Where Are The Women's Rights Groups On This One?

They can always be found bitching and moaning about one thing or another regarding this country, George Bush and the rights of women here, but are completely silent when it comes to the medieval treatment that still occurs halfway around the world in Iran and elsewhere within the religion of peace.

Something George Bush and America's Military has done more about (freeing of Muslim women in the tens of millions within Iraq & Afghanistan) than anyone or thing in history by the way.

Take this nutjob for instance and his latest proclamation for the world to see and hear.

Top cleric says women without veils must die:

AKI - Adnkronos international Iran: "Tehran, 19 Dec. (AKI) - A top Muslim cleric in Iran, Hojatolislam Gholam Reza Hassani said on Wednesday that women in Iran who do not wear the hijab or Muslim headscarf, should die.

'Women who do not respect the hijab and their husbands deserve to die,' said Hassani, who leads Friday prayers in the city of Urumieh, in Iranian Azerbaijan.

'I do not understand how these women who do not respect the hijab, 28 years after the birth of the Islamic Republic, are still alive,' he said.

'These women and their husbands and their fathers must die,' said Hassani, who is the representative of the Iranian Supreme Leader Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei in eastern Azerbaijan.

Hassani's statements came after two Kurdish feminists in Iran were accused of being members of an armed rebel group and of carrying out subversive activities threatening the security of the state.

It is believed that his statements and the arrests could spark a fresh crackdown on women who do not repect the Islamic dress code in Iran.

Thousands of women in Iran have already been warned this year for their 'un-Islamic dress' such as wearing tight, short coats and skimpy headscarves."

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