Lily’s site is here but it is allergic to Firefox.

I’m not sure if I’m following your post correctly or not.

But:
Just because a Muslim woman in particular country “follows” the practices that are often times, in fact, I might go as far to say, almost all the time, IMPOSED, does not, in any way shape or form, mean that those women SUPPORT those practices.

Perhaps Atefeh’s point, in her speech, was to give one example of many girls and women who are victims of the same ridiculous “Islamic” punishments. It’s not often that we (in the West, Muslims and non-Muslims) get to hear about stories like this.

Jill’s point about women in majority-Muslim nations not being silent is extremely important. These women are NOT silent.

Another important read is Shirin Ebadi’s Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope.

If you read the speech, you might have noticed that Ms. Mazahery talks about reading women’s blogs, in Farsi, from Iran—these women’s views and experiences, which the Iranian power structure would have us believe don’t exist, are reaching a wider audience.

Animals are slaughtered more humanely than this

Made me so fucking angry that words were impossible for me for a few minutes. I wish that piece of fecal matter was here now and his throat was in my hands, slowly being crushed. And this is coming from a pacifist.