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Controversial Muslim Conference Erupts In Chaos When THIS Comes On Stage
Two feminist activists who protested topless at a Muslim women’s conference near Paris will be charged pending a police investigation. Twitter posts call for them to be stoned or collectively raped, according to British news reports.
The focus of the conference was the role of women in Islam. The conference was a highly controversial one, according to news reports. Nearly 6,000 people opposed the event in an online petition.
The protesters, two women from the protest group Femen, tore off their Arabic cloaks and stormed the stage during a discussion by two Muslim clergy on whether wives should be beaten, according to Inna Schevchenko, one of the leaders of Femen and head of the group’s Paris office.
Femen’s protestors, ages 25 and 31, had written slogans like “No one subjugates me” and “I am my own prophet” on their bodies. They snatched microphones and had enough time to shout feminist slogans in French and Arabic before being manhandled, bundled and taken off the stage by 15 men, who then turned them over to police.
The incident did not end peacefully. One man kicked one of the women, according to the video. Schevchenko said others said things to the women like “dirty whores” and “kill them.”
While conference organizers said they would press charges, it is uncertain what those charges will be. Prosecutors questioned the women and police are continuing the investigation. The women were released, according to reports.
Conference organizers attempted to salvage the remainder of the event with Facebook posts urging Muslims to attend the final day on Sunday. Organizers said the event was “the victim of an anti-Muslim media frenzy.”
However, others in the area were bothered by the presence of fundamentalist Muslim clergy at the event, as well as the overall tone of the conference. One of the event’s speakers reportedly posted on social networks that woman will risk hell fire and sexual assault in the afterlife if they fail to veil their faces. The event also boasted of shopping and cooking being proper “feminine activities.”
Femen began in the Ukraine in 2008 to battle against a “global patriarchal society.” The group lists three evils contributing to such a society – dictatorship, religion and sexual exploitation. Shevchenko, 25, became one of the group’s most recognized leaders in 2013 after she cut down a five-meter high wooden Orthodox cross in Kiev, Russia, that was a memorial to those suffering under Stalin in the 1930s.
Charged only with minor offenses, Shevchenko went on to open the group’s European headquarters in Paris. There are 10 other branches of the Femen group in Europe and other offices have been established in Canada and Mexico. The group also plans to open an office in Britain in October, Shevchenko said in an interview.
Source: http://www.westernjournalism.com/controversial-muslim-conference-erupts-in-chaos-when-this-comes-on-stage/
