SHOES AGAINST BUSH, EGYPTIAN PROPOSES DAUGHTER TO ZAHIDI

This little article illustrates the Islamic concept of women as chattel. Islam institutionalizes the buying of wives and paying off debts with daughters. In no case is a woman's needs, desires or well being considered, as all revolves around the need of Muslim men to dominate every aspect of women's lives.

FROM ANSAMED.INFO:

SHOES AGAINST BUSH, EGYPTIAN PROPOSES DAUGHTER TO ZAHIDI (ANSAmed) - CAIRO, DECEMBER 17 - There is great respect across the Arab world for Muntazer al-Zahidi, the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at the President of the USA, George W. Bush. In Egypt, a man has gone so far to as offer his 20 year old daughter's hand in marriage to the journalist, assuring that she was happy about the idea too. "I would be proud, I would like to live in Iraq, especially if I was with a hero like him", said the girl, who was contacted by telephone. Her father, Saad Gumaa, has called al-Zahidìs brother to make the proposal offical. "I have nothing more precious to offer him", he said, underlining that he could provide everything the girl might need for the marriage. (ANSAmed).