Why her criticism of Islam enrages western Leftists:
More perplexing to Ms. Hirsi Ali is the hostility leveled at her by some on the left for her efforts to challenge Islamic law and teachings. These critics profess to care about women’s rights but cannot bring themselves to criticize those who trample on them as long as the misogynist possesses an address in the Muslim world. At a recent panel held at the Women in the World summit in New York, the moderator accused Ms. Hirsi Ali of “picking only on Islam.” She countered: “I embrace Muslims but I reject Islamic law … because it’s totalitarian, because it’s bigoted and especially bigoted against women.” The anger she stirs on the left confounds her. “You have to ask yourself why anyone would align with proponents of Islamic law,” she says with wonder.
It’s pretty simple. They’re totally down with totalitarianism. And they feel an affinity with other enemies of western civilization and liberalism.
I would note that while I disagree with Carolyn Porco on a lot of things politically, she absolutely gets this issue right.
Until feminist activists go after the enormous misogyny of the Islamic Law I have zero time or tolerance for their nitpicking of minutia elsewhere.
Hey, I just tried that tactic with my wife! I left my my shoes in the hallway, and my wife said “Clean up after yourself!”
I said “You’re worried about cleaning up? Well, until you go after every EPA Superfund site, I have zero time or tolerance for your nitpicking.”
Your wife probably doesn’t demonize people that -do- want to clean up superfund sites.
It’s fine to obsess over the ‘hazardous mercury spill’ from your CFL, but making it a hate crime to point out that some effort should be spent on things like the Valdez with the reasoning “Because I have no time for that”….
You should have just told her they are your hallway shoes.
She’s probably more tired of your irrelevant responses than we are.
We should learn from our own history.
SJW’s have come out against commemorating the Holocaust because it’s not inclusive enough.
And they hope they will be killed last…
It’s hard to take raging feminists and/or campus snowflakes seriously when this occurs:
Saudi family therapist releases helpful video on how to beat your wife the Islamic way
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2016/04/saudi_family_therapist_releases_helpful_video_on_how_to_beat_your_wife_the_islamic_way.html#ixzz46rnAcqAI
And all you hear from the feminist activists are crickets……..
Yet they scream hysterically (yes that was purposefully provocative) over silly notions such as “mansplaining”, or the patriarchy in the US, or any number of other trivialities.
All of which tells me the activist feminists are cowards.