re: #128 LudwigVanQuixote

Really, women living in Islamist regimes suffer inequalities that would even make the standards of 16th century England look liberal.

This is pretty well established.

Yet, I have never ever heard a major denunciation of this from a prominent American feminist in a public way.

Even if one case can be found, there should rightly be a sustained chorus of outrage. Where is this chorus?

Are Arab women no longer women?

OR is it only American women that count?

Is it that the meme on the far left was pro Islam as a knee jerk reaction to the rightwing co-opting support of Israel?

I don’t know. I really don’t know why.

I do know that if you care about women’s rights, then you should be consistently appalled at the lot of Muslim women. I also know that the large organizations that supposedly claim to stand for women’s rights are very quiet about the issue.

You know I really don’t want to get into this, but honestly you can shove your self righteous YOU should be doing this or that. You obviously don’t know me or know about a lot of things that do go on out there in the ‘womans movement’. There has been women screaming mostly into the wind about these issues for years until it suddenly became more mainstream to even talk about it. Fact is no one really cared all that much about ‘what went on over there, especially regarding woman’ until the issue ‘hit home’ so to speak. The other unfortunate this is many people don’t really care that all that much except on a superficial level or unless it provides part of the justification for actions ‘over there’. Many people just don’t want to talk about the issues in any great detail unless it’s just echoing ‘yeah bad bad’ and furthering an specific agenda. And the media in the US and in much of the West sure as heck doesn’t seem to be interested in covering it in any sort of mainstream way. So if you haven’t ‘heard’ then you need to look more.

As for big woman’s organizations there are a good many that focus on international woman’s issues. There are a good many that focus on domestic issues. No group has to cover everything because quite frankly that’s still unfortunately a hell of a lot to cover.

And honestly I don’t really understand what your suggesting about the far left being pro-Islam as related to Isreal. I don’t understand what you are suggesting and it doesn’t make sense to what I know about.

Most of the biggest and most activist people I know that deal and/or support woman’s groups who are working on this broad issue are left, far left and sometimes very far left.