

The brutalization of women and girls cuts across all religious and cultural boundaries and there simply isn't sufficient public outrage about gender-based violence to spur political action.

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9-Year-Old Raped in "One of the Worst Places to be a Woman or Girl"

Peter Daou - Aug 11, 2009 - 8:34 am

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U.S. Still in Denial on Gender Violence

Peter Daou - Jul 16, 2009 - 6:09 am

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Singer Ayman Udas Allegedly Gunned Down by Her Brothers for Appearing on TV

Peter Daou - May 4, 2009 - 6:32 am

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Camel Justice?

John Boonstra - Mar 26, 2009 - 7:39 am

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Reports of sexual assault by US military personnel up 8%

Peter Daou - Mar 19, 2009 - 11:30 am

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On Gang-Raping and Killing Babies and Lesbians

Peter Daou - Mar 13, 2009 - 9:08 am

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What do you think should be required reading for International Women's Day? Read More

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17 Mar 7:02am
This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw.Thank read more

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14 Mar 1:22pm
The Women's day is a very honerable day of the World. In India our ladies are very much proud of th read more

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13 Mar 6:25pm
"The Shock Doctrine" by Naomi Klein A wake up call-to-arms to resist the male-chauvinist model of cr read more

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13 Mar 1:09pm
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What do you think it will take to get skeptics like Sarah Palin to believe in anthropogenic climate change? Read More

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17 Mar 7:33am
This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw.Thank read more

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7 Mar 11:37am
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3 Mar 8:36pm
It can't be done. It's not about facts; it's about political opportunism. read more

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26 Feb 12:29pm
Yes, but the IPCC report is one of many, hundreds of reports which show the warming trend. It's a bi read more

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17 Mar 8:14am
This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw.Thank read more

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23 Feb 10:32am
Stoning to death (rajm) is not a punishment prescribed by the Qur'an. Several ahadith exist which su read more

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18 Feb 8:00pm
You know, I agree with your sense of absolute outrage. But the real reason that women have these thi read more

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18 Feb 7:48pm
I am shocked. Not that Muslim women were caned. That was a LIGHT punishment under Shari-a. The real read more

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18 Feb 7:37pm
No. We piloted the Nuremburg Courts, and we proved than that this concept can work. We don't have to read more

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18 Feb 6:35pm
I wonder why the President of Chad wants the MINURCAT to leave when they are protecting people??? read more

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