International Women's Day

On my way to my "Chuckling ......." blogsite, I came across an item on the Yahoo news site that commented on the relationship between Secretary Hillary Clinton and President Obama's wife.
The two ladies had joined at the White House to speak in behalf of Int'l Women's Day.

The item mentioned that in the opinion of these ladies, it was important that women be allowed to exercise rights equal to those granted men. As I recall from the article, one of the ladies pointed out that we can't make much progress if 50% of the world's population is kept on the sidelines. These are sentiments with which I very much agree.

The article further pointed out that in many countries Int'l Women's Day gets far more attention than it does here in the U.S. However, it also pointed out that in some parts of the world the celebration of the day is very much discouraged. They cited Iran as a place where people planning to celebrate the occasion were actually beaten by the police.

But, here is what immediately occurs to me: We can describe freely the ugliness that can be observed in Iran because Iran is everyone's enemy. But why not give a fuller picture? In what Islamic countries do we find their populations celebrating International Woman's Day? Pardon me if I don't hold my breath while you try to come up with the answer.