Fatwa Bans Lesbianism and “Tomboys”
One of Malaysia’s highest Islamic bodies has banned females from dressing or behaving like men and engaging in lesbian sex, saying it was forbidden by the religion.The National Fatwa Council late last week issued its ruling following a two-day meeting that discussed recent cases of young women apparently behaving like men and exhibiting homosexual tendencies, […]
Women To Watch
Two new films to see. Written by Shamim Sarif and produced by Hanan Kattan and Enlightenment Productions. The World Unseen In 1950’s South Africa, apartheid is just becoming institutionalized. Free-spirited Amina has broken all the rules of her own conventional Indian community, and the new apartheid-led government, by running a café with Jacob her “colored” […]
Women Buried Alive In Pakistan
Pakistan’s Senate has called for action to be taken against men alleged to have buried alive five women in the western province of Balochistan in July. Reports from the district of Nasirabad said the women were killed because three of them wanted to get married without the approval of their families. Last week two senators […]
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