Carnal Reason

Pamela Bone, The Australian:

The question is why so many Western feminists do not speak out about the cruelty that blights the lives of millions of women in Islamic countries and would do the same to women everywhere else should the Islamists succeed in their stated aim of creating a worldwide caliphate. “On the defining issue of our times, the rise of Islamic extremism, what is left of the sisterhood has almost nothing to say,” Baxter writes. Says Chesler: “Women’s studies programs should have been the first to sound the alarm. They did not.”

The reason, as writer Fay Weldon has said, is that these days racism is a much worse sin than sexism: a consequence, perhaps, of the success of the women’s movement in the West. Women who would speak out don’t because of a (justified) fear that they will be branded racists.

How sad. How utterly pathetic. They fear being branded racists. Is it better to actually be a coward and a hypocrite than to be called a racist?

Posted on August 24th, 2006 by pwyll
Filed under: politics, slavery