• The situation of women living in Islam-stricken societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women and girls, beheadings, stoning to death, floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most brutal and visible aspects of women's rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East

    Maryam Namazie: The situation of women living in Islam-stricken 
 societies and under Islamic laws is the outrage 
 of the 21st century. Burqa-clad and veiled women 
 and girls, beheadings, stoning to death, 
 floggings, child sexual abuse in the name of 
 marriage and sexual apartheid are only the most 
 brutal and visible aspects of women's 
 rightlessness and third class citizen status in the Middle East