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BOOK: THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. (PART 1)

THE ISRAEL LOBBY AND U.S. FOREIGN POLICY yOU CAN ALL READ THIS BOOK ON HERE AND YOU CAN ALL USE IT TO DEBATE AGAINST THE... more

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Israeli War Crimes Against Children

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Starving Afghan Family Displaced by US Airstrike

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Iran Demonstrations: Violent Clashes Between Protestors And Riot Police

Security officials and riot police engaged in violent clashes with demonstrators in Tehran today in what one reporter called an "unprecedented scene" in Iran in recent years.

NBC producer Ali Arouzi described the events on Saturday:

What started off as a small rally outside a pro-reformist newspaper swelled into a massive crowd of people chanting, "Death to the dictator, death to Ahmadinejad!"

Then, what started with a small amount of police pushing the crowd back turned into huge riot police in armored gear and motor bikes beating all the young students here with batons, knocking them back. The students responded by throwing stones, which the police then threw back. Now the police are coming off all the heart streets and main streets to try and disperse the crowd. But this is an unprecedented scene in Iran today.

Arouzi said that many of the demonstrators, afraid of reprisals, were wearing green scarves and surgical masks.

Asked if he believed the election results being reported by Iran's Interior Ministry, Arouzi sounded highly skeptical. "If you were in Tehran the last few days, you would think it impossible that Ahmadinejad won," he said. "Everybody we spoke to was a supporter of Mousavi."

He noted that Mousavi's supporters acknowledged that he was somewhat of a blank slate politically, but that the presidential election had become a referendum on Ahmadinejad.

Arouzi then described the protests in greater detail:

Initially, it was a peaceful demonstration. People were forming a human chain, saying they wanted their vote back... but the more the police came, the angrier the mob got. It became sort of a mob mentality here. Now the police have swelled in huge numbers. They are being very, very violent with the crowds.

Every young person I've spoken to here, I've asked them, 'do you think you coming out onto the streets is going to make a change?' They said, no, but we have to come out anyway if we want our voices to be heard, but they're sure this won't make a change.

Demonstrators have been injured. People have come up to us and they've shown us that their arms have been bruised, black eyes, broken noses, bloody heads. But they are fighting back as well. This is, I mean, I've been in Iran four years here and everything here has always been contained. Today we saw the demonstrators setting on the police. An hour ago, maybe 30, 40 demonstrators rushed the police, throwing stones at them. One of the policemen fell and they were kicking him in the head and some of his colleagues had to come and drag him away.Security officials and riot police engaged in violent clashes with demonstrators in Tehran today in what one reporter called an... more

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Should the U.S. also Suppress Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan?

Should the U.S. also Suppress Evidence of Civilian Deaths in Afghanistan? By Glenn Greenwald Using the standard that is... more

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Carter in Lebanon

Carter in Lebanon By FRANKLIN LAMB The Former President Finally Met the Ayatollah the CIA Once Tried to Kill.... more

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No Right To Life

Gaza: No Right To Life Must Watch 7 Minute Video Report With the lack of medical services in Gaza, critically ill patients... more

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Saudi princess runs up £15 million shopping bill, claims diplomatic immunity

Princess Maha of Saudi Arabia, whose husband is second-in-line to the thrown, has run up a £15 million shopping bill whilst... more

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The Time Has Come to Solve Issue

The Time Has Come to Solve the Palestinian Issue Asharq Alawsat - London,UK The truth is that there is no problem in... more

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Iran Murder Video (Warning...Graphic)

Murder On The Streets Of Tehran Basij Shots to Death a Young Woman Video At 19:05 June 20th - Place: Karekar Ave., at the... more

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8 year old Saudi girl's marriage annulled....FINALLY

Media reports say an arranged marriage between a Saudi girl aged eight and a man in his 50s has been annulled, in a case... more

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8 year old Saudi girl granted divorce from her 47 year old husband

A court in Saudi Arabia has granted an 8-year-old girl a divorce from her 47-year-old husband, after twice denying the divorce... more

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Saudi girl, 8, divorces 50-year-old husband

CAIRO - An 8-year-old Saudi girl has divorced her middle-aged husband after her father forced her to marry him last year in... more

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Miss Beautiful Morals

Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an Islamic veil, so no one... more

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Here She Comes: Saudi's Miss Beautiful Morals

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia - Sukaina al-Zayer is an unlikely beauty queen hopeful. She covers her face and body in black robes and an... more

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investigating suspected Israeli war criminals is welcomed

the Spanish National Court’s decision to continue investigating suspected Israeli war criminals is welcomed The... more

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Saudi judge: It's OK to slap spendthrift wives - CNN.com

(CNN) -- Husbands are allowed to slap their wives if they spend lavishly, a Saudi judge said recently during a seminar on domestic... more

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The Hamas Peace Deal

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Saudi judge: 'It's ok to bitch slap your wife'

Over the weekend, a Saudi Arabian judge declared that husbands can slap their wives on the face if they spend too much money. What's ironic and unnerving about this story, besides the obvious, is that he was speaking at a conference on domestic violence and trying to explain that women were partly to blame for the rise in spousal abuse.

“If a person gives SR1,200 [$320] to his wife and she spends SR900 [$240] to purchase an abaya [a full black gown worn mostly with a face veil or head covering] from a brand shop and if her husband slaps her on the face as a reaction to her action, she deserves that punishment,” the judge said, according to an Arab News account.

Understandably, this has brought the issue of religiously mandated violence against women back into the spotlight. Bloggers have been talking about this story and criticizing the judge's statements. Asra Q. Nomani from the Daily beast calls this issue "part of a continuum of literalist interpretation of the Quran that includes banning women from driving, segregating women, allowing forced marriages of underage girls, and, ultimately, sanctioning intolerance and targeted violence against civilians of the kind perpetuated by Al Qaeda. The way I see it, the Muslim world will be stuck in the dark ages as long as men with ideologies like this judge’s remain in positions of power, just as the West was crippled as long as preachers, judges, and politicians argued that the Bible sanctioned slavery, segregation, and sexism."

I think she makes some interesting comparisons to Western cultures, but she mentions them as if they've been overcome. But I'd argue that, particularly in the case of sexism, we still haven't seen the end of them. While Western laws don't justify outright physical violence towards women, the ongoing debate over abortion is one example where we're still "crippled" by outdated ideologies. And what about gay marriage? I can't think of a more prevalent issue in the Western world that stems from this literalist interpretation of a religious text (this time, the Bible) that Nomani suggests. I think that while we continue to denounce the outrageous Muslim values upheld by people like this Saudi judge, we cannot lose sight of the sexist injustices that are happening right here at home. What do you think?Over the weekend, a Saudi Arabian judge declared that husbands can slap their wives on the face if they spend too much money.... more