Women Must Submit
I've already opined that I dislike the The Silence of the Left with regards to the "free pass" that it gives to Islam in the name of "multiculturalism" - and also objected to fact that the women on the left are not standing up for womens rights in countries that have - *ahem* - shall we say draconian laws to keep women in their place.
Now it seems that other people are getting with the programme and asking some questions that should be ansewered
If you go to the websites of major women's groups, such as the National Organization for Women, the Ms. Foundation for Women, and the National Council for Research on Women, or to women's centers at our major colleges and universities, you'll find them caught up with entirely other issues, seldom mentioning women in Islam. During the 1980s, there were massive demonstrations on American campuses against racial apartheid in South Africa. There is no remotely comparable movement on today's campuses against the gender apartheid prevalent in large parts of the world.It is not that American feminists are indifferent to the predicament of Muslim women. Nor do they completely ignore it. For a brief period before September 11, 2001, many women's groups protested the brutalities of the Taliban. But they have never organized a full-scale mobilization against gender oppression in the Muslim world. The condition of Muslim women may be the most pressing women's issue of our age, but for many contemporary American feminists it is not a high priority.
Why not?
Why not indeed?
Why do the left give a "free pass" to "gender oppression" in the Muslim world?
Tags: feminism, womens rights, islam, the silence of the left, freedom