Liberated Women Take a Stand Against ISIS and The Hijab

02-22-2017

 

More than one month has now passed since the Women’s March on Washington and we’re still waiting here at The Global Lane to see throngs of American women marching for kidnapped and abused Yazidi woman.

Both CBN News Middle East Bureau Chief Chris Mitchell and yours truly have interviewed and reported about the kidnappings, rapes, and sex trade of young Yazidi females by ISIS.

This week on Brietbart News, Tina Ramirez of Hardwired asks, “Where is the Women’s March for the Islamic State’s Yazidi sex slaves?  She says “the silence of the so-called ‘Women Rights Movement’ is deafening.”

Tina Ramirez

Ramirez is a long-time religious freedom and human rights advocate who has worked tirelessly on Capitol Hill and worldwide exposing violations. But she’s more than an advocate because she actually does something to help.

She writes, “Feminism is about equality and dignity, freedom and fairness for all, especially the most vulnerable and afflicted across the globe.”

Find out more about what Ramirez is doing and what others can do to make a difference by reading her article at this link: Ramirez Yazidis

Nazi Paikidze

Other liberated women are also standing up against Islamic extremism and are courageously taking a stand for women’s rights.

U.S. chess champion, Nazi Paikidze has forfeited a chance at winning over $100,000 in prize money at this year’s women's world chess championship in Iran.

Islamic Republic officials told Paikidze she had to wear a hijab and restrict her contact with men if she expected to compete in the event.

She refused and told Marie Clare magazine that, “By participating, I would be forced to submit to forms of oppression designed specifically for women. It sets the wrong example, particularly for young girls interested in chess.”

According to The Blaze, Paikidze also criticized the hypocrisy of the Swedes who tout their commitment to feminism and then agree to wear the hijab at the chess championship.

She retweeted this tweet from Hillel Neuer of UN Watch:

Paikidze said, “I will NOT wear a hijab and support women’s oppression. Even if it means missing one of the most important competitions of my career.”

Read her message to the Iranian people at this link: No Hijab

Marie Le Pen

And during her recent visit to Lebanon, Marie Le Pen, presidential candidate of the French National Front party took on the Grand Mufti of al- Azhar.

Sheik Abdellatif Deryan is the top Sunni Muslim religious leader in Lebanon. When his aides demanded that Le Pen should cover her head during the meeting she refused, walked to her car, and left. 

Le Pen’s critics said she created a political stunt to deflect attention away from her legal difficulties back home. Le Pen said the Grand Mufti of Egypt did not require her to wear a hijab when she met with him, so she did not think it would be an issue of contention with the Grand Mufti of Lebanon.

“They wanted to impose this on me, to present me with a fait accompli. Well, no one presents me with a fait accompli," she said.

Was she acting disrespectfully to a local custom, or taking a stand for her belief that men should not force women to cover the heads?

You decide.

But Le Pen’s actions—and those of Paikidze and Ramirez are getting the attention of women worldwide.

Will organized marches soon follow?

 

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