Iran: Women’s rights demonstrators beaten and arrested

by John Fri Aug 25, 2006 10:30

DR. INGRID MATTSON ELECTED FIRST FEMALE PRESIDENT OF THE ISLAMIC
SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA (ISNA)

ISNA

Muslim organization elects Imam Mohamed Magid as Vice-President.

Plainfield, IN 08/23/2006 -The Islamic Society of North America
(www.isna.net) the largest religious organization representing Muslims
in North America -- has elected Dr. Ingrid Mattson as its President.
She is the first woman to head the organization.

Dr. Mattson, who earlier served as the first female ISNA Vice
President, is Professor of Islamic Studies and Director of Islamic
Chaplaincy at the Macdonald Center for Islamic Studies and
Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, CT. Dr.
Mattson, who was born in Canada, studied Philosophy at the University
of Waterloo, Ontario (B.A. '87) and earned a Ph.D. in Islamic Studies
from the University of Chicago in 1999.

Dr. Mattson has written articles exploring the relationship between
Islamic law and society, as well as gender and leadership issues in
Muslim communities. Her forthcoming book, The Qur'an: Its History and
Place in Muslim Societies, is being published by Blackwell Press. Dr.
Mattson lives in Connecticut with her husband and two children. . . .

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by PaddyK Fri Aug 25, 2006 16:19

Islamic Woman ?

WTF ?

by Jenny Fri Aug 25, 2006 16:29

I don't find it that odd. I often see the expressions: Christian Woman, Jewish Woman even just the other day Sikh Woman.

by PaddyK Fri Aug 25, 2006 16:38

http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22is...meta=

Just doesn't sound like a common turn of phrase, isn't it usually Muslim woman ?

Islamic woman sounds a bit anal or something.

Anyway , sorry... carry on.

by Religion of Peace Alert Fri Aug 25, 2006 18:32

"Islamic woman sounds a bit anal or something."

How dare you say islamic woman and anal in the same sentence. Some islamic man is likely to blow you up for that obscenity.

Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning
Feminist Daily News Wire
July 28, 2006
Iranian Woman Sentenced to Death by Stoning
Ashraf Kolhari, a 37-year-old mother of four, has been sentenced to death by stoning for committing adultery in Iran. Kolhari was arrested five years ago and has been awaiting her sentence in prison. Recently, she received the decision that she would be executed by the end of July.

Reportedly, Kolhari had an affair after her request for a divorce from her husband was denied. According to Iran Focus, she was sentenced on two charges: she received 15 years imprisonment for participating in the murder of her husband and death by stoning for having extra-marital sex.

Under the Islamic Republic of Iran’s penal code, Kolhari must be buried up to her neck and killed by stoning for committing adultery. Though several ayatollahs have released fatwas – religious edicts – to stop deaths by stoning, Iranian women’s rights lawyer Shadi Sadr told the Adnkronos International, an Italian news agency, that fatwas are not sufficient to stop this cruel practice: “Single judges are not obliged to respect the fatwas. To stop stonings, we need a change in the law.”

According to the Women’s Forum Against Fundamentalism in Iran, there are eight other women in Iranian prisons who have been sentenced to death by stoning.
http://www.feminist.org/news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?i...=9799

by Religion of Peace Alert Fri Aug 25, 2006 18:34

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