Every day, misogyny kills women around the globe in two ways: directly through violence and indirectly through apathy, said David A. Grimes, MD, clinical professor of ob-gyn at University School of Medicine in Chapel Hill, who delivered his lecture “Misogyny and Women’s Health” this spring at The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ 59th Annual Clinical Meeting. Let's stop here for a moment and understand who Dr. David Grimes is. He is a champion for women and has been a tireless worker for women's human rights.

It is a wonder to me that those who are working feverishly to promote an homage to Islam a heartbeat away from the site where gross mass murder was committed in the name of Islam have not worked nearly so hard to raise a ruckus to get the worldwide Islamic community to condemn some recent atrocities committed in the name if Islam: killing innocent UN workers because someone thousands of miles away burned a book; lashing a young girl to death for being raped; stoning a young couple to death for attempting to elope. Where is THAT beef?

Disclaimer: all religion sucks when it comes to treatment of women; religion (as written by males) gives women second class status as human beings. Fact, some cultures and the religions that fester/bloom in certain societies are far worse than others in the manner in which they treat women. This week TPM wrote on the bad bad of Islamophobia.

From the estimable Debra Saunders who SHOULD replace Dowdy Dowd at the worn out Times in a last ditch effort at salvation of the Gray Lady:

"There is no sense of proportion. The left portrays the religious right as extremists, if they oppose, say, abortion or same-sex marriage, while it ignores Islamic cultures' unequal and at times violent treatment of women and gays.?

This is one of the best grafs I've read in a month, nay year, about the sorry state of of the Democratic Party.

More from Saunders:

Glen Beck, Fox's counterpart to MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, has the first amendment right to gather folks on the day and sight of Martin Luther King's glorious "I Have a Dream Speech," but...the hell he should Not!
Respect. Hello where is the respect?

The funny thing is...the Left while telling 70% of Americans they are bigots and racists and nasty unwashed people for not wanting Islamoland anywhere near the epicenter of a massive slaughter committed by lunatics in the name is Islam...the Left (in this instance NYTime's Windbag Bob Herbert) has this to say about Beck:

It is always great to know just exactly how beat a woman. And better yet, when the blow by blow comes from your spiritual guide you can be sure God is nodding that big fat male head of his in uproarious approval. Yeah, land a punch there! Yeeeeaaaah, Friday night Gut Punch the disobedient slut, whore, bitch, or broad. Click here here for a "how to" wife beating video courtesy of Murphy at Puma Pac.
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This week USA Today reported that the majority of U.S. citizens don’t want Guantanamo closed, presumably because Obama’s plan to do so entails putting those questionable critters in with the general prisoner population in American jails.

On May 22nd, the NYTimes ran several stories about terrorists, one of which laid out Obama’s plans to “Move Detainees to U.S. Prisons.” Another story told of Obama’s plan for a specific “Detainee to be Transferred to U.S. for Trail.” (The specific detainee/?terrorist is Ahmed Khalfan Ghailani, a black male accused of U.S. embassy bombings overseas.)

Prologue:
Tradition is the meat of repression against women. Tradition in the form of religion is the most common means of denying women equal rights. The funny thing is…women are so soaked in the traditions of their youth they become servants to tradition. Women may say they are fully in favor of equal rights for women, but they very often choose to overlook the lack of equal rights given to them by their religion, citing personal choice. That is…they choose to sign on to demeaning traditions, thus they are not demeaned.