The reason the 'Arab Awakening' has gone this well is because of women. We have witnessed their overwhelming participation.

No one is going to stop this.  No one should.  We need to make in roads with new leadership.  They want a differen quality of life and they do not want more and more violence in their lives.

Muslim women and change  (click title to entry - thank you)

 26 February 2010 - 11:35am

By Asghar Ali Engineer,

Mostly people think Muslim women are oppressed and forced to wear veil and confined to the four walls of their houses. This is mainly because we read every day in papers that Taliban force women into veil, burn down girls schools and always portray them wrapped completely in black cloth from head to foot. This image of Muslim women was further reinforced by the burqa controversy which erupted in France.

This image would be justified if all Muslim women followed the strict dress code propounded by Muslim theologians which was evolved in medieval ages and which they keep on justifying even today. But there is big difference in what is theologically projected and ground reality. It may not be wrong, if I venture to say, Muslim women have been defying theological code for more than a century now....


This is a Wisconsin newsprint. 

The women of the Middle East will lead. 

They will have the promise of life afforded others and they will know how to be a mom, a grandmom and a great grandmom with longevity for all generations and genders. 

Women must continue to move the battlefront (click here)

Published: Sunday | March 20, 2011

...There have also been multisectoral uprising against the oppressive regimes of Yemen, Iran, Bahrain and other territories in the region.
The common theme of all these resistances to patriarchy is the search for what has been described as true democracy.
The commonsense and lay persons' understanding of the term democracy, in both the East and the West, is the idea that equality and freedom are the cornerstones of any society that claims to be democratic in the 21st century.
This world view is rooted in the American President Abraham Lincoln's notion of "government of the people, by the people, for the people".
When the philosophers and rulers of the 17th and 18th centuries formulated their ideas of democracy, they must have forgotten that the people are women, men and children....