WHERE ARE THE "HUMAN RIGHTS" GROUPS? - AT 6:28 P.M. ET:  As President Obama pushes ahead with the "peace process," designed to create a Palestinian state, the potential leaders of that state are making plain what it will look like:

Female students in the Gaza Strip will be required to wear head coverings and full-length robes beginning this school year, the Hamas rulers of the Gaza Strip announced on Monday.

According to the new regulations, any female student that does not attend class in the proper attire will be sent home.

The ministry also has ruled that male teachers cannot teach in girls' schools and women are not allowed to teach at boys' schools.

And...

These guidelines join an increasing amount of reports from Gaza residents saying that modesty patrols were forcing women to wear head coverings, especially at Gaza's beaches, and that they were inspecting isolated cars in order to prevent unmarried couples being alone together.

This is pretty much Saudi Arabia all over.

COMMENT:  I wonder what the attitude of this regime will be toward real democracy, living in peace with Israel, and toward the United States.  Don't ask, don't tell.

And, naturally, the "human rights" groups and "feminist" groups are silent.  As are the "peace activists" and "rights activists" in American universities.

Senior Hamas officials had claimed, in the wake of Hamas's June 2007 Gaza takeover, that the organization did not have any intention to turn the Sharia, Islamic religious law into official state regulations.

All they want is a little multicultural respect.

Do we really want to create a state like that?  Apparently the Obamans don't see a problem.

August 24, 2009