Extremism forced on Middle Eastern
Female Broadcasters - CoverUps.com

June 2007

The Sad Saga Continues

It is a recurring and sad pattern that we seem to be dealing with here: the systemic subjugation of women in the Middle East by radical Islamic fascists. The liberal media gives Islam the free pass yet harps on Washington ’s world class treatment of war prisoners at Guantanamo Bay. When will the rest of the Muslim world rise up to defend those without defense – their very own women? Below is a summary of chilling facts coming from the Middle East as reported by The International Herald Tribune.

• A Muslim extremist group threatened to behead female TV broadcasters if they don't don strict Islamic dress,leaving the women terrified and marking a further downward spiral in Gaza 's anarchy.
• The threat to "cut throats from vein to vein" was delivered by the Swords of Truth, a fanatical group that has previously claimed responsibility for bombing Internet cafes and music shops. The new threat was the first time the organization targeted a specific group of people, and adds to a growing climate of extremism, fear and suspicion in Gaza .
• In many parts of the Muslim world, religious conservative policies keep women out of TV anchoring positions or only let them take the jobs if they wear head scarves. But in some countries scarves are uncommon, like Lebanon and Jordan , and Egypt even keeps newscasters who wear them off its TV stations.
• The influence of Islamic groups in the Gaza Strip has grown over the past three decades, especially as poverty rose since fighting with Israel began in 2000. Now, it is more common to see women with their faces covered with veils than to see women without their hair covered.
• The Swords of Truth issued the statement Friday in an e-mail sent to news organizations.
• "We will cut throats, and from vein to vein, if needed to protect the spirit and moral of this nation." The group accused the women broadcasters of being "without any ... shame or morals."
• The group said it knew where to find the women. Prior to the statement, some women broadcasters said they received personal threats through their mobile phones. It was not clear if those threats were from the same group.
• One anchorwoman who does not wear a head scarf said she was too frightened by the threat to go to work on Saturday.
• "It's a dangerous precedent in our society. It will target all working women," said the broadcaster, who declined to give her name out of fear. "The statement frightened us."
• Another presenter who wears a head scarf, on Palestine TV, said she couldn't understand why they were targeted.
• "I hope they take it back. I hope not a bullet will be fired at us," she said.
• Basem Abu Sumaya, head of the Palestinian Broadcasting Corporation, which runs Palestine TV, said that the PBC already had security measures in place, but could not protect people on the way to work.
• The group claimed responsibility for the bombings since October of about three dozen Internet cafes, music shops and pool halls, which are considered places of vice by some in deeply conservative Gaza. Assailants detonated small bombs outside businesses at night, causing damage but no injuries.
• The security official said his forces were taking the threat seriously. He said Hamas members funded the group, wanting to impose a hard-line version of Islam in Gaza . Hamas won parliamentary elections last year and has a unity government with Fatah.
• The Army of Islam claimed responsibility for kidnapping British Broadcasting Corp. reporter Alan Johnston in March. Muslim hardliners lobbed a bomb at a U.N.-run school in May, accusing the world body of "turning schools into nightclubs"for holding a display of traditional Palestinian dancing.

Get The Full Scoop

Islamic Fundamentalist Group Threatens to Behead "Immodest" Women Broadcasters in Gaza
The Associated Press

Our Take

Enough is enough! In the modern world of globalization working women around the globe can’t be denied a place in it no matter what barbarism exists and under what false pretexts it claims to subjugate its victims. The Swords of Truth would more aptly be called The Swords of Shame as they disgrace Muslims everywhere.

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