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Saturday, January 07, 2006

Fatah outraged at al-Arabiyah television

Israel Matzav

Fatah outraged at al-Arabiyah television

There's seething in Fatahland tonight over a television special brodcast by the pan-Arab Al-Arabiyah satellite TV station. Leaflets distributed by Fatah today - which threaten to close Al-Arabiyah's offices in Judea, Samaria and Gaza unless they 'apologize' - objected to the film about women suicide bombers because
"This film depicts female suicide bombers as a group of women suffering from psychological problems and who are under pressure from males. It claims that in order to rid themselves of these problems, these women are prepared to kill themselves. They also claimed that these women were ill- behaved."
But the real story behind Fatah's objections is what it says about the treatment of women in Islam:

One of the women interviewed for the film is Nawal El Saadawi, a leading Egyptian feminist, sociologist, medical doctor and militant writer on Arab women's problems.

Since she began to write over 25 years ago, El Saadawi's books have all focused on Arab women, their sexuality and legal status. From the start, her writings were considered controversial and dangerous for the society, and were banned in Egypt.

In 1977, she published her most famous work, The Hidden Face of Eve, which covered a host of topics relative to Arab women such as aggression against female children and female genital mutilation, prostitution, sexual relationships, marriage and divorce and Islamic fundamentalism.

Mistreatment of women seems to be one of Islam's most basic tenets in the Arab world...

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