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Topless feminists take over Islamist hardline conference on wife-beating in France

Two women ran onto the stage while some imams were addressing a conference on whether beating your wife is permitted in Islam.

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An Islamist conference in the city of Pointoise near Paris discussing the merits and demerits of wife-beating was dramatically interrupted by topless feminists from the group Femen on Sunday.

According to a report in the Independent, two women ran onto the stage while some imams were addressing a conference on whether beating your wife is permitted in Islam. The women then took off their clothes, showing off messages on their chests saying 'Nobody makes me submit' and 'I am my own Prophet'.

The two imams hurried off the stage, only stopping to cast sideways glances at the women.

Immediately thereafter, security personnel and members of the audience violently dragged the women off stage, kicking and beating them in the process while they were pinned to the ground. 

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The unnamed women are believed to be aged 25 and 31, says the Independent.

The group alleged on Twitter that the “activists were brutally removed from the wings”.

Inna Shevchenko, a spokesperson for the Ukranian-born feminist group, the imams were discussing the beating of women. She added that the women were arrested but released after questioning.

 

Meanwhile, the organisers of the conference rallied for continuation of the conference, and expressed pity for the women, labeling them "victims of anti-Muslim onslaught from the media”.

Shevchenko took on the organisers and imams on Twitter.

It appears that the organisers are set to press obscenity charges against the feminists.


Femen International posted the following on its Facebook page after the incident:

Womanophobia is illegal.
Sexism is a kind of racism.
Modern slavery is a crime.
Let’s condemn them together, and let’s remind them without ever loosing any once of strength :
No one can enslave me, no one can possess me, I am my own prophet!
#FEMEN?

Shevchenko told Huffington Post UK that the protesters were from Muslim families and had raised their voices "in disgust at this public hate speech."

She also thanked people for their support.

 

However, some people protested the actions of the feminists and called for stoning them to death.

Interestingly, around 6000 people had signed a petition on Change.org earlier calling for the event to be canceled. The petition charged that the guests included, "Fundamentalist preachers such as Abu Anas Nader, known for having legitimised marital rape and the wider submission of women."

Femen is a Ukranian feminist group which is controversial for staging topless protests against issues like prostitution, female genital mutilation and the wearing of the hijab.

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