From Feministing comes this story that reads like an Onion piece: a town has passed a resolution urging immigrant Muslims to respect community values by... not to stoning their wives to death or burning them alive. http://feministing.com/archives/006444.html
Now ignoring the sheer comedy value of this for the moment...
Feministing head honcho Jessica declares it racism for painting all Muslims as wife-killers. Yet she chooses to ignore the very real horrors perpetrated against women in the Muslim world, which this law is obviously a reaction to, and once again a leading feminist sacrifices her ideals on the altar of political correctness... or the altar of Bush Derangement Syndrome.
See, many feminists refuse to talk about the de facto chattel slavery endured by many women in Middle Eastern states because they feel that doing so might lend aid and comfort to neocons who want to bomb these same states. They will splash large headlines on their blogs over even minor anti-woman news events in this country, in Europe or in China (as they should)... but then sit on their keyboards when yet another woman is stoned to death for adultery in Iran or when Saudi Arabia imprisons another rape victim, lest they provide moral support for Dick Cheney's latest scheme for world domination.
This is understandable to a degree. I have as much contempt for the neocon warmongers as anyone else. But is it really a good thing to scream "racism" when someone questions the barbaric woman-loathing practices of many Muslim communities? Granted, the Quebec town in question took things a little too far, but still. Just sayin'.
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