I appreciate your willingness to look at the facts of polygamy, worldwide.
Here is a letter from a dear friend of mine in Iraq,
Dear k.Dee Ignatin,
It seems that we fight for the same cause on opposite sides of the globe.
Although polygamy was about to end in the modern Iraq, the political mess of the new millennium has introduced us into a new age of politicized misogyny. The new mutations of Islamism into an uncontrolled beast has made most feminists and egalitarian of the Middle-East lay low.
A few of us are still determined to stand against them and tell the whole world that we, the women in Iraq, reject polygamy, paedophilia (of female children), and submission.
I personally have gained a reputation at that, but it always comes with a high cost.
Our current "democratic" constitution has given way to polygamy while it was penalized before the occupation.
You have an ally and a supporter in Iraq.
Keep on leading the struggle for women's liberation and do not wait for appologists to make you stronger. You do not need them.
In Solidarity,
Yanar Mohammed
Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq,
president OWFI
www.equalityiniraq.com
My friend, Flora Jessop was the first FLDS Child Bride to successfully escape the cult, in 1986.
Like my friends in the Middle East, Flora says she did not come out of polygamy hating men, but women. The cruelty and abuse from some of the top dog first wives, and favored concubines, was far more painful than simple rape, or regular beatings, but there were plenty of those, too.
A powerful wife or concubine can determine what your chores are, or which children will eat last, or at all, and may decide to "discipline" your children herself.
That's my experience with the dozens of women who have successfully escaped from American polygamy, I've met.
Thanks again for keeping the issue out there.
Just blowin' my Texas sized whistle down here,
k.Dee Ignatin
Executive director
Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy [email protected]
http://tripleap.blogspot.com
928-897-9335
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Thanks Aimee,
I appreciate your willingness to look at the facts of polygamy, worldwide.
Here is a letter from a dear friend of mine in Iraq,
Dear k.Dee Ignatin,
It seems that we fight for the same cause on opposite sides of the globe.
Although polygamy was about to end in the modern Iraq, the political mess of the new millennium has introduced us into a new age of politicized misogyny. The new mutations of Islamism into an uncontrolled beast has made most feminists and egalitarian of the Middle-East lay low.
A few of us are still determined to stand against them and tell the whole world that we, the women in Iraq, reject polygamy, paedophilia (of female children), and submission.
I personally have gained a reputation at that, but it always comes with a high cost.
Our current "democratic" constitution has given way to polygamy while it was penalized before the occupation.
You have an ally and a supporter in Iraq.
Keep on leading the struggle for women's liberation and do not wait for appologists to make you stronger. You do not need them.
In Solidarity,
Yanar Mohammed
Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq,
president OWFI
www.equalityiniraq.com
My friend, Flora Jessop was the first FLDS Child Bride to successfully escape the cult, in 1986.
Like my friends in the Middle East, Flora says she did not come out of polygamy hating men, but women. The cruelty and abuse from some of the top dog first wives, and favored concubines, was far more painful than simple rape, or regular beatings, but there were plenty of those, too.
A powerful wife or concubine can determine what your chores are, or which children will eat last, or at all, and may decide to "discipline" your children herself.
That's my experience with the dozens of women who have successfully escaped from American polygamy, I've met.
Thanks again for keeping the issue out there.
Just blowin' my Texas sized whistle down here,
k.Dee Ignatin
June 16, 2009 - 3:13pmExecutive director
Americans Against Abuses of Polygamy
[email protected]
http://tripleap.blogspot.com
928-897-9335
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