— By: Alexandra Kinias — Over millennia, men have written the laws that controlled women lives, minds and bodies. Some of the rules that organized the daily lives of tribal communities were carried on from medieval times to modern times after been splashed with religious paint, whether written or interpreted from holy scripts by misogynist scholars. These laws condensed women’s roles to becoming sacred ornaments kept in a safe confinement or adorned a pedestal or a mantelpiece while waiting for the sacred blood of their virginity to be sacrificed on the matrimonial alter. Only death would restore a family’s honor, … Continue reading It is my Body and it seems to be Everybody’s Business: Sex in the Name of Jihad