<![CDATA[Jezebel: Theocrazy]]> http://cache.jezebel.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/jezebel.com.png <![CDATA[Jezebel: Theocrazy]]> http://jezebel.com/tag/theocrazy http://jezebel.com/tag/theocrazy <![CDATA[Sarah Left Women's Magazines To Try And Learn "Why They Hate Us." She Could Use A Drink.]]> Meet Sarah. She used to live in New York and cover fashion for women's magazines. Then she moved to Yemen. What's Yemen? Just a little country where prisoners go to when they get released from Guantanamo, where Al Qaeda is like the Beatles, where eight-year-olds have to go to court to get their own divorces and where women aren't allowed to laugh in public. They've been trying to blow up foreigners lately in Yemen, and the Embassy and its stash of liquor is gone for the moment, but Sarah is sticking around because the food is cheap and she never really liked showing her hair or speaking in public that much to begin with. Herewith, an IM interview with Yemenista, the only Jezebel reader with ready access to qat. It's nature's adderall. More »
]]> http://jezebel.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=380584&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Ground Rules For Wifebeating, Brought To You By The Yemen Times]]> "This title may sound strange, but it's actually not just a way to attract readers to the topic," writes one Maged Thabet Al-Kholidy in the Yemen Times, which we totally read all the time even if Maged hadn't decided to call his piece "There Must Be Violence Against Women." Because he's not kidding! Maged, who writes a column called "Through The Mind's Eye" thinks it's pretty preposterous for human rights organizations to urge battered wives and abuse victims to go to the police. What's his rationale?
According to them, women should complain to the courts about any type of violence against them. Likewise, should fathers and brothers complain to police if their daughters or sisters violate moral, Islamic or social norms?
Um, probably not — though it could make for a pretty humorous 911 dispatcher exchange? Anyway, Maged's column is pretty unbelievable all the way through until you do some Googling and try to put it in context. See, the Yemen Times appears to be on some sort of crusade to "humanize" men who find themselves imprisoned for assault. And why do I get the sense that Maged is one of the paper's more, uh, enlightened contributors? More »
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