Muslim women's rights are tossed under the bus
Gatestone Institute speaks about the western world's dangerous obsession with Islam:
There are no women's rights in Islam; there are no women's rights in most Muslim countries. And there is no freedom of expression in these countries; people have become virtually voiceless.That's just why I think oppressive laws have to be confronted as much as Islam itself. And till this day, I can't understand why that doesn't seem to have happened.
To make a positive change in Muslim countries, we need to be able to speak openly, without putting one's life at risk, and tell the (too-often criminalized) truth about what Islamic teachings and traditions actually contain.
If one is called "racist" or "Islamophobe," the answer is that these are the accusations bullies always use to silence those who disagree with them. The real Islamophobes are those who degrade, abuse and kill their fellow Muslims.
If oppression of women is rooted in the culture, shouldn't one be asking, 'what makes a culture that misogynous?'
There is a situation even more frightening. It now seems to be difficult to speak openly about fundamentalist Islam even in Western countries. The worst thing any Western progressive or feminist can do is to stay silent.
Labels: dhimmitude, islam, misogyny, political corruption
