Comments of the Week

Several articles that we’ve posted triggered discussions between readers. Some of the topics are connected to religion and tradition. Check out here if your comment has been chosen for this week’s Comments of the Week.

Jim Lloyd Ridiculous..whoever makes these laws is well below normal human intelligence. (Facebook, August 16)

For Need a license to rape? Just get married in India!

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Khan Zeb It is not Islamic state. It is a barbarians state. Don’t link this with Islam. (Facebook, August 16)

For How ISIS has established a bureaucracy of rape

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Tatiana Pinzón The Photoshop skills are fatal and the way they represent the female ideal bodies in most (if not all) countries are inaccurate… (Facebook, August 16)

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Lisa Vee Why do we never ask these questions of men? (Facebook, August 16)

For What does the ‘ideal’ woman look like across the globe?

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Milka Zadok At least it is a starting point. One step at a time. (Facebook, August 15)

For Can the Safecity app make Delhi safer for women?

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Tina Schrier Bring her home, put the children into care, and charge her with being an accessory to terrorism. Life in prison should do it. (Facebook, August 15)

For British widow who left the UK to join Isil now stranded in Turkey and desperate to come home

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Sandeep Jawale One day ISIS will destroyed by the women who suffered from them. (Facebook, August 14)

For ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape

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Srijan Narayan How come ‘Antonia’s line’ doesn’t feature in this list? (Facebook, August 13)

For Top 10 Feminist Movies of all Times

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Pamela Ayers It says a lot about cultures when a woman is called “too educated/too successful”. Since when are you “too educated or successful?” Either you have the life you want or you don’t -looks like some men just want women to be controlled and not fulfilled. (Facebook, August 12)

For #lovelinks: ‘Mr. Right is out there, I just haven’t met him yet.’

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Nargis Laskar The right of Muslim men to divorce their wives unilaterally by oral pronouncement of triple talaq assumes women are inferior to men. If marriage needs consent from a woman, how can it be broken down without her consent? This rule and practice of unilateral right to divorce a wife assume women to be subhuman or rather properties of men, and can be discarded after used. (Facebook, August 12)

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Joachim Quainoo the talaq is a poor act that the muslim men in India are following. Because of this act men leave their wives by saying talaq three times. What? This is a cheat on behalf of the men. I support the women who are fighting against that act. One cannot divorce his wife unless because of aldultery.(Facebook, August 11)

For India’s Muslim women fight to end triple talaq law that yields instant divorce

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Narayan Bhandari Real blessed and real children of GOD are they who really love and respect humanity, thanks so much to those who saved life. (Facebook, August 11)

For Photo of Palestinian men protecting Israeli policewoman goes viral

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WTO RECOMMENDS

Female “Islamic State” Supporters – The West Needs to Rethink Its Strategy

The news that at least 12 young Australian women from Melbourne have attempted to join the so-called Islamic State demonstrates its enduring attraction on young impressionable Moslem women in western countries. It is time to rethink western strategies, writes DW’s Grahame Lucas. (From May 29, 2015)

What you should know about the Islamic State

Facts you should know about the Islamic State and why they are a threat to women. (From August 20, 2014)

My dear, dear Delhi, what has become of you?

As a journalist you often read and write about crime and a point comes when writing the number of dead becomes a routine and you do not feel the loss anymore. In fact you do not find it interesting enough or you do not even consider it a story worth mentioning, if the number of casualties were too low or if the violence was not too brutal. But also there comes a time when words fail you, something so horrendous happens that it does not just touch you; rather it shakes you to the core. (From January 4, 2013)

“Photoshop is a weird concept.”

“Make me beautiful” was the assignment. Esther Honig, a freelance journalist based in Kansas City, sent out an unaltered photo of herself to Photoshop experts around the world and she asked the experts to make her look beautiful according to the beauty standards of the country. Her project Before & After compiles the astounding results that she collected. It went viral on social media last year. WTO Blogger Roma Rajpal Weiß interviewed Honig on her Project. (From March 19, 2015)

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01.09.2015 | 6:26