[MD] What is the intellectual argument about Islamic veilwearing?

[pholden at davtv.com]

Quoting Khaled Alkotob <khaledsa at juno.com>:

> [Platt]
> > 
> > When the Vatican approves clitorectomies, let me know.
> 
> And what religion approves that? It's an east African cultural mutilation
>  that is performed across religious lines. Judaism, Christianity and
> others.

Are you claiming that women under Islamic law are treated treated humanely? From
“The Failure of Feminism” by Phyllis Chesler (The Chronicle of Higher Education Review)

"Today the cause of justice for women around the world is as urgent as it has ever
been. The plight of both women and men in the Islamic world (and increasingly in
Europe) requires a sober analysis of reality and a heroic response. World events have
made feminism more important — yet at the same time, feminism has lost much of its power.

"To my horror, most Western academic and mainstream feminists have not focused on
what I call gender apartheid in the Islamic world, or on its steady penetration of
Europe. Such feminists have also failed to adequately wrestle with the complex
realities of freedom, tyranny, patriotism, and self-defense, and with the concept of
a Just War.

"Islamic terrorists have declared jihad against the "infidel West" and against all of
us who yearn for freedom. Women in the Islamic world are treated as subhumans.
Although some feminists have sounded the alarm about this, a much larger number have
remained silent. Why is it that many have misguidedly romanticized terrorists as
freedom fighters and condemned both America and Israel as the real terrorists or as
the root cause of terrorism? In the name of multicultural correctness (all cultures
are equal, formerly colonized cultures are more equal), the feminist academy and
media appear to have all but abandoned vulnerable Muslims, as well as Christians,
Jews, and Hindus to the forces of reactionary Islamism.

"Because feminist academics and journalists are now so heavily influenced by left
ways of thinking, many now believe that speaking out against head scarves, face
veils, the chador, arranged marriages, polygamy, forced pregnancies, or female
genital mutilation is either "imperialist" or "crusade-ist."


 

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