There are no protests because they don’t care about women’s rights really, unless it gives them a platform to condemn Israel and Jews. There were no protests over the kidnapping and raping of young Jewish women on October 7th, because again, they didn’t care. They are antisemites, pure and simple.
I’m gut-wrenched by the fact that I can’t even discuss it with my friends, family and co-religionists. ‘Are you saying I’m an anti-Semite”!! Well, yes. Except that I’m afraid to say it out loud.
I understand Joan. I’m so glad I can talk to my husband about it, but so many dear friends and family are blind to this- it’s devastating. If I speak up, 40 year friendships are at stake
Their support for the Gazans was a confected outrage. It was always just smoke and mirrors and we could all see it. I just wonder how they are going to spend their time now. It certainly won’t be spent supporting the beautiful women of Afghanistan. Maybe they will return to the shops, or Just Stop Oil or some other fake cause. These people are an embarrassment to our countries. We should either focus on improving education or bring back national service.
I seem to remember a National Geographic issue years back that featured an adolescent girl on the cover who had achieved some milestone in advanced mathematics. The gist of the article was that she, growing up in poverty in Mexico, underscored how people (not women) in undeveloped, third-world, or impoverished countries were being wasted in their potential. I remember thinking to myself at the time, What about the women and their talents who are wasted in religious repression? We love to hear about people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Thomas Edison, and Leonardo DaVinci (the patriarchal list goes on...), but a good part of the world—half—(female, repressed) have no chance of providing such genius. I wonder how much faster civilization would advance if the world had access to everyone's potential!
Half the world is a terrible thing to waste. And in God's name? Really?
FGM is a vile practice,but as it only happens to females,presumably it doesn’t matter. Women in Iran are fighting back against forced head coverings. Many have been killed,as have men who support them. They don’t get marches. Nor do the Yazidi women and girls. All victims of Islam. I don’t understand how Biden believed the promises of the Taliban. Next will be ‘liberated’ Syria. Islam has no place for women.
I recall just before the US invasion of Afghanistan there were plenty of media articles about how badly women were treated by the Taliban.
This was the era of Tony Blair's progressive war hypothesis: that a patriarchal, dictatorial regime could be changed into a Westernised one with enough bombing. He got huge pushback from the Labour base, with over a million people marching in London against the wars.
Now we've flipped the script, so that the protests are pro-war, and in favour of the side we were fighting a generation ago. We were always at war with Eurasia, they'll say.
The Taliban have even suspended giving polio vaccine to the children. Despite Sharia Law reigning in Afghanistan,the ancient cultural practise of male homosexuality between men and boys persists. This shows the contradictions between ingrained cultural norms and Islam.
Since neighbouring Iran does permit women to work outside the home, one would think that Afghanistan would permit the same. However, not only is Aghanistan overwhelmingly Sunni, unlike Shia Iran, cultural traditions and sheer misogyny prevail under the Taliban.
By the way, there once were Jews in Afghanistan. That is no longer the case, unlike in Iran where there is a greatly reduced Jewish population, but still one of the largest in any Muslim country.
Government could dump millions of dollars into colleges such as Harvard Yale, Brown, Princeton and Columbia, and still liberal bias would produce antisemites over feminists by huge factors despite the pretzel logic. Islam will continue to oppress women until more people wake up and resist. Somehow youth must realize that true feminism as well as Zionism are in their interest more so than any Islamic cause, including “free Palestine.”
I would think the horror of FGM alone
would move many college girls against Islamic misogyny. But no, for some reason the antisemitic bandwagon is more attractive on college campuses. What education efforts would work to change minds?
Boom! Why don’t modern western feminists or females in general recoil in horror at FGM? And not only that, but the actual handmaiden treatment of women in Islamic culture: submit to your husband’s sexual desires at his whim, experience no sexual pleasure yourself, and bear children on demand. It boggles the mind
Very good article. Why these useful idiots just don't get it, being led like wool blind sheep screaming and offering some twisted historic quote to justify their anger and stance People that should know better. But gravitate to a preceived cause, partly by inaccurate media repotts, or influenced by activists, gently twisting the narrative to their idealogy. Which is anti Western, pro Islamic propaganda. Middle Eastern countries, as well as China don't pump millions of dollars into universities for nothing.
There are no protests because they don’t care about women’s rights really, unless it gives them a platform to condemn Israel and Jews. There were no protests over the kidnapping and raping of young Jewish women on October 7th, because again, they didn’t care. They are antisemites, pure and simple.
I wish all my idiot friends would read this and understand
Same Karen. Same.
But if they could understand it they probably wouldn’t be idiots in the first place. Amirite my friend
I’m gut-wrenched by the fact that I can’t even discuss it with my friends, family and co-religionists. ‘Are you saying I’m an anti-Semite”!! Well, yes. Except that I’m afraid to say it out loud.
I understand Joan. I’m so glad I can talk to my husband about it, but so many dear friends and family are blind to this- it’s devastating. If I speak up, 40 year friendships are at stake
This is bigger than friendship unfortunately..and this should really make you second guess your guy’s friendship in the first place.
This is so depressing it’s almost impossible to read.
It really is Kip. The world silence is reprehensible
Their support for the Gazans was a confected outrage. It was always just smoke and mirrors and we could all see it. I just wonder how they are going to spend their time now. It certainly won’t be spent supporting the beautiful women of Afghanistan. Maybe they will return to the shops, or Just Stop Oil or some other fake cause. These people are an embarrassment to our countries. We should either focus on improving education or bring back national service.
I seem to remember a National Geographic issue years back that featured an adolescent girl on the cover who had achieved some milestone in advanced mathematics. The gist of the article was that she, growing up in poverty in Mexico, underscored how people (not women) in undeveloped, third-world, or impoverished countries were being wasted in their potential. I remember thinking to myself at the time, What about the women and their talents who are wasted in religious repression? We love to hear about people like Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Thomas Edison, and Leonardo DaVinci (the patriarchal list goes on...), but a good part of the world—half—(female, repressed) have no chance of providing such genius. I wonder how much faster civilization would advance if the world had access to everyone's potential!
Half the world is a terrible thing to waste. And in God's name? Really?
Afghanistan will remain a shithole if 50% of their population aren’t allowed to contribute to society
Despite most of the Gaza protesters identifying as feminists (including the men). Obviously some women are more equal than others 🤷♂️
It ain't news when it don't involve the Jews.
When it don’t involve criticizing or vilifying Jews. Jew hate trumps misogyny in this upside down 🤡world
Every word. Thanks so much for this piece, Kelli. Feminism has completely lost its way and, in its current hypocritical state, has no value.
Yes it has. Thanks Elly.
FGM is a vile practice,but as it only happens to females,presumably it doesn’t matter. Women in Iran are fighting back against forced head coverings. Many have been killed,as have men who support them. They don’t get marches. Nor do the Yazidi women and girls. All victims of Islam. I don’t understand how Biden believed the promises of the Taliban. Next will be ‘liberated’ Syria. Islam has no place for women.
I recall just before the US invasion of Afghanistan there were plenty of media articles about how badly women were treated by the Taliban.
This was the era of Tony Blair's progressive war hypothesis: that a patriarchal, dictatorial regime could be changed into a Westernised one with enough bombing. He got huge pushback from the Labour base, with over a million people marching in London against the wars.
Now we've flipped the script, so that the protests are pro-war, and in favour of the side we were fighting a generation ago. We were always at war with Eurasia, they'll say.
And always will be until Islam is eradicated from the earth
The Taliban have even suspended giving polio vaccine to the children. Despite Sharia Law reigning in Afghanistan,the ancient cultural practise of male homosexuality between men and boys persists. This shows the contradictions between ingrained cultural norms and Islam.
Since neighbouring Iran does permit women to work outside the home, one would think that Afghanistan would permit the same. However, not only is Aghanistan overwhelmingly Sunni, unlike Shia Iran, cultural traditions and sheer misogyny prevail under the Taliban.
By the way, there once were Jews in Afghanistan. That is no longer the case, unlike in Iran where there is a greatly reduced Jewish population, but still one of the largest in any Muslim country.
Afghanistan is one of the few places I would have been glad communism actually won...
For all its deficiencies it is actually massively ahead of islamic culture in terms of recognising humanitarian objectives.
I used to live in Teheran under the Shah which was better for women but now the women are oppressed.Yet the women are more intelligent than the men.
The women of Afghanistan need combat training and guns to achieve freedom.
100%. The women need support to rise up. The situation is atrocious.
Government could dump millions of dollars into colleges such as Harvard Yale, Brown, Princeton and Columbia, and still liberal bias would produce antisemites over feminists by huge factors despite the pretzel logic. Islam will continue to oppress women until more people wake up and resist. Somehow youth must realize that true feminism as well as Zionism are in their interest more so than any Islamic cause, including “free Palestine.”
I would think the horror of FGM alone
would move many college girls against Islamic misogyny. But no, for some reason the antisemitic bandwagon is more attractive on college campuses. What education efforts would work to change minds?
Boom! Why don’t modern western feminists or females in general recoil in horror at FGM? And not only that, but the actual handmaiden treatment of women in Islamic culture: submit to your husband’s sexual desires at his whim, experience no sexual pleasure yourself, and bear children on demand. It boggles the mind
Very good article. Why these useful idiots just don't get it, being led like wool blind sheep screaming and offering some twisted historic quote to justify their anger and stance People that should know better. But gravitate to a preceived cause, partly by inaccurate media repotts, or influenced by activists, gently twisting the narrative to their idealogy. Which is anti Western, pro Islamic propaganda. Middle Eastern countries, as well as China don't pump millions of dollars into universities for nothing.
Thanks Jimbo.
Yes!!! I agree with Paul. They don’t care.
Thank you, Kelli!