printSome feminists have dedicated their lives and work to women and to mending the fractious relationships between the sexes, yet have remained mum on the topic of women under Islam. The analogy of the libertarian writer, who holds free speech and private property rights sacred, yet has refused to weigh in on the Danish cartoon controversy obtains here.
To say something about the plight of women under Islam would require an objective examination of Islam’s teachings about women—they are deemed unclean; contaminants, a source of sin, and worse—without resorting to postmodern, culture-specific constructs. Is this what is being avoided? What a disgrace.
Here’s a hilarious thought about Jewish women: I recall reading one of Kevin MacDonald’s loopy expositions about Jews, in which he asserts seriously that Jewish women are oppressed. It had something to do with the faith’s teachings. He clearly hasn’t met very many Jews. If anything, Jewish women could do with some oppression.
I wonder if he was referring to the after-meal grace Jews say, where a song of adulation is sung especially for the Woman of the House. In it, the family praises her uniqueness and wisdom. Beauty is said to be all nonsense—a woman’s substance is all that matters and for her substance her husband must worship her (if he knows what’s good for him).