Why Dont Feminists Fight for Muslim Women?
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Are women oppressed in Muslim countries? What about in Islamic enclaves in the West? Are these places violating or fulfilling the Quran and Islamic law? Ayaan Hirsi Ali, an author and activist who was raised a devout Muslim, describes the human rights crisis of our time, asks why feminists in the West don‘t seem to care, and explains why immigration to the West from the Middle East means this issue matters more than ever
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Culture matters It ‘s the primary source of social progress or regression Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the status of women The Judeo-Christian culture —and perhaps a more apt word is civilization—has produced over time the law codes, language and material prosperity that have greatly elevated women‘s status
But this progress is not shared everywhere
There are still hundreds of millions of people that live in a culture—the Islamic, for instance—that takes female inferiority for granted Until recently, these cultures—the Western and the Islamic—were, for the most part, separated But that is changing Dramatically so
Large numbers of immigrant men from the Middle East, South Asia and various parts of Africa have brought a different set of values to the West, specifically Europe More than a million arrived in 2015 alone More are on the way
As a result, crimes against girls and women—groping, harassments, assaults and rape—have risen sharply These crimes illustrate the stark difference between the Western culture of the victims and that of the perpetrators
Let me be clear: not all immigrant men, or even most, indulge in sex attacks or approve of such attacks, but it’s a grave mistake to deny that the value system of the attackers is radically different from the value system of the West In the West women are emancipated and sexually autonomous Religiosity and sexual behavior or sexual restraint is determined by women‘s individual wishes The other value system is one in which women are viewed as either commodities (that is, their worth depends on their virginity), or on the level of a prostitute if they are guilty of public immodesty (wearing a short skirt for example)
I do not believe these value systems can coexist The question is which value system will prevail Unfortunately, this remains an open question
The current situation in Europe is deeply troubling: not only are Muslim women within Europe subject to considerable oppression in many ways, such norms now risk spreading to non-Muslim women who face harassment from Muslim men
One would think that Western feminists in the United States and Europe would be very disturbed by this obvious misogyny But sadly, with few exceptions, this does not appear to be the case
Common among many Western feminists is a type of moral confusion, in which women are said to be oppressed everywhere and that this oppression, in feminist Eve Ensler‘s words, is exactly the same around the world; in the West just as in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran
To me, this suggests too much moral relativism and an inadequate understanding of Sharia law It is true that the situation for women in the West is not perfect, but can anyone truly deny that women enjoy greater freedom and opportunities in the United States, France and Finland than they do in Iran, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?
Other feminists have also argued that non-Western women do not need saving and that any suggestion that they need help from Western feminists is insulting and condescending to non-Western women
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Script:
Culture matters It ‘s the primary source of social progress or regression Nowhere do we see this more clearly than in the status of women The Judeo-Christian culture —and perhaps a more apt word is civilization—has produced over time the law codes, language and material prosperity that have greatly elevated women‘s status
But this progress is not shared everywhere
There are still hundreds of millions of people that live in a culture—the Islamic, for instance—that takes female inferiority for granted Until recently, these cultures—the Western and the Islamic—were, for the most part, separated But that is changing Dramatically so
Large numbers of immigrant men from the Middle East, South Asia and various parts of Africa have brought a different set of values to the West, specifically Europe More than a million arrived in 2015 alone More are on the way
As a result, crimes against girls and women—groping, harassments, assaults and rape—have risen sharply These crimes illustrate the stark difference between the Western culture of the victims and that of the perpetrators
Let me be clear: not all immigrant men, or even most, indulge in sex attacks or approve of such attacks, but it’s a grave mistake to deny that the value system of the attackers is radically different from the value system of the West In the West women are emancipated and sexually autonomous Religiosity and sexual behavior or sexual restraint is determined by women‘s individual wishes The other value system is one in which women are viewed as either commodities (that is, their worth depends on their virginity), or on the level of a prostitute if they are guilty of public immodesty (wearing a short skirt for example)
I do not believe these value systems can coexist The question is which value system will prevail Unfortunately, this remains an open question
The current situation in Europe is deeply troubling: not only are Muslim women within Europe subject to considerable oppression in many ways, such norms now risk spreading to non-Muslim women who face harassment from Muslim men
One would think that Western feminists in the United States and Europe would be very disturbed by this obvious misogyny But sadly, with few exceptions, this does not appear to be the case
Common among many Western feminists is a type of moral confusion, in which women are said to be oppressed everywhere and that this oppression, in feminist Eve Ensler‘s words, is exactly the same around the world; in the West just as in Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Iran
To me, this suggests too much moral relativism and an inadequate understanding of Sharia law It is true that the situation for women in the West is not perfect, but can anyone truly deny that women enjoy greater freedom and opportunities in the United States, France and Finland than they do in Iran, Pakistan or Saudi Arabia?
Other feminists have also argued that non-Western women do not need saving and that any suggestion that they need help from Western feminists is insulting and condescending to non-Western women
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