Fight against misogyny: not smile at the oral sex

For no reason grinning women in advertising? Should be banned, you will find in the pilot district Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg . In this context, the real contempt for women as naive and hysterical from the newsstands.

You know it as enlightened man probably already: the representation of women as housewife or offensive for no reason is one lucky person will soon be a thing of the past. In the Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg District, the traditional play a pioneering role in emancipation, you now have a ten-point program, presented to discriminatory and misogynistic images from public space to utterly destroy them.

One year, a working group with the help of experts from Terre des Femmes and the Frauennachtcafe whitewater discuss how Kreuzberg at least visually to sexist no-go area. In future, it will be prevented in any advertising of women as a " (will)weak, hysterical, stupid, paranoid, naive" will be displayed. Women should also not "staged" with a smile without reason or be intentionally tailored to "dressed" will be shown. Advertising, "The fact that women vulnerable, caring, with great joy in the household employment, konsumsuchtig, depending on, seductive, already" are, is just as taboo as each figure, which suggests the viewer that it is better, if it weighs less or a smoother skin.

A smile as "structural violence"

For the time being the situation only applies to the four district controlled advertising space, but of course it should not remain the same. How to get in the "Berliner Zeitung" was able to read, you were already in negotiations with the advertising agency¶on a framework agreement for a further 23 sites. The dissemination regressive role models and "Gender Stereotypes" is considered a "structural violence", why not also under the new Werbeverordnung failed, but falls under violence prevention. No idea how the green to a headscarf and burka. About too much naked skin must be to Muslims at least not complain. Unfortunately, you have there it was still a completely unbroken relation to housewife, but since you can make sure what in the next integration course.

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Fire in citizen of Berlin mosque: Public prosecutor's office determines against suspects

The fire had destroyed a cultivation of the Mevlana mosque in Berlin and had damaged the front: Now the public prosecutor's office introduced investigations against a suspect of the presumed arson attack on the place of worship.

Berlin - in the case of the presumed arson attack on a mosque in Berlin Kreuzberg the public prosecutor's office introduced investigations against a suspect. As a spokesman of the accusation authority on request of Spiegel online explained, concern it with the accused one of a man originating from Jordan, who was already noticeable because of other arson reproaches and in custody sits at present. Against it now also the first suspicion resulted at the night to 12 August fire in the citizens of Berlin Mevlana mosque to have put.

According to public prosecutor's office the investigations persist against the suspect, also which concerns the possible motive of the act. Whether it had possibly a political background, was at present still completely open. According to the Federal Ministry of the Interior it gave twelve politically motivated encroachments on mosques in Germany alone from January to August of this year. Since 2001 was attacked after this counting altogether more than 300 Muslim places of worship. The spectrum of the acts reaches from swastika scratchworks over murder threats against imams up to the arson. The last encroachment, which the ministry of the Interior specifies in the statistics, therefore was on 17 August. A mosque in the Schleswig-Holstein Mölln was damaged.

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