Hundreds of Traditionalist Clergy Poised to Leave Church of England
THE TELEGRAPH: Hundreds of traditionalist clergy are set to leave the Church of England over plans to introduce women bishops.

Leading Anglo-Catholic clergy warned that the failure to provide concessions to opponents of the historic reform would force many of them to defect to Rome.

In a highly-charged debate at the General Synod, the Church’s parliament, members rejected a compromise deal put forward by the archbishops of Canterbury and York which would have averted a schism.

The archbishops’ plans would have seen the creation of a new class of male-only bishops to look after conservative evangelical and Anglo-Catholic parishes opposed to female leadership in the Church.

Canon David Houlding, a prebendary at St Paul’s cathedral, estimated that as many as 200 traditionalist clergy could leave the Church, taking thousands of worshippers with them.

“People’s patience is running out and many will now be asking whether they should try and practice their Catholic faith in the Church of England,” he said.

“The vote was a severe blow to the archbishop [of Canterbury] and it has pushed us closer to the door.” >>> Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent | Monday, July 12, 2010

A Divided Church Faces Its Darkest Hour
THE TELEGRAPH: By rejecting a compromise over women bishops, the General Synod has plunged the Anglican Church into crisis. Jonathan Wynne-Jones reports.

Humiliated: the authority of Rowan Williams, the Archbishop of Canterbury, has been wounded by his defeat in the Synod Photo: The Telegraph
On Saturday night, the Archbishop of Canterbury suffered the most humiliating defeat of his time in office when the Church rejected his compromise deal over women bishops. It followed a week in which Rowan Williams had found himself at the centre of a storm over the blocked appointment of Jeffrey John, the homosexual Dean of St Albans, to be Bishop of Southwark.

Castigated by liberals who accused him of betraying his old friend by not securing his promotion, the Archbishop arrived at the General Synod in York also facing a mutiny over his plans to avert an exodus of traditionalists opposed to women's ordination.

On the eve of one of the most pivotal debates in the Church's recent history, liberal bishops had met to discuss how they would derail proposals put forward by Dr Williams and Dr John Sentamu, the Archbishop of York.

They were well aware of the impact that their rebellion would have on Dr Williams's authority. But they were still prepared to take drastic action because of their despair at his suggestion that a new tier of male-only bishops should be created to minister to traditionalists. This would undermine the role of women bishops, they believed. >>> Jonathan Wynne-Jones | Monday, July 12, 2010

World Ruled by Women Would Be a Better Place, Says Martin Amis
THE TELEGRAPH: Martin Amis has declared himself a feminist and claimed that the world would be a better place if every country was ruled by a woman like Angela Merkel.

The author singled out the German chancellor for particular praise as he called for a new era of female-dominated politics.

“I have a dream. I see a day when politics is feminised, where female values move into the public sphere in a way they haven't quite done yet,” he told the audience at the Telegraph Ways With Words literary festival.

“I think there have been 20 female heads of state since the Second World War – some by inheritance, some by widowhood.

"But they have all had to pretend they are tougher than men. That’s why Hillary Clinton said if Iran tries anything she will wipe them off the map. Margaret Thatcher was quite devoid of feminine qualities.

“In an imaginable future, the values of women will rise. I met Angela Merkel and I sensed with her that she did bring certain feminine qualities to bear on the political situation in Germany. I want every country to be ruled by an Angela Merkel.” >>> Anita Singh, Showbusiness Editor | Monday, July 12, 2010

Republicans Could Win Control of Congress, White House Admits for First Time
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The White House has admitted for the first time that Republicans could win control of the House of Representatives in crucial elections in November.

Robert Gibbs, the White House Press Secretary. Photo: The Sunday Telegraph
Robert Gibbs, the president's spokesman, acknowledged that deep frustration with the economy could see the Democrats' 75-seat majority in the lower chamber wiped out.

"There is no doubt there are enough seats at play that could cause Republicans to gain control, there is no doubt about that," Mr Gibbs told NBC's "Meet the Press".

All 435 seats in the House are up for grabs in the Nov 2 election as well as 36 of the 100 seats in the Senate, which the Democrats expect to hold.

The party is considered particularly vulnerable in southern and midwestern states, districts that turned Democratic in the latter years of the Bush administration. A consensus has emerged among Washington observers that the House would be lost or the ruling party's majority reduced to a handful of seats.

Such outcomes would make it difficult for President Barack Obama to push through his agenda, which is likely to include major reform of energy and immigration. It would not augur well for his re-election bid in 2012. >>> Alex Spillius in Washington | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Bloody Dhimmitude! The Stupid, Weak, Fawning Brits!
MAIL ON SUNDAY: Schools are being urged to rearrange tests, cancel swimming lessons and stop sex education to avoid offending Muslims during Ramadan.

Head teachers in Stoke-on-Trent have been issued with the guidance for treatment of Muslim pupils who may still be fasting when the new term starts in September.

But critics dismissed the advice as ‘over-zealous’ bureaucracy and said all pupils would be forced to miss out on activities as a result.

During Ramadan, all Muslims who have reached puberty avoid eating or drinking between sunrise and sunset to encourage discipline and self-restraint.

To help them with this, Stoke council advises schools not to schedule exams or hold parents’ meetings and social events after school.

They should also avoid swimming lessons because some parents and pupils consider the risk of swallowing water too great.

It even advises schools to cancel sex education because Muslims are expected to avoid sexual thoughts while fasting.

Although the guidance was specifically drawn up to help Muslims, it will affect every pupil in the 89 schools in the Potteries. Council forces schools to rearrange exams and cancel lessons to avoid offending Muslims during Ramadan >>> Claire Ellicott | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Iran Halts Woman's Stoning 'For Now'
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Iran's judiciary chief has halted "for the moment" the execution by stoning of a woman accused of adultery, according to the state news agency.

Sakineh Mohammadi-Ashtiani, a 43-year-old mother of two, was sentenced to death by stoning after being found guilty of adultery by an Iranian court, a ruling that sparked outcry in Western countries. >>> | Sunday, July 11, 2010

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Clintons Close In On $11m Estate
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Bill and Hillary Clinton are reportedly closing in on an $11 million (£7.3 million), 20-acre estate near New York as they prepare for the daughter Chelsea’s wedding at the end of the month.

Hillary, Bill and Chelsea Clinton. Photo: The Sunday Telegraph
The former president and the current Secretary of State are set to become neighbours to the likes of Richard Gere, Martha Stewart and Glenn Close in Bedford Hills, 40 miles north of New York.

Clover Hill Farm has high fences, two guesthouses and six bathrooms in the main 7,000 sq ft mansion, ample room for future grandchildren and the Secret Service agents.

The home, which features a wine cellar, a heated pool, artist studio and stable, has been put up for sale by Paul Wallace, whose Manhattan property firm the Broadstone Group was declared bankrupt in May. >>> Alex Spillius in Washington | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Late-blooming Lesbians: Women Can Switch Sexualities as They Mature
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: Women are embracing lesbianism in their thirties, according to research indicating that shifts in sexual orientation may be more widespread than previously thought.

Ellen DeGeneres and her wife Portia de Rossi, who nine years before their wedding was married to a man. Photo: The Sunday Telegraph
While “late-blooming lesbians” are not uncommon in history – the married writer Virginia Woolf had an affair with the poet Vita Sackville-West – the phenomenon of mature women switching sexualities is now attracting academic scrutiny.

One study even indicates that as many as two-thirds of women who feel lesbian attractions may have changed their sexual orientation over time.

The findings appear to pose a challenge to the scientific consensus that a person's sexuality is determined more by their genes than environment.

Christan Moran, a researcher at Southern Connecticut State University in the US, said that many women who develop lesbian feelings in later life refuse to “come out” for fear of society’s reaction.

Women in long-term heterosexual relationships, especially those with children, face even greater problems reconciling themselves to their new identities, she said. >>> Matthew Moore | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Anne Frank Graphic Novel Published
NEWSOXY: Anne Frank biography and graphic novel.

Anne Frank graphic novel and biography will be published this month. Frank's graphic novel will detail Anne's life during Jewish wartime. Anne Frank is one of the most talked about Jewish victims and the novel is supposed to be graphic in detail.

The Anne Frank House in Amsterdam is a museum committed to the Jewish wartime diarist Anne Frank, who hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the building. As well as the preservation of the hiding place and an exhibition on the life and times of Anne Frank, the museum acts as an exhibition space to highlight all forms of persecution and discrimination. The Anne Frank House has decided to publish a graphic biography to make the young writer's story easily accessible to a wider audience. >>> John Lester, Staff Writer | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Sarkozy gerät zunehmend unter Druck
SCHWEIZER FERNSEHEN: Frankreichs Präsident muss sich und seine Regierung gegen schwerwiegende Korruptionsvorwürfe verteidigen. Angeblich soll die Loreal Erbin Liliane Bettencourt 2007 Sarkozys Wahlkampf illegal unterstützt haben.



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Huit islamistes présumés arrêtés au Yémen
leJDD.fr: Les autorités yéménites ont arrêté huit membres présumés d'Al-Qaïda, dont un Saoudien en fuite, soupçonnés de planifier des attentats dans le pays, a rapporté le ministère de la Défense dimanche. Lundi dernier, deux membres d'Al-Qaïda avaient été arrêtés à la suite de l'assaut de la maison dans laquelle ils s'étaient retranchés dans la province orientale d'Hadramout. Trois soldats yéménites avaient été tués lors d'affrontements. [Source: leJDD.fr] | Dimanche 11 Juillet 2010

Leading Doctors Call for Urgent Crackdown on Junk Food
THE OBSERVER: Presidents of two royal colleges of medicine urge government to restrict advertising and sponsorship by makers of unhealthy foods and introduce diet health warnings

McDonald's currently sponsors the youth coaching scheme run by the Football Association. Photograph: The Observer
Leading doctors today weigh in on the debate over the government's role in promoting public health by demanding that ministers impose "fat taxes" on unhealthy food and introduce cigarette-style warnings to children about the dangers of a poor diet.

The demands follow comments last week by the health secretary, Andrew Lansley, who insisted the government could not force people to make healthy choices and promised to free businesses from public health regulations.

But senior medical figures want to stop fast-food outlets opening near schools, restrict advertising of products high in fat, salt or sugar, and limit sponsorship of sports events by fast-food producers such as McDonald's.

They argue that government action is necessary to curb Britain's addiction to unhealthy food and help halt spiralling rates of obesity, diabetes and heart disease. Professor Terence Stephenson, president of the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, said that the consumption of unhealthy food should be seen to be just as damaging as smoking or binge drinking. >>> Denis Campbell, Health correspondent | Sunday, July 11, 2010

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Nicolas Sarkozy Scandal Goes Back to Hungarian Roots
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: The case of L'Oréal heiress, Liliane Bettencourt, has enraptured France and forced Nicolas Sarkozy into the spotlight.

One secret cash payment to Mr Sarkozy's presidential election campaign was said to be worth as much as €150,000, or £125,000
Before becoming a scandal about money, politics, art, history, café society and power, the Affaire Bettencourt, now threatening the Sarkozy presidency, is the story of two ferociously ambitious young Hungarian outsiders and their success at storming the citadels of the French establishment.

One, Nicolas Sarkozy, the son of a womanising émigré aristocrat and a doctor's daughter, used to be told by his (twice) remarried father on visiting Sundays that he would never amount to anything much in France, because of his foreign name, small stature and below-average school grades.

The other, François-Marie Banier, né Banyiaï, was regularly beaten by his Renault migrant worker turned ad-man father for being a dilettante, an aesthete, and a high-school drop-out. (By coincidence Pál Sarkozy, Nicolas's father, also dabbled in advertising for a while).

Mr Sarkozy has mentioned the slights he suffered as the least well-off boy of his chic school in Neuilly, Paris's richest suburb. Mr Banier neglected even to complete his baccalauréat, haunting luxury hotel lobbies from his teens on, becoming in rapid succession the favourite of such luminaries as the painter Salvador Dali, the Nobel-prize playwright Samuel Beckett, and the couturiers Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Cardin. The Communist poet Louis Aragon enthused about the first novel Mr Banier published, aged 22.

Mr Sarkozy came to the attention of Charles Pasqua, the Gaullist party stalwart and key power-breaker [sic] who was to help shape most of his career, with his first public speech at a national rally: he was just 20 at the time.

Today Nicolas Sarkozy is president of the French Republic, while François-Marie Banier, a polymath photographer, painter and novelist, has recently been ranked 917th richest individual in the world, having accepted fabulous gifts from a string of wealthy old ladies, ranging from the viscountess Marie-Laure de Noailles to the actress Silvana Mangano - and especially from his latest patron, Liliane Bettencourt, the 87-year-old L'Oréal heiress.

The two men, no longer so young (Mr Banier is 63, Mr Sarkozy 55) nor as pretty as they both once were, stand at each end of a glittering chain of achievements, events, relationships, networks and rivalries now threatening to engulf France in the kind of political meltdown not seen here since the 1930s. >>> Anne-Elisabeth Moutet in Paris | Sunday, July 11, 2010

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An Ugly Fight Over L'Oreal [sic] Heiress' Fortune
LOS ANGELES TIMES: The daughter of France's richest woman says a charmer swindled her frail mother out of $1.25 billion in gifts. The family squabble has grown to include the courts and President Sarkozy.

Reporting from Paris — In a chic Paris suburb, inside the luxury villa of France's richest woman, nobody much cared what the butler saw.

When L'Oreal [sic] heiress Liliane Bettencourt met her advisors or lawyers to discuss secret Swiss bank accounts or lavish gifts to a male friend, the butler would simply bring in refreshments, then leave.

But what the butler heard, thanks to a cheap tape recorder smuggled in with the bone china teacups and silver spoons, has proved an explosive twist to a high-profile battle for the Bettencourt billions.

This month, celebrity photographer Francois-Marie Banier, a 63-year-old socialite dandy, went on trial, accused of tricking Bettencourt, 87, out of art masterpieces, cash and insurance policies worth $1.25 billion.

FOR THE RECORD: This article states that the Bettencourt fortune is $28 billion. The heiress' fortune is listed at $18 billion.

Bettencourt's estranged daughter, Francoise Meyers-Bettencourt, is alleging in a civil lawsuit that he exploited her aging mother's frailty.

The case started out as a run-of-the-mill family dispute among Bettencourt, her only child and Banier over who gets what. It has become a political scandal embroiling government ministers and even President Nicolas Sarkozy. >>> Kim Willsher, Los Angeles Times | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Islamist Preacher Warns France Against Banning the Burka
THE TELEGRAPH: An Islamist preacher barred from Britain for his radical views has warned France against passing a Muslim veil ban, or risk increasing support for al-Qaeda.

"Look what happened in Belgium and in France," Omar Bakri said, referring to Belgium's ban on the burka, or full Islamic veil, and the start of debates by the French parliament on a similar law that is all but certain to be adopted.

"They believe that prohibiting Muslim women to use the burka is going to make them safer. But they are wrong. This is going to make Muslims living in France give more support to al-Qaeda", Bakri told Spain's Cadena Ser radio. >>> | Wednesday, July 07, 2010

Turkey Goes Cool on Joining the European Union as It Falls for the Lure of the East
THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH: As Europe's top diplomat prepares to travel to Turkey, Colin Freeman finds a country not entirely convinced about their need to join the EU.

Turkish men make a nationalist gesture with their hands as they chant anti-EU slogans during a protest in Istanbul, Turkey. Photo: The Telegraph
Sipping a lunchtime latte amid the gleaming skyscrapers of Istanbul's financial district, banker Mehmet Canayaz debated whether the European Union should admit Turkey. The prognosis, he admitted, was not good: a dynamic, forward-looking region would end up shackled to an economy with severe debt, financial instability, and an uncompetitive workforce. Best for Turkey, perhaps, to steer clear of the chaotic Brussels club altogether.

"If we don't join, it will be Europe's problem, not ours," said Mr Canayaz, 25, who was relieved to be watching the recent Euro-zone crash from the outside rather than the inside.

"If they do let us in one day, fine. But in coming years, it will be them that needs us, more than us needing them. Their economy isn't as competitive as it once was."

The issue of whether the EU should be allowed to join Turkey, rather than Turkey being allowed to join the EU, is not the way the Eurocrats of Brussels have often chosen to phrase it since the stalled membership talks formally began in 1987.

But when the EU's Foreign Affairs High Representative, Baroness Ashton, arrives in Ankara for fresh accession talks this week, she may well find no shortage of Turks asking the same question the same way round as Mr Canayaz.

Fed up with being rebuffed by France and Germany, proud of their successful economy, and increasingly keen to court their fellow Muslim neighbours to the East, a growing number of Turkey's 73 million citizens are now wondering whether EU membership is quite so important as it once seemed. While nearly three quarters of Turks supported the idea in 2004, some polls less than half doing so now.

Among those whom Baroness Ashton will meet on Tuesday is the man most closely associated with Turkey's re-assessment of its outside interests, foreign minister Ahmet Davutoglu. A key figure in the AKP party, the moderate Islamist movement that has ruled Turkey for the last eight years, he is widely seen as the prime mover in his country's cooling off towards the West. >>> Colin Freeman in Istanbul | Sunday, July 11, 2010

Copying the NHS Is the Last Thing the US Should Do
THE TELEGRAPH: The future health care in both countries must involve a mix of state and private provision, says Janet Daley.

Bad idea: Barack Obama has appointed a man as head of the American public healthcare programmes who professes a passion for some of the most discredited features of our NHS. Photo: The Telegraph
This week, the Coalition will offer an example of how coping with an economic crisis may serve a reforming purpose. Having to cut back the power and the expenditure of the state will provide a rationale for dismantling the monolithic, bureaucratic monster that the NHS has become. In his health White Paper, Andrew Lansley will apparently propose sweeping away the command-and-control structure in which clinical decisions are taken and hospital procedures commissioned by Primary Care Trust administrators, rather than by general practitioners who actually come face-to-face with people in need of medical help.

Fine. But if GPs are to inherit all the authority in this system, then it should be possible for patients to choose – and change – their family doctors easily and without recrimination. For, alas, Mr Lansley has decided to pass on the powers that he is confiscating from the abolished PCT mandarins exclusively to doctors rather than to patients. This is a real missed opportunity, but never mind: he is at least facing the right way, devolving decision-making down to levels where it can be done with more responsiveness and sensitivity to individual needs, rather than with the impersonal, blanket uniformity of a target-driven central authority.

The US government, meanwhile, is galloping doggedly in the opposite direction, bizarrely determined to occupy precisely the ideological ground which Britain is abandoning. Barack Obama has, indeed, appointed a man as head of the American public health care programmes who professes a passion (no other word will do) for some of the most discredited features of our NHS. Dr Donald Berwick is to head the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, which effectively means that he will be in charge of Obamacare – the new universal health care system on which the President has staked his political credibility.

The appointment has created an extraordinary kerfuffle, partly because it was made under highly contentious circumstances – as a “recess” appointment which allowed it to bypass Congressional approval – but primarily on account of Dr Berwick’s widely disseminated statements extolling the virtues of the most disliked aspects of state-funded medical care as we know it.

Dr Berwick professes a love (which he describes in ecstatic terms that will have a tragicomic ring to most British ears) of just those evils of a national health system with which we are exasperated: the calculated rationing of treatment, and the ruthless enforcement of uniform cost limits, which often puts the most advanced medication and procedures out of reach of patients whose lives might have been extended or transformed by them. Dr Berwick thinks that our own dear National Institute for Clinical Excellence (Nice) – which is scarcely ever out of the headlines for denying some poor suffering victim a remedy that is available in other countries – is simply wonderful. Continue reading and comment >>> Janet Daley | Saturday, July 10, 2010

Americans will come to rue the day they ever elected B. Hussein Obama into office. He is nothing other than the iPresident. That ‘i’ stands for the Internet, through which he got elected; but it also stands for incompetence, inexperience, insincerity, incapability, irrationality, immaturity, oh and, of course, Islam! – © Mark

Reinstated, the Foster Parent Struck Off for Allowing Muslim Girl to Convert to Christianity
MAIL ONLINE: A foster parent struck off after a Muslim girl in her care converted to Christianity has won the right to be reinstated.

Gateshead Council’s decision to remove the carer from the register provoked a storm of controversy after it was highlighted by The Mail on Sunday last year.

The carer, who had looked after children for ten years and had a perfect record, was blamed for failing to ‘protect and preserve’ the girl’s Muslim faith when she was baptised, even though she was over 16 and had made up her own mind to change her religion.

Gateshead’s decision was quashed by a court in Leeds last week, prompting criticism of the former head of its children’s services, Maggie Atkinson, who is now Children’s Commissioner for England.

The foster carer, who cannot be named to preserve the anonymity of the girl, said last night that her loss of income had been ‘devastating’.

She added: ‘In addition to losing the Muslim teenager, another girl I was looking after was taken back into care. And I lost the farmhouse I rented to look after vulnerable teenagers.’

She said she was seeking damages from the council. >>> Jonathan Petre | Saturday, July 10, 2010

Split Looms for Church Over Women Bishops
THE TELEGRAPH: The embattled Archbishop of Canterbury has suffered a devastating blow to his hopes of averting a split in the Church of England over the introduction of women bishops.

Plans put forward by Dr Rowan Williams urging a compromise over the issue were rejected last night by members of the General Synod, including some of his most senior bishops.

The last-ditch proposal was designed to prevent an exodus of traditionalist priests, who are now likely to defect to the Roman Catholic Church.

It represented a significant gamble by Dr Williams, who was heavily criticised by liberals last week after Dr Jeffrey John, the homosexual cleric, was blocked from becoming Bishop of Southwark. Dr John's nomination to the post was revealed by The Sunday Telegraph last week.

The failure by the archbishop to gain sufficient support for his plan is likely to be viewed as a further dent to his authority.

Groups within the church have been campaigning for female clerics to be treated equally and to be allowed to become bishops, without any concessions that would undermine their ministry.

But their proposals have been opposed by traditionalists and evangelicals who do not believe making women bishops is in accordance with biblical teaching. >>> Jonathan Wynne-Jones, Religious Affairs Correspondent | Saturday, July 10, 2010

Affaire Bettencourt : En chute libre, Nicolas Sarkozy parlera aux Français lundi
Photo : Le Temps
LE TEMPS: Le président français tente de reprendre la main. L’avocat de Claire T. et l’opposition dénonce le manque d’indépendance de la justice

Alors que les Français partent à la plage et que l’affaire Bettencourt menace de se transformer en feuilleton de l’été, le président Nicolas Sarkozy s’adressera lundi à ses concitoyens durant une heure pour répondre à «toutes les questions d’actualité», a fait savoir la chaîne de télévision publique France 2 dans un communiqué. L’Elysée n’a toutefois pas confirmé. Plusieurs ténors politiques, que ce soit à droite, comme Jean-François Copé, ou à gauche, avec Jean-Marc Ayrault, ont appelé ces derniers jours le chef de l’Etat à informer les Français sur ce qui est considéré par les uns comme une «affaire d’Etat» et par les autres comme une cabale contre le gouvernement à l’heure où celui-ci doit défendre la plus importante de ses réformes, celle des retraites.

Menacé de perdre la main alors que les ramifications de l’affaire Bettencourt le mettent directement en cause pour le financement de sa campagne présidentielle au printemps 2007 (à travers le trésorier de l’UMP, Eric Woerth), Nicolas Sarkozy se doit de réagir s’il veut stopper sa chute libre au sein de l’opinion publique. Un sondage réalisé par l’institut CSA pour le journal Le Parisien publié vendredi indique que sa cote s’effondre. En un mois, il a perdu cinq points en intention de vote pour le premier tour de la prochaine présidentielle, passant de 36 à 31%, et il serait battu au second tour par la socialiste Martine Aubry. >>> Frédéric Koller | Samedi 10 Juillet 2010

En Inde, les femmes musulmanes montent au créneau contre les mollahs
LE FIGARO – BLOG – MARIE-FRANCE CALLE: A la fin mai, elles étaient déjà descendues dans la rue pour protester contre une fatwa des Déobandistes leur interdisant d'exercer des métiers où elles ne pourraient pas être "dûment couvertes". Le 29 juin, trois autres femmes musulmanes, des chiites cette fois, ont carrément battu trois mollahs, les accusant d'avoir consenti le talaq (le divorce) à leurs époux alors qu'elles n'avaient pas été consultées.

Tandis qu'en Europe certaines femmes musulmanes s'accrochent à leur droit de porter la burqa, en Inde, une poignée d'entre elles tentent de s'émanciper des règles dictées par les mollahs. Et le mouvement fait tache d'huile. Au printemps dernier, elles avaient été nombreuses à s'insurger contre une fatwa des Déobandistes (sunnites) visant à leur interdire d'exercer des professions où elles ne pouvaient être certaines de pouvoir travailler voilées. Si nombreuses qu'elles avaient attiré l'attention des médias, réussissant ainsi à provoquer un débat national. Continuez à lire et écrire un commentaire >>> Par Marie-France Calle | Samedi 10 Juillet 2010

Talibanism: Women Thrash Muslim Clerics, Husbands