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Titolo: Bombardate il Libano

Considerata la fregola islamofoba di questi tempi (menare per democrazia),
ricordo che più che bombardare gli stati che hanno donne velate dovreste
bombardare gli stati che non applicano il suffragio universale.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/08/world/middleeast/08women.html
Muslim Women Don't See Themselves as Oppressed, Survey Finds
By HELENA ANDREWS
Published: June 8, 2006
WASHINGTON, June 7 — Muslim women do not think they are conditioned to
accept second-class status or view themselves as oppressed, according to a
survey released Tuesday by The Gallup Organization.
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According to the poll, conducted in 2005, a strong majority of Muslim
women believe they should have the right to vote without influence, work
outside the home and serve in the highest levels of government. In more
than 8,000 face-to-face interviews conducted in eight predominantly Muslim
countries, the survey found that many women in the Muslim world did not
see sex issues as a priority because other issues were more pressing.
When asked what they resented most about their own societies, a majority
of Muslim women polled said that a lack of unity among Muslim nations,
violent extremism, and political and economic corruption were their main
concerns. The hijab, or head scarf, and burqa, the garment covering face
and body, seen by some Westerners as tools of oppression, were never
mentioned in the women's answers to the open-ended questions, the poll
analysts said.
Concerning women's rights in general, most Muslim women polled associated
sex equality with the West. Seventy-eight percent of Moroccan women, 71
percent of Lebanese women and 48 percent of Saudi women polled linked
legal equality with the West. Still, a majority of the respondents did not
think adopting Western values would help the Muslim world's political and
economic progress.
The most frequent response to the question, "What do you admire least
about the West?" was the general perception of moral decay, promiscuity
and pornography that pollsters called the "Hollywood image" that is
regarded as degrading to women.
An overwhelming majority of the women polled in each country cited
"attachment to moral and spiritual values" as the best aspect of their own
societies. In Pakistan, 53 percent of the women polled said attachment to
their religious beliefs was their country's most admirable trait.
Similarly, in Egypt, 59 percent of the women surveyed cited love of their
religion as the best aspect.
At 97 percent, Lebanon had the highest percentage of women who said they
believed they should be able to make their own voting decisions, followed
by Egypt and Morocco at 95 percent. Pakistan was lowest, at 68 percent.
The survey, "What Women Want: Listening to the Voices of Muslim Women," is
a part of The Gallup World Poll, which plans to survey 95 percent of the
earth's population over the next century.
Dalia Mogahed, the strategic analyst of Muslim studies at The Gallup World
Poll, said the new data provide fresh insight into the Muslim world, where
Western perceptions generally cast women as victims. "Women's empowerment
has been identified as a key goal of U.S. policy in the region," said Ms.
Mogahed, adding that Muslim women's rights have generated a lot of
interest without much empirical information on "what Muslim women want."
Ms. Mogahed, who was born in Egypt and wears a Islamic head scarf,
rejected the idea that Muslim women had been brainwashed by the dominant
male culture, citing as proof the fact that women freely stated that they
deserved certain rights.
"In every culture there is a dominant narrative, and in many cases it is
constructed by people in power who happen to be men," Ms. Mogahed said. 
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propongo di bombardare gli stati che si rifiutano di importare il
modello democratico libanese

associated sex equality with the West.
...dove le donne non portano burqua e non girano velate...
-Stefano