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Sarah Palin was gagged at the United Nations when ready to deliver her speech. But her speech got out to the media, nevertheless.Canadian Free Press 23.Sep.08
Rally committees concluded they did not want a political venue for the appearance of Ahmadinejad at the UN; therefore, Sarah Palin was sidelined.
In her printed speech, she spoke not only as a Vice Presidential candidate but as a true feminist. She did not fear pointing out specific cruelties leveled against females by Islamic governments, Iran in particular.
She advocated for women everywhere—to be treated civilly—but especially for women in Muslim environs. That is something that the National Organization for Women has not done. That is something that politically liberal females are not noted for.
Sarah Palin speaks for Americans. She speaks especially for women for she has a conscience for women and their situations worldwide.
She stated per The New York Sun:"It is said that the measure of a country is the treatment of its most vulnerable citizens. By that standard, the Iranian government is both oppressive and barbaric. Under Ahmadinejad's rule, Iranian women are some of the most vulnerable citizens.
If an Iranian woman shows too much hair in public, she risks being beaten or killed.
If she walks down a public street in clothing that violates the state dress code, she could be arrested.
But in the face of this harsh regime..."
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Four months ago in the middle of the night, six men dressed in wide-brimmed black hats, black coats, white shirts and black trousers burst into the Jerusalem apartment of a young Jewish woman and taught her a lesson.Guardian 21.Sep.08
Mikhail, who is reluctant to give her full name, had scandalised members of her ultra-orthodox Jewish community by leaving her husband and embracing a secular lifestyle. The men, all members of the theologically conservative Haredi branch of Judaism, tackled her to the ground, slammed her head against the floor and tied a rag around her mouth. One assailant sat on her head as the others kicked her while demanding to know the names of the men she was seeing.
They also threatened to kill her if she did not leave the neighbourhood, which contains many secular as well as religious residents.
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Much of Kreus's time is spent checking out reports of illicit use of new technologies by members of the Haredi community. 'If we discover someone has a computer at home we throw the children out of school,' he said. Enforcing dictates on women's behaviour is another vital part of his brief.
He runs a library housing copies of the enormous notices pasted on the walls of Mea Shearim and other religious neighbourhoods berating women for wearing wigs instead of scarves and advertising appropriate dress on buses.
Signs warning women not to enter if they are wearing trousers, short sleeves or a skirt above the knees, hang in the neighbourhood. One is affixed outside Kreus's two-room house where he lives with his wife and 11 children. 'Every week there's a complaint about the way women dress,' said Kreus.
Extraordinarily, he admitted to slashing the tyres of women who have driven into the neighbourhood who, he said, were indecently dressed. 'There was a mess with the police,' he said. 'Now I'm trying new creative methods, not using violence. Now I make a small hole in their tyres and the air deflates slowly. I'm not destroying their car.'
