Your tax dollars at work: State Department trained 450 imams on "compatibility of women's rights and Islam" in the US

As Robert Spencer shows with quotes from the Quran here, there is no compatibility of women's rights and Islam.  Anyway, here's the sad story:

...  The State Department is on the job: "State Dept. Trained 450 Imams on the ‘Compatibility of Women’s Rights and Islam,’" by Elizabeth Harrington for CNS News, August 16 (thanks to David):

(CNSNews.com) – As part of its effort to combat “gender-based violence,” the U.S. State Department has trained 450 Muslim leaders (imams), using a curriculum focusing on the “compatibility of women’s rights and Islam,” according to a report released on Friday.

The report, “United States Strategy to Prevent and Respond to Gender-based Violence Globally,” was released by the State Department and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Aug. 10, after President Barack Obama issued an executive order instructing government agencies to come up with a “multi-year strategy that will more effectively prevent and respond to gender-based violence globally.”

The report cites “anecdotal evidence,” gleaned form interviews and focus groups, to show how the imam training has helped, as follows (verbatim):

-- One religious leader from Herat (Afghanistan) explained that since participating in project trainings, when he presides over marriages, whether he officiates the wedding ceremony or not, he asks the age of the bride and for proof of her consent, and he uses the opportunity to publicly discuss the importance of the bride’s consent to marriage. He even reported stopping a marriage when he found out that the bride had not given her consent.

-- Focus group participants agreed that since their local imams have started discussing women’s right to education in Friday sermons, the barriers for women going to school have been reduced.  (keep reading at Jihad Watch, be sure to read the comments also

 

What a crock of crap and what a waste of our tax dollars.

 

Comments

[Skunkfeathers]

Libtards are blithering idiots.

[Susan Benton]

The are a bunch of blithering idiots. I bet I know what happened. Somebody noticed that the imans or Islam is not women-friendly. So some twit had to prove their cleverness, their ability to change reality, or saw this as an opportunity to rack up some points for diversity training, or the like. So the immans became a target for their liberal rubbish. Alternatively there was a pot of money unspent (and if a federal government entity doesn't spend every penny you are alloted every year the next year the amount is reduced - that's why some of them get a new computer every year, regardless of need).

The necessity, the usefulness is never considered. They just have to lie in their report and that isn't hard, most of them don't know the truth from a lie anyway.

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