Check out this interview with badass Bahraini feminist Ghada Jamshir:
Interviewer: “Some people say that Ghada Jamshir is a Sunni, and that this is why she is leading the battle against [mut’ah] marriages, which are authorized by religious law among the Shi’ites.”
Ghada Jamshir: “Authorized by religious law?!”
Interviewer: “Among the Shiites, yes.”
Ghada Jamshir: “Does the Islamic Shari’a authorize mut’ah marriages? Does the Islamic Shari’a authorize mut’ah according to the following classification: ‘Pleasure from sexual contact with her thighs.’ They have: ‘Pleasure from sexual touching,’ ‘pleasure from sexual contact with her breasts.’ ‘Pleasure from a little girl.’ Do you know what ‘pleasure from a little girl’ means? It means that they derive sexual pleasure from a girl aged two, three, or four.”
Interviewer: “Let’s not go into details…”
Ghada Jamshir: “Let me tell you what ‘pleasure from sexual contact with her thighs’ means…”
Interviewer: “Don’t give me the details…”
Jamshir presses on about this endorsement of child abuse — offending the interviewer’s delicate sensibilities, the poor flower — and blows off those who question her religious convictions due to her feminist activism. Let no one tell you that Muslims cannot be feminists and that the women of the Middle East are helpless. Up against mind-boggling barriers, yes, but not helpless.
You can theoretically view a clip of this interview here (requires IE) but I can’t get it to open.
via Protein Wisdom