by Heather Hastie | May 31, 2016 | Africa, Health, Women
I’ve spent most of the day watching videos about female genital mutilation (FGM), also known as female circumcision or female genital cutting (FGC), as preparation for a post I plan to do about the topic. I found one particularly good video I want to share with...
by Heather Hastie | May 20, 2016 | Religion, Women
I’ve been thinking a lot about the issue of Islam and Women’s Clothing since my post on the topic last week. The idea that so many women have so little control over their lives is one that I find very difficult and completely helpless to do anything about...
by Heather Hastie | May 16, 2016 | Religion, Women
In the comments section of my last post I wrote: The relative power of women in the early Catholic Church is something that they like to keep quiet nowadays. There’s the obvious argument that if women could be priests and bishops 1,700 years ago and much closer to the...
by Heather Hastie | May 11, 2016 | Religion, Women
In an e-mail headed “Distortions,” a friend and Chicago resident sent me a link to CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) Chicago’s ‘About Islam’ page. The plight of many Muslim women is one we’ve corresponded about before so he knew I would find...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 24, 2016 | Middle East, Religion, Women
Over and over again conservative representatives of Islam try to tell us that not only are women respected within their religion, they are more respected than women in secular countries. Any criticism of the treatment of women is dismissed as lack of understanding, or...
by Heather Hastie | Apr 1, 2016 | US Politics, Women
Trump’s response to Chris Matthews in an MSNBC Town Hall is well known by now: https://youtu.be/i2mHh9TtEks Trump clearly didn’t have a response ready for this question and was thinking on his feet. His immediate instinct though was that women are doing...
