In effect, they’re attempting cutting off every contact she has to the “outside world”(I don’t know what she’s doing about school). She already has no phone or internet access..

I don’t know what gave you the impression “the courts were going to wait…” – her parents CAIR lawyers are taking active measures to restrict Rifqa’s freedom even more. Rifqa herself lives in uncertainty.

This is a time she should be applying to universities and putting her all into one last high school year. Instead she’s being shuffled around and isolated. Can we count on any court to do the right thing by her? Can we afford to remain passive bystanders on this issue?

Will we remain silent and leave the fate of 17-year old Rifqa up to our notorious patriarchal justice system?

Will we simply turn our heads because it is conveient to do so?

Is someone here DOUBTING that what Rifqa says is true?

This is the REAL THING, women. Who are we REALLY? What do we stand for REALLY? Are we only feminists when we can complain from a safe distance???

Or do we have the wherewithall to take stands on REAL ISSUES THAT IMPERIL REAL WOMEN?

The reason is simple, Janis. Men write the ads, men approve the ads. As much as women do not want to admit it, boys and men STUFF THEMSELVES WITH ONLINE PORN. They are now being raised with a pornographer’s view of girls & women. That’s the new (misogynic) norm. Most women haven’t woken up to this, because the world of porn isn’t our world. But it’s our reality because we live with the effects of it.

I’d like to see some prominent female athletes come out against these Reebok ads. Dara Torres? Martina? c’mon, we need strong female role models calling this out.

O/T but the Rifqa Bary case just had a horrifying developement: The CAIR attorneys representing her muslim parents want all the Christmas cards sent to her SEIZED! This has been the only communication allowed to this 17-year old Christian who is facing possibly being returned to her parents by the Ohio court, despite threats made to her by her father and the obvious potential danger of being “honor-killed” she’ll face. We were all horrified about the beheading of the Aasiya Zubair Hassan in Buffalo last year. Will we stand by and wait to see if this will happen to Rifqa?

Will we do nothing because we “don’t want to get in any issues involving Islam”?
Are we that cowered already?

I’ve seen nothing on this site about the Rifqa Bary case and our silence (“the silence of good men”) is allowing CAIR to escalate their attack on Bary’s freedom. Will our silence ultimately enable the taking of her life? Do we want to wait to find out?

HELLO? CAN I HEAR MORE THAN CRICKETS ON THIS ISSUE?

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Bah-da-boom. That was a good one! Obviously, there are a lot of boobs working at Reebok.