Feminists: Delayed Response

I wanted to post this early so all the feminists returning from parties to their quiet and empty apartments, can get all fired up in protest. HA! Have at 'er babes.

A Response to Feminists on the Violent Oppression of Women in Islam

This week, seven hundred feminists signed an Open Letter complaining that “columnists and opinion writers from The Weekly Standard to the Washington Post to Slate have recently accused American feminists of focusing obsessively on minor or even nonexistent injustices in the United States while ignoring atrocities against women in other countries, especially the Muslim world.”


We recognize this Open Letter as a delayed response to the Freedom Center’s Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week, which protested the silence of feminists over the “Oppression of Women in Islam” on campuses all over the country last fall, organized sit-ins at a dozen Women’s Studies Departments to protest the absence of courses and department-sponsored events confronting the issue, and made this a matter of national discussion and debate. This is why the signers of the Open Letter complain that “‘Women’s rights are human rights’ was not a slogan dreamed up by David Horowitz or Christina Hoff Sommers,” two of our speakers for Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. (We never claimed it was.)

Too little too late babes, you can organize a protest at the drop of the hat, so why no protests over the treatment of Islamic women? You write an "open" letter, after the fact? Wow that's a cop out. Let me guess, they have no money for your cause, so you ignore them.

What was true last October is still true today. As recently as December 10, a Muslim teenager was strangled by her father for refusing to wear a hijab without a protest from the American feminist movement. And that is only one of many crimes committed in the name of Islam against Muslim women over which the feminist movement continues to be silent.

On New Year’s Day, Amina Said, 18, and her sister Sarah, 17, were shot dead in Irving, Texas. Police are searching for their father, Yaser Abdel Said, on a warrant for capital murder. The girls’ great aunt, Gail Gartrell, told reporters, “This was an honor killing.” Apparently Yaser Said murdered his daughters because they had non-Muslim boyfriends.

The signers of the Open Letter say that they are against honor killing. Here is an honor killing in the United States. Where are these feminists on this issue? Why are they not supporting the hunt for Amina’s and Sarah’s killers and organizing a campaign in the Muslim community to stop such practices?

Silence. Daycare, we have little pre-kindergarten kids parading on Parliament Hill (isn't that considered torture, for the little ones at least?) mouthing words about daycare they have been told to say by activists, not even understanding that they are going to see Mommy less if the feminists get their way.

On an issue as important as violence against Islamic women, not a peep. Quiet. Crickets.

Delayed response, a letter. No marching in the streets, no protests, no visible support, no Islamic women's courses on campus, nada, zip, zero support.

Feminists only support causes that pay money for protests, no money, no protest.