One brave woman


Islam versus one half of the species
This one is definitely a hat tip to Tammy Bruce. From the Jerusalem Post.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali is arguably the bravest and most remarkable woman of our times.

To understand why this 37-year-old woman is extraordinary, she must be assessed in the context of the forces pitted against her in her twin struggles to force the Western world to take note of Islam's divinely ordained enslavement of women, and to force the Islamic world to account for it.

A series of incidents this week placed the forces she battles in stark relief. Sunday Muslims shot up the Omariyah elementary school in Gaza. One man was killed and six were wounded in the onslaught. The murderers attacked because the UN-run school in Rafah had organized a sports day for the children, in which little boys would be playing with little girls.

The idea that that boys and girls might play sports together was too much for the righteous believers. It was an insult to Islam, they said. And so they decided to kill the little boys and girls.

On May 3, in Gujrat, Pakistan, Muslims detonated a bomb at the gate of a girls' school. Their righteous wrath was raised by the notion that girls would learn to read and write. That too, they felt, is an insult to Islam.

On April 28, US soldiers in Iraq discovered detonation wires across the street from the newly built Huda Girls' school in Tarmiya, north of Baghdad. They followed the wire to its source and discovered the school had been built as a deathtrap. The pious Muslims who constructed the school had filled propane tanks with explosives and buried them beneath the floor. They built artillery shells into the ceiling and the floor. To save the world for Allah, they decided to butcher little girls.

For all the discussions about abortion, or whether or not American women face discrimination, to me, the front lines of feminism should be squarely set against the Islamists.

I can't understand why they are not.

Women's rights are at stake.

Everything from what they are allowed to wear to if they can refuse marriage or even divorce abusive husbands.

And then we get things like this, time and time again. Killing girls. Preventing girls from learning. Raping girls without consequences.

Susan B. Anthony would be outraged. Mary Wollstonecraft would be preaching before Parliament. Elizabeth Cady Stanton would organize a convention and possibly a march on Washington.

Listen to the what today's feminist leadership has to say about the suppression of women by Islam.

What, you didn't hear anything? Well, listen again.

You still didn't hear anything?

Why not?

— NeoWayland

Posted: Tue - May 8, 2007 at 07:22 AM  Tag


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