BUT WHO ARE WE TO PASS JUDGMENT? - AT 7:51 P.M. ET:  Came across this unusually outspoken piece from Gulf News, in the heart of Islam:

Cairo: The sexual harassment of women in the streets, schools and work places of the Arab World has been driving them to cover up and confine themselves to their homes.

Examine American media and you'd think only Clarence Thomas is guilty.

The harassment, including groping and verbal abuse, appears to be designed to drive women out of public spaces and seems to happen regardless of what they are wearing.

Amal Madbouli, who wears the conservative face veil or niqab, told The Associated Press that despite her dress, she is harassed and described how a man came after her in the streets of her neighbourhood.

"He hissed at me and kept asking me if I wanted to go with him to a quieter area, and to give him my phone number," said Madbouli, a mother of two. "This is a national security issue. I am a mother, and I want to be reassured when my daughters go out on the streets."

Statistics on harassment in the region have until recently been nonexistent, but a series of studies presented at the conference hinted at the widespread nature of the problem.

As many as 90 per cent of Yemeni women say they have been harassed, while in Egypt, out of a sample of 1,000, 83 per cent reported being verbally or physically abused.

COMMENT:  You will notice the deep interest in this by so-called "feminist" groups of the West.  They abandoned Muslim women years ago, fearful, apparently, that they'd be helping BUSH (!!) or even CHENEY (!!!!!) if they said anything.  Once again we find that many of these "women's" organizations will only fight for women if it doesn't interfere with their leftist, often anti-American agenda.  Muslim women fend for themselves if they're too inconvenient for Western "feminists."

December 18, 2009