She skewers the feminists and the international community (with the honorable mention below) to the primitive, vindictive justice handed out time and time and time again to women and independent thinkers in Iran and other countries afflicted with the sharia or influenced by it:
My question remains, where on Earth is the outrage in the West over these two issues of sharia and shahada [profession of faith: "There is no God but Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet"), both offensive to the very core of our beliefs? If feminists forever trying to ferret out Margaret Atwood's fictional "Gilead" from her book A Handmaid's Tale in the Christian fundamentalists here that they deem such a threat, they should remove their blinders and look instead to Iran, to Afghanistan, to sharia-ruled lands where Ms. Atwood's world truly lives. Why is the focus on the Iranian executions found almost exclusively in the rather limited sphere of the "human rights" community. . . .Sharia and the Shahada: Where is OUR Outrage? ." Pim's Ghost, What would Charles Martel DO?, 2/14/06 (emphasis added).
We should all be speaking out and expressing our outrage at these examples of arrogance and atrocity. We [should] all be protesting the fates of Atefeh [16-y-o girl accused of having sex with boyfriend but in actually probably refused sexual advances of judge who himself dragged her to the town square and hanged her] and Nazanin [18-y-o woman sentenced to death after killing attacker in self defense] instead of having to search the internet for even a mention of them. Europe saves no breath in condemning the death penalty in the United States as applied to murderers, but speaks and demonstrates not at all for women killed for crimes of "sex" and "self-defense". The issue of sharia must be put on the table as something that we must express outrage, and the shahada must be recognized for what it is.
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