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    Treatment of Women in the Muslim World

    02-06-06, 19.16.42

      Former Chairman of the Jordanian Physicians' Association Criticizes
    U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice's Comments on Treatment
    of Women in the Muslim World

      The London Arabic-language daily Al-Quds Al-Arabi recently published an
    article by the former chairman of the Jordanian Physicians' Association,
    Dr. Tareq Tahboub :

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      American Women Are Humiliated More Than Afghan Women

      "What pushed me to write this article was the interview with U.S.

    National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice on CNN. Asked by Wolf Blitzer
    about the situation of women in Afghanistan, the advisor spoke
    powerfully and in great detail about the situation of women in Islamic
    countries, primarily Saudi Arabia, and about how America cannot agree to
    the humiliation of women in the Islamic world."

      "The advisor forgot that the living example of humiliation of women in
    the twenty-first century is Hillary Clinton, whose husband fed her all
    kinds of degradation and humiliation, to the point where she was forced
    to lie in front of television cameras in order to defend him and his
    perverted relationships. She testified that he was 'innocent' of Monica
    and Paula - as the wolf is innocent of the blood of [Joseph], the son of
    Jacob [whose brothers threw him into a pit to be rid of him and claimed
    that an 'evil beast' had devoured him]."

      "The advisor also forgot to mention that the White House files proved
    that Nixon's wife suffered a tear in her retina as a result of a severe
    blow she received from her husband."

      "What humiliation could be greater for women than the systematic rape
    of a freshman university female student [in America], as was proven in
    documentary and feature films telling true stories. The last of these
    films, broadcast a month ago on Jordanian television, presented the true
    story of a student and her friends who were raped by members of a
    fraternity headed by her brother. The epilogue said that most young
    American women are raped at university. 87% of rapes are carried out
    during freshman year, by their classmates, at student parties. They get
    the girls drunk with a drink said to be fruit juice (punch) but which is
    actually mixed with alcohol. The exacerbation of this problem led to the
    establishment of legal and psychiatric departments at the universities
    to handle this phenomenon, which has reached epidemic proportions."

      "Where are women's rights, when their statistics show that one in every
    three American women is raped - in addition to sexual harassment in the
    workplace, and even on the part of generals in the military, during
    their hours of rest from bombing Iraq and Afghanistan?"

      "What humiliation could be greater for women than the fashion shows
    [catwalks] or beauty pageants, in which the so-called beauty queens are
    stripped before the hungry eyes of men so that their internal
    measurements around the bust and hips can be taken, as if they were
    calves at a cattle auction?"

      "What humiliation - and I quote from the article of Mr. Muwfaq
    Mahaddin, the leftist journalist from the [Jordanian paper] Al-Arab
    Al-Youm, who demanded that the labor unions and parties [in Jordan]
    donate money for oppressed British women - could be greater than the
    results of a poll conducted recently by one of the papers, that showed
    that the British man has an average of five extramarital lovers? [Not
    to mention] what Alan Clark, defense secretary in the Thatcher
    government, did - he admitted that he had slept with three generations
    - a girl, her mother, and her grandmother - in his office in the
    British Defense Ministry, as published in the Daily Mirror."

      Violence Against Women in the U.S.

      "What domestic violence are they talking about, when British police

    statistics show more than a million incidents of domestic violence
    annually? What children's rights are they demanding, when in America
    alone, a quarter of a million children are killed every year by aborting
    unwanted fetuses - something that has pushed Americans with a conscience
    to blow up some of the clinics in which they carry out this kind of
    murder and kill some of the doctors working in this area? What
    children's rights are they talking about, when pedophilia is legal on
    the Internet and the networks of this perversion reach from Thailand to
    Australia - a general epidemic from which not even the Church was
    spared."

      "Our advice to the advisor is to look at herself before she tries to
    force her principles and opinions on others. We have suffered enough
    from the American way of life forced upon us by the media and marketing
    of the American model."

      "The Greatest Damage is Western Television"

      "The damages [caused by] the American model are not limited to burgers,

    cola, and Marlboro, which most cannot buy as a result of widespread
    poverty in the Islamic world. The gravest damage is television,
    something that almost no home, rich or poor, lives without. When
    dinnertime comes (which is the Arab/Muslim family's traditional hour
    for meeting in the Islamic world), everyone eats in front of the
    television, with no conversation developing among the members of the
    family. When Mickey Mouse comes on, the children throw their food on
    the floor. Children are also influenced by depictions of violence in
    cartoons. Thus, family life is being abolished. Nevertheless, Islam and
    even the Muslims are accused of terrorism, although they make up 82% of
    the exiles and refugees in the world..."

      Source: Al-Quds Al-Arabi (London)

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