They’re really not about women’s rights at all. In the face of Islamic extremism that encourages female mutiliation, beating women and honor killing, they remain completely silent. In the Sudan, as the story of the condemned British schoolteacher, Gillian Gibbons unfolds about the muslim/Islamic backlash for her naming a teddy bear Mohammed, American feminists STILL remain silent. And the backlash has been significant-some were calling for Ms. Gibbons’ death while rioting in the streets. Tammy Bruce points out feminists’ unwillingness to stand up for Gibbons:
There has been appropriate international outrage over the treatment of Gibbons, from virtually everyone except American “feminists.” Multiple Muslim groups in the U.K. have condemned the sentence. Even the popular little boy in Mrs. Gibbons’ class who suggested the name for the bear came to her defense, explaining that he named the bear after himself.
Yet, when asked by FOX News for a comment about the situation, a National Organization for Women spokeswoman said they were “not putting out a statement or taking a position.”
How politically correct of her.
This is how depraved the American left has become. A little Muslim boy in Sudan shows more courage and conviction for a woman under fire than a bunch of women sitting in Washington, D.C., who preen themselves on being the premiere “advocates” for women.
It’s been apparent for years that the American feminist establishment is nothing more than a shill for the shallow leftists in the Democrat party, wrapping themselves in the feminist label for convenience. Groups like NOW and Eleanor Smeal’s Feminist Majority, also amazingly silent in the past five years about Islamic terrorism and violence against women, use women’s issues as nothing more than slogans and chants in their efforts to gain political power.
It’s all about power and money to leftists, anyway…as long as it’s not their money.
Compare a schoolteacher naming a Teddy Bear “Mohammed” with suicide bombers named “Mohammed”. Then ask yourself why the schoolteacher is insulting the prophet using that name and the suicide bombers aren’t. (Bruce, 2007)
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Not all feminists have remained silent on this and related issues. I’ve been working on “honor” killings for years now, though it has been a somewhat lonely endeavor.
Cao2, I do share your disappointment in the leading women’s and human rights organizations. I have contacted most of them, often multiple times, in the course of working on “honor” killings. . .none have been interested in contributing to the cause, let alone willing to take it on. The silence is deafening.
Ellen R. Sheeley, Author
“Reclaiming Honor in Jordan”
Don’t American feminists CAIR about Gibbons in the Sudan?
They are completely AWOL, on this issue.
They’re really not about women’s rights at all. Because In the face of Islamic extremism that encourages female mutiliation, beating women and honor killing, they remain completely silent. In the…
You mean there’s some people who think that feminists care about women still?
I think it has been established that they are all about “Power”. I used to be a member of NOW, back in the days when I believed they were all about making birth control available so women wouldn’t use abortion for birth control… then they got into the abortion biz and that showed me all I needed to know! They still send me literature in the snail mail from time to time. I have sent it back to them with a nasty graphic on it, but mostly I deep six it and am glad they have wasted postage! It isn’t pretty being a reformed liberal.
Well at least you’re reformed…some people haven’t come to their senses yet.
Ogre, you crack me up.
Thanks for commenting, ammani. The feminist groups are extremely partisan, and are only interested in what furthers their cause. Which has little to do with women’s rights…which you’ve proven yourself, it sounds like.
ammani,
I feel for you in your quest for justice. I have thought many times that Christian women almost have a duty to come up with an organization to counter the image NOW gives the world about what women in this country are really about.
It’s not being lesbians or murdering your own embryotic offspring for sure! Maybe something like Christian women standing for the dignity of women worldwide??? Women have the right to live without fear, to develop all the gifts given to them by God, regardless of what you feel his name is, and the right to decient medical care and control over their lives. Women with self-respect need to stand behind those who are being denied. God bless you ammani in your pursuit of real peace.