27 February 2005. A World to Win News Service. The US bears a large share of the responsibility for the violence between Shia and Sunni Moslems that has killed so many people in Iraq over the last week, and actually many months.

27 February 2005. A World to Win News Service. Somebody’s knocking at the door! Who is it? If we don’t open up, they’ll break in! Is it American soldiers? They raid homes and terrorize children and the whole family. We’ve seen it on TV. They insult, beat and arrest the men…

"In Fallujah many women were killed. Seventy-two women were killed the same way, shot once in the head, and their only sin was they opened the door to their homes", said a witness at the International Tribunal on Iraq in Istanbul. But the men at the door might be just common thugs and criminals who break in and rape the women. None of this was common before the US invasion. An Iraqi woman at the Tribunal testified that from the day that Iraq was invaded, there has been growing violence against women and systematic denial of their rights. They have been kidnapped, raped and even hunted to be traded to foreign countries for the vast global prostitution network. An Iraqi woman told a journalist, "Kidnapping and raping women has become so widespread that every woman worries that she may become the next victim. Very few women are seen on the streets. It was not like that before the war, no! Many are frightened to step out of their home."

Since the invasion, especially in the southern city of Basra governed by US and British-backed Shia clerics, women have been pressured to cover their heads. Barbers have been warned not to shave men, and tailors have been told how women must be dressed. So many women have been driven out of their jobs, especially young women, that now only 10 percent work. "Honour killings" are increasing at an alarming rate all over Iraq, even in Kurdistan.

After last year’s approval of the new constitution and the establishment of an Islamic regime based on Sharia (religious law), the kind of things that were happening to Iraqi women in day to day life became enshrined in law.

CONDEMN STATE VIOLENCE ON WOMEN AND ON THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT!
EXPOSE AND OPPOSE THE VIOLENCE OF STATE BACKED VIGILANTE GANGS ON THE WOMEN’S MOVEMENT!!

13 February 2006. A World to Win News Service. The worldwide upsurge of anger sparked by the anti-Islamic cartoons was the main item on the agenda for the meeting of Nato defence ministers at the weekend. This reveals how much all the imperialist powers feel that their strategic interests are at stake. It is impossible to understand the fury surrounding these caricatures first published in Denmark without looking at the material interests and political and economic factors involved. It is also important to examine the relationship between those interests and the propagation of certain ideas, and the complex interaction between those two spheres.

Comme certainEs d’entre vous le savent, la semaine du 30 janvier dernier était, à l’université Laval, la semaine J pour Jésus et tous les trucs étranges qui s’y rattachent. Et bien, quelque chose s’est réellement produit cette semaine là ! Oh oui, les cathos lancent la dernière croisade face à l’athéisme.

- Un éditorial du service de presse du magazine A World to Win

(Le 6 février 2006) En septembre dernier, le rédacteur en chef d'un quotidien danois de droite, le Jyllands-Posten, passait une commande à une douzaine de dessinateurs, à qui il demanda de produire des caricatures de Mahomet. Comme il l'a plus tard avoué, il souhaitait ainsi offenser les croyants musulmans, dont plusieurs considèrent la publication d'images représentant ce prophète comme un sacrilège. En outre, certaines de ces caricatures visaient expressément à insulter la religion islamique et ses adhérents, en les décrivant comme des poseurs de bombes insensés et des barbares sanguinaires. Dans l'ensemble, elles visaient à humilier et à rabaisser gratuitement une bonne partie de la population mondiale.

First it was the political opposition, then it was the economic (oligarchich) and (corrupted) labour opposition, and the last option was the foreign (US administration) opposition. Chavez government is now experiencing the power and chanllenge of the religious opposition as the newest (the last?) chance to overthow him and the people of Venezuela from power. It's not strange that this happens since it's well known the clergy has always opposed all popular initiatives. It's necessary to recall the clergy was in power (together with the nobility) in the metropolitan countries (and by extension in all of their colonies), dictating, organizing, blessing and condemning.

As part of the analysis and exposure of the growing and powerful Christian fascist movement in this country, Revolution is highlighting the voices of religious thinkers and writers as well as clergy people who are sounding the alarm on this danger. The views expressed by these religious people are, of course, their own, and they are not responsible for the views expressed elsewhere in Revolution and on our website.

People expected last week’s Senate hearings on Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito to be a major political clash. But the political battle people hoped for did not materialize. By week’s end, two things stood out.

Lawyers representing fundamentalist Christian schools--which teach that everything in the Bible is literally true--are suing the University of California in federal court to force the University to accept classes being taught at Calvary Chapel Christian School in Murrieta, California for college preparation requirements.