Middle East | Syria | Politics

Hoda Muthana ‘deeply regrets’ joining Isis and wants to return home

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An American woman captured by Kurdish forces after fleeing the last pocket of land controlled by Islamic Statesays she “deeply regrets” travelling to Syria to join the terror group and has pleaded to be allowed to return to her family in Alabama. Once one of Isis’s most prominent online agitators who took to social media to call for the blood of Americans to be spilled, Hoda Muthana, 24, claims to have made a “big mistake” when she left the US four years ago and says she was brainwashed into doing so online. Speaking from al-Hawl refugee camp in northern Syria, while her 18-mon
Middle East | Saudi Arabia | Culture

Saudi cleric’s fatwa: Women only watch soccer to look at men’s thighs

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A Saudi cleric has issued a fatwa (religious edict) stating that women only watched soccer to stare at men’s thighs, Al Arabiya reported on Saturday. The imam said it should be forbidden for women to watch football games and they “do not care who wins the match, all they care about is watching the player’s thighs.” He added that a “woman seeing a foreign man is sinful, so what about seeing his thighs and tight kit?” The fatwa garnered criticism on social media, including a trending hashtag on twitter in Arabic translating to: #women_love_football_because_of_players'_thighs
North America | United States | Politics

Are you kidding me? Female CEO Says Women ‘Shouldn’t Be President’ Because Of ‘Different Hormones,’ ‘Biblical Reasoning’

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Cheryl Rios, CEO of Dallas marketing and public relations firm Go Ape Marketing, wrote on Facebook that she’d move “to Canada” if Hillary Clinton became head of state. “With the hormones we have, there is no way [a woman] should be able to start a war,” she wrote in her post, per KTVT. “Yes I run my own business and I love it and I am great at it BUT that is not the same as being the President, that should be left to a man, a good, strong, honorable man.”  
Middle East | Lebanon | Culture

Lebanese TV Anchorwoman Shuts Down Sexist Islamic Sheikh

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A female Lebanese TV host swatted down a London-based Islamic scholar and sheikh after he told her to “shut up” and said that it was “beneath” him to be interviewed by her because she is a woman. The live interview took place during International Women’s Day weekend. Host Rima Karaki was interviewing Islamist Sheikh Hani Al-Seba’i for Lebanon-based pan-Arab news station Al Jadeed this past weekend to discuss reports of Christians joining Islamic groups such as ISIS in the Middle East, when the scholar went off on a tangent.