Tag: woman
Arabic word for ‘nakedness,’ ‘shame’ also means ‘woman’
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Do we wonder why there is so much sexism and misogyny in the Arab world and elsewhere? It’s embedded in the language: In Arabic, for example, an important word for “shame” and “nakedness” – which represents a grievous sin in Islam – also commonly connotes “woman,” according to Wikipedia and…
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Dalai Lama: ‘No sexism in Buddhism’
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Hmmm. I once created an uproar at a gathering of Tibetan Buddhist monks, when one of their young American acolytes asked me if I was a Buddhist. “No,” I replied, “I’m a Buddha.” All hell broke loose at that point, and a woman angrily shouted: “I don’t believe you. No…
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Ayaan Hirsi Ali is a great humanitarian
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The beautiful and dignified Ayaan Hirsi Ali overcame severe hardship and rose to prominence by possessing innate morality, kindness and decency. Having come from Somalia – the most dangerous country in the world, where she suffered under a brutal and violent social system that included having her genitals hacked off…
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TIME honors Neda as ‘Person of the Year’
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It’s great enough that TIME magazine’s “Man of the Year” is a woman, but it’s even better that she is Neda Soltan, the beautiful Persian protester struck down in the streets by a bullet courtesy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Neda’s horrible, untimely murder – or “martyrdom,” as it…
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