Yeah, wonder why... 
they didn't defend Larry Craig either!
Posted on 09/16/2007 8:25:48 PM PDT by Lorianne
On the question of honour killing, defined as the murder of women to protect men's pride, the news from Jordan has recently grown slightly worse. Although it's among the most civilized and modern of Arab countries, Jordan hasn't come close to eliminating this repellent crime, a bizarre remnant of the region's tribal past. It was only five years ago that the penal code made honour killing clearly illegal. Till then it was rarely punished.
In August, five Jordanian men were charged with the premeditated murder of a 22-year-old woman whose crime was to have a love affair with the man she later married. When the pre-marital affair came to light, her father, three uncles and a fifth male relative made the solemn collective decision that family honour demanded her death. One uncle has confessed to shooting her five times in the head; the four other men are charged as co-conspirators.
On Tuesday the magazine Mideast Youth described the protocol now followed by Jordanian authorities when a woman believes her male relatives are about to kill her. The police move swiftly, taking her into protective custody. Unfortunately, the only place they can protect her is jail. She's sent there until the issue is resolved, but it may never be resolved and she may remain imprisoned for years. So the suspected planners of a killing remain free while their potential victim sits in jail until (unlikely possibility) a male family member comes forth to guarantee her safety.
Surely honour killing is the ultimate male oppression, being uniquely permanent and committed by close relatives in the name of an abstraction. It's among many anti-woman atrocities in the Arab world that should enrage feminists of the West and rouse them to urgent action -- mass rallies, pickets, boycotts, furious public debates and anything else they would do for, say, California grape pickers who have no right to health care. But no action of this kind ever materializes, which amounts to a grave abdication of responsibility. Feminism, after all, embodies the principle that women deserve the same rights and dignity as men. In the original discussions nobody said "except for Muslims."
A major reason for this failure is that feminism has generally made common cause with the left,
and the left has in most cases decided it favours the Arabic cause. The Arabs have virtue on their side because they are not Americans.
Phyllis Chesler, an American therapist and psychologist who often writes on women's issues, argues that attitudes grounded in thoughtless cultural "sensitivity" inhibit what should be the natural response of women. The result is that "instead of telling the truth about Islam and demanding that the Muslim world observe certain standards, you have Westerners beating their breasts and saying, 'We can't judge you, we can't expose you, we can't challenge you.'" This reaches the level of absurdity when gay and lesbian activists support Palestinians "who, meanwhile, are very busy persecuting homosexuals, who in turn are fleeing to Israel for political asylum." The gay community in Tel Aviv contains a remarkable number of refugees from Palestinian homophobia.
They may think, “We can’t judge you, we can’t expose you, we can’t challenge you,” but they tell white men and Christians that they have already been judged and found wanting.
These people are willing;y screwing themselves.
Perhaps that is why they are gay and feminist.
To look for the explaination for that, I did an Internet search for “your granddaughter will wear a burka”, because I seem to remember an article or posting along those lines directed to feminists who speak out against men in our culture and Christianity, but who are turning a blind eye to the way women are treated in Muslim countries.
Didn’t find what I was looking for, but did read plenty of clues to explain their views. Quotes such as: “What other word describes a senior journalist who seriously thinks that her granddaughter is under threat of sharia law in Australia but ‘paranoid’?” about a woman who was questioning the influx of Muslim males in Australia, for instance.
So I guess the answer is that they are short-sighted and in denial. Or they don’t really care about what future generations have to put up with as long as they get theirs here and now.
Which if you think of it - Feminist support of abortion and the gay contempt for “breeders” would seem to indicate a lack of concern for the next generation or future generations anyway.
They (the feminists and gays of this generation) won’t have to worry about it. It’s the future generations that will have to deal with it. And they will do what they have to do to survive (keep silent and/or in the closet under threat of death if discovered).
“Feminists [and gays] fall silent”
AND THERE WAS MUCH REJOICING THROUGHOUT THE LAND!
(now to read the article)
Yeah, wonder why... they didn't defend Larry Craig either!
“Although [Jordan’s] among the most civilized and modern of Arab countries...”
Which is like saying Roger is the best Clinton...
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