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[denizaksulu]

I would not bloody my hands dearest.

[Oracle]

That's OK ... not asking you to commit suicide cupcake.

[Kikapu]

This story/study was on the Swiss radio's news report the other day, which I managed to find it on the internet. This is very tragic no matter what nationality the women/men are, such abuses of them/by them do not belong in the 21st century.!

Turkish women abused by husbands: study

February 13, 2009, 7:04 am

"More than 40 per cent of women in Turkey have been physically or sexually abused by their husbands, according to a survey released on Thursday by the Prime Minister's office.

Only a fraction of victims "slapped, pushed, punched, choked, burnt or threatened or attacked with a weapon such as a knife or gun" ever report the abuse to authorities, the Department for the Status of Women said in a press release accompanying the survey.

The survey showed a clear income divide with just under 50 per cent of women in low income households reporting to have been physically or sexually abused by their husbands, compared to 28.7 per cent of those in the higher income bracket.

Regionally, women in central and eastern Turkey were also much more likely to suffer from abuse, with more than 50 per cent in southeastern Turkey reporting abuse compared to less than 27 per cent in northwestern Turkey.

In total 12,795 women across the country took part in the survey in August and October 2008."

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5318 ... nds-study/

Keeping with the spirit of the above post I made yesterday, I opened the newspaper this morning and this story stood right out.!

Women of the Muslim world, help is on the way.!!

Here a quote from this reporting.

Islamic women seek recognition of their rights

"The advocates came from 47 countries to participate in the project, called Musawah, the Arabic word for equality. They spent the weekend brainstorming and learning the best Islamic arguments to take back to their own societies as defense against clerics who insist that women's lives are dictated by men's strict interpretations of Islam.

"We are trying to develop a new language, offer it to the world and use it," said Marwa Sharafeldin, an activist from Egypt.

Anwar, the main organizer, said her group was almost alone when she started it 20 years ago, but now it is one of many. "It's a movement whose time has come."

The repression comes not from the Koran, the women argue, but from the human interpretation of it, in the form of Islamic law, or Fiqh, which has ossified over the centuries while their globalized lives have galloped ahead. So they are going back to the original text, arguing that its emphasis on justice makes the case for equality."

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/15/asia/women.php