‘They Hate Us’: Writer Criticized for Provocative Article on the ‘Toxic Mix of Culture & Religion’ Harming Middle Eastern Women
- Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:18am by
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Foreign Policy Magazine’s cover story for its May/June 2012 issue, entitled “Why Do They Hate Us?“, is certainly stirring up controversy. The article, which provides a lens into the lives of women who reside in Arab countries, reinforces much of what we already know about the challenges they face in the region. But some women — particularly feminist Muslims who would typically be praising the fact that these tragic details are being exposed — are criticizing the article’s writer, Egyptian-American Mona Eltahawy.
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The piece delves into the ugly side of fundamentalism and covers female genital mutilation, physical violence that has worked its way into the legal code and the overall denial of fundamental rights in the Arab world. Eltahawy’s words do anything but hide the problematic mindset she believes has taken hold in the Middle East.
“Name me an Arab country, and I’ll recite a litany of abuses fueled by a toxic mix of culture and religion that few seem willing or able to disentangle lest they blaspheme or offend,” she writes. “When more than 90 percent of ever-married women in Egypt — including my mother and all but one of her six sisters — have had their genitals cut in the name of modesty, then surely we must all blaspheme.”
Eltahawy was also careful to state her view that many nations — including the United States — also mistreat women (or, at the least, do not treat them equally). But her claim, when it comes to the Middle East, is that Arab societies hate women. From economics to human rights abuses, the writer tackles many of her qualms with the region, while tying all of the elements back to an overall issue she sees embedded in the culture:
Not a single Arab country ranks in the top 100 in the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Report, putting the region as a whole solidly at the planet’s rock bottom. Poor or rich, we all hate our women. Neighbors Saudi Arabia and Yemen, for instance, might be eons apart when it comes to GDP, but only four places separate them on the index, with the kingdom at 131 and Yemen coming in at 135 out of 135 countries. Morocco, often touted for its “progressive” family law (a 2005 report by Western “experts” called it “an example for Muslim countries aiming to integrate into modern society”), ranks 129; according to Morocco’s Ministry of Justice, 41,098 girls under age 18 were married there in 2010. [...]
How much does Saudi Arabia hate women? So much so that 15 girls died in a school fire in Mecca in 2002, after “morality police” barred them from fleeing the burning building — and kept firefighters from rescuing them — because the girls were not wearing headscarves and cloaks required in public. And nothing happened. No one was put on trial. Parents were silenced. The only concession to the horror was that girls’ education was quietly taken away by then-Crown Prince Abdullah from the Salafi zealots, who have nonetheless managed to retain their vise-like grip on the kingdom’s education system writ large.
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And the aforementioned information is only a sliver of the examples and facts she provides in the article. When it comes to her concluding thoughts, Eltahawy urges individuals to stand up against the widespread hate that has been thrown in females’ direction:
First we stop pretending. Call out the hate for what it is. Resist cultural relativism and know that even in countries undergoing revolutions and uprisings, women will remain the cheapest bargaining chips. You — the outside world — will be told that it’s our “culture” and “religion” to do X, Y, or Z to women. Understand that whoever deemed it as such was never a woman. The Arab uprisings may have been sparked by an Arab man — Mohamed Bouazizi, the Tunisian street vendor who set himself on fire in desperation — but they will be finished by Arab women. [...]
We are more than our headscarves and our hymens. Listen to those of us fighting. Amplify the voices of the region and poke the hatred in its eye. There was a time when being an Islamist was the most vulnerable political position in Egypt and Tunisia. Understand that now it very well might be Woman. As it always has been.
Although compelling, the author’s claim of this “toxic mix of culture and religion” in the Middle East is being met with resistance from those who see the article as an overall simplification of the issue at hand. Some even maintain that it reinforces negative stereotypes and provides a basis through which Western politicians can more readily rail against Arab society.
The three arguments that Business Insider (BI) recaps from critics are as follows: “It just reinforces negative stereotypes of Islam in the West,” ”It reinforces a false monolithic view of the Arab world,“ and ”It perpetuates the notion that Arab society itself is anti-women.” For these reasons, among others, Eltahawy’s piece is being dismissed by some and lambasted by others. Here are some of the critiques, as presented by BI:
Books by “native voices” like Eltahawy have become increasingly popular post-9/11 in a Western world attempting to justify its wars and invasions against Islam and the Middle East, Monica Marks writes in The Huffington Post. “…these native ‘testimonials’ tell us what we in the West already know — that there’s something inherently misogynistic about Muslims and Arabs,” she explains, providing war-mongering politicians a justification no one would argue with: Islam and Arabs must be fought because they oppress women.
And instead of acknowledging the pre-Islamic socioeconomic roots of patriarchy, she instead blames only religion, pandering to Islamophobia, according to Al-Monitor’s Samia Errazzouki. [...]
Critics say there are wide differences among the Arab countries that Eltahawy fails to take into account. They believe her premise of “all Arab men hating all Arab women” is too simplistic. “Why did Egypt’s hateful “they” elect only 2 percent women to its post-revolutionary legislature, while Tunisia’s hateful “they” elected 27 percent, far short of half but still significantly more than America’s 17 percent?” says Max Fisher in The Atlantic.
Regardless of what critics say, the article does, indeed, shed light on an important and timely issue. Additionally, it provides many Middle Eastern women who live under the thumb of authoritarian rule a shining light and reassurance that their stories and their plight are making their way into the headlines.
(H/T: Business Insider)
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Comments (128)
DVDJR
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:53amResponse to Critics:
“It just reinforces negative stereotypes of Islam in the West.” The problem: It’s not a STEREOTYPE of Islam.” Read the Koran; study Sharia.
”It reinforces a false monolithic view of the Arab world.“ Monolithic? Nope. Islam runs throughout the Arab world. Although there may be slight differences in the degree of compliance with the Holy Book and Sharia.
”It perpetuates the notion that Arab society itself is anti-women.” How can you divorce “Arab society” from Islam? You cannot. That society rests upon the foundations of Islam.
Bravo to the brave and honest Ms. Eltahawy!
Report Post »Cerealface
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:39pmWho’s idea was it for women to strip to prove a point? Peta?
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:50pmCHRIST: There is no Marriage After Death or in Heaven! MOHAMMED: Once Married, it is Eternal, and couples are Married in Heaven… which leads to Necrophilia (Sex with the Dead) as in Osiris & Isis in the Ancient Religion of Egypt!
Islam is FUBAR!
Report Post »Conservative_T-Rex
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:49pmwell said. muslims are idiots.
game/quiz for avid fox news watchers: http://www.sporcle.com/games/Bohnfather/fox-news-personalities
Report Post »Itsjusttim
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:11pmThis is one reason why it is said that I stand in aisles, because I might as well be talking to walls. In the mid-East the men are whores <—- see? Whores. That's why in Egypt they just changed the law so they can have sex with their dead wife up to six hours after the wife is dead.
Report Post »cuinsong
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 5:28pmI think they hate you because of their lack of self esteem. You are in the line of fire and bare the brunt of their anger. The fact is that the Muslim countries are a backward looking people and having no real industry or notable achievements as a society makes for a self hating under current that manifest its self in various ways one of which is woman hating!
Report Post »Another outlet for this hate is the Jihad idea that is preached by the Ayatollahs.
In the name of religion they think they can get to heaven by way of killing their fellow humans and they really think their god supports this kind of atrocity!
Like, who else would even consider worshiping a god that likes to cut peoples heads off except a self hating bunch of depraved idiots!?
Then when someone points out the stupidity of their belief system to them their response is to threaten to kill them!
Woman hating bunch of backward idiots one and all!
I wrote this song to bring attention to this religion and point out the idiocy of their teaching’s.
Its called “That’s Not Right” http://www.reverbnation.com/play_now/song_10789999
1947
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:05pmIt’s not HATE, it‘s that we don’t TRUST you……..MUSLIM
Report Post »Copo
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:45pmLukrw: Mohammad didn’t say marriage was eternal, he said that you could marry someone just to have sex with them and divorce them an hour later, what less would you expect from a polygamous pedophile.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:29pmExactly DVDJR. If I hear one more moonbat whimper and whine about stereotypes, I’m going to ralph. Do they really want to talk stereotypes with their overgeneralizations about sections of the population they rail against politically? Seriously. It’s not a stereotype, and continuing to feign shock for political correctness is pure insanity, it isn’t garnering them any real favor.
Report Post »willbedone
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 9:18amThere is a difference between Arab and Islam. I do not think that you do either side a favor by mixing the two.
Report Post »On an other note. I do like the photos in this article, they doillustratee the point.
USACommoner
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:39am…and the UN is investigating the United States for human rights violations. What a joke they are.
Report Post »PATRIOTMAMA
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:18amFINALLY!!!!!!!!!!!! Someone is speaking out about the TRUE WAR ON WOMEN!!!!!!!!!!! It infuriates me that they accuse Republicans of waging a WAR ON WOMEN just because we don‘t want to force people to pay for our contraception when they don’t believe in it!!!! INFURIATES ME when these things are going on in MUCH of the world. UUUUGGGGHHHHHH!!!!!!!
Report Post »HuskerDave
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:12amThe criticism of the writer by the Huffington Post of Lies and other “feminist” leaders helps to illustrate the fact that the feminists, civil rights leaders, human rights organizations, etc. on the ‘progressive’ left are frauds. They use their mindless zealot followers to push the marxist agenda – and have no interest in condemning real human rights atrocities, real abuse of women, and real violations of civil rights.
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:37amwell said
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:49amhmmmm…“reinforces negative stereotypes”? The Egyptian parliament is considering a measure that allows husbands “farewell intercourse” with their dead wives within 6 hours of the wife’s death. The same fatwah was put forward by a prominent Morrocan Imam. Islam thinks so poorly of it‘s women that it will consider allowing it’s men to have sex with female corpses. Islam is a mental disorder not a religion.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:28pmWhere have the NAGs (National association of Gals) been for the last 10 years? Why not any protests from them and other liberal women’s groups? Because their cause is NOT about women, it is about control, just like all the other liberal causes, like the Environmental morons, Animal rights, etc. Most of them could care less about their cause, as long as they are able to control the people they are protesting against. They dare NOT protest against Muslims, the cowards!
Report Post »Rainbow Dash
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:05amRadical Islam is the true “war on women”
Report Post »nobammy
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:42amSimply said. Simply true.
Report Post »Dishevel
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:10amI am the true war on Islam.
Report Post »They label me infidel.
I have only three choices when the assume power.
Convert. Die. Fight.
I will never convert, I will never live under Islamic law.
When it comes to that I will not just lay down and die.
BlackCrow
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:58amWhat gets me is the FACT that it was Muslims who started the slave trade in Africa, It was Muslims who profited from the slave trade in Africa. It was Muslims that took Europeans and Americans captured at sea and sold them into slavery. Yet people like Calypso Louie “embrace Islam” when it was Muslims who captured and sold their ancestors into slavery in the first place. It is Muslims who are trafficking in slaves to this day because their perverted religion not only condones but encourages that traffic.
And a woman is less than a slave to them.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:46amThe only real way to change something is from within. (As we are learning here.)
Islam must reform Islam or be destroyed.
America must reform America or be destroyed.
Report Post »MONICNE
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:36amThis article has become a mecca for people who hate Mecca. LOL
Of course we currently have it better in America than our poor sisters currently have it in Egypt, but we must never give an inch to those who would incrementally pull back every American woman’s freedoms. And, IMHO it does not hurt us Christians to support basic women’s rights internationally.
TEA
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:01pmMONACNE/SLEAZY HIPPO…your gags aren’t funny. How funny should they be considering the source is a lefty whack job with a penchant for creating multiple screennames for him/herself? No seriously….you’re damaged goods kid. You create multiple screenames for yourself here…get caught out…and keep returning as if nothing has taken place? Are you that removed from reality? And MONACNE keeps posting the same banal “I’ll pose as conservative” posts with the same insipid veiled mockery of conservatives and the same obsessive/compulsive “TEA” tagline. A tagline that has become so ingrained in you that you forget who you‘re posting as at times and put it at the end of your other screennames’ posts. Why do you need so many screennames MONACNE? What purpose do you have that compells you to do this. Any normal person would have the dignity to leave after being found out..but you keep returning like it never happened. Why? What are you gaining from this ridiculous act of yours at this point? You’re a self applauding “enlightened” liberal who believes they’re (”they’re” in your case has many meanings) above conservatives in intellect and all things…what possible value do you glean from creating multiple screennames for yourself kid? If you’re so right about your failed ideology why all the games and subterfuge? I can only determine by your continued silence about this and continued activity that you’re a disturbed individual. No other explanation.
Report Post »TheEDGE
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 2:16pmAvenjerk- sometimes I think they just get bored. Let’s be honest. Being a liberal is easy. For alot of people, it is the easy choice to just tolerate anything and be “ open minded ”. They are lazy people.
Report Post »Laziness leads to envy which leads to evil.
Walkabout
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:58pmMONICNE
You’re either the dumbest sheila to come down the pike or you are no Woman.
This story has appeared in Foreign policy Magazine & Frontpage magazine. It appears that you have a problem with the readership of those magazines as well as “The Blaze”.
Is the author of the article a liar?
Should the the article not be read?
Should we not talk about how this confirms what we know?
The article will appear in many more periodicals. It will be referenced by countless more in the coming year. Does that make you sad :( ?
Report Post »Chromo200
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:34am“Books by “native voices” like Eltahawy have become increasingly popular post-9/11 in a Western world attempting to justify its wars and invasions against Islam and the Middle East” . what BS on part Eltahaway. If the west does nothing, the complaint is that we should since “we are the most powerful nation and it is our duty to help.” if we do then it is an invasion against Islam. Until women in the middle east and moderate arabs are willing to stand up and be counted and create their own Spring, this attitude will stay in place. The Imams will not give in to loss of power.
Look what the muslims did to Lebanon. Chased the moderates away and the ones remaining live in fear from Hezbulah and the Iranian masters. Guess what, the muslims are bringing their crap here and we are letting them. There maybe a good muslim here and there but in the end the majority will do what the Imam tells them what to do.
Until the muslims stop this anti west and anti Israel war and allow free exchange of ideas between people, I will not trust them.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:33am“Some even maintain that it reinforces negative stereotypes and provides a basis through which Western politicians can more readily rail against Arab society.”
Yes we never see negative stories about the Middle East from the News Media of the left or the right. Time magazine only takes flattering pictures & writes flattering stories of the Middle East.. NOT!
The view of Europeans & Americans of the Middle East is not solely or in the majority shaped by politicians. To say so is paint oneself as a moron.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:31am““It just reinforces negative stereotypes of Islam in the West,””
I have been to 7 countries in the Middle East over a period of 3 decades. An article or politician is not going to make me believe something different than what I saw. Anyone making such an argument is a running doing apologist for evil
Report Post »Arminius23
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 5:51pm@Walkabout You’re right about that. The Westernized areas Jordan, Qatar, Kuwait weren’t bad in areas where westerners were common but there is no telling what happens in rural parts. Afghanistan and Iraq were different entirely. I cannot tell you how many stories I heard of violent husbands beating their wives. The boys have zero respect for the girls and will physically harm them without a second thought. What kind of men does that breed? While in Germany Some Turkish women are deformed from family honor defacements or even killings. This is a reality. Thank God I never saw a direct beating or I might have unloaded. I never went anywhere without my M16A2 and 210 rounds.
Report Post »hi
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:22amAs I have said in other posts, we did something about the apartheid in South Africa. But, our President bows down to misogynist leaders.
Report Post »From Virginia
Posted on April 29, 2012 at 10:25amBush was better. Biggest mistake he made wa allowing islam to be thedominate force in the “new” countries. He should have gone MacArthur on them and taken away their godling and MADE them into secular republics. It worked on the Japanese who worshipped their leader as god.
Report Post »acovenantinblood
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:21amThe Christian Church started in the East and grew to superb power under the tribulation that Rome had inflicted upon It. It soon became the stare religion and flourished under the civil infrastructure of a massive empire. The eastern Church then lost It’s sublime power and began to compromise. At length It had rejected the absolute authority of the Word of God. In the end, after manifold chances to repent, God rose up Islam to remove the candlestick from it’s midst in judgment. Because they had exchanged that Holy Truth of God for a lie they were given over to strong delusion to believe the lie. Now this threatens the West and our chances of repentance are becoming narrower and narrower. We compromised Genesis to “science” and now have laid open the doors for “interpretation” of God Holy Word. The Bible is not to be interpreted. It is absolute. It shapes us by It’s Truth.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:50pmYou are saying Islam is Christianity’s judgement from God?
Report Post »thegreatcarnac
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 5:00pmtrue
Report Post »HowardSternIsABigot
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:20amI really dont care. Obviously not all arab women feel this way. Just as many nutty moslem gals out there when the crowds are being whipped into a dervish of hate. Them and there uvulating. Worse than Indianhindu music and bagpipes combined. Who raises the kids? Who reinforces this generation after generation? Moms do.
Report Post »I am not at all sure the ghetto/pimp/whore culture rising in the west is even as good for women as islam. I feel sick inside when spending hours on the internet looking at all ages and types of women degrading themselves on porn sites, then see it spreading to the culture in general. Maybe freedom can be abused too without some sort of moral underpinning.
blackhawk56
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:55amyou get sick spending HOURS looking at porn sites!!!!!!!! come come now
Report Post »scruffycat
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:46pmIf you are spending hours looking at smut and pornography on the internet, then you ARE the problem. Do you despise yourself?
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:45pmI love the Freudian slip about spending hours on the internet watching porn. It’s liberals like you who produce all that porn in the first place. It is your fellow “progressives” in la la land who put this trash out in the culture. Perhaps you should become conservative and fight the culture war on the RIGHT side.
Report Post »JimCDew
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:57pmp.s. If you reply that you are already conservative you are a liar. A true conservative fights to raise the moral tone of the culture, not dive into the cultural depths of pornography.
Report Post »Silversmith
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:18amAnd this is the culture that the media and the left seem to defend.
Pah
Silversmith
Report Post »oldguy49
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:27amthe relsgion of peace , love , and tolerance that is infiltrating the west…………….why……………….to destroy it!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »taltmire
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:14amMuslims are hatefull sick people. They hate their own wifes and mothers. A Sick, Sick, Sick race of people.
Report Post »mike_trivisonno
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:04amAll Egyptians have to do is look over their shoulders. The Light of Greece still beckons.
Turn away from Mecca. Return to The West.
Report Post »mhood
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:02amEvery woman should be outraged by this behavior. In America we complain about the “war on women” however, we have it easy compared to Arab countries. The US better be careful – Sharia Law is headed our direction thanks to the radical left.
God Bless these woman and help us help them!
Report Post »Twobyfour
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 4:51pm**** “Sharia Law is headed our direction thanks to the radical left”
Correct. It may be from different reasons, though, than you presume. Your comment about “our women having it easy” in comparison with Islamist cultures indicates that you don’t fully grasp the issue. It‘s far beyond women’s rights in our society, it is in the realm of women’s privileges now.
One factor, that is without a historical precedent, is the left’s idea of multicult, and the “all societies are equal” relativistic concept. Little do they know that these ideas were produced by the First Directorate (a soviet agency responsible for ideological subversion of western societies) as methods of destabilization and corruption. These concepts were not intended for domestic consumption at all. The CPSU was a strict cultural hegemon, suppressing any meaningful cultural expression, bare some superficialities. The western left, being on an autopilot set in place by the CPSU and the gramscian “Frankfurt School”, is perpetuating these concepts, unaware of their purpose. Useful tools indeed, though the original impetus is no longer present.
The second factor is the radical feminism. A concept from the same source, and with the same goals. But there is another layer that has not been, in all likelihood, anticipated. I don’t have time to address it at the moment, I’ll take a raincheck. Let me just state that the radical feminism would be instrumental in inviting sharia, no matter how it sounds
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:53amChristians in the West may be denied entry into Heaven for the way we have ignored the plight of Christians in lands controlled by Islam. And for how we allowed people enslaved in Islam to suffer without even trying to free them from Islam.
Report Post »mhood
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:04amAmen. we don’t get outraged until it directly effects us – then it’s too late……
God have mercy on us all!
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:20amWrong! Our involvement in the russian/afghanistan war WAS to HELP the women and children, more so than the men. It seems to me our military have gone beyond the call of duty to HELP women and children in all cultures, countries and climes.
satan will have to answer GOD.
We already have by trying to help every country and its people in the entire world much to the detriment of our own country. For not taking care of business at home, we are accountable to GOD.
Report Post »AB5r
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:29amWe can‘t help them if we don’t deal with the problem of Islam directly. Building schools or water treatment plants does nothing if they are still enslaved by Islam. In Iraq and Afghanistan we create constitutions that are subservient to Islam which means they are utterly worthless.
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:42pmPeople will only go to hell if they don’t believe Jesus died and rose from the dead to remove their sins. Our lack of action in a societal problem doesn’t take us there.
Report Post »happ77
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 4:44pmWhen we invaded Iraq we should have gone in with
Report Post »500,000 troops, taken out Sryia, Iran, hezzbolah, and Hamas.
and came right back home. End of story.
Tridentine Catholic
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:51amJust how nasty and EVIL is Islam? I was shocked to read this article “Egypt plans ‘farewell intercourse law’ so husbands can have sex with DEAD wives up to six hours after their death” from a British Newspaper. Link to the article below.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2135434/Outrage-Egypt-plans-farewell-intercourse-law-husbands-sex-dead-wives-hours-AFTER-death.html
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:05amI’ve read about this and just when you think you have heard just about everything the Muslims come up with something new to creep you completely out.
Report Post »ADNIL
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 12:37pmDoes the “farewell sex” come before or after the “farewell beating”?
Report Post »themongoose
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:51amI’m still waiting for the national organization of women to come to the defense of womens rights in islamic countries, and guess ‘ll have a long wait.
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:55amThe National Organization of Women (NOW) is a wing of the Democrat Party nothing more
Report Post »HuskerDave
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:15amYou’re too generous. NOW is a tool of the communist underworld.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 11:35amIt is odd that the only sound from NOW is crickets. NOW really doesn’t care about what is happening to women in islamic countries. Why is it only us, the conservatives who are engaged on a “war on women” that see this horror and speak out against it?
Don’t the women of NOW realize that if the muslims succeed, they will be the first ones stoned?
Report Post »cassandra
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:43amsome of those women get out and when they become free they write books like Burned Alive by Souad they are the voice of what freedom should be for those women that are FORCED to live under sharia law
Report Post »Iron_Man
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:43amI don’t care to learn about a culture that dresses their women in bee keeper attire, won’t stand up for what is moral and correct, and most important wants to limit my personal freedoms. They need to wiped from the face of the earth not Israel. I mean what kind of a people take a young girl and destroy her nether regions. I don’t get it!!
Report Post »momrules
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:41amSome maintain that it reinforces negative stereotypes……….Can anyone name a positive stereotype of Islam’s treatment of women?
God bless this woman for speaking out.
Report Post »HuskerDave
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 10:16amAn excellent question, MomRules!
Report Post »mauijonny
Posted on April 28, 2012 at 5:08amAgreed.
Report Post »jhaydeng
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:21amHeadscarves and Hymens? Is that like Horseshoes and Handgrenades?
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 8:39amClose enough. :)
Report Post »cemerius
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 9:12amI would equate it to “******* in the wind” for ALL the good this woman’s valid point will be taken!
Report Post »deeberj
Posted on April 27, 2012 at 1:40pmIt’s not their hymens being cut. That’s no big loss. Every woman who has sex loses it anyway. It’s something much worse. Go look it up.
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