While the Left continues feeding a distraught woman anti-Semitic drivel and parading her in front of television cameras, another woman who has been scarred by the horrors of Islamofacism speaks out in favor of woman’s rights – in the not exactly traditionally progressive Wall Street Journal:
Two cases demonstrate just how difficult that struggle [for women's rights] can be, in the context of new as well as established democracies. The first is the draft constitution of Iraq, now due next week. Iraqi women like Naghem Khadim, demonstrating on the streets of Najaf, are fighting to prevent an article from being put in the constitution that would establish that the legislature may make no laws that contradict Shariah edicts. The second case is the province of Ontario, in Canada. There, Muslim women led by Homa Arjomand, an activist of Iranian origin, are fighting–using the Canadian Charter of Rights–to keep Shariah from being applied as family law through a so-called Arbitration Act passed as law in Ontario in 1992.
It seems strange to associate the context of Canada with that of Iraq, but a closer look at the arguments used to reassure the demonstrating women in both countries reveals the similar ordeals that Muslim women in both countries must go through to secure their rights. It shows how their legitimate and serious worries are trivialized, and how vulnerable and alone they are. It shows how the Free World led by the U.S. went to war in Iraq, allegedly to bring liberty to Iraqis, and is compromising the basic rights of women in order to meet a random date. It shows how the theory of multiculturalism in Western liberal democracies is working against women in ethnic and religious minorities with misogynist practices… it shows how many of those who consider themselves liberal or left-wing see their energy levels rise when it comes to Bush-bashing, but lose their voice when women’s rights are threatened by religious obscurantism.
Western liberals will be eager – and quite right – to attack the Bush administration for sending soldiers to die so that Iraqi women could subjugated under the yoke of Islamofacism. We anticipate that there will be more than a few Western conservatives who attack the Bush administration for exactly the same reason. The difference will be that those conservatives will also be forced marriages and honor killings in Iraq and in the West, while many of those liberals will refuse to condemn the Islamofacist horrors happening in the hearts of Western cities – instead, they will settle for mouthing platitudes about some kind of apparently sacrosanct Islamic cultural heritage.
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