Muslim women living in chains

Some Muslim women in the north of Italy are living in chains says the president of the Association of Moroccan Women.
In northern Italy, there are women that live chained at home, from the kitchen to the bathroom, without being able to open the door,” said the leader of the women’s group. In the North [of Italy] there are 4 and 5 year old girls that wear the [Islamic] veil in the summer, and in the winter. This is the culture of male chauvinists, of fundamentalists – and nobody is shocked”.

Ruth Gledhill reports in the Times of London that  Muslim coercion against women extends to psychiatric hospitals
Her clients were women in the process of being sectioned into mental health units in the NHS. This woman, who for obvious reasons begged not to be identified, told me: 'The men get tired of their wives. Or bored. Or maybe the wife objects to her daughter being forced into a marriage she doesn't want. Or maybe she starts wearing western clothes.There can be many reasons. The women are sent for asssessment to a hospital. The GP referring them is Muslim. The psychiatrist assessing them is Muslim and male. I have sat in these assessments where the psychiatrist will not look the woman patient in the eye because she is a woman. Can you imagine! A psychiatrist refusing to look his patient in the eye? The woman speaks little or no English. She is sectioned. She is divorced. There are lots of these women in there, locked up in these hospitals. Why don't you people write about this?'

In Saudi Arabia, a woman was convicted of being a witch with one of her accusers charging she made him impotent. The illiterate woman was beaten and forced to fingerprint a confession.  She faces execution, most likely a beheading, unless world opinion convinces King Abdullah to intervene.