However, as churches in Israel, Palestine, Russia, and Europe, as well as mosques throughout the world come under attack by arsonists, graffiti artists, and vandals, it is important to point out that it is the Christo-Islamic tenets that are under attack by Israel and those who serve Israel’s interests.Israeli right-wing Orthodox Jewish settlers have exacted what is called “price tag” vengeance against Christians and Muslims in the Holy Land by attacking churches and mosques. The radical Jews claim that Christian and Muslim places of worship will continue to be vandalized as a “price tag” >>>

Sunlight slants into a first-story loft where half a dozen young women are painting signs for future battles. Signs like "Model do not go to brothel," and "Muslim women: Let's get naked!" Call it downtime for these feminist activists, members of the Ukrainian-born group Femen, whose topless protests capture headlines and rile the establishment. Today, they are preparing their newest battleground - in Paris, where Femen opens its first international headquarters later this month. "France is really the center of feminism," says blond-haired Inna Shevchenko, 22, explaining the choice. "Here >>>

Monday, October 8th, 2012 | Posted by VOA-News |  Print This Article Femen's Topless Protest Tactics Hit Paris PARIS — The Ukrainian feminist movement Femen, best known for its topless protests, is opening its first international training camp in Paris. New recruits are expected to start classes this month - learning how to apply warpaint and jump, run and fight against exploitation. It is downtime for a group of young feminists, veterans of in-your-face manifestos. Sunlight slants into the first-story loft where they prepare signs >>>

We came up with this idea maybe 6 months ago when we got an e-mail that read, “Hello, we’re French women and we need FEMEN in France.” Then it struck us that FEMEN is spreading throughout the world and can be needed in such developed feministic countries as France.You say that you’re “the new face of feminism”. What exactly do you mean by that?Of course, we’re fighting against and for the same things. We’re fighting for freedom of women, for equality. And there’s nothing controversial with classical feminism. But this is what I call “new cover”, this is new style of showing >>>

A controversial Ukrainian feminist group called Femen has been making waves through its unconventional methods of protest against patriarchy, religion, sexual exploitation and violence. They say that their weapons in this fight are their bodies, and they protest by taking off their clothes. They have recently set up in France, saying things such as "better naked than the burqa" or "Muslims, let's get naked". They are a marginal group, hardly worth wasting time over. However, while attention-grabbing, shocking even, their polarising approach to feminist protest can help us to better understand the >>>

— The Ukrainian feminist movement Femen, best known for its topless protests, is opening its first international training camp in Paris. New recruits are expected to start classes this month - learning how to apply warpaint and jump, run and fight against exploitation. It is downtime for a group of young feminists, veterans of in-your-face manifestos. Sunlight slants into the first-story loft where they prepare signs for future battles. Signs with slogans like "Muslim Women: Let's Get Naked!" Inna Shevchenko, 22, is painting slogans on a black punching bag. She's a long way from her native Ukraine. >>>

 For two groups of women that have never met, topless Femen and balaclavaed Pussy Riot have already become seamlessly interwoven in the public mind.  In a part of the world until recently not know for its protests, the two groups are unmistakably young, female and confrontational. Unsurprisingly the two were pulled even closer together by the free Pussy Riot rallies and demonstrations that erupted across the world, which saw participants not only wearing Pussy’s Riot’s signature balaclavas, but often showing their breasts and painting their bodies in free Pussy Riot >>>

Alaska News Features Femen, the group of Ukrainian feminists notorious for staging topless protests, have opened a global headquarters and "boot camp" in Paris. The group set up their headquarters in a former theater in the Goutte d'Or district, according to The New York Daily News. "Soldiers will be born here, but they will not be French >>>

By Ian Bateson4 October 2012 TweetEmailTweetEmailFEMEN member Inna Shevchenko at the GOGBOT festival in the Netherlands before she cut down a series of wooden crosses. Photo from her Facebook page. For two groups of women that have never met, topless FEMEN and balaclavaed Pussy Riot have already become seamlessly interwoven in the public mind. In a part of the world until recently not know for its protests, the two groups are unmistakably young, female, and confrontational. Unsurprisingly the two were pulled even closer together by the free Pussy Riot rallies and demonstrations >>>

Femen, the group of Ukrainian feminists notorious for staging topless protests, have opened a global headquarters and "boot camp" in Paris. The group set up their headquarters in a former theater in the Goutte d'Or district, according to The New York Daily News. "Soldiers will be born here, but they will not be French soldiers," said Inna Shevchenko, according to the Guardian. "They will be feminist soldiers, international soldiers." Speaking to reporters, Shevchenko said, "We are taking off our clothes so people can see that we have no weapons except our bodies. It's a powerful >>>