Frankly, I am disgusted that this article from 2007 has been re-posted in some kind of xenophobic Western attempt to slander IRAN yet again. It is merely one of many smears on a (non-white) regime in a region where Australia has no business + panders to the supremacist agenda of the USA + NATO to continue to wedge the neighbors of RUSSIA + CHINA ...even to the point of starting WW3, uhh!

Lets not kid ourselves that this is anything else than an attack today on an ally of SYRIA ...which NATO + the West is obsessed about destroying through an illegitimate insurgency + illusorily 'validated' by the hysterical Western media. If Onlineopinion really wanted a relevant article to womens' rights + Muslim issues, they should have posted the story about polygamy + the Preston mosque instead.

That IS a local issue right here in Melbourne ...but they obviously have no genuine concern whatsoever about the rights of MUSLIM WOMEN in white settler society Australia [see 'Preston Mosque in strife over telling wives to share their husbands with other women' - http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/preston-mosque-in-strife-over-telling-wives-to-share-their-husbands-with-other-women/story-e6frf7kx-1226422997012 ].

To quote Joumah El Matrah, executive director for Australian Muslim Women's Centre for Human Rights - "We are deeply concerned by the advice provided by Preston Mosque; it reflects a poor understanding of marital discord in Muslim families..."

On the contrary Douglas Chalmers, the article highlights how stupid is the USA for pumping up the fear.

Regarding the idea of few wars and Peace on Earth in the Global Village.

Until they right the abuses against women and young girls around the world they will not get the peace on Earth that they say they want.

Why? Because the abuses of women on a mass scale is the the main driving factor behind:-
The overpopulation(7 billion),causing poverty,

Extinction of tigers, elephants and other animals

The mass refugee problems around the world as people fight over control of land and resources.

The said Global warming and certainly all kinds of pollutions

The abject misery of mothers with too many children to nuture and feed
without much to give them. The awful physical problems of women with their bodies and bladders ruptured by too many child births. The miserable, physically unwell mothers trying to care for an overwhelming number of young children who must also suffer from their mothers misery and inability to be happy.

The buying and selling of girls as young as 7 and 9 into brothels. Mostly done by deals with men by other men. They wouldn't think
about actually contributing the money they spend in these places to a fund for the girls and boys so they could have a happier life.

In fact just about every concerning problem on earth.

Let's give peace a chance! Noble sentiments and possible! But only for people who have taken up permanent residence in dream castles in the clouds.
What would have been John Lennon's fate, if he lived in Herr Hitler's time, and sang his song for him? Or Pol Pot or Idi Amin?
There are psychopaths who crave power the way an addict craves heroin or nicotine.
Power can be the most addictive seductive mistress of all!
Moreover, the more power they wield the more they crave or want, and by any and all means! Its a drug they can never ever get enough of!
Those that can will try to buy it; or failing that, butcher billions to get it, if that is what it takes?
Trying to appease them is simply taken as a sign of weakness, allowing them to demand more and more concessions.
We always always reach a point as decent caring human beings, where we have to stand up on our hind legs and say enough is enough, enough already.
We always reach a point when we know engaging in a righteous war will cost less lives and human misery than the current status quo.
Almost every allied soldier realised they were indeed fighting a righteous war against a mad as a cut snake, dictator, when they liberated the Nazi death camps, and or, saw the truly terrible emaciation of the pitiful few survivors!
From that moment on those eyewitnesses that were firing deliberately high, lowered their weapons and started to make their shots count?
There can be no case mounted for tolerating terrible stone age injustice.
Give peace a chance?
Sure and we will surely get it if we but eliminate these identified practises; and or, all those who practice them.
Stand up and say no more, even if that means yet another righteous war?
Every woman is somebody's Mother , Sister, Daughter, Cousin, Aunt or Soul-mate Sweetheart!
Could anyone who thinks of himself as a man, or a fair dinkum human being, sit still while his Mother, Daughter or Sister was stoned to death.
Rhrosty.

What an odd species we are.

Our intelligence is in almost perfect proportion to our penchant to engage in savagery toward our fellow man. Which other species treats its own kind with such exquisite brutishness and cruelty?

Poirot I'm no expert but I've got the impression that inter group conflicts are hardly in other species which live in groups. Within groups individuals can be chased out and left isolated if they are perceived as a threat to those with power. Brutal treatment of others is not something we have a monopoly on although some are masters.

Onto the topic (sort of).
It always amazes me that the gender warriors who want to make it all mens fault totally ignore who's being doing most of the early childhood care for most of history. Its pretty clear that the foundations for what can be nurtured rather than inherited are mostly laid in early childhood so that early childhood care must play a big role in the shape of society over time.

The blame game does not really work, we are all influenced by the values of what we grow up with whilst having responsibility for our own choices. A societies values can't absolve or place sole responsibility on the stoner for their actions while ignoring the actions of the person who instilled those values into the growing child in the first place.

We need to break some cycles and the gender blame game won't do it, all that amounts to is an attempt to dehumanise males rather than solve the problem.

R0bert