Women at war with the mullahs - Newspaper Edition - Times Online

I seem to have a lot of stuff on Islam in the inbox of late, and so some of it is finding its way on blog. This is very interesting given it's a quote from a Muslim-backgrounded Arab woman.

“The clash we are witnessing around the world is not a clash of religions, or a clash of civilisations,” the impassioned 47-year-old told Al-Jazeera’s stunned audience across the Arab world. “It is a clash between civilisation and backwardness, between the civilised and the primitive, between barbarity and rationality. It is a clash between human rights on the one hand and the violation of these rights on the other, between those who treat women like beasts and those who treat them like human beings.”

Hmmm. Is this sign that pressure is building in Islam for some radically humane changes, or is this only peripheral and doomed to stay that way?
Women at war with the mullahs - Newspaper Edition - Times Online:Filed in: Islam, feminism, religion