An excellent profile by Caroline Glick of Ayaan Hirsi Ali has been published in the Jerusalem Post. Almost without exception, those publicly challenging the misogynist brutality of Islam are women. Not so long ago, the collective oppression of blacks by whites in South Africa was deemed to be a worldwide concern, and acted on. Yet the public and horrific enslavement of women by Islam is not only never really discussed, it is ignored or excused as “religious.” Yes, just like apartheid was “cultural” as opposed to racist.
Fortunately, there is a Ayaan Hirsi Ali who keeps reminding the world of the complicity of doing nothing, and Caroline Glick, who tells the stories of anonymous women and girls who bear the burden of brutal savagery unleashed in the name of “religion.”
Hirsi Ali’s challenge to humanity
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…
An excellent and important piece. Obviously, read the whole thing.
I was wondering what became of the film “Submission: Part I”, which seems to have vanished. Wikipedia reports the film having been aired a couple of times on European TV; however IMDB reports, “The co-producer of Van Gogh’s Column Productions has withdrawn the film from distribution and refused to give anyone permission to screen it.” I might have expected the various Hollywood groups to stand up for this one, since they tend to be politically active, and you’d think the murder of a filmmaker would cut to the heart of their cause. But all I’ve heard from these outspoken people is silence. Actually, now that I mention it, their non-reaction reminds me of the way NOW handled the situation when OJ Simpson murdered Nicole.
That feminist organizations aren’t screaming to high heaven and raising holy hell with the “religion of peace” is just one more example of why the Islamists think that the West is done for. Another is that the president of NOW can walk the streets of Salem, Massachusetts unmolested.
It is amazing that we are in the earliest days on the 21st Century, and yet there are whole groups of people that still live as though it were the 8th Century – and get violently angry when forced to deal with the fact that it’s not the year 710 anymore.
Tough.