{"id":3213,"date":"2013-10-26T22:51:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-27T02:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/?p=3213"},"modified":"2013-10-26T22:53:26","modified_gmt":"2013-10-27T02:53:26","slug":"meet-the-islamist-noble-peace-laureate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/10\/26\/meet-the-islamist-noble-peace-laureate\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the Islamist Nobel &#8220;Peace&#8221; Laureate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh..<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tawakkol_Karman\">.this woman<\/a> clearly has brought her nation the greatest pride.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman<\/b>\u00a0(Arabic:\u00a0\u062a\u0648\u0643\u0644 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u062e\u0627\u0644\u062f \u0643\u0631\u0645\u0627\u0646\u200e\u00a0<i>Tawakkul \u2018Abd us-Sal\u0101m Karm\u0101n<\/i>; also Romanized\u00a0<i>Tawakul<\/i>,<i>Tawakel<\/i>) (born 7 February 1979) is a\u00a0Yemeni\u00a0journalist, politician and senior member of the of\u00a0Al-Islah\u00a0political party, and\u00a0human rights activist. She leads the group &#8220;Women Journalists Without Chains,&#8221; which she co-founded in 2005.\u00a0She became the international public face of the\u00a02011 Yemeni uprising\u00a0that is part of the\u00a0Arab Spring\u00a0uprisings. She has been called the &#8220;Iron Woman&#8221; and &#8220;Mother of the Revolution&#8221; by Yemenis.\u00a0She is a co-recipient of the 2011\u00a0Nobel Peace Prize,\u00a0becoming the first Yemeni, the first\u00a0Arab\u00a0woman,\u00a0and the second Muslim woman to win a Nobel Prize and the youngest\u00a0Nobel Peace Laureate\u00a0to date.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And yet, as it happens, she has not been an advocated of people taking to the streets against tyrants all so consistently.<br \/>\nhttp:\/\/youtu.be\/wc81tn8pwgc<br \/>\nNever mind that the Muslim Brotherhood rule <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/04\/24\/islamistss-egypt-a-nightmare-for-women\/\">wasn&#8217;t all so good for women<\/a>-she doesn&#8217;t appear to care. Neither does she care that <a href=\"http:\/\/ireport.cnn.com\/docs\/DOC-997711\">more Egyptians<\/a> signed the petition for Muslim Brotherhood&#8217;s recall than had actually voted for it. Or (quite literally) the tens of millions of people out on the street against the Brotherhood-she gives protesters credit only when they like the same things as she does.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3214\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3214\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/10\/morsi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3214\" alt=\"Anti-Brotherhood protest in Egypt\" src=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/files\/2013\/10\/morsi.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Anti-Brotherhood protest in Egypt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Hence, while Richard Dawkins <a href=\"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/2013\/08\/10\/i-am-in-good-company-richard-dawkins-gets-slammed-for-saying-it-like-it-is-on-islam\/\">got flak<\/a> for pointing out that Muslims haven&#8217;t won many Nobel prices, I need to correct him differently: they have won one too many.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ooh&#8230;this woman clearly has brought her nation the greatest pride. Tawakkol Abdel-Salam Karman\u00a0(Arabic:\u00a0\u062a\u0648\u0643\u0644 \u0639\u0628\u062f \u0627\u0644\u0633\u0644\u0627\u0645 \u062e\u0627\u0644\u062f \u0643\u0631\u0645\u0627\u0646\u200e\u00a0Tawakkul \u2018Abd us-Sal\u0101m Karm\u0101n;&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3213","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3213"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3213\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3213"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3213"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skepticink.com\/nocrossnocrescent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3213"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}