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The recent speaking appearance of Ayaan Hirsi Ali at the University of Wisconsin has highlighted the hypocrisy of American feminists. Ali is a courageous woman who all feminists should unite behind. Instead, what Ali gets in America is largely silence.
Here is a statement issued by email from the UW Gender and Woman's Studies Department on the eve of Ali's appearance this week in Madison:
“Her approach is so virulently hostile to Islam as a religion (she calls Islam “the new fascism”) that anything she says about women gets lost in this sweeping assault.”
In addition, I am currently involved in a blog discussion on another site which began as a discussion on gay marriage. Somehow, it morphed into the treatment of gays and women in Islam. The only reaction I have received is that what goes on in Islamic countries is not relevant to the US.
Au contraire. While we cannot change things in the Middle East, we should not have to tolerate "honor killings" in the US, which we have witnessed in the US in such places as Arizona, St Louis, Buffalo and other places. We have the case of Rifqa Bari, the teenage convert to Islam who ran away from home fearing for her life. And where are the feminists? Where is that liberal activist group, the National Organization of Women (NOW)? They are out complaining about a pro-life Superbowl commercial featuring Tim Tebow. They are fighting the war to protect abortion. They are calling people like Rush Limbaugh "sexist". And they are fighting for other leftists causes because that is their true agenda. They don't care a whit about the Rifqa Baris and Ayaan Hirsi Alis, people who are right here in America. Here are the results of a search I did on NOW's website:
http://www.now.org/search.html?cx=015960483074374081895%3Aerh82vrjnk0&cof=FORID%3A11&ie=UTF-8&q=+ayaan+hirsi+ali&siteurl=www.now.org%2F#251
So how is it that someone from the Gender and Women's Studies Dept. issued a statement dismissing Ali, a woman who has been subjected to female genital circumcision, a forced marriage and countless death threats to the point she has to live under constant security-even in America. I'll answer that question. It is because to criticize Islam would go against the politically-correct agenda of the feminists.
Ali tells us about young Somali girls in the West who are sent back home to be married to men they don't even know. She has already told the Dutch about young girls being forcibly circumcised on kitchen tables in Holland. The Dutch witnessed the horrific slaughter of Theo van Gogh on an Amsterdam street for making a movie about Islam's treatment of women. Do the Dutch listen? No. They drive her out of the Dutch parliament and out of Holland as they prosecute Geert Wilders for "Defamation" and slide steadily into a new Dark Age.
And like the Dutch, American feminists ignore Ali. She is divisive, they say. They are blind to the fact that right here in America, a woman who has experienced almost every horror that can befall a female has to speak in front of an audience that passes through metal detectors for fear that she may be assassinated.
Right here in America.
Where is the UW Gender and Woman's Studies Department? Where are all the other feminists who run women's studies departments in universities all over the country?Where is NOW?
They are hiding under their desks, that's where.
How uncomfortable Ayaan Hirsi Ali must make them feel. That is because she shows us how cowardly and hypocritical the professional feminists are. They complain about abortion rights, sexist comments, and most of all, liberal politics. Honor killings, female genital circumcision, and forced marriages?
Can't be bothered.
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Well, maybe they can't be bothered by all of those things, but 'political' Islam is at the root cause of the wars that the U.S. is engaged in today.
An example: Tribute is a 'poll tax' that non-Muslims pay to live in Islamic 'lands'. The payor is exempt from military service.
Taxation and conscription are two functions of the modern national government. Historically, wars have been commonly fought over issues such as this. In fact, the U.S. fought the Barbary wars because we were not paying the Tribute. "Millions for defense, not a penny for Tribute!" was the battle cry. (1804)
Also, Islam has no 'lands' to defend any more than the Catholic Church defends the land that a church sits on in New York or Paris. Imams can field personal armies, which is also a challenge to the modern nation-state's authority.
If the feminists can't see the problems with honor killings and such, then they don't see it because they do not wish to see it.
Can't agree more Mr Fouse.
Outlaw Mike/Belgium
This political correctness grows from the hatard of colonialism. The left in this country hates Israel as they see it as a child of colonialism. The left sees the arab states and Islam as victims of colonialism forgetting that the Arabs were themselves colonialist beginning in the 6th century. Everything takes a back seat to this hatard of colonialism including womens rights. The white man, as the left sees it is responsible for all the worlds problems and the brown and black skinned people are the victims---believe me everything else is secondary to those on the left. Womens rights will always take the back seat to the lefts harard of the white man and what he has represented in the past and that includes the founders!
Always seems to come back to
whitey and how we have craved to
dominate the world. Woem suffer
every idignity and agony they can
under Islam. Yet as Gary so tactfully and accurately has pointed out, they are afarid to
criticize Islam. Ayaan Hirsi has lived Islam and survived all of
it. The feminazis should be
hiding under the table,
from shame.
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